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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel encompasses a lifetime of dreams, regrets and reckonings. Maggie and Ira Moran are on a road trip from Baltimore, Maryland to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of a friend. Along the way, they reflect on the state of their marriage, its trials and its triumphs - through their quarrels, their routines, and their ability to tolerate each other's faults with...
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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
337 p.
Language
English
Description
Ian Bedloe is the ideal teenage son, leading a cheery, apple-pie life with his family in Baltimore. That is, until a careless and vicious rumor leads to a devastating tragedy. Imploding from guilt, Ian believes he is the one responsible for the tragedy. No longer a star athlete with a bright future, and desperately searching for salvation, he stumbles across a storefront with a neon sign that simply reads: CHURCH OF THE SECOND CHANCE. Ian has always...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who...