Joyce Maynard
1) Labor Day
Author
Language
English
Description
Relates a story of love, sexual passion, painful adolescence, and devastating betrayal as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy--and the man he later becomes--looking back on the events of a single long, hot, and life-altering weekend.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a memoir of learning to understand true love through the experience of loss, the author describes finding the love of her life in her late fifties, only to lose him to pancreatic cancer less than three years into their marriage.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to make ends meet after alcoholism costs her her marriage and custody of her young son, photographer Helen slowly rebuilds her life before falling into the circle of a philanthropist couple whose help exacts a terrible price.
6) Labor Day
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A lonely, divorced mother allows an escaped killer to stay with her and her thirteen-year-old son.