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A Theory of Relativity Mitchard, Jacquelyn
United Kingdom, 05 November 2001 HarperCollins 2001 0-00-710324-7 / 9780007103249 Softcover Good
Gordon's sister and her husband are tragically killed in a car accident, leaving behind their one-year-old child. Although Gordon and his parents want to adopt her, her paternal grandparents launch a campaign to gain custody, setting in motion a legal struggle in which family love is tested. Reviews Acclaim for The Deep End of the Ocean: 'A blockbuster a rich, moving and altogether stunning first novel. Readers will find this compelling and heartbreaking story sure to be compared to The Good Mother impossible to put down.' Publishers Weekly About the Author Jacquelyn Mitchard is a journalist and author of two non-fiction books, including Mother Less Child: The Love Story of a Family. She lives in Wisconsin with her five children and is currently working on her next novel.
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A Theory of Relativity Mitchard, Jacquelyn
United Kingdom, 07 May 2001 Flamingo 2001 0-00-713986-1 / 9780007139866 Softcover Good
The compelling and heartrending new novel from the author of the million-selling The Deep End of the Ocean. In her third novel, Mitchard perceptively portrays the tenuous threads that connect modern families through the story of a young man, Gordon McKenna, whose beloved sister and her husband are tragically killed in a car accident, leaving behind their one-year-old child Keefer. Although Gordon and his parents want to adopt her, the paternal grandparents launch an aggressive campaign to gain custody, setting in motion a horrific legal struggle in which the capacity and limitations of family love are severely tested. A THEORY OF RELATIVITY will draw readers inexorably from start to finish as Keefer's fate is played out, and Mitchard's wrenching prose provokes us to reflect anew on the often intangible bonds of family.
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Most Wanted Mitchard, Jacquelyn
United Kingdom, 18 January 1999 HarperCollins 1999 0-00-225737-8 / 9780002257374 Softcover Good
Cantered spine Review Arley Mowbray is a drop-dead gorgeous 14-year-old, who, with her long, muscular frame and mature, collected manner could easily pass for 18. And pass she does. On a dare from her outspoken best friend, Elena Gutierrez, Arley writes to convict Dillon LeGrande in prison and convinces him she's a college student (though she hasn't made it out of junior high). Therein begins an ill-fated love story that myths are made of and men die for--except that's not what Dillon has in mind. Living in south Texas in a poor Tex-Mex community, Arley dreams of a less provincial life and secretly begins a love affair with Dillon via correspondence, which produces a flurry of poetry and achy-breaky love songs. Against the wishes of family and friends, Arley weds her amour, who promptly fathers her child, breaks out of prison, and mysteriously disappears. Fortunately for Arley, she has found a guardian angel in the form of Annie Singer, a straight-talking public defender from New York. Annie becomes the mother Arley never had, protecting her from Dillon and a love-starved home. Despite the strength of their bond, both underestimate Dillon's determination to get his child, no matter the cost. Jacquelyn Mitchard's first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the first to receive Oprah's benediction, instantly making it a bestseller and thrusting Mitchard into the halls of literary stardom. Oprah's picks tend to stay within the thematic boundaries of overcoming dysfunction, harping on the nitty-gritty details of abuse. However, The Most Wanted boldly strides away from this and examines the many dimensions of motherhood, realistically depicting the ties that bind women, while supporting beyond debate that, yes, good girls do fall for bad boys. --Rebekah Warren --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly Despite portentous foreshadowing, Mitchard second novel never achieves the dramatic momentum and the emotional immediacy of her acclaimed fiction debut, The Deep End of the Ocean. But her depiction of two female protagonists is so large-hearted and wise that readers undoubtedly will be engrossed in their story. At 14, Arlington "Arley" Mowbray is a sensitive, conscientious and atypical teenager in a small, tacky South Texas town. She writes poetry, for one thing, and, instead of dating boys, she is a virtual slave to her hard-as-nails mother, whose lack of maternal instincts is shocking. When love-starved Arley begins corresponding with 23-year-old Dillon Thomas LeGrande, in jail for armed robbery, she is seduced by the poetry he writes and, with the reluctant help of public defender Annie Singer, gains permission to marry him. Soon, protective Annie takes a pregnant Arley into her home and heart, complicating her own relationship with her fiance, a death-row lawyer. Eventually, Dillon's true nature as a psychopath erupts, putting Arley and others in mortal danger. Mitchard's facility with intertwining plot lines results in a surprise-packed conclusion (with perhaps one surprise too many). Her depiction of the dizzy rapture of first love, and her insights into the maternal bond (Arley's with her infant daughter; Annie's with Arley, her surrogate daughter) are deeply affecting. Yet readers will find a troubling credibility problem. That studious Arley can transcend her culturally bereft upbringing is at least plausible, but it is unlikely that bad-boy Dillon would have the sensibility, background or vocabulary to create the poems attributed to him (actually written by Mitchard's friend, poet Sharron Singleton). Since so much of the plot hinges on Dillon's gift for poetry, the reader is keenly aware of this major flaw. Simultaneous Penguin audio; major ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections; author tour. (June) FYI: Mitchard borrows the name of a Chicago bookstore, Women and Children First, for the name of Annie Singer's law firm.
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The Breakdown Lane Mitchard, Jacquelyn
Pymble, N.S.W. Harper Collins Publisher 2006 0-7322-8229-2 / 9780732282295 Paperback Good
Julieanne Gillis is pretty good at the business of living - so good she advises the clueless and the lovelorn through a weekly newspaper column. So when her husband of twenty years, Leo, deserts her, she is mystified. Suddenly, Julie is alone, raising three children and experiencing alarming physical symptoms that could be the precursor of a serious, chronic illness. Her best friend, her offbeat son, Gabe, and her lovely but self-centered daughter, Caroline, become Julie's caretakers - wounding her pride and increasing everyone's distress. Gabe and Caro take it upon themselves to search for their absent father before it is too late. But could what they discover about Leo be more devastating than their mother's deteriorating health?
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The Deep End of the Ocean Mitchard, Jacquelyn
Flamingo 1999 0-00-655193-9 / 9780006551935 Paperback Good
"Watch your brother," says Beth Cappadora to her seven-year-old son Vincent. Only minutes later she turns again and asks, "Where's Ben?" It's the moment that every mother fears: for three-year-old Ben is gone. And no one can find him. Despite a police search that becomes a nationwide obsession, Ben has vanished, leaving behind a family that will be torn apart with anguish. Until, nine years later, a twelve-year-old boy knocks on their door - a boy who does no know them, but who will irrevocably twist their lives a second time . . .
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The Most Wanted Mitchard, Jacquelyn
United Kingdom, 04 May 1999 Flamingo 1999 0-00-655176-9 / 9780006551768 Softcover Good
Remainder. The long awaited second novel from Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of the million copy selling The Deep End of the Ocean. Arley Mowbray, only fourteen years old, is dreaming her life away in South Texas when -- defying all earthly logic -- she falls in love with an outlaw, Dillon LeGrande, and becomes his wife, and the mother of his child. When she meets her advocate and defender, Annie Singer, both their lives will change for ever. What happens to Arley and her husband is the stuff of legend. Dillon will break out of prison on a terrifying errand, but is it to claim his wife and baby daughter or to destroy them? Larger than life, yet the very stuff of life itself, The Most Wanted is a spellbinding story of reckless love that breaks all the rules -- a tour de force in which Jacquelyn Mitchard's fierce, tender insights into the bonds of mothers and daughters are powerfully and unforgettably conveyed.
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The Most Wanted Mitchard, Jacquelyn
Imprint unknown 0-00-769719-8 / 9780007697199 Softcover Good
Arley Mowbray is a drop-dead gorgeous 14-year-old, who, with her long, muscular frame and mature, collected manner could easily pass for 18. And pass she does. On a dare from her outspoken best friend, Elena Gutierrez, Arley writes to convict Dillon LeGrande in prison and convinces him she's a college student (though she hasn't made it out of junior high). Therein begins an ill-fated love story that myths are made of and men die for--except that's not what Dillon has in mind. Living in south Texas in a poor Tex-Mex community, Arley dreams of a less provincial life and secretly begins a love affair with Dillon via correspondence, which produces a flurry of poetry and achy-breaky love songs. Against the wishes of family and friends, Arley weds her amour, who promptly fathers her child, breaks out of prison, and mysteriously disappears. Fortunately for Arley, she has found a guardian angel in the form of Annie Singer, a straight-talking public defender from New York. Annie becomes the mother Arley never had, protecting her from Dillon and a love-starved home. Despite the strength of their bond, both underestimate Dillon's determination to get his child, no matter the cost. Jacquelyn Mitchard's first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the first to receive Oprah's benediction, instantly making it a bestseller and thrusting Mitchard into the halls of literary stardom. Oprah's picks tend to stay within the thematic boundaries of overcoming dysfunction, harping on the nitty-gritty details of abuse. However, The Most Wanted boldly strides away from this and examines the many dimensions of motherhood, realistically depicting the ties that bind women, while supporting beyond debate that, yes, good girls do fall for bad boys.
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Twelve Times Blessed Mitchard, Jacquelyn
HarperCollins Publishers 0-00-716470-X / 9780007164707 Softcover good
It is True Dickinson's forty-third birthday, and her best friends have gathered on this snowy night in Cape Cod at a trendy neighborhood restaurant to celebrate. True has never felt more alone. It's been eight years since the death of her husband, leaving her to raise their son on her own. Both her son and her small business are thriving, and True's life is full. Coming up on forty-three makes True realize that there is an empty space in her life that friends and family cannot fill. She feels her youth and beauty slipping away, and the possibility for romance has never seemed more remote. But everything changes the moment True and her beloved assistant, Isabelle, slide into a snow-filled ditch on the drive home. Saved by a young man she met earlier at the restaurant, True comes face to face with the opportunity to let love back into her life - that is, if she can overcome her own fears, and if these two spirits can find a way to tame each other's wild hearts and curb each other's supremely independent natures.
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