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Long drive home

a novel
2011
Glen Bauer's attempt to scare a reckless drives results in a young boy's death, and as Glen struggles to cope with his guilt over the accident, his six-year-old daughter's reaction, and the disintegration of his marriage, he realizes how even the smallest actions can have huge, life-altering consequences.

King Lear

a play by William Shakespeare
2009
A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic drama about Lear of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king.

Rosie and Skate

2009
Fifteen-year-old Rosie and her sixteen-year-old sister Skate are looked after by their cousin Angie while their father, a drunk, spends a few weeks in jail, and both girls endure problems with boyfriends and family while living in an old Victorian house on the Jersey shore.

My abandonment

2010
Thirteen-year-old Caroline, living with her veteran father in a cave in the Forest Park nature preserve in Portland, is confronted by the realities of her unconventional life when she attracts the attention of government officials who relocate them to a farm, where her father works and she begins to question her past.

As you like it

2009
A graphic novel adaptation of the Shakespearean play "As you like it" in which Rosalind, banished to the Forest of Arden and disguised as a boy, reunites with her true love, Orlando.

The crying rocks

2003
Thirteen-year-old Joelle has always wondered about her life before being adopted by the woman she calls Aunt Louise and her husband Vernon, and she makes some surprising discoveries while researching a 17th century Indian tribe.

Heat

1998
A teenaged diving champion must deal with the aftermath of a diving accident and her attorney father's remarriage and subsequent arrest for fraud.

Donorboy

a novel
2004
Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan, becomes the ward of her biological father after the tragic death of her gay mother, and struggles with the adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew.

The portrait of a lady

1991
Presents the text of the novel in which high-spirited American, Isabel Archer, travels to England to find romance, heartbreak, and betrayal.

A thousand acres

a novel
2003
Dark truths and long-suppressed emotions come to the surface in 1979 when a successful Iowa farmer decides to cut one of his daughters out of his will.

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