Bøger af Joyce Maynard

Marin County, Californien 1979. Det er en varm og tør sommer. Da flere piger bliver fundet døde på bjerget bag Rachel og hendes 11 årige søsters hjem, får deres kronisk utro far sagen. Pigerne tilbringer de lange sommerdage med at fantasere og prøve at finde ud af, hvem der er ”The Sunset Strangler”. Imens synker deres mor længere og længere ned i en depression efter skilsmissen fra deres far. Tiden går, og flere piger bliver fundet myrdet på bjerget bag huset – søstrene kan kun se til, mens deres far gang på gang mislykkes i at fange morderen. Rachel beslutter sig for, at kaste sig ud i et livsfarligt spil for at fange morderen. Et spil der ender med at ødelægge farens karriere og ændrer alt, for alle hun elsker … Tredive år senere, er Rachel overbevist om, at det er den forkerte der blev dømt for mordene og hun vender tilbage til bjerget, med en ny plan for at fange ”The Sunset Strangler”, og for at give hendes far den oprejsning, som han fortjener. Det er en plan, som afslører mere, end hun nogen sinde kunne have forstillet sig – en gammel dybt begravet familiehemmelighed. Huset bag bjerget er et familiedrama. Det er en stærk historie om en ung piges første seksuelle erfaringer, om at blive voksen, om de stærke bånd mellem søstre, om tillid og om en datters ødelagte forhold til sin far.

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways?a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.

Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard.   After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano.   The Bird Hotel tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the way we meet a rich assortment of characters who live in the village or come to stay at the hotel. With a mystery at its center and filled with warmth, drama, romance, humor, pop culture, and a little magical realism, The Bird Hotel has all the hallmarks of a Joyce Maynard novel that have made her a leading voice of her generation.  The Bird Hotel is a big, sweeping story spanning four decades, offering lyricism as well as whimsy. While the world New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard brings to life on the page is rendered from her imagination, it’s one informed by the more than twenty years of which she has spent a significant amount of her time in a small Mayan indigenous village in Guatemala.    As the New York Times said, "[Maynard] has an unswerving eye, a sharply perked ear, and the ability to keep her readers hanging on her words." People Magazine said of her: "Maynard’s spare prose packs a rich emotional punch.”

In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of her most acclaimed work in a mesmerizing story of a family?from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce, and the costly aftermath that ripples through all their livesEleanor and Cam meet at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s. She's an artist and writer, he makes wooden bowls. Within four years they are parents to three children, two daughters and a red-headed son who fills his pockets with rocks, plays the violin and talks to God. To Eleanor, their New Hampshire farm provides everything she always wanted?summer nights watching Cam's softball games, snow days by the fire and the annual tradition of making paper boats and cork people to launch in the brook every spring. If Eleanor and Cam don't make love as often as they used to, they have something that matters more. Their family. Then comes a terrible accident, caused by Cam's negligence. Unable to forgive him, Eleanor is consumed by bitterness, losing herself in her life as a mother, while Cam finds solace with a new young partner. Over the decades that follow, the five members of this fractured family make surprising discoveries and decisions that occasionally bring them together, and often tear them apart. Tracing the course of their lives?through the gender transition of one child and another's choice to completely break with her mother?Joyce Maynard captures a family forced to confront essential, painful truths of its past, and find redemption in its darkest hours.A story of holding on and learning to let go, Count the Ways is an achingly beautiful, poignant, and deeply compassionate novel of home, parenthood, love, and forgiveness.

They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital?but Ruth Plank and Dana Dickerson are different in nearly every way.Ruth is an artist, a romantic with a rich, passionate, imaginative life?the fifth daughter born to a gentle, caring farmer and his stolid wife. Raised by a pair of capricious drifters, Dana is a scientist and realist whose faith is firmly planted in the natural world. From the 1950s to the present, the lives of the ?birthday sisters? parallel and oddly intersect, as each struggles to find her place in a world in which she has never truly felt she belonged. Sharing little except a birth date?and a love for Dana's wild and beautiful older brother, Ray?two virtual strangers will travel alternate paths winding through first love, first sex, marriage, parenthood, divorce, and tragic loss...until both are forced to reevaluate themselves and each other when past secrets and forgotten memories unexpectedly come to light.

From the acclaimed author of "The Usual Rules" comes this heartbreaking yet uplifting portrait of a 14-year-old Montana boy. As his family falls apart, only the promise of winning his school's science fair holds any hope of happiness for him.

From the author of To Die For comes this poignant, stirring, and occasionally hilarious story of a woman's attempt to remake her life after a searing divorce. Maynard's novel captures love as one approaches middle age in contemporary America.

Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form withLabor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.Jodi Picoult,New York Timesbestselling author ofMy Sisters KeeperandKeeping FaithMaynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks.St. Petersburg TimesJoyce Maynard, acclaimed author ofAt Home in the World,is back withLabor Day.Theunforgettable story of a mother and son forever changed during a long summer weekend when a mysterious man comes into their lives.Labor Day is a sexy, page turning, poignant story (Jane Hamilton, author ofA Map of the World) that affirms Maynards reputation as a master storyteller and shows her to be a passionate humanist with a gifted ear and heart (People)

In a manner evoking Ian McEwan's "Atonement" and Nick Hornby's "About a Boy," acclaimed author Maynard weaves a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenage boy.

The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaning-and the true price-of friendship.Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie.

A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformedLuanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for BeginnersJoyce Maynard has outdone herself in this beautifully written story youll find hard to put down and impossible to forget.Elizabeth Berg, author of The Last Time I Saw You Bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Labor Day, Joyce Maynard now brings us The Good Daughters, a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange, unexpected twists of fate that shape our lives. The story of two women born the same day in the same hospital, but raised in vastly different emotional environments, The Good Daughters is another high note in Maynards already distinguished writing career.

';A seductive page-turner' about a murderously ambitious cable-news star by the New York Timesbestselling author ofLabor Day (The New York Times Book Review). Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him. She seduces a fifteen-year-old admirer, Jimmy, and persuades him to do her dirty work. Mission accomplished, Suzanne takes to the airwaves in her new role as grieving widow, in search of a TV deal. If that means selling Jimmy down the river, she's ready. Maynard's brilliant, funny, and groundbreaking noveladapted by Gus Van Sant into the cult classic movie of the same name, starring Nicole Kidmanwas first published in 1992 before the era of manufactured stardom and the phenomenon of televised murder trials as entertainment. The book still stands as a razor-sharp satire of celebrity-fixated culture and the American obsession with TVa novel that imagined the phenomenon of reality television before its creation, with alternately bone-chilling and hilarious accuracy.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joyce Maynard including rare photos from the author's personal collection.

Hvor høj er prisen for et venskab? Helen har nået bunden. En lovende karriere som kunstfotograf er kuldsejlet. Ægteskabet er knust og hun har mistet forældremyndigheden over sin søn, Ollie – alt sammen på grund af et alkoholmisbrug. Alt forandres, da hun møder Ava og Swift Haviland, et rigt, karismatisk par med et imponerende hjem og indflydelsesrige venner. Helen bliver meget fascineret af parret, som tager hende under deres vinger, og tilbyder deres hjælp og forbindelser, så hun kan få forældremyndigheden over sønnen tilbage. Forsigtigt begynder Helen at se lysere på fremtiden – men det viser sig snart, at det er et venskab, som kommer med en meget høj pris ... Under påvirkning er en historie om kærlighed, venskab, tab og forræderi- og om, hvor langt man er villig til at gå for at føle samhørighed. "Indholdsrig og fængslende. Helens fortælling udforsker de mørke sider i et forførisk venskab og den forløsende kraft af en mors kærlighed."-People

In 1972, Joyce Maynard, an undergraduate at Yale, wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine called 'An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life'. In spite of the thirty-five year difference in their ages, she believed they would be together always - but after a year, he sent her away.