<div>This New York Times bestseller of a troubled family in 1960s Vermont is &ldquo;teeming with incident and characters, often foolish, even nasty, but always alive&rdquo; (The New Yorker). It is the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. With no help from her alcoholic ex-husband, Marie Fermoyle is raising three children on the edge of poverty. Her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alice, is becoming emotionally involved with a local priest in a staunchly Catholic town that disapproves of Marie&rsquo;s divorce. Alice&rsquo;s brother Norm is a hotheaded sixteen-year-old, and twelve-year-old Benjy is isolated and full of anxieties, looking with yearning at the Klubocks next door, who seem to live an orderly, peaceful life much unlike his own family&rsquo;s. Now, Marie has met a new man: Omar Duvall, who talks about opportunities and riches but so far seems only to sponge off the Fermoyles. A lonely, desperate single mother like Marie is easy prey for con men, but she resists the temptation to doubt him. Young Benjy, though, may eventually reveal a disturbing secret that could shatter all her hopes. A portrait of a family as well as a town and its secrets, Songs in Ordinary Time is &ldquo;a gritty, beautifully crafted novel rich in wisdom and suspense&rdquo; (The Miami Herald). An Oprah&rsquo;s Book Club selection from an author nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, it is &ldquo;extraordinary . . . a deeply satisfying story&rdquo; (USA Today).</div>

Songs in Ordinary Time

<div>National Book Award Finalist: A man, woman, and child are bound by a desperate need&mdash;and a terrible secret&mdash;in this suspenseful, &ldquo;astonishing&rdquo; novel (Vogue). Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no one can ignore. One afternoon, they both disappear from the small Vermont town where they live. The next day, two hundred miles away, a toddler is kidnapped from her Massachusetts home. For the next five years, Aubrey, Dotty, and the kidnapped child&mdash;united by a mix of strange love, desperate need, and the crime that brought them together&mdash;are trapped in a nomadic existence governed by their constant fear of discovery. Canny, the little girl, becomes Aubrey&rsquo;s entire existence. But Dotty wants out. She is tired of being saddled with this fearful man, and when she meets a brutal ex-convict, the wheels of Canny&rsquo;s return to her natural parents are wrenched fatally into motion. A dark, riveting tale about the impulses and weaknesses that underlie an evil act, Vanished was nominated for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and marked the debut of the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time and A Dangerous Woman.</div>

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Vanished

<div>Abandoned by his wife, a man tries to protect his family during the Great Depression, in this &ldquo;powerful&rdquo; novel by the bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time (Publishers Weekly). During the Great Depression, rural Vermont suffers along with the rest of the country, and Henry Talcott, with only occasional work as a butcher, is reduced to moving into a tent on the edge of Black Pond with his two children. Their beautiful but unreliable mother has left them, and Henry is devastated by her desertion. He hasn&rsquo;t told Thomas or Margaret why she left&mdash;or if she will return. Told from twelve-year-old Thomas&rsquo;s perspective, The Lost Mother follows this shattered family as a wealthy neighbor begins to woo the children as companions for her strange, housebound son, and Henry weighs an unexpected proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything. &ldquo;A perfectly lovely story about perfectly awful things&rdquo; by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling and National Book Award&ndash;nominated author of A Dangerous Woman and Light from a Distant Star, The Lost Mother is &ldquo;the quietest, subtlest novel that has ever kept [its readers] up into the small hours of the night, unable to look away&rdquo; (The Washington Post). </div>

The Lost Mother

<div>The &ldquo;compelling, suspenseful&rdquo; novel of a vulnerable misfit in a small town by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Light from a Distant Star (Publishers Weekly). Named one of the five best novels of the year by Time magazine, A Dangerous Woman is the story of the damaged and emotionally unstable Martha Horgan, an outcast in her small Vermont town. She stares; she has violent crushes on people; and, perhaps most unsettling of all, she cannot stop telling the truth. After a traumatic experience during her teenage years, the thirty-two-year-old now craves love and companionship, but her relentless honesty makes her painfully vulnerable to those around her: Frances, her wealthy aunt and begrudging guardian; Birdy Dusser, who befriends her and then cruelly rejects her; and Colin Mackey, the seductive man who preys on her desires. Confused and bitter, distrusting even those with her best interests at heart, Martha is slowly propelled into a desperate attempt to gain control over her own life. The National Book Award&ndash;nominated author of Songs in Ordinary Time tells a tale of unnerving suspense and terrifying psychological insight that is &ldquo;at once thrilling and deeply affecting&rdquo; (The New York Times). </div>

A Dangerous Woman

<div>Two unforgettable novels from the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah&rsquo;s Book Club selection, Songs in Ordinary Time, &ldquo;a writer to reckon with&rdquo; (The Washington Post). The highly acclaimed novelist Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed as &ldquo;a credible heir to Carson McCullers . . . a wise, unsentimental portraitist of the lonely, the damned, the desperate and the incomplete&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review) as well as &ldquo;a cross between Elizabeth Gaskell and David Lynch&rdquo; (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). In the two powerful novels collected here, Morris offers compassionate accounts of damaged and desperate people struggling to survive. The Lost Mother: Told from the perspective of twelve-year-old Thomas, The Lost Mother follows a shattered family in rural Vermont during the Great Depression. Deserted by their mother, Thomas and his eight-year-old sister, Margaret, are reduced to living in a tent with their father, Henry. When a wealthy neighbor begins to woo the children as companions for her strange, housebound son, Henry weighs an unexpected proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything. &ldquo;A perfectly lovely book about perfectly awful things.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;The author paints a brutal landscape and authentic characters with delicacy and precision.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly A Dangerous Woman: Named one of the five best novels of the year by Time magazine Emotionally unstable Martha Hogan is an outcast in her small Vermont town. She stares; she has violent crushes on people; and perhaps most unsettling, she cannot stop telling the truth. After a traumatic experience in her teens, the thirty-two-year-old now craves love and companionship. But her relentless honesty makes her painfully vulnerable to those around her, including her wealthy aunt and begrudging guardian, and a seductive man who preys on her desires. Bitter and distrusting, Martha is slowly propelled into a desperate attempt to gain control over her life. &ldquo;Thrilling and deeply affecting.&rdquo; &mdash;Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times &ldquo;A powerful, disconcerting, and heartbreaking story of a woman who is most dangerous to herself.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal</div>

Selected Novels Volume Two

<div>Two powerful novels from &ldquo;a superb storyteller&rdquo;: An Oprah&rsquo;s Book Club selection and New York Times bestseller plus a National Book Award&ndash;nominated debut (The Washington Post). The highly acclaimed novelist Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed as &ldquo;a credible heir to Carson McCullers . . . a wise, unsentimental portraitist of the lonely, the damned, the desperate and the incomplete&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). Morris&rsquo;s gift for emotionally powerful, often bleak but always compassionate stories set in the small towns of New England is on display in the two novels collected here: the Oprah&rsquo;s Book Club Selection and New York Times bestseller, Songs in Ordinary Time, and the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, her debut novel, Vanished. Songs in Ordinary Time: In the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont, Marie Fermoyle is raising three children on the edge of poverty, with no help from her alcoholic ex-husband. Desperately lonely, Marie is easy prey for a con man like Omar Duvall. Her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alice, is involved with a local priest; her sixteen-year-old son, Norm, is a hothead; and twelve-year-old Benjy is hiding a secret about Duvall that could shatter all her hopes. &ldquo;Teeming with incident and characters, often foolish, even nasty, but always alive.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker &ldquo;Deep and thick as a long, hot summer . . . The narrative of a town reminiscent of the collective ache of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe Vanished: Aubrey Wallace is a simple laborer, the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no man can ignore. The day after they both disappear from their small Vermont town, a toddler is taken from her home. For the next five years, Aubrey, Dotty, and the kidnapped child are trapped in a nomadic existence, terrified of discovery. But when Dotty decides she&rsquo;s had enough, she hooks up with an ex-convict and the wheels of the little girl&rsquo;s return to her parents are wrenched fatally into motion. &ldquo;An impressive debut . . . unusual and rich.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle &ldquo;[Hums] with both the authenticity of real life and the mythic power of fable.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times</div>

Selected Novels Volume One

<div>A man returns to his hometown after twenty-five years in prison, in this &ldquo;richly atmospheric&rdquo; novel by the acclaimed author of Songs in Ordinary Time (The Washington Post). After decades in prison for a senseless juvenile murder, Gordon Loomis returns home to find his old neighborhood blighted by drugs and poverty. Desperate for work, he takes a job at the same rundown market where he once stocked shelves as a teenager. But while Gordon&rsquo;s situation seems bleak, he is not without support. His brother Dennis, a successful oral surgeon, tries to work past his own fears and failings to help Gordon move on from his past. And the flamboyant Delores Dufault yearns to be part of Gordon&rsquo;s new life&mdash;even if he&rsquo;s as terrified of relationships as he is of going back to jail. Meanwhile, Gordon&rsquo;s inherent decency draws the attention of a hungry child whose survival threatens the fragile balance that is Gordon&rsquo;s freedom. Gordon can never forgive himself for that deadly home intrusion twenty-five years ago. Because of him, a pregnant young woman is gone forever. But in spite of his numbness and pain, Gordon will continue to be pursued by those who care for him, need him, and love him.</div>

A Hole in the Universe

<div>In this &ldquo;complex, compelling&rdquo; novel by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author, a troubled woman uncovers the mysteries of her own past (Kirkus Reviews). Abandoned by her young mother, unsure of her father&rsquo;s identity, and raised by her prominent aunt and uncle, thirty-year-old Fiona Range has developed a high threshold for emotional pain. Her recklessness, generosity, and poor judgment have landed her in more scrapes than her affluent family&mdash;or small-town community&mdash;can tolerate. Beautiful, volatile, and smart-tongued (or trashy, erratic, and wild, depending on whom you ask), Fiona hits rock bottom after she wakes up with a hangover and a strange man in her bed. Alienated from relatives and friends but determined to change, Fiona turns to the men in her life&mdash;among them, cruel and unstable Patrick Grady, who denies she is his daughter. When her gentle cousin Elizabeth arrives home with fianc&eacute; in tow, it sparks a storm where past mistakes and current passions collide.</div>

Fiona Range

<div>From a New York Times&ndash;bestselling &ldquo;writer to reckon with,&rdquo; a psychological suspense about a woman whose life is fractured by a childhood crime (The New York Times Book Review). There was the moment eight-year-old Ruth Corrigan ran away from playing in the woods with her best friend, and then the moment after, when Ceely was gone. Murdered. Now the silence of that day lives within Ruth. Lives in the judgment she sees in the faces of so many in the small town she still calls home. Ruth may be older now, tougher, a cop by trade, but her life has been unraveling ever since that tragic day in the woods. Alcohol, sex, broken marriages&mdash;nothing can lighten the truth she knows inside. Until the child-killer returns, free and unencumbered. A predator who will act again unless Ruth can prove him guilty. Only no one will listen to a police officer on suspended duty, a woman whose life has been one personal disaster after the next, not even Maddie Pardeau Klein, her dead playmate&rsquo;s older sister. It&rsquo;s up to Ruth alone to trap the vicious criminal before he strikes once more. No matter what it takes. Or who gets hurt. Praise for Mary McGarry Morris &ldquo;Morris can depict society&rsquo;s outsiders . . . with rare understanding and compassion.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;A superb storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;Morris&rsquo;s nearly flawless prose is mesmerizing.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

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Books By Mary McGarry Morris (9 Books)

Songs in Ordinary Time

Vanished

The Lost Mother

A Dangerous Woman

Selected Novels Volume Two

Selected Novels Volume One

A Hole in the Universe

Fiona Range

The Silence

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