{"title":"Joyce Maynard","description":"Over her fifty-year career, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard has published hundreds of essays as well as eighteen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the memoir At Home in the World and the novels To Die For and Labor Day, both adapted for film. Her novel, Count the Ways, was recently awarded the Grand Prix Literaire in France. Every winter for over two decades, Maynard has led the Lake Atitlan Memoir workshop, Write by the Lake, in Guatemala.","products":[{"product_id":"after-her-paperback","title":"After Her - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce Maynard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarin County, California, summer, 1979. When young women start turning up dead on the mountain behind the home of Rachel and her devoted eleven-year-old sister, Patty, their father--a larger-than-life, irresistibly handsome (and chronically unfaithful) detective--is put in charge of finding the \"Sunset Strangler.\" Watching her father's life slowly unravel as months pass and more women are killed, Rachel embarks on a dangerous game to catch the killer. Her actions will destroy her father's career and alter forever the lives of everyone she loves. Thirty years later, believing that the wrong man was arrested for the crimes, leaving the true killer at large, Rachel constructs a new strategy to smoke out the Sunset Strangler and vindicate her father--and discovers more than she bargained for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLoosely inspired by the Trailside Killer case, \u003cem\u003eAfter Her\u003c\/em\u003e is part thriller, part love story--a poignant, suspenseful, and painfully real family saga that traces a young girl's first sexual explorations, the loss of innocence, the bond shared by sisters, and the tender but damaged relationship between a girl and her father that endures even beyond the grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarin County, California, summer, 1979. When young women start turning up dead on the mountain behind the home of Rachel and her devoted eleven-year-old sister, Patty, their father--a larger-than-life, irresistibly handsome (and chronically unfaithful) detective--is put in charge of finding the \"Sunset Strangler.\" Watching her father's life slowly unravel as months pass and more women are killed, Rachel embarks on a dangerous game to catch the killer. Her actions will destroy her father's career and alter forever the lives of everyone she loves. Thirty years later, believing that the wrong man was arrested for the crimes, leaving the true killer at large, Rachel constructs a new strategy to smoke out the Sunset Strangler and vindicate her father--and discovers more than she bargained for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLoosely inspired by the Trailside Killer case, \u003cem\u003eAfter Her\u003c\/em\u003e is part thriller, part love story--a poignant, suspenseful, and painfully real family saga that traces a young girl's first sexual explorations, the loss of innocence, the bond shared by sisters, and the tender but damaged relationship between a girl and her father that endures even beyond the grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101524431071,"sku":"9780062257406","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/3ykZ_DQeyc9780062257406.webp?v=1782861132"},{"product_id":"labor-day-paperback","title":"Labor Day - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce Maynard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with \u003cem\u003eLabor Day\u003c\/em\u003e. Simply a novel you cannot miss.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Jodi Picoult, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eMy Sister's Keeper\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKeeping Faith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003cem\u003eSt. Petersburg Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce Maynard, acclaimed author of At Home in the World, is back with Labor Day. The unforgettable 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 of \u003cem\u003eA Map of the World\u003c\/em\u003e) that \"affirms Maynard's reputation as a master storyteller and shows her to be a passionate humanist with a gifted ear and heart\" (\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeople)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, \u003cem\u003eLabor Day\u003c\/em\u003e is a poignant story of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery.\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, \u003cem\u003eLabor Day\u003c\/em\u003e is a poignant story of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 8.06 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101532229855,"sku":"9780062313638","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/i1MCjWF-oW9780062313638.webp?v=1783518273"},{"product_id":"how-the-light-gets-in-paperback","title":"How the Light Gets in - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce Maynard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways--a complex, multigenerational family saga about three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby's older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the surface in this powerful example of family life fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow the Light Gets In\u003c\/i\u003e follows Eleanor and her family through fifteen years (2010 to 2024) as their story plays out against a uniquely American backdrop and the events that transform their world (climate change, the January 6th insurrection, school violence) and shape their lives in this moving work of contemporary women's fiction (later-life love, parental alienation, steadfast friendship). With her trademark sensitivity and insight, Joyce Maynard paints an indelible portrait of characters both familiar and new making their way over rough, messy, and treacherous terrain to find their way to what is, for each, a place to call \"home.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 8 x 5.31 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 27, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103208607967,"sku":"9780062398314","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/B7dbKOy-ZI9780062398314.webp?v=1782801470"},{"product_id":"the-bird-hotel-paperback","title":"The Bird Hotel - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce Maynard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnter the magical world of La Llorona with \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author Joyce Maynard.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bird Hotel \u003c\/i\u003etells 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Bird Hotel \u003c\/i\u003ehas all the hallmarks of a Joyce Maynard novel that have made her a leading voice of her generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bird Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is a big, sweeping story spanning four decades, offering lyricism as well as whimsy. While the world \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e said, \"[Maynard] has an unswerving eye, a sharply perked ear, and the ability to keep her readers hanging on her words.\" \u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e said of her: \"Maynard's spare prose packs a rich emotional punch.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver her fifty-year career, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author \u003cb\u003eJoyce Maynard\u003c\/b\u003e has published hundreds of essays as well as eighteen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the memoir \u003ci\u003eAt Home in the World\u003c\/i\u003e and the novels \u003ci\u003eTo Die For\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLabor Day\u003c\/i\u003e, both adapted for film. 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The story she tells--of the girl she was and the woman she became--is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51273810247903,"sku":"9781250046444","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/IPqgwy2qCU9781250046444.webp?v=1787842561"},{"product_id":"the-good-daughters-paperback","title":"The Good Daughters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. 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The story of two women born the same day in the same hospital, but raised in vastly different emotional environments, \u003cem\u003eThe Good Daughters \u003c\/em\u003eis another high note in Maynard's already distinguished writing career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth 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.\u003c\/p\u003e--www.MyDailyFind.com\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth 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. 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