{"title":"Vin Packer","description":"Vin Packer is the pen name for Marijane Meaker (born May 27, 1927), an American novelist and short story writer in several genres. From 1952 to 1969, she wrote twenty mystery and crime novels as Vin Packer, including Spring Fire,  which is credited with launching the genre of lesbian pulp. Using her own observations of lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote a series of nonfiction books as Ann Aldrich from 1955 to 1972. In 1972, she switched genres and pen names once more to begin writing for young adults, and became quite successful as M.E. Kerr, producing over twenty novels and winning multiple awards, including the American Library Association's lifetime award for young-adult literature (Edwards Award). She was described by The New York Times Book Review as \"one of the grand masters of young adult fiction.\" As Mary James, she has written four books for younger children.","products":[{"product_id":"the-girl-on-the-best-seller-list-paperback","title":"The Girl on the Best Seller List - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE GIRL ON THE BEST SELLER LIST\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGloria Whealdon resents them all, the whole town full of snooty hypocrites and self-righteous bores. She resents her husband Milo the most, the way he is always excusing her unsophistications to everyone. And then there's her contemptible neighbors, Fern and Freddy Fulton, and their ugly daughter, Virginia. And Jay Mannerheim, so smug in his pretense of being a doctor when everyone knows he's only a psychologist. And Min Stewart, always looking down on her as if she owned the town.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGloria hates them until she can't keep it in any longer. So she writes a novel, and exposes all their weaknesses, all their secrets. \u003cem\u003ePopulation 12,360\u003c\/em\u003e is her revenge, and it becomes a best seller. Now the feeling is mutual--Gloria becomes a sensation, the town pariah. Is it any surprise that someone might want to get even?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67576878072031,"sku":"9781933586984","price":14.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/t1l3ttMMiG9781933586984.webp?v=1790387552"},{"product_id":"the-damnation-of-adam-blessing-paperback","title":"The Damnation of Adam Blessing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the story of the strange, private world built by a man of many faces and as many distorted passions, and of the women who dared enter that world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67578903527647,"sku":"9781440556074","price":19.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/FIY02aKZcL9781440556074.webp?v=1790409308"},{"product_id":"5-45-to-suburbia-paperback","title":"5: 45 to Suburbia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere were two Charlie Gibsons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne rode the 5:45 to Westport and was met at the station by his charming wife who dressed in impeccable tweeds and mixed a wicked martini. He also had a long-legged, lovely daughter whom he admired. He was second in command of a vast publishing house and, what's more, he got there without being a hatchet man. Everybody had respect for him; almost everybody liked him.\u003cbr\u003eThat was one side of Charlie Gibson.\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eunhappy\u003c\/i\u003e side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne spent every spare minute in the apartment of Marge Mann. She was beautiful and flamboyant and she loved Charlie with passion. It was she who gave him the ideas that took him to the top of the publishing world - although Charlie never realized it. Every minute he spent with her was like being under the influence of a strong drug. He was addicted to Marge and didn't want to break the habit.\u003cbr\u003eThat was the other side of Charlie Gibson.\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003ehappy\u003c\/i\u003e side.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67685726027999,"sku":"9781440558085","price":19.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BkyzdEh0AZ9781440558085.webp?v=1790571147"},{"product_id":"the-hare-in-march-paperback","title":"The Hare in March - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA MURDER BEGINS AND ENDS this story of scandal and tragedy in a college town. You'll meet some memorable characters here - most of them hair-raising - as novelist Vin Packer spins out a sinister excursion with the cool, campy kids of Far Point College, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a wild, wild joyride - from Thunderbird to Bluebird, from classroom to Cheetah, with stops on the way at rent-by-the-hour motel rooms. You'll watch in horror as the Pucci-Plantagenet crowd burns up the roads, heading for that sickening, inevitable crash . . . that jolting confrontation with the reality they can't escape . . . with \u003ci\u003eTHE HARE IN MARCH\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68176368795871,"sku":"9781440556098","price":19.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ed4ixsXukj9781440556098.webp?v=1792511469"},{"product_id":"the-twisted-ones-paperback-1","title":"The Twisted Ones - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWHY DID THEY KILL?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese were nice kids, model kids. They didn't wear leather jackets and roam the streets in \"wolf packs\"; they didn't steal and mug for dope. For kids, they were well mannered and quiet. They were attractive and nicely dressed. You'd have welcomed them as next-door neighbors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone raped\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone murdered\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone killed by fire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat got into them? What dark thoughts tormented them when they were alone at night?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68176368959711,"sku":"9781440556142","price":19.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bMceh16Vek9781440556142.webp?v=1792511470"},{"product_id":"something-in-the-shadows-paperback","title":"Something in the Shadows - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Meaker was a shy, dedicated scholar. To his brash wife, Maggie, and her advertising friends, he was a cipher, easily dismissed. But behind his gentle façade he carried the seeds of violence, subtle and understated. Until the day his pet cat was accidentally killed by a neighbor's car.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph's desire for revenge became an obsession that could only be satisfied by a ''punishment'' so gruesome it makes the skin crawl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68176371843295,"sku":"9781440558092","price":19.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UpfarqlOtt9781440558092.webp?v=1792511473"},{"product_id":"dark-dont-catch-me-paperback","title":"Dark Don't Catch Me - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParadise, Georgia, USA where black and white have lived together, and in secret loved together for three hundred years; where the white man knows that the dark-skinned man is his blood brother and hates him for it; where the white woman looks on the dark-skinned man with secret lust and longing . . . Out of this shared and silent intimacy, compounded of fear, hatred, sexual guilt and carnal knowledge, springs this starting novel which lays bare the secrets behind the violent deeds of the South.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68176374595807,"sku":"9781440558115","price":19.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aOk3nZD7kf9781440558115.webp?v=1792511477"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/vin-packer.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}