Maggie: 1933 books

A mysterious note on the library floor says to meet at the abandoned tire factory.  Who is it meant for? Certainly not Ali, but she shows up anyway.  Entering the factory sends Ali into another world, another time: World War II.  In this tale of lost love and sacrifices made...

Ali’s found romance, but when she and Matt visit her family farm, she once again finds a note, this time in an old jar and she knows what that means.  But as she stands on the brink of time, she must decide: Should she answer the plea written by her grandmother as a child? What will happen...

In the acclaimed Once Upon a Lie, Maggie Barbieri introduced Maeve Conlon, a single mother and bakery owner hiding dark secrets behind her cookie-cutter suburban life. Now, Maeve's moving on with everyday life when the unthinkable happens: her father dies of a massive heart attack. Maeve's...

Safely away from the chaos of Manhattan, St. Thomas, a small college on the banks of the Hudson River in the Bronx, is supposed to be tranquil, bucolic, and serene. Unfortunately, English professor Alison Bergeron has found it to be anything but. Recently divorced from a fellow professor and even...

College English professor Alison Bergeron thought that dating a cute NYPD detective like Bobby Crawford would be exciting and involve a lot of riding around in cruisers and putting away sleazy crooks, but he has yet to invite her on any stakeouts. . . . Then when a friend asks her to help him...

College English professor and sometime amateur sleuth Alison Bergeron would've been thrilled to hear that her husband, NYPD Detective Bobby Crawford, was leaving Homicide if that were the whole story, but it turns out that Bobby's next assignment is even worse---undercover. As if worrying about his...

Same stuff, different day. Patty Parks' life is like the instructions on a shampoo bottle: Wash. Rinse. Repeat.  Her humdrum life is punctuated by being picked on and teased, living in her head when real life isn't proving up to snuff, and blurting out things at the wrong time. Told...

Who left the footprints in the wet concrete? Why does the class bully win the election? Who is Ms. Harper's secret admirer? Only one person knows -- Striker Jones, the most original kid detective since Encyclopedia Brown! Along with his friends Bill, Sheila, and Amy, Striker must use his wits...

Changing your life is easy, changing you is the difficult bit! Michael has a successful international career but then he decides to follows a dream.

Law of Attraction is far more than a way to get better stuff. You create your own reality, or so everyone keeps saying. If your reply is “Yeah, but HOW?” then this book is for you. The Bliss Book will help you change the job you hate into one you love, paralyzing debt into...

Maggie Nelson’s fourth collection of poems combines a wanderer’s attention to landscape with a deeply personal exploration of desire, heartbreak, resilience, accident, and flux. Something Bright, Then Holes explores the problem of losing then recovering sight and insight - of feeling lost, then...

Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area. Nelson...

Polls and election results show Americans sharply divided on same-sex marriage, and the controversy is unlikely to subside anytime soon. Debating Same-Sex Marriage provides an indispensable roadmap to the ongoing debate. Taking a "point/counterpoint" approach, John Corvino (a philosopher...

Women explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists play practical jokes to lobby for voting rights, while overworked kitchen maids dismember their limbs to finish their chores on time. In early slapstick films with titles such as Saucy Sue, Mary Jane’s Mishap,...