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I Know This Much is True [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Wally Lamb
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From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller She's Come Undone comes this heartbreaking and multi-generational saga of the bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoo... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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The Hour I First Believed [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
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Wally Lamb's two previous novels, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, struck a chord with readers. They responded to the intensely introspective nature of the books, and to their lively narrative styles and biting humor. One critic called Wally Lamb a "modern-day Dostoyevsky," whose characters struggle not only with their respective pasts, but with a "mocking, sadistic God" in whom they don't believe but to whom they turn, nevertheless, in times of trouble (New York Times). In his ne... more info>>
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I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF]
by Wally Lamb
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In 2003 Wally Lamb--the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True--published Couldn't Keep It to Myself, a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to confront painful memories, face their fears and their failures, and begin to imagine better lives. The New York Times describe... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Wishin' and Hopin' [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Wally Lamb
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It's 1964 and ten-year-old Felix is sure of a few things: the birds and the bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas he'll never forget.LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House, Meet the Beatles is on everyone's turntable, and Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette!) is doing his best to navigate fifth grade?easier said than done when scary movies still give you nightmares and you bear a striking resemblance to a certain adorable cartoon boy.Back in his ... more info>>
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