Jayne Atkinson

A heartwarming story about a troubled young boy's touching relationship with an orca whale who is the star attraction at his local adventure park. When the boy learns of the unfortunate plans the park has for his friend, he risks his own life to return Willy to his natural habitat.

The time is the early 20th century, in Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, and centers on the Webb and Gibbs families, who live next door to each other. Emily Webb and George Gibbs are two young people who grow up, fall in love with gentle glances and sweet words, get married, and are eventually separated by death. On the surface, there is all this nostalgia, but there are dark currents in Grovers Corners, little ironies and inconsistencies that are often...

Radio talk show host Dr. Susan Chandler decides to lure what she believes to be a serial killer out into the open while on a cruise ship and becomes his next target for murder.

In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker-the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that of an emblematic American artist-intensely conflicted and driven-who has lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood's myth and an extraordinary...