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Home in the World
 NEW:
Joyce's essay, Good Girls Gone Bad, and a link
to Joyce's interview on the Charlie Rose Program
Joyce's memoir was released in August of 1998. Click
above for the full text of the afterword included in the paperback version,
a self-interview, excerpts from the book, and to read a portion of the
article that launched Joyce Maynard's writing career, An 18-Year-Old
Looks Back on Life.
Internal
Combustion: The Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City
 Joyce
Maynard was there in the courtroom when the jury brought in its verdict.
She spent the next year exploring the story of the Seaman family --
discovering, in the process, unsettling truths about her own. Here now
is her latest book --a true story, this time, of the breakdown of a
perfect looking American family.
The Cloud Chamber
  Now
available in paperback. The Cloud Chamber was awarded Best Young
Adult Novel of the Year by the California Book Awards of the Commonwealth
Club of San Francisco.
The Usual Rules
 American
Library Association Top
Ten 2003 Best Books for Young Adults!
Read Joyce's foreword for the book,
chapters One and Twenty-nine in their entirety, find out about The
Usual Rules Young Writers Project, and see what other writers have
to say about The Usual Rules.
Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties
30th Anniversary Edition!
Now available — a new, print-on-demand paperback edition (with
a reproduction of the original cover, from 1973, and a new foreward),
as well as a readers' guide to the book. Click above for more info and
a link to a portion of the piece that launched Joyce Maynard's writing
career - An Eighteen-Year-Old Looks Back on Life (Full text on
request).
To Die For
NEW:
About the Origin of To Die For
Joyce has adapted the book for a new theatrical production
which debuted in a showcase performance, April 2003, at The Players’
Club in Gramercy Park, New York. A
new,
print-on-demand paperback edition of
To Die For is now available, with a beautiful new jacket featuring
a painting by Dori and Joe DeCamillis, of Birmingham, Alabama.
Where Love Goes
 Where
Love Goes is a funny, sexy, and sometimes heartbreaking story about
a woman's struggle to put together her life as a mother with her longing
for a sexual and romantic life. Click for excerpts from the book. The
hardback version, as well as the accompanying Soundtrack CD and cassette,
may be purchased through the online catalogue.
Domestic
Affairs: Enduring the Pleasures
of Motherhood and Family Life
 Readers
who remember Maynard from her autobiography as an 18-year-old writer
weary of life will enjoy these scenes revealing her obvious devotion
to family and the future. Here is a testimony to the joys and sadness
to be found in the most routine events of family life. The author is
a keen observer and skilled at making the important connections between
those routine events and the larger picture.
—
Library Journal
Baby
Love
 The
story of four young girls facing the realities of motherhood, coping
with abandonment, the pressures and demands of family and married life,
and trying to make it all work out. Their lives are touched by two new
women in town — one on the verge of recreating herself out of the
turmoil of a failed affair, another focusing on a new chapter in her
relationsip, and her own desire for a baby.
Children's
Books
The
New House
 Story
by Joyce Maynard, pictures by Steve Bethel. As a new house next door
goes up, so does Andy's treehouse. With the arrival of the new neighbors,
he finds a friend to share it with. This is a Junior Literary Guild
selection, chosen as an oustanding book for boys and girls.
Camp-Out
Stay tuned
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