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Waiting to Vanish

Profiles a closely knit New England family forced to deal with a sudden death in their midst but able to learn and even grow as they come to terms with their grief

By Ann Hood

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9780553345216 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, July 1, 1988, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Profiles a closely knit New England family forced to deal with a sudden death in their midst but able to learn and even grow as they come to terms with their grief

Three-Legged Horse

Product Description: From critically acclaimed author Ann Hood, comes a riveting third novel abouta young woman's attempt to break obsessive ties and gain independence.

By Ann Hood

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9780553347326 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, August 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: From critically acclaimed author Ann Hood, comes a riveting third novel abouta young woman's attempt to break obsessive ties and gain independence.

Something Blue

Arriving on the doorstep of her college roommate, Katherine begins a new life in the Big Apple, forging a new friendship with an old friend even as the old friend copes with her own problems. Reprint.

By Ann Hood

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9780553071405 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: On the morning of her wedding day, Katherine flees to the home of her old college friend Lucy, who reluctantly agrees to put her up, in a story about women who must learn to know one another again

Paperback:

9780553298147 | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, July 1, 1992), cover price $5.99 | also contains Numbers Practice Book | About this edition: Arriving on the doorstep of her college roommate, Katherine begins a new life in the Big Apple, forging a new friendship with an old friend even as the old friend copes with her own problems.

Places to Stay the Night

While dissatisfied Libby Harper abandons her husband, her two children, and the town of Holly for something better, frenetic New Yorker Renata Handy returns to Holly to heal her ill child

By Ann Hood

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Hardcover:

9780385425568 | Doubleday, February 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: While dissatisfied Libby Harper abandons her husband, her two children, and the town of Holly for something better, frenetic New Yorker Renata returns to Holly to heal her ill daughter

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9780553373790 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1994), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: While dissatisfied Libby Harper abandons her husband, her two children, and the town of Holly for something better, frenetic New Yorker Renata Handy returns to Holly to heal her ill child

The Properties of Water

Dedicated wife and mother Josie Hunter finds her seemingly idyllic life threatened by a random act of violence, the return of her estranged older sister, and the emergence of an attractive childhood sweetheart. Reprint. NYT.

By Ann Hood

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Hardcover:

9780385472791 | Doubleday, July 1, 1995, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: The return of her bohemian sister Michaela to their Rhode Island hometown, a mill town in decline, precipitates a crisis in Josie Jericho's seemingly perfect life and forces both women to confront their feelings for each other

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9780553375657 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, July 1, 1996), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The return of her bohemian sister Michaela to their Rhode Island hometown, a mill town in decline, precipitates a crisis in Josie Jericho's seemingly perfect life and forces both women to confront their feelings for each other

Creating Character Emotions

Offers advice on writing about emotions, and shares examples of good writing for emotions ranging from anger and desire to suspicion and tenderness

By Ann Hood

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9781884910333 | Story Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Offers advice on writing about emotions, and shares examples of good writing for emotions ranging from anger and desire to suspicion and tenderness

Ruby: A Novel

Following the tragic death of her husband, Olivia, a grieving New York City milliner, desperately struggles to rebuild her life, until she meets Ruby, a young, pregnant delinquent abandoned by her family, who takes up residence in Olivia's Rhode Island beach house

By Ann Hood

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9780312195533 | Picador USA, September 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Following the tragic death of her husband, Olivia, a grieving New York City milliner, desperately struggles to rebuild her life, until she meets Ruby, a young, pregnant delinquent abandoned by her family, who takes up residence in Olivia's Rhode Island beach house

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9780312204303 | Picador USA, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Following the tragic death of her husband, Olivia, a grieving New York City milliner, desperately struggles to rebuild her life, until she meets Ruby, a young, pregnant delinquent abandoned by her family, who takes up residence in Olivia's Rhode Island beach house

The Ornithologist's Guide to Life

The author of Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine and Ruby presents a collection of short works that explores the surreal qualities of everyday events, from a pregnant woman's obsession with cooking after being left by her husband, to a young alcoholic's seduction of her priest, to a teen's observation of her mother's romance. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

By Ann Hood

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9780393059007 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 2004), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short works that explores the surreal qualities of everyday events, from a pregnant woman's obsession with cooking after being left by her husband, to a young alcoholic's seduction of her priest, to a teen's observation of her mother's romance.

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9780393327045, titled "An Ornithologist's Guide To Life" | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 2005), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The author of Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine and Ruby presents a collection of short works that explores the surreal qualities of everyday events, from a pregnant woman's obsession with cooking after being left by her husband, to a young alcoholic's seduction of her priest, to a teen's observation of her mother's romance.

The Knitting Circle: Library Edition

Product Description: After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life. Alice, Scarlet, Lulu, Beth, Harriet, and Ellen welcome Mary into their circle despite her reluctance to open her heart to them...read more

By Ann Hood and Hillary Huber (narrator)

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9780786169160 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2007), cover price $72.00 | About this edition: After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786169177 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2007), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island.

How I Saved My Father's Life, and Ruined Everything Else

By Ann Hood

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School and Library:

9780439928199, titled "How I Saved My Father's Life (and Ruined Everything Else)" | Scholastic Pr, March 1, 2008, cover price $16.99

Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine

Four friends from the sixties, Suzanne, Claudia, Elizabeth, and Howard, find that in the eighties their lives have taken some surprising turns

By Ann Hood

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9780393332353 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2008), cover price $13.95

9780312195557 | 1 edition (Picador USA, September 1, 1998), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Four friends from the sixties, Suzanne, Claudia, Elizabeth, and Howard, find that in the eighties their lives have taken some surprising turns

9780553374322 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1994), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Four friends from the sixties, Suzanne, Claudia, Elizabeth, and Howard, find that in the eighties their lives have taken some surprising turns

The Knitting Circle

Come on in and join the knitting circle -- it might just save your life!

By Ann Hood

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Hardcover:

9780786294381 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 4, 2007), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Grieving over the sudden loss of her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island, whose members not only teach her a variety of knitting techniques but also valuable lessons about friendship, love, and redemption.

9780393059014 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Grieving over the sudden loss of her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island, whose members not only teach her a variety of knitting techniques but also valuable lessons about friendship, love, and redemption.

Paperback:

9781847560100 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, May 14, 2008, cover price $11.25 | About this edition: Come on in and join the knitting circle -- it might just save your life!

9780393330441 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: âAn intelligent, moving readâ (Pages) and âa testament to womenâs friendship and to Ann Hoodâs talentâ (Hilma Wolitzer).

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786170623 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: After losing her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle to fill the empty days.

9780786159369 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 22, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: After losing her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle to fill the empty days.

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9780786149100 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 22, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: After losing her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle to fill the empty days.

Comfort: A Journey Through Grief

Product Description: âRarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance.â âEntertainment Weekly A moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief, and learning to love again.

By Ann Hood

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Hardcover:

9780393064568 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2008, cover price $19.95

Paperback:

9780393336597 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 4, 2009), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: âRarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance.

The Red Thread

In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of desire for a child. Their painful and courageous journey toward adoption forces Maya to confront the lost daughter of her past. Brilliantly braiding together the stories of Chinese birth mothers who give up their daughters, Ann Hood writes a moving and beautifully told novel of the red thread of fate that binds these characters' lives. Heartrending and wise, The Red Thread is a stirring portrait of unforgettable love and yearning for a baby.

By Ann Hood

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9781441735003 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 3, 2010), cover price $29.95

9781441735010 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 3, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread.

The Red Thread: A Novel

Product Description: The new bestseller from the author of The Knitting Circle: “Is there anyone who can write about the connections between ordinary people as well as Ann Hood does?”―Jodi Picoult “In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread...read more

By Ann Hood

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Hardcover:

9780393070200 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 3, 2010, cover price $23.95

Paperback:

9780393339765 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 2, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The new bestseller from the author of The Knitting Circle: “Is there anyone who can write about the connections between ordinary people as well as Ann Hood does?

Angel of the Battlefield

Product Description: While exploring The Treasure Chest, Felix and Maisie are transported to a Massachusetts farm in 1836. Disappointed that they have not landed in their beloved New York City, they wonder why they were brought to Massachusetts to meet a young girl named Clara Barton...read more

By Ann Hood

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Hardcover:

9780448454719 | Grosset & Dunlap, January 24, 2012, cover price $15.99

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9780448454672 | Grosset & Dunlap, January 24, 2012, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: While exploring The Treasure Chest, Felix and Maisie are transported to a Massachusetts farm in 1836.

Little Lion

Now that the twins have begun to settle into their new lives at Elm Medona, they delve deeper into The Treasure Chest and uncover more about the Pickworth family, including the disappearance of their great-uncle Thorne and the theft of priceless family artifacts.In this adventure, The Treasure Chest transports Felix and Maisie to tropical St. Croix in 1772. There they meet a young man named Alexander Hamilton who is about to embark on a journey to New York. Felix and Maisie aren't sure why The Treasure Chest has brought them to meet Alexander, but they are determined to not let him out of their sights . . .even if that means stowing away on the very ship he is sailing off on!

By Ann Hood

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9780448454726 | Grosset & Dunlap, January 24, 2012, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Now that the twins have begun to settle into their new lives at Elm Medona, they delve deeper into The Treasure Chest and uncover more about the Pickworth family, including the disappearance of their great-uncle Thorne and the theft of priceless family artifacts.

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9780448454689 | Grosset & Dunlap, January 24, 2012, cover price $6.99

Jewel of the East

Product Description: Return to The Treasure Chest with Felix and Maisie . . . When Felix Robbins gets a crush on Lily Goldstein, a classmate who is adopted from China, he decides to try to take her back in time so that she can see the country where she was born...read more

By Ann Hood

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9780448454733 | Grosset & Dunlap, May 1, 2012, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Return to The Treasure Chest with Felix and Maisie .

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9780448454696 | Grosset & Dunlap, May 1, 2012, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Return to The Treasure Chest with Felix and Maisie .

Prince of Air

The secrets of Elm Medona thicken . . . with Harry Houdini! When Great-Uncle Thorne arrives at Elm Medona, Maisie and Felix's lives get shaken up again. Uncle Thorne moves the family into the mansion proper. One night, Great-Aunt Maisie arranges for Thorne, Maisie, and Felix to rendezvous with her in The Treasure Chest. Minutes later, Maisie and Felix find themselves at a magic show on Coney Island in 1893 starring Harry Houdini. As they follow him and his brother Dash to Pennsylvania and Rhode Island and back to New York City, they wonder what has become of Great-Aunt Maisie and Great-Uncle Thorne. Then one evening at Tom Pastor's Famous 14th Street Theater, the curtain opens and all is revealed.

By Ann Hood

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Hardcover:

9780448454740 | Grosset & Dunlap, August 7, 2012, cover price $15.99

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9780448454702 | Grosset & Dunlap, August 7, 2012, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The secrets of Elm Medona thicken .

The Obituary Writer: Library Edition

Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case.] From bestselling author Ann Hood comes a sophisticated and suspenseful novel about the poignant lives of two women living in different eras. On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying...read more

By Ann Hood

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9781470842765 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 4, 2013), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case.

Crazy Horse: Brave Warrior

By Ann Hood and Denis Zilber (illustrator)

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9780448457284 | Grosset & Dunlap, April 18, 2013, cover price $6.99

Crazy Horse: Brave Warrior

Product Description: The New York Times calls Ann Hood's thrilling The Treasure Chest series "delightful!" In book five, Felix and Maisie re-enter The Treasure Chest and suddenly find themselves in the midst of a Lakota village. While exploring they meet a young man, soon to be known as Crazy Horse--and embark on an adventure that includes fascinating vision quests and exciting battles...read more

By Ann Hood and Denis Zilbur (illustrator)

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9780448457383 | Grosset & Dunlap, April 18, 2013, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The New York Times calls Ann Hood's thrilling The Treasure Chest series "delightful!

Jewel of the East

Product Description: British India, 1774. Lady Emily Augusta Fitzroy is a beautiful but melancholy young noblewoman, packed off to India by her father in order to marry Warren Hastings, the tyrannical Governor of Bengal. Kidnapped by pirates, her fate suddenly rests in the hands of two men: Colonel Charles Edward Fuller, an ambitious, ruthless covert agent sent to rescue her, and the Colonel's handsome native lieutenant, Mr...read more

By Nicholas L. Waddy

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9781484998816 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 21, 2013, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: British India, 1774.

The Treasure Chest: Queen Liliuokalani: Royal Prisoner

Product Description: In Book 6 of The Treasure Chest, Felix and Maisie take a trip to New York City to visit their father and meet his new girlfriend. While there, Maisie reveals to Felix that she has a jeweled crown she took from The Treasure Chest. The twins travel to Hawaii in the late 1800s, where they spend time with the royal family and continue to master the magic of time-travel...read more

By Ann Hood and Denis Zilber (illustrator)

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9780448457291 | Grosset & Dunlap, June 27, 2013, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: In Book 6 of The Treasure Chest, Felix and Maisie take a trip to New York City to visit their father and meet his new girlfriend.

Queen Liliuokalani: Royal Prisoner

By Ann Hood and Denis Zilber (illustrator)

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9780448457390, titled "Queen Liliuokalani: Royal Prisoner: Royal Prisoner" | Grosset & Dunlap, June 27, 2013, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In Book 6 of The Treasure Chest, Felix and Maisie take a trip to New York City to visit their father and meet his new girlfriend.

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