Lissy Jablonski was fifteen during the summer of 1985. That was the summer her father, a soft-spoken, seemingly passionless gynecologist, up and left her mother for a redheaded bank teller. The same summer Lissy and her mother disappeared from their quiet New Hampshire lives to have an adventure of their own amid a cast of unlikely characters, including a Valium-addicted ex-debutante and a suspected mobster. The summer the reliably comforting girl talks with her mother began to reveal startling secrets. It was also the summer that Lissy's mother would ever after refer to as the summer that never happened. Now an almost-thirty-years-old advertising executive in Manhattan, faced with her father's imminent death and newly pregnant by her married ex-lover, an unmoored Lissy finds herself looking back across the years. Contending with her affections for an old boyfriend and his doomed marriage to a Korean stripper named Kitty Hawk, as well as the tangible legacies of that unmentionable summer with her mother, she realizes that she has become more like her mother than she ever could have imagined. In her debut novel, acclaimed short-story writer and poet Julianna Baggott has woven a precise, smartly comic, and compassionate tale of discovery and desire. With a lyrical sensibility, Baggott reminds us -- through the witty and unsparingly realistic voice of her narrator, Lissy -- of the pleasures and sorrows that can come from the most unreasonable realities of the heart.

Girl Talk

Literature & Fiction

JULIANNA BAGGOTT

Contemporary

Arrow Books, Ltd.

John and Jane's time in a cloakroom clearly isn't the beginning of anything real, even they know that. When they manage to pull back, literally, it occurs to them that they might start this whole thing over, properly. This is a novel providing insights into the ways of mating and dating in a post-feminist time.

Which Brings Me to You

Arrow Books

Two rambunctious, romantic flameouts. One boring wedding. One heated embrace in a quiet coatroom. This is not exactly the recipe for true love. John and Jane’s lusty encounter at a friend’s wedding isn’t really the beginning of anything with any weight to it; even they know that. When they manage to pull back, it occurs to them that they might start this whole thing over properly. They might try getting to know one another first, through letters. What follows is a series of traded confessions—of their messy histories, their past errors, their big loves, their flaws, and their passions. Each love affair, confessed as honestly as possible, reveals the ways in which Jane and John have grown and changed—or not changed—over the years; the people they’ve hurt, the ones still bruised. The ones who bruised them. Where all of this soul-baring will take them is the burning question behind every letter—a question that can only be answered when they meet again, finally, in the flesh.

William Heinemann, Ltd.

The Madam

Atria Books

Pure

Science & Math

Headline Book Publishing

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost--how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run. Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . . There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked: Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss--maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her. When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.

Headline Ome

An epic tale for fans of justin cronin, the hunger games and cormac mccarthy. The final part in the pure trilogy. Partridge has escaped the safety of his father's empire and left the dome, where his people - the pures - have sheltered for so long. He has ventured into the destroyed world inhabited by the wretches, who live crippled by their injuries. Pressia, a wretch, is desperate to decode the secrets of the past and, together with partridge, she must seek out the answers that will save all their futures. But partridge's actions will not be forgiven. As the dome unleashes horrifying vengeance upon the wretches, partridge has no choice but to return to face the darkness that lies there, leaving pressia to continue searching for the truth that will change the fate of the world for all time.

Burn

Headline

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pure

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

A mosaic of memories, the poems of This Country of Mothers recollect Julianna Baggott’s experiences as both mother and daughter. With wit, compassion, aggression, and anxiety, Baggott examines her maternal history. She recalls moments of creation and destruction in her life, times of elation and of desperation that mold her as both a woman and a poet. This affecting study of motherhood is framed in issues of Catholicism and of poetry itself, challenging and espousing the roles of both. Throughout her poems, Baggott’s personal experiences embrace universal themes to birth poems in a language and style that is both powerfully feminine and accessibly human.

This Country of Mothers (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)

Poetry

Southern Illinois University Press

Women’s voices offering an intimate view into women’s lives
Lizzie Borden in Love, a collection of poems by national bestselling author Julianna Baggott, offers poignant commentary in the voices of women as varied as Mary Todd Lincoln and Monica Lewinsky. The poems often focus on a particular moment in life: Katherine Hepburn discovers the dead body of her brother in an attic, or painter Mary Cassatt mourns the failure of her eyesight. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes ecstatic, the poems in this collection never fail the trust of the subjects of their intimate portrayals

Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women's Voices (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)

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Girl Talk

Which Brings Me to You

Which Brings Me to You

The Madam

Pure

Pure

Burn

pure

This Country of Mothers (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)

Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women's Voices (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)