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Joanne Greenberg
The bestselling classic about three generations of a deaf family in modern America, by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Two young deaf people, Abel and…
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Joanne Greenberg’s semiautobiographical novel, originally published under the pen name Hannah Green, stands as a timeless and unforgettable portrait of mental illness –
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"Deaf since birth, Abel Ryder grows up misunderstood and forced to learn to speak. It is not until he's sent from his rural hometown to a school for deaf students…
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Empty-nester Grace Dowben finds solace in her marriage, community, and volunteer work, but she suddenly must decide how to resolve her love for a newcomer who is young enough to…
From girlhood through middle age, Rachel and Miri, two Jewish women living in Colorado, struggle to sustain a complex, often competitive friendship throughout the challenges that arise over many decades.
In the isolated ski-resort town of Gold Flume, longtime Sheriff Jay Isaacs, prepares to confront three teens for a condo break-in. On his way to the county seat of Aureole…
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In its nuanced portrait of a middle-aged suburbanite, this novel challenges assumptions about kinship and selfhood, crime and punishment, and appearance and reality when Steven Howe-Boomer learns his father–assumed to…
Lily Higgins Beausoleil, respected mother, grandmother, bank employee and upstanding citizen of bucolic Gold Flume, has passed. A suicide no one will mention. Now the grieving family and town is…
Two deaf individuals leave an insensitive home for the handicapped to find a life for themselves.
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Joanne Greenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York and was graduated from American University, Washington, D.C., with a major in anthropology and English literature.
In 1955, she married Albert Greenberg…
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A Study Guide for Joanne Greenberg’s I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
Hans Christian Andersen
Original copyright 1966 by New American Library.–T.p. verso.
