Susanna Moore
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals-- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double canoes, the Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An elegant, haunting new novel from the award-winning author of "In the Cut" and "The Whiteness of Bones"--set in Germany on the eve of World War II, the story of one woman's journey of self-discovery as a continent collapses into darkness.
Author
Language
English
Description
A revealing and refreshing memoir of Hollywood in the 1970s, written and read by Susanna Moore.
In 1963 after the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Susanna Moore leaves her home in Hawai'i with no money, no belongings, and no prospects to live with her Irish grandmother in Philadelphia. She soon receives four trunks of expensive clothes from a concerned family friend, allowing her to assume the first of many disguises she will need to find...
Author
Language
English
Description
A crime of unfathomable horror has a ripple-like effect on four profoundly different souls. Helen, a troubled inmate at Sloatsburg women's prison, is serving a life sentence for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, the recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, has forsworn the Park Avenue practice for which she trained in favor of the chief of psychiatry job at Sloatsburg. Former New York City narcotics detective Ike Bradshaw is...