Books by Brendan Halpin and Complete Book Reviews
Trish Cook and Brendan Halpin. Egmont USA, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-60684-140-2
Cook (Overnight Sensation) and Halpin (Shutout) coauthor an amusing if slightly overstuffed story about two families that collide amid marriages and misunderstandings. Classmates Declan and Neilly are from opposite ends of the social spectrum....
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Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin, Disney-Hyperion, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4231-2111-4
In alternating first-person narratives, Franklin (the Principles of Love series) and Halpin (Forever Changes) recount an offbeat teenage relationship. Liana is focused on a college-level summer course in astronomy to divert her attention from boys,...
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Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin, Walker, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8027-2162-4
"It's difficult to step off the fame track, mainly because now I don't know what I would do or who I'd be without a script," laments 17-year-old control freak Charlie Tracker, who has co-starred with arrogant Fielding Withers for several years on...
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Brendan Halpin, Author . Villard $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-50716-8
Halpin's memoir of his wife's struggle with breast cancer is a heartbreaking read. In the aftermath of tragedy, people will often say, "At least it happened quickly; at least there was no pain." Not so with cancer, even for survivors.
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Brendan Halpin, Author . Villard $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6083-2
As he's finishing grad school in the early 1990s, the author applies for positions in the Boston public school system; he wants to teach in an urban school, to work "with kids who might have their lives changed by me." In this absorbing,
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Brendan Halpin, Author . Random/Villard $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6277-5
A teenage girl becomes the ward of her sperm-donor father after losing both of her gay parents in a bizarre accident in this first novel, a modern spin on grief, catharsis and the art of parenting told in journal entries and electronic missives....
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Brendan Halpin, Author . Villard $22.95 (206p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6278-2
Halpin (Donorboy
) puts sensitive, studious Francis Kelly in the loving if slightly snarky hands of his older sister, Clare, who tells Francis's story with tenderness, admiration and affection, along with an occasional barb. Fran, a Catholic...
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Brendan Halpin, Author . Villard $13.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7702-8
Vindictive songs change the course of two people's lives in Halpin's third novel (after Long Way Back
), a funny and unlikely story about mending broken hearts. Philippa Strange, a fresh-out-of-high-school punk rock girl, divides her time...
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Brendan Halpin, Author . Villard $14 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7703-5
Halpin’s amusing fourth novel explores what happens when you mix art, love, friendship, business and children’s cartoons in the Age of Aquarius. It’s 1972 and Levon, Peter, Sarah and Julie, a group of idealistic young musicians,...
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Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin. Walker, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8027-2345-1
High school seniors Lucas and Tessa have been lifelong friends, but when he asks her to the prom she turns him down, revealing that she is gay and has a girlfriend. Angry at this rejection and that Tessa kept something from him, Lucas betrays Tessa’s
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