Joan Lingard, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-312-03453-5
The name on the gate was Shangri-la, but everyone in the neighborhood knew it as ``the women's house'' because the rambling, turreted and crumbling building was always rented to women who looked after each other. Currently living there in fusty...
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Joan Lingard, Author Dutton Books $15 (20p) ISBN 978-0-525-67306-4
As their family flees occupied Latvia in 1944, 14-year-old Astra becomes separated from her twin brother Hugo in a crushing crowd of refugees. For several years Astra's family is forced to move on from camp to camp without being able to go back to...
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Joan Lingard, Author Dutton Books $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-525-67360-6
Continuing the story of the Latvian refugee family begun in Tug of War , this sequel opens with the Petersons' arrival in Canada, ready to make a new start after their country was lost to the Soviet Union in WW II. The twins, Astra and Hugo, quickly
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Joan Lingard, Author Puffin Books $4.5 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-036072-1
This dramatic, gripping novel focuses on teenage twins in a Latvian family who become separated as they flee the advancing Russian Army during WW II. Ages 12-up. (Aug.)
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Joan Lingard, Author Sinclair-Stevenson, $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-85619-328-3
Based on the postmodern premise that life is a series of fictional constructs, this clever, oddly charismatic novel by Lingard (The Women's House) is a study in our inability ever to know another person completely. After 60-ish, bohemian Amy Balfour
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