Joshilyn Jackson, Author . Warner $19.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-446-52419-3
Arlene Fleet, the refreshingly imperfect heroine of Jackson's frank, appealing debut, launches her story with a list of the title's deities: "high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus." The first god, also a date...
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Joshilyn Jackson, Author . Warner $22.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-446-52442-1
The biological daughter of poor, scared teenager Hazel Crabtree, Nonny Frett was left at birth with the wealthy, respectable Frett clan—a secret that doesn't keep long in a rural Georgia town of 90 people. Growing up at the center of a...
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Joshilyn Jackson, Author . Grand Central $23.99 (311p) ISBN 978-0-446-57965-0
Jackson matches effortless Southern storytelling with a keen eye for character and heart-stopping circumstances. Laurel, a high-end quilt maker, sees the ghost of a little girl in her bedroom one night. When it leads her to the backyard and a dead...
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Joshilyn Jackson, Author . Grand Central $24.99 (344p) ISBN 978-0-446-58234-6
Readers willing to stick through a slow beginning will be rewarded in Jackson's eventually riveting fourth novel (after The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
). When abused Rose Grandee isn't getting up the nerve to do something about her violent...
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Joshilyn Jackson. Grand Central, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-58235-3
The Slocumb women suffer from an unfortunate curse: every 15 years something bad happens. Ginny gave birth to Liza when she was 15. And Liza had Mosey when she was 15. Now it’s Mosey who’s 15, and she’s nervous. But the curse strikes in a different...
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Joshilyn Jackson. Morrow, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-210565-3
Friendships and relationships are tested by tragedy in this witty and insightful sixth novel from the author of Gods in Alabama and A Grown-up Kind of Pretty. Single mother Shandi Pierce is paralyzed with fear when she and her young son Natty are...
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Joshilyn Jackson. Morrow, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-210568-4
The voice is hard-boiled and the plot engrossing in Jackson's (Someone Else's Love Story) new novel, a realistic, contemporary story with a mystery driving it. In a twist, the troubled detective protagonist is no screwed-up male with substance abuse
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Joshilyn Jackson. Morrow, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-210571-4
Graphic novelist Leia Birch Briggs is single, pregnant with a biracial baby, and unsure of her baby’s father’s name. All she knows is he was dressed like Batman and her last FanCon included a night she will never forget. Meanwhile, her stepsister’s...
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Joshilyn Jackson, Author, Joshilyn Jackson, Read by , read by the author. Hachette Audio $31.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-209-3
Jackson's author biography reveals her to be a "former actor," but listeners will guess that for themselves from the first few tracks of this wonderfully realized audiobook. Her brand of Southern fiction was born to be read out loud,
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Joshilyn Jackson, read by the author. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-1-61113-992-1
Many writers shouldn’t narrate the audio editions of their books; it’s always a disappointment when a talented author who’s not equally gifted as an actor decides to go the DIY route. Thankfully, that’s not the case with Joshilyn Jackson, whose wild,
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Joshilyn Jackson, Author, Joshilyn Jackson, Read by, Author, Read by , read by the author. Hachette Audio $39.98 (9p) ISBN 978-1-59483-922-1
Laurel, the center of Jackson's emotionally taut third novel, has a seemingly picture-perfect life, but when her daughter's best friend accidentally drowns in their pool and appears to Laurel in spirit form, things unravel quickly. Jackson&
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Joshilyn Jackson. Morrow, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-285531-2
Diving instructor Amy Whey, the unreliable narrator of this entertaining, if flawed, thriller from bestseller Jackson (The Almost Sisters), enjoys a comfortable life as a devoted wife and mother in Pensacola, Fla. Then one night, a mystifying and...
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Joshilyn Jackson. Morrow, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-285534-3
Bree Cabbat, the narrator of this gripping domestic thriller from bestseller Jackson (Never Have I Ever), is luxuriating in a life beyond anything she imagined growing up poor in the Georgia sticks—until her infant son is snatched at a musical...
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Joshilyn Jackson. Morrow, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-315865-8
Meribel Mills, the winning narrator of this solid suspense novel from bestseller Jackson (Mother May I), says she’s 37 “according to IMDb,” but admits she’s 42 “if I went strictly by things like my birth certificate and facts.” Meribel’s major claim
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