Mary Helen Stefaniak

• Sep-1997
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. What a joy these stories are! Spun from the stuff of everyday life, they are carefully constructed, lovingly sewn, and touched here and there by the miraculous. Mary Helen Stefaniak knows her craft, and she is a wonderfully humane writer. Th...

• Jun-2004
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Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Book Award "Fans of Amy Tan and Carol Shields will revel in the themes of remembrance, forgiveness, family devotion, and forbidden love." -- BooklistEvery family has its secrets. But toward the end of his life, Geo...

• Sep-2010
• / Historical
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Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new, well-traveled young schoolteacher turns a small Georgia town upside down. Miss Grace Spivey believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Th...

• Apr-2022
• / General Fiction
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In a game of life or death, the seniors at Pondside Manor risk it all.With help from Pondside Manor’s quirky, twentysomething kitchen worker Foster Kresowik, resident Robert Kallman creates The World of Pondside, a video game that delights the ...