Every Secret Thing

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Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street—and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed.

Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from "kid prison" to begin their lives over again. But the secrets swirling around the original crime continue to haunt the parents, the lawyers, the police—all the adults in Alice and Ronnie's lives. And now another child has disappeared, under freakishly similar circumstances ...

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When two little girls find an abandoned baby, good intentions go awry and three families are ruined. Now, seven years later, another child is missing and rookie homicide detective Nancy Porter must uncover the truth in a world where no one is innocent -- not even the children.

Since her debut in 1997, Laura Lippman has won virtually every major prize in the mystery-writing field and earned the highest critical praise for her Tess Monaghan series, which has been called ""spectacular"" (New York Times), ""terrific fun"" (Washington Post), ""a delight"" (Baltimore Sun), and ""the best mystery writing around"" (Village Voice). Now Lippman steps outside her series to deliver her darkest, most troubling tale -- and vaults into the crime-fiction elite with a haunting story of murder, fate's accidents, and the stories we tell ourselves when we try to make sense of the unthinkable. On a July afternoon two little girls, banished from a birthday party, take a wrong turn onto an unfamiliar Baltimore street -- and encounter an abandoned stroller with a baby inside it. Dutiful Alice Manning and unpredictable Ronnie Fuller only want to be helpful, to be good. People like children who are good, Alice thinks. But whatever the girls' real intentions, things go horribly awry and three families are destroyed. Seven years later Alice and Ronnie are heading home again -- only separately this time, their fragile bond long shattered, their secrets still closely kept. Advised to avoid each other, they enter a world where they essentially have no past. In exchange, they are promised a fresh start, the chance to mold their own future. That promise is broken when a child disappears, under disturbingly similar circumstances. And the adults in Alice's and Ronnie's lives -- the parents, the lawyers, the police -- realize that they must now confront the shattering truths they couldn't face seven years earlier. Or another mother will lose her child.

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I could see it coming.......2007-09-30

I could see something wrong with the setup from the start of the novel so maybe that soured it a bit for me. There were a few twists with the Mom, but Alice was too good. Some good twists at the end, but the storyline wasn't that interesting to me with the racist thing going on, in your face, spelling out who's this color, who's that color, who's mixed, defining everyone rich, poor, shoving them into a socioeconomic class as if that makes the book more interesting. For me, it didn't. I was so disappointed because this author's mysteries were highly recommended. If I hadn't been in the emergency room waiting for someone and with nothing to do but read, I am not certain I'd have finished EVERY SECRET THING at all. But I am glad I did, just not delighted with the journey.

Great read.......2007-07-17

This was the first book I read by this author. I found it to be a very good read and read it quickly. Plot was good and characters were well defined. Some parts were a little slow. It did jump around a lot to all the different characters but author did a good job with that.
Overall I would recommend this book and will read more from this author

Very Well Done Psychological Drama.......2007-02-25

I read a lot of thrillers, and I thought EVERY SECRET THING was very well done. This is not a fast paced thriller, but is instead more of a psychological drama. There are a fair number of characters in this novel, and Lippman takes a lot of time exploring the psyche of each individual person. To her credit, Lippman is able to flesh out all the major characters and make them seem believable. If you like character-based crime novels in the vein of MYSTIC RIVER, this is a good choice.

This type of novel isn't for everybody though. EVERY SECRET THING has a very dark tone, and Lippman does not write about perfect, heroic characters. Nearly all the major players in this book are flawed and self-absorbed at some level. Some of them are downright annoying. Of course, you could say the same thing about most people in real life. Nevertheless, Lippman is able to make all of these flawed characters sympathetic for the most part, which kept me turning the pages.

My only quibble with EVERY SECRET THING is the ending. There is a big twist near the end of this book that struck me as rather forced and laborious. I can't say much more about it without giving away the storyline, but I felt the ending didn't live up to the high quality of what preceded it. Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I don't think every thriller novel requires a huge twist at the end.

This novel got a lot of attention and won the Anthony and Barry awards for best novel. I think it deserved those awards. I have read only one other Lippman book, her debut BALTIMORE BLUES, and I must admit I found it pretty disappointing. My understanding is that Lippman has grown as a writer over the last ten years and her best books are her most recent. So if you've never read Lippman before, EVERY SECRET THING is probably a good place to start.

A Spine-Tingling, very different sort of Thriller.......2006-11-16

This is a super-entertaining, unorthodox crime thriller. Unafraid to pursue a plot line that a lot of people would object to (the murder of a three year old by two 11-year-old girls), Lippman not only starts out with a tantalyzing plot device, but keeps things moving well. The result is a novel that is both entertaining for its twists, but its characters as well, for the people that inhabit it are well-drawn. It's a thrill ride that offers a quick read because it's definitely a high-octane page-turner. Don't be fooled though; there's real substance here.

excellent.......2006-08-15

Very satisfied with my purchase. Will do business with this seller again. Thanks, Marilyn.

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Best Mainstream Critique of the Left & The Government:
A Very Evil Adventure......
A riveting story, well-told.

Every Secret Thing
Patricia Campbell Hearst , and Alvin Moscow
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover

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Best Mainstream Critique of the Left & The Government:.......2001-01-15

Many who read Patty Hearst's book, "Every Secret Thing," will discover that she contributed the clearest critique ever offered of the anti-white mindset associated with Marxist terrorists (and many liberals). When there is a Pulitzer prize for books helpful to the cause of Americans of European descent, let it go to her.

Mrs. Hearst also spoke out against the government's common practice of burning its opponents alive; which was done in the SLA case (even when they believed Patty was in the building), in the Gordon Kahl tax protester case, the Robert Matthews case, and in the Branch Davidian case.

I have worked in fire safety for fifteen years, and while many people may think burning their political opponents alive is just as good as any other way (As in, the means justified by ends), let me assure you that it's horrifying beyond belief. It's got to be stopped, for it's a tactic we might better have expected in some no holds barred racist novel, though I don't recall even one of those stooping that low.

A Very Evil Adventure.............1999-07-10

This book tells an interesting story of the abduction of Patty Hearst. But the story covers more than just the kidnapping of a girl from one of the most influential families in the country. It explains the results of mental and emotional abuse, and it shows how we as people will do whatever it is we have to do to survive. The book also explores class structure in the U.S. Hearst was kidnapped at least in part because she was from a wealthy family. The Symbionese Liberation Army wanted to use her abduction to raise ransom money to feed the poor and to enhance the SLA's name recognition. But it was Hearst's financial status that prevented people from believing her story of brainwashing. People felt she was a spoiled young lady who had turned to a radical movement like so many people from the 1960s. There's one problem: she did not come of age in the 1960s. Still she would spend two years of her life in federal prison because she was unfairly an icon of the spoiled wealthy counter-culture movemet of the 60s. It would be her money and connections that would save her, however. She and her friends were able to raise money and organize a campaign to convince President Carter to pardon her. The pardon was the right thing to do, but it was not something someone poor or middle class with fewer connections would receive. Hearst's writing voice is very gentle and the story is told like it's coming from the girl next door. indeed, the reader is shocked that there seems to be very little anger. It's nice to see that Hearst has overcome that anger. Hearst talks about the SLA --- a group that is like the Manson Family with a social conscience --- in a very objective manner. The book seems to fall apart at the end. Hearst fails to inform her reader as to what happened to the boyfriend she was living with when she was kidnapped. Moreover, she provides several pictures of her police officer-turned-bodyguard-turned-boyfriend, but he seems to barely be a footnote in this book. (Hey, Ms.Hearst: we spent 57 days in a closet with you, shared a toothbrush with you, were with you through all god-awful SLA holdups, so don't you think we deserve a little romance!)The book just ends suddenly. Right when Hearst's life starts getting better the story ends. But the last few words of the book let the reader know that the author will live happily ever after.

A riveting story, well-told........1998-03-21

I'm only 28, not old enough to have been reading newspapers when Patricia Hearst was kidnapped. So I can't really say whether this book answers all the questions that may be out there about what really happened.

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When an old man strikes up a conversation with her on the steps of St. Paul s and makes a mystifying mention of murder and an oddly familiar comment about her grandmother, Kate Murray is intrigued. But she never gets to hear the rest of Andrew Deacon s tale. Shocked by his unexpected death, she wonders whom this strange, old man is, and what the odd reference to her grandmother could mean. Interest piqued by the story never told, Kate becomes drawn into an investigation, uncovering secrets about the grandmother she thought she knew and a man she never did. Soon she is caught up in a dangerous whirlwind of events that takes her back into her grandmother s mysterious wartime past and across the Atlantic as she tries to retrace Deacon s footsteps. Finding out the truth is not so simple, however, as only a few people are still alive who know the story...and Kate soon realizes that her questions are putting their lives in danger. Stalked by an unknown and sinister enemy, and facing death every step of the way, Kate must use her tough journalistic instinct to find the answers from the past in order to have a future.

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I felt like I was there..........2007-10-03

From the moment I opened this book I was transported to a different place and different time. Every page is filled with evocative descriptions and every character beautifully developed. I learned from this book and was entertained as well. What a perfect combination! I look forward to this author's next book under Emma Cole or Susanna Kearsly!

Susanna Kearsley as Emma Cole.......2006-11-24

If you enjoy Susanna Kearsley's books then you will not want to miss her newest. Although written by Kearsley "Every Secret Thing" has been published under the name Emma Cole as, unlike her other novels, there is no supernatural presence. Other than that, this book is in the same style as her other novels, a "historical" mystey, this one relating to WWII, combined with a modern thriller that takes you from England to North America and then to Portugal. Readers of Kearsley's other novels will enjoy the cameo appearance of a character from one of her earlier books and, as always, her prose is beautifully written - a joy to read and re-read.

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Loved it..
Welcome back Susanna Kearsley (aka Emma Cole)
Very good first novel
Lyrical, Inspiring Read
Wonderful, engaging tale, so realistic.

Every Secret Thing: A Novel
Lila Shaara
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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Release Date: 2006-06-27

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“A moving and compelling story . . . the debut of an utterly original voice.”
–Carol Goodman, author of The Ghost Orchid

I only got one birthday present, and as it turned out, it was a gift of such importance, opening it should have sent psychic shivers through me. But I merely thought it a curiosity, vaguely creepy but nothing threatening. Not a portent.

Gina Paletta should have been used to upheaval. From her childhood in a small southern town to her career in Manhattan’s glamorous modeling world to sudden, unplanned motherhood, Gina has forever struggled to keep her life under control. Now, at thirty-three–her “year of waking up”–she has moved with her young sons to upstate New York and reinvented herself as a college professor. At last she can nurse the fragile hope of safety, the hope of security.

But Gina learns that security is an illusion when a pair of police detectives arrive at her doorstep. Two of Gina’s students have posted salacious photographs of her on a website. Even more troubling, these young men are suspects in a local murder. Beneath the campus elms, amid the ivied masonry of the collegiate buildings, and in the libraries where she secrets herself from the world, Gina Paletta must now contend with a new sensation: terror.

As the tension rises, Gina turns to her family and friends, only to discover lies and violence beneath placid surfaces. Fearful for her safety and that of her children, determined to guard the new life she has built, Gina comes to rely on the company and protection of one of the detectives assigned to her case. Yet even as their relationship grows more complicated, the danger around them mounts–and Gina finds herself marshaling reserves of strength and resolve she never dreamed existed.

Riveting and hypnotic, lyrical and tense, Every Secret Thing is a remarkable debut: a provocative psychological drama about love, guilt, fear, and every secret thing that binds us together.

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Loved it.........2007-07-17

I loved this book. I thought the book was terrific, and I couldn't put it down. I didn't want it to end.

Welcome back Susanna Kearsley (aka Emma Cole).......2007-04-07

Canadian journalist Kate Murray is approached by an older man, told she has her grandmother's eyes and that he wants to tell her about a crime never brought to justice. Before learning any more, he is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the man's nephew is murdered and then her grandmother, Kate sets off on a journey that started during WWII and continues to today.

It's been six years since this author's last book and I am delighted she's back. Because this book lacks a paranormal element, as her books to under her real name, she and her publisher decided she should use a nom de plume. With a style reminiscent of Mary Stuart, we are taken on an international journey and a mystery that began during WWII. All the elements are here; the secret, the journey, being followed, not knowing who to trust, people not being as they seem, romance, both in the past and the present, and every bit of it enjoyable. I liked Kate. She's smart and determined. I enjoyed the history, which was interesting and is a significant element of the story but doesn't overwhelm the plot. The only problem with finishing is book is now I have to wait for her next.

Very good first novel.......2007-02-14

Yes, she's from the Killer Angels Shaara family. Part romance, part thriller, part cop story, and very much about family, Shaara packs a lot into this book. Not all of the plot lines hold together (Gina's uncle, Frank Hannigan, is a bad guy from a bit out of left field), but the story of Gina, the beautiful ex-model, Tommy the cop, and the pursuit of Gina's obsessive students certainly entertains. Gina learns much about herself in the process, although only after taking a lot of her insecurities out on poor Tommy. Gina comes to grips with family secrets (an abusive uncle, a child born to a nun, and a mom who literally hates her), wards off the advances from a chubby reporter, gives away her childrens' trust fund (that part made little legal sense), fights off the obsessive student, befriends an elderly neighbor, and, of course, gets the guy. Altogether a very good first novel.

Lyrical, Inspiring Read.......2006-12-03

I'll always be grateful to this book, it introduced me to Alan Watts. His quotes were used to open each chapter and they've stayed with me since I've read the book.

At first I didn't see why Shaara had to take up so much time and space decribing the protagonist's relationships with her extended family and odd duck neighbor, when the plot centered around two of her students' crimes. Now that I've finished reading this massive tome, I finally understand Shaara's intention. She really spent time crafting the atmsphere and back story so the final reveal would be all the more shocking. Like the title suggests, there are lots of secrets, big and small, being revealed along the way. The reader gets tugged along, seeing more and more of the big secret(s?) at the end, not quite sure if one should keep going, since there is quite a bit of daily minutiae in between. Kind of like life, now that I think about it.

Wonderful, engaging tale, so realistic........2006-09-21

This book was recommended to me in the library and I am so glad I picked it up! Once I started reading I could not put it down, finished it in 2 nights. I was so charmed by the main character and her very realistic battles with family, relationships, being a single mom, and a very scary (but boy could I see it actually happening) police matter. She is very introspective as well, and you can truly feel her turmoil while struggling to fight society expectations, being a widow, a dysfunctional family, and the surprise of falling in love. I just loved it and hope you will be as charmed with it. I am looking forward to the next novel by the author (think this was her first?)with great anticipation.

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

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Every Little Thing/A World Apart - Gillian Slovo
How to think like a Commie - from their kid's point of view
Moving and challenging
A Moving True Story

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country
Gillian Slovo
Manufacturer: Abacus
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The author's parents, Ruth First and Joe Slovo, were South Africa's best-known white opponents of apartheid. First was assassinated in 1982; Slovo became housing minister in Nelson Mandela's multiracial government before dying of cancer. Reconstructing their lives--often in jail or in hiding--their daughter (born in 1952) writes with painful honesty of the war inside her between admiration for their convictions and desperate longing for the normalcy and security denied her as a child. There is no easy resolution here, but great love and sorrowful understanding.

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A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment. Whilst recalling the extraordinary events which surrounded her family's persecution and exile, and reconstructing the truth of her parents' relationship and her own turbulent childhood, Gillian Slovo has also created an astonishing portrait of a courageous mother and a father of integrity and stoicism.

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Every Little Thing/A World Apart - Gillian Slovo.......2005-03-13

i only read a small portion of Every Little Thing - having sat sobbing throughout A World Apart - the poignant movie version.

i followed the comings and goings of both joe slovo and ruth first, and was myself in exile in lestho, when father john osmond had his hand blown off by parcel bomb; in detention, when albie sachs had his hand blown off in moçambique; under restriction back in johannesburg, when ruth was assisinated in moçambique; in my second stint in exile in botswana when jeannette and katryn schoon were murdered by parcel bomb in angola.

the pathos deliverered in A World Apart wrenched my insides apart, for many of the questions gillian had for her father, my own daughter - separated from me being in exile - she in johannesburg, she pleaded me for, for clear answers. her young enquiring mind was never satiated with whatever i had to proffer.

the sad thing about these situations is that we have no clear answers - no magic solution, for when gross injustices prevail within a "civilised" society, some of us who heed the call - take up the challenge to right these inhumane wrongs. we are forced to forgo our own comforts and loved ones. the call of the multitudes, far exceeds those of our own personal loved ones; for we reach/strive for that day, when all our children - black, white, brown or yellow will be able to live as proud children under one free and democratic governement. only then will we all be opportuned to live out their dreams and aspirations as proud citizens of the world - an integral part of humanity ...

and it was this message that tore at my gut, my heart ... my troubled mind - that made me feel a little more proud of the many sacrifices so many of us were forced to endure. that our children and loved ones had to be denied our love and support and guidance that we as responsible adults/parents should have been fulfilling, can never be repayed; for within our offspring, the emptiness of both parents being there for them - when most needed has come and gone ...

How to think like a Commie - from their kid's point of view.......2004-10-06

Gillian Slovo is unapologetic in her rather petulant story of a neglected childhood. While her parents pursued Communism and pushed against the apartheid government of South Africa, all the while earning a good income with her father's lawyering, she and her sisters suffered especially her ambitious mother's indifference, imprisonment and lack of home life "quality time".

Ruth First, daughter of Polish Jews, ambitious in her own right and extremely intelligent and sharp-tongued, married Joe Slovo, also Jewish, of Russian origin, with struggling parents. It was a climb up for him, with the steady rise of his income as a lawyer in post-WWII South Africa under white rule. His children lived well, enjoyed the blacks as servants, and attended private schools. The parents ran hither and to as Communists tend to do.

What makes this book uncommonly candid from a red is that the daughter, while unequivocally defending her parents' "struggles", openly begrudges their self-absorption and cause-related time-consuming party activities. When her parents become wanted criminals, the father escapes over the border and the mother ultimately goes to prison. Understandably, our writer, the daughter Gillian, is annoyed. She and her siblings avoid mentioning their parents in any of their schools, but her Russian-Jewish name betrays their origins, their parents' political proclivities, and brands the daughters as traitors.

The inside battle of any political movement will always take its toll on the activists' children. This part of the book is almost comical in its self-centeredness, but we all can relate if we have had parents with any reasons for indifference or neglect.

What I enjoyed was reading how her parents had come to such political ideas, why they dove in to the blacks' cause so valiantly, and how they throve on the injustice to others. When push came to shove, the mother takes the daughters to England, since the Communists and others of their ilk have made South Africa a blood bath for whites. To this day, the nonblacks of that country are fleeing in huge numbers, not the least of which are the descendants of the persecuted Jews of Russia and Poland, who classify themselves as "white", yet still oppressed in spite of great economic priviledge.

The effect of Communist ideas on emerging nations has been catastrophic, but rare is the book that tells openly how devious and traitorous its proponents can be. The end result always seems to send them scurrying out of the nation in which they had once prospered, to go to yet another free nation and stir up further unrest.

Rest assured that they would not move into a black neighborhood in England or America, no matter their anti-apartheid views!

Thanks to Gillian Slovo for revealing the inside scoop on these infamous Reds.

Moving and challenging.......2003-06-30

A great read that poses the difficult question: what ought to come first--one's children, or one's cause? Especially challenging when the cause is the end of apartheid. Gillian Slovo is bitter that she didn't have her parents because they were busy trying to free South Africa. Understandable from an individual point of view, but the contribution of the Slovos to the anti-apartheid movement was invaluable. I don't know the correct answer to the question, but I do know that this is a good and engaging tale.

A Moving True Story.......2000-08-25

This book is very well and sensitively written. It gives a very vivid picture of Ruth First and Joe Slovo, two very strong willed people who were dedicated to the anti apartheid struggle in the dark years of apartheid in the last 40 years before the first democratic elections in 1994.

Here we get a true picture of how ths couple had sacrificed their family life for what they had believed in and how this had effected their relationship with their eldest daughter (the author). One cannot help but empathize with the author who makes no bones about the neglect that her parents had towards her relationship with them and how she truly wanted to know more about her parents who were rather secretive towards her.

The book makes very exciting reading. My main criticism is that there is a tendency to jump backwards and forwards in the past. There seems to be a problem of continuity of style as passed anecdotes are retold at different stages in this biography.There is also a tendency to repetition. This tends to marr a rather good book which is recommended to all those who are interested in the history of the freedom struggle in South Africa.

Every Secret Thing
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Every Secret Thing
John Rowan Wilson
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P04Z7O

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Every Secret Thing
Patricia Campbell Hearst , and Alvin Moscow
Manufacturer: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J2HTZ8

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Couldn't Put It Down

Every Secret Thing
Cynthia Marlee Preston
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1403324727

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Couldn't Put It Down.......2002-11-21

A fast and furious ride into the inner city kept me up until midnight reading Every Secret Thing. I've been there, man, and it's for real. Ms. Preston uses some beautiful phrasing and creates some remarkable characters. I hope to see a sequel.

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Tatlock is a wonderful storyteller
Every Secret Thing ~ Reviewed

Every Secret Thing
Ann Tatlock
Manufacturer: Bethany House
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ASIN: 0764200054
Release Date: 2007-10-01

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When Elizabeth Gunnar accepts a teaching position at the preparatory school she attended as a girl, she is returning to more than a place--to memories, mysteries, and an old love. Once there she meets unexpected challenges--and challenging new people. She revisits ghosts of the past and old self-doubts. And through it all, God somehow takes four broken people and forms a new, complete family.

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Tatlock is a wonderful storyteller.......2007-10-05

Elizabeth Gunnar is the new English teacher at Seaton Preparatory School, her alma mater. After years of living elsewhere, she falls right back in with her best friend from school, Natalie, who is concerned that her friend is still single.

Natalie seems uninterested in discussing the mystery surrounding a teacher back when they were students. School staff had made up a story that the instructor lived through a `heart attack' but was no longer able to teach. The whole thing seemed to overshadow the remainder of the term for Elizabeth, Natalie and two boys who were also involved. It still haunted Elizabeth,

One of those boys had been of particular interest, and now that she's back in Delaware, he shows an interest in her. Being separated from his wife, and facing an impending divorce, could make the couple think maybe fate had brought them back together. But the ex-wife hasn't completely disappeared, she's still making noises.

Satchel Queen is a challenging student. Life has thrown her a few curve balls and her confusion and hurt could lead her to places where her light won`t shine. This very special pupil gives Elizabeth reason to dig a little deeper into memories of her life at that age. While trying to teach Satchel about life, Elizabeth learns lessons of her own about forgiveness and healing.

Ann Tatlock does a wonderful job of weaving plot and subplots. Believable characters and original dialogue keep the story moving and compelling. Christian ideas are openly folded into the mix without sermonizing. Leaves the reader wondering if there will be a follow up of the characters you'll come to care about.

Armchair Interviews says: Easy to read, this mildly intricate tale has messages both profound and tranquil.

Every Secret Thing ~ Reviewed .......2007-10-02

Ann Tatlock has a distinctive almost lyrical style to her writing. Reading her work is like listening to a symphony. As you are introduced to her characters, you catch a nuance of stringed instruments, and as the plot unfolds, you feel an underlying mystery in the base notes, enhanced by the woodwinds of Tatlock's descriptions.

In a sonata of past and present, Every Secret Thing will leave its melody in your heart long after you turn the final page. This is the first of Ann Tatlock's books that I've read, but I can assure you it won't be the last. This reviewer gives Every Secret Thing a high recommendation.

Reviewed by Ane Mulligan
www.anemulligan.com

Every secret thing / by Patricia Campbell Hearst, with Alvin Moscow

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Every secret thing / by Patricia Campbell Hearst, with Alvin Moscow
Patricia (1954-) Hearst
Manufacturer: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VSYM32

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