Laura Moriarty: 23 books

In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another. Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship...

In While I'm Falling, Laura Moriarty presents a compelling depiction of how one young woman's life changes when her family breaks up for good. Ever since her parents announced that they're getting divorced, Veronica has been falling. Hard. She has fallen in love. A junior in college, she has...

Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in the 1920s and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years...

A powerful and thought-provoking YA debut from New York Times bestselling author Laura Moriarty. Imagine a United States in which registries and detainment camps for Muslim-Americans are a reality. Fifteen-year-old Sarah-Mary Williams of Hannibal, Missouri, lives in this world, and though...

"A warm, beguiling book full of hard-won wisdom."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times "The Center of Everything is as realistic and familiar as a summer day in Kansas--brave and gritty, strong voiced and spare."--O, The Oprah Magazine Set in Kerrville, Kansas, The Center...

New York in den Goldenen Zwanzigern: Eine turbulente Metropole voller Leben, Musik, Abenteuer - ein aufregendes Versprechen. Als die fünfzehnjährige Louise aus dem verschlafenen Kansas dorthin reist, um Tänzerin zu werden, geht für sie ein Traum in Erfüllung. Hals über Kopf stürzt sich das...

Août 1922. Louise Brooks a 15 ans. Cette future icône du cinéma muet intègre la prestigieuse école de danse de Denishawn et touche du doigt son rêve : quitter sa ville étriquée du Kansas pour la flamboyante New York. Seule ombre au tableau, ses parents lui imposent une chaperonne, Cora Carlisle....

Veronica hat gerade erst angefangen, ihr eigenes Leben zu leben, da erfährt sie: Ihre Eltern haben sich getrennt. Plötzlich steht sie vor den Trümmern ihrer einst so glücklichen Familie. Dabei braucht sie ihre Eltern gerade jetzt. An der Uni läuft es nicht so gut, und dann ist Veronica auch noch...

The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons is an epic, consists of three books. The first volume is subtitled “The Beginning” and the second, “The Rose Oisín.” The stories follow a large fictional family in Aghadoe, Ireland that in today’s world is almost extinct. But in the world I grew up in, large...

About the book . . .The Irish Child is a heartwarming story of the unusual courage and unspoken love of an aging woman who has been left to rear a grandchild in a country plagued by relentless insecurity and hunger. Her incredible perseverance to weigh every decision and choose survival is as astonishing...

Joe O’Malley is one of the youngest of The Nine Irish Sons. He chose to go to college in the U.S., first to Columbia in N.Y., and then to Georgetown Law School. His dream is to be invited into an elite D.C. law firm and then to run for congress. But his family interferes. He is literally forced...

Recommend reading The Irish Suspect first. In the first of this series, The Irish Suspect, Dan Delaney is a first class detective in Dublin, Ireland who was blamed for a poorly prosecuted case of a child murder, and suffered severe recriminations by the public and in his career. After three years...

About the book . . . Sandy Hook, New Jersey is called a barrier spit. It looks like a little finger that sticks up out of the State into the New York Bay just south of New York City. It is located on the northeast side of New Jersey. It is approximately six miles long and its width varies between...

This is a story taken from the lineage of the O'Malley family in "The Secrets of Nine Irish Sons". Around 300 B.C., a handsome Roman general, nephew of the reigning Caesar, is sent off to battle pirates and bring home treasure for the glory of Rome. Along the way, he comes across...