Joanne Greenberg
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Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.
2) On the Run
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Joanne Greenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York and was graduated from American University, Washington, D.C., with a major in anthropology and English literature.
In 1955, she married Albert Greenberg, who encouraged her to write her first book, The King's Persons, an account of the York Massacre at York Castle in 1190.
The novel received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the Jewish Book Council of America award.
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Lily Higgins Beausoleil, respected mother, grandmother, bank employee and upstanding citizen of bucolic Gold Flume, has passed. A suicide no one will mention. Now the grieving family and town is turned upside down as her secret life is slowly uncovered.
Joanne Greenberg, renowned author of the classic, I Never promised You a Rose Garden, spins an intriguing tale of family, betrayal, false appearances, and a stained family legacy in this, her 20th...
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"Amazing, the pain that can be caused by wielding the sword of charm." Rachel idolizes Miri's charm, beauty and family that represents perfection in contrast to the chaos of her own life. She is often blind to Miri's manipulation of others for personal gain, not only in their early years of growing up together in a Denver Jewish Orthodox community, but also in their adult lives. Amid issues of cultural identity and an era of growing feminism, they...
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