
In the Lonely Backwater
Valerie Nieman(Author)
Regal House Publishing LLC
Published on 10. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-64603-179-5 (ISBN)
Description
"All seventeen-year-old Maggie Warshauer wants is to leave her stifled life in Filliyaw Creek behind and head to college. An outsider at school and uncertain of her own sexual identity, Maggie longs to start again somewhere new. Inspired by a long-dead biologist's journals, scientific-minded Maggie spends her days sailing, exploring, and categorizing life around her. But when her beautiful cousin Charisse disappears on prom night and is found dead at the marina where Maggie lives, Maggie's plans begin to unravel. A mysterious stranger begins stalking her and a local detective on the case leaves her struggling to hold on to her secrets--her father's alcoholism, her mother's abandonment, a boyfriend who may or may not exist, and her own actions on prom night. As the detective gets closer to finding the truth, and Maggie's stalker is closing in, she is forced to comes to terms with the one person who might hold the answers--herself." --
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Language
English
Place of publication
Raleigh
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: Fifth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 13 to 17 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64603-179-5 (9781646031795)
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In the Lonely Backwater
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05/2022
Regal House Publishing
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Valerie Nieman has been a farmer, a sailor, a journalist, a teacher. To the Bones, a genre-bending novel about Appalachia, was published by West Virginia University Press in 2019, joining three earlier novels, a short fiction collection, and three poetry books. Her award-winning poetry and short prose have been published here and abroad. A graduate of WVU and Queens University of Charlotte, she has held state and NEA creative writing fellowships.