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Mary McGarry Morris


MARY MCGARRY MORRIS was a National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist for her first novel Vanished, published in 1988.  A Dangerous Woman, published in 1991, was chosen by Time magazine as one of the "Five Best Novels of the Year" and was made into a major motion picture.  Her next novel Songs In Ordinary Time was a CBS television movie as well as an Oprah Book Club selection in 1997, propelling it to the top of the New York Times bestseller list as well as making it an international bestseller.
Since then she has written four highly acclaimed novels, the most recent...

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Light from a Distant Star
Written by Mary McGarry Morris

Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Broadway | Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-45188-0 (0-307-45188-7)

July 17, 2012 | $18.00

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Light from a Distant Star
Written by Mary McGarry Morris

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307451880
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Light from a Distant Star is a gripping coming-of-age story with a brutal murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee’s "Scout."

It is early summer and Nellie Peck is on the cusp of adolescence – gangly, awkward, full of questions, but keenly observant and wiser than many...

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Light from a Distant Star
Written by Mary McGarry Morris

eBook | 336 pages | Crown | Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-45187-3 (0-307-45187-9)

September 13, 2011 | $13.99

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Light from a Distant Star
Written by Mary McGarry Morris

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307451873
Our Price: $13.99


Light from a Distant Star is a gripping coming-of-age story with a brutal murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee’s "Scout."

It is early summer and Nellie Peck is on the cusp of adolescence – gangly, awkward, full of questions, but keenly observant and wiser than many...

Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.

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Light from a Distant Star
Written by Mary McGarry Morris

Hardcover | 336 pages | Crown | Fiction - Coming Of Age; Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-45186-6 (0-307-45186-0)

September 13, 2011 | $28.95

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Light from a Distant Star
Written by Mary McGarry Morris

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307451866
Our Price: $28.95
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Light from a Distant Star is a gripping coming-of-age story with a brutal murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee’s "Scout."

It is early summer and Nellie Peck is on the cusp of adolescence – gangly, awkward, full of questions, but keenly observant and wiser than many...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.