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An anthology of writings by women prisoners in Connecticut's York Correctional Institution who participated in a writing workshop taught by novelist Wally Lamb.

With the help of his stepmother, his dog Zipper, and new friend Malik, Zack Jennings faces ghosts and zombies at his new middle school, which is said to house a lost Confederate treasure.

It?s an idyllic New England summer, and Sadie is a precocious only child on the edge of adolescence. It seems like July and August will pass lazily by, just as they have every year before. But one day, Sadie and her best friend play a seemingly harmless prank on a neighborhood girl. Soon after, that same little girl disappears from a backyard barbecue?and she is never seen again. Twenty years pass, and Sadie is still living in the same quiet suburb. She?s married to a good man, has two beautiful children, and seems to have put her past behind her. But when a boy from her old neighborhood returns to town, the nightmares of that summer will begin to resurface, and its unsolved mysteries will finally become clear.

Journalist Terese Karmel shares her favorite memories of the UConn Huskies women's basketball team, recounting the team's highs and lows and profiling its greatest legends.

Nora Chancel, haunted by nightmares of her stint in Vietnam as a nurse and by the murders of four neighborhood women, is accused of kidnapping and torturing her husband's mistress; but while at the police station for questioning, she is taken hostage by charming madman Dick Dart, a local attorney who is responsible for the killings.

Describes the experiences of a troubled teenager at the Vitam Center in Norwalk, Connecticut, a therapeutic community where teenagers with problems help each other get better.

Jane Moffat decides to open a family museum in the barn behind the little grey house at Twelve Ashbellows Place in Cranbury, Connecticut.