Jean Hanff Korelitz
1) The plot
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Language
English
Description
Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written-let alone published anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as...
Author
Language
English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot (a Tonight Show Summer Read pick) and You Should Have Known, adapted as HBO's The Undoing, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is the story of three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth. The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their...
Author
Language
English
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"A new novel by the author of Admission (a motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd)...this time about marriage"--Provided by publisher.
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself: devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital; their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice; she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to...
4) Admission
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirty-eight-year old Portia Nathan, a Princeton University admissions officer, must decide whether or not to confront the truth when a life-altering decision from her past resurfaces.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
Read the "rollickingly good literary thriller" and New York Times Bestseller — and watch the most talked about TV series of 2020, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of...
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of...
7) Admission
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Naomi Roth, having discovered the body of a newborn baby floating facedown in the Sabbathday River, is horrified when the community rushes to place the blame on Heather Pratt, a young single mother, but after engaging lawyer Judith Friedman to help Heather, Naomi is even more shocked to learn the truth.
10) The undoing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Grace and Jonathan Fraser have the life they've always wanted: she's a successful therapist, he's an acclaimed pediatric oncologist, and their son attends an elite private school in Manhattan. But for Grace, everything unravels overnight. A violent death. A missing husband. A series of unthinkable revelations. An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller filled with shocking twists and turns, The Undoing exposes the lies we tell ourselves - even when...
11) Admission
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
12) The undoing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A thrilling mini-series from HBO about a successful New York therapist who's life begins to spin out of control.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Nina Zabin happens upon a strange powder that causes events in her life to change, and not always for the better, as the school's Brain Buster Extravaganza approaches and she takes her best friend's place as representative for their class.
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A legal thriller featuring Sybylla Muldoon of New York, defending a homeless man accused of slashing a schoolgirl. When an implant is discovered in his arm--he says it was inserted by people who abducted him--the lawyer sends it for tests. The tester is killed, the implant disappears. First novel by a poet.
15) Admission
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A Princeton college admission representative discovers that an applicant might be the son she gave up for adoption.