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It's 1963, and eleven-year-old Laura Randall learns that her mother has attempted suicide. In hopes of changing her parents' self-absorbed, alcoholic behavior, Laura sets out to reinvent herself as a good girl. If she's successful, surely her Mom won't try to kill herself again. Naive yet headstrong, Laura won't admit she's ill-equipped to change her parents; and it's doubtful she realizes how much she depends on her two sisters-one for support, the other for opposition. She becomes good at trading off her own happiness in order to fulfill her goal, but there's one challenge she hasn't...

When terrorist attacks are launched in different parts of the country, Peanie Wingate, a retired woodsman, fears the worst, and implores his family to take shelter at his countryside New Hampshire home. Rich in Yankee ingenuity and common sense (but lacking formal education) Peanie becomes a teacher, imparting survival skills that are reminiscent of his childhood and of growing up during the Depression at his grandparents' farm on the facing hillside. The memories conjure up the painful legacy of his past and the secrets it holds. But, Peanie's adult children have painful memories of their...