Julie Annette Schumacher

The Chain Letter

Livvie isn't superstitious like her best friend, Joyce, who thinks everything is bad luck. So Livvie isn't worried about tearing up the chain letter and throwing it away -- until she is humiliated in gym class, falls down her back stairs, and gets invited to Thanksgiving dinner at Peter Finch's hous...

Dear Committee Members: A novel

Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while on...

Who Am I

The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

I'm Adrienne Haus, survivor of a mother-daughter book club. Most of us didn't want to join. My mother signed me up because I was stuck at home all summer, with my knee in a brace. CeeCee's parents forced her to join after cancelling her Paris trip because she bashed up their car. The members of "The...

The Book of One Hundred Truths

"I should probably mention something right now before this story goes any further: my name is Theodora Grumman, and I am a liar."It's hard for Thea to write four truths a day in the notebook her mother gave her for the summer. Especially when her grandparents' house on the Jersey Shore is even more ...

Black Box

WHEN DORA, ELENA’S older sister, is diagnosed with depression and has to be admitted to the hospital, Elena can’t seem to make sense of their lives anymore. At school, the only people who acknowledge Elena are Dora’s friends and Jimmy Zenk—who failed at least one grade and wears blackevery day of th...

From There to Here: The Immigrant Experience (Literature & Thought Series)

Teaches critical thinking and focuses on the question "Should we keep America's immigration door open?" with selections by Emma Lazarus, Charles Osgood, Pat Mora, Toshiko Uchida, Nicholas Gage, Russell Freeman, and more. Literature & Thought Series.

The Body is Water

A single, pregnant woman returns to the New Jersey seashore resort town of her youth, where, with her crusty father and her brilliant older sister, she tries to come to terms with her mother's early death. A first novel.

The Body Is Water

An Explanation for Chaos: Stories

The Body Is Water

The Book of One Hundred Truths

The Chain Letter

Grass Angel

The Chain Letter

The Book of One Hundred Truths