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The carnage began with the roses. She hacked at their ruffled blooms until they dropped into monstrous drifts of red on the parched yellow lawn'ĶOnly two things kept my mother grounded to us: my Uncle Stephen and stories. Fourteen-year-old Molly worries about school, friends, and her parents' failed marriage, but mostly about her mother's growing depression. Molly knows her mother is nursing a carefully kept secret. A writer with an obsession for other people's life stories, Elaine Donnelly is the poster child of repressed emotions. Molly spends her California summer alternately watching out for her little brother Angus and tip-toeing around her mother's raw feelings. Molly needs her mother more than ever, but Elaine shuts herself off from real human connections and buries herself in the lives and deaths of the strangers she writes about. When Uncle Stephen is pressed into the limelight because of his miracle cure of a young man, Elaine can no longer hide behind other people's stories. And as Molly digs into her mother's past, she finds a secret hidden in her mother's dresser that may be the key to unlocking a family mystery dating to 1918 New York'Äîa secret that could destroy or save their future. Told in dual narratives between 1918 New York City and 1955 San Jose, California, Between Before and After explores the nature of family secrets, resiliency, and redemption.

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Maureen McQuerry is an award-winning poet, novelist, and teacher. Her YA novel The Peculiars was an ALA Best Book for YA 2013 as well as a Bank Street and Home Book recommended book. Her MG fantasy duology, comprised of Beyond the Door and The Telling Stone, was a finalist for the WA State Book awards and was chosen as a Booklist Top Ten Fantasy/SciFi for Youth. Her poetry appears in many journals and anthologies. She lives in Washington. Liz Hill is an experienced narrator, singer, and voiceover artist from Bisbee, Arizona. A horse enthusiast, she enjoys competing in showjumping and dressage competitions. She currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. Madison Lawrence is a Nashville-based audiobook narrator, pop artist, and songwriter who grew up in Columbia, Maryland, with acting in the air: her father moved from working as a successful radio DJ to acting and voiceover work and now trains top voice talent around the country.

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