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Author's Biography
Mary Mallon Nyman grew up in Clarksville, Tennessee and graduated from Wheaton College and Boston University Graduate School. She married in 1959 and moved to Wareham, Massachusetts to teach and raise five children in an old house overlooking Buzzards Bay. She resides there today and enjoys writing, painting and traveling. Author of a book of poetry, a textbook, and a children's book, WHEN THE LEAVES FALL is her first novel about teens. The setting, based on growing up in cave country and teaching for twenty-one years, provides the background for this book. Also, observing students at risk because of marijuana use, prompted the author to examine this problem in our schools and in our society.
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A New Novel Concerning Teens at Risk
A fast paced action story, this book portrays a high school junior who faces dangerous odds and overcomes them because of the choices he makes. An important read about high school students who are often at risk, WHEN THE LEAVES FALL follows seventeen-year old Corey through the first semester of his junior year and through his recovery and rehabilitation after a near tragic accident.... "First there was Anne, then there was Stephanie, and Steve and the others. But this is really a drama about what it means to come home. It all begins one morning in a cold, dark cave."
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Plot Synopsis
WHEN THE LEAVES FALL opens in a labyrinth of Corey's own making. He is waiting to meet his supplier to exchange stolen goods for weed, which he must deliver later to his friends at school. As if this risky behavior isn't enough, he soon learns that his girlfriend, Anne, is in big trouble and needs his help, which he feels completely powerless to give. So, Corey continues to lead his double life, hiding his activities from his family and the school authorities, until tragedy strikes one night after a high school dance.
Corey faces danger and death while he learns to sort out what is important to him in a real world.Ultimately he finds new directions, makes vital decisions, reaffirms the importance of friendship and family, and experiences success. Corey has faced them all because he is a survivor.
Ordering Information
WHEN THE LEAVES FALL is available through iUniverse (www.iUniverse.com), telephone 1-887-823-9235, through Amazon.com, and through Barnes and Noble, as well as through the author, by e-mailing her at: seascapesetc@aol.com. There are a number of reviews which are now posted on Amazon.com and on Barnes and Noble.The cost is $12.95 for the paperback edition.
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