Scott, Joanna 1960-

Follow me : a novel by Joanna Scott( Book )

12 editions published between 2009 and 2014 in English and held by 1,117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1946, Sally Werner, the teenage daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, experiences something between rape and seduction at the hands of her cousin, resulting in a baby, family shame, and her running away. Each time Sally feels her past catching up with her, she follows the Tuskee River, finds a new town and assumes a new identity, eventually graduating from taking the charity--and more--of others to supporting herself. Her story is pieced together years later by her granddaughter, also named Sally, and a man who believes himself to be the infant she abandoned

Make believe : a novel by Joanna Scott( Book )

9 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and held by 922 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When four-year-old Bo is orphaned in the car accident that kills his mother, he becomes the focus of a fierce custody struggle between his two sets of very different grandparents. As the grownups play out their secret desires, hidden resentments, and stubborn self-righteousness, Bo finds himself at the mercy of a fallible adult world. With a child's perfect but partial understanding, he flees into himself--away from the sea of strangers--where he inhabits as eerie inner landscape filled with the dreamlike intensity unique to the imagination of a child

Tourmaline : a novel by Joanna Scott( Book )

14 editions published between 2002 and 2014 in English and French and held by 835 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A family heads for an island off the coast of Italy hoping to make a fortune in jewels, but instead is embroiled in a mystery surrounding the disappearance of a local girl

Everybody loves somebody : stories by Joanna Scott( Book )

10 editions published between 2006 and 2014 in English and held by 798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Exploring tangled emotions and spanning the twentieth century, these tales capture the breathtaking tension found even in life's quietest moments

Liberation : a novel by Joanna Scott( Book )

7 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 668 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A train journey gives way to memories about an ailing woman's early adolescence on the war-torn Italian isle of Elba sixty years earlier, a time also marked by a refuge-seeking soldier and the woman's earliest experiences of innocent young love

De Potter's Grand tour : a novel by Joanna Scott( Book )

7 editions published between 2014 and 2015 in English and Dutch and held by 621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered and his wife is left to manage his affairs on her own. But as she starts to piece together his life, she realizes that everything was not as he had said. Infused with details from letters and diary entries, the [book] twists forward and backward through time, revealing a lost world of fake identities, underground antiques networks, and a husband who wasn't what he seemed"--Amazon.com

The manikin : a novel by Joanna Scott( Book )

10 editions published between 1996 and 2015 in English and Czech and held by 547 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A girl's coming of age in the strange world of stuffed animals. Peg Griswood lives in the manor of a famous taxidermist, surrounded by staring, silent creatures, looked after by eccentric servants and groundskeepers. Against this background, various human dramas are played out in what is basically a gothic novel of atmosphere. The setting is New York state early this century

Arrogance : a novel by Joanna Scott( Book )

18 editions published between 1990 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 468 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe. Thrown in jail on charges of immorality, Schiele's Mephistophelean reputation only grows in stature until at the age of twenty-eight, the artist dies in the Great Flu Pandemic

The closest possible union by Joanna Scott( Book )

7 editions published between 1988 and 2003 in English and held by 395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Various antidotes : stories by Joanna Scott( Book )

8 editions published between 1994 and 2005 in English and held by 341 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Was hardly a difference between discovering life and creating it." In another she offers an account of the origin of the verb burke, after William Burke, who was hanged in Edinburgh in 1829 for murdering victims by suffocation and selling them as cadavers to a professor of anatomy. She reacquaints us with Dorothea Dix, samaritan of the criminally insane, and introduces us to, among others, Charlotte Corday, who mortally stabbed French physician and revolutionary