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it really is 1961, Grady, Oklahoma, inhabitants 103. Fifteen-year-old Jacob Leeds lives in a modest condo on Hooper Circle. His international contains a wily sister, provincial mom and dad, a grandfather named Woody, and an obsession with superheroes. Peel again one layer, even though, and discover a very various Hooper Circle--one teeming with lies, a kin cover-up, and a mystery that may swap Jake forever.

The summer time of 1961 starts off with a teenage initiation ceremony for Jake, introduced through his ally, Mikey Savage: "Initiation into Manhood--sleep on naked floor within the previous baseball diamond. No snoozing bag, no sneakers, no blanket." How tough might it be?

Pirate songs and humorous tales accompany him within the darkness, till he hears the 1st of the screams. As he ways the sound, he sees an apparition of a tender lady, brutally crushed. He attempts to run away, yet unearths he is working towards her. while Jake tells Mikey the tale, he learns the legend of Mary McCann--a murdered Grady lady who to this present day haunts the Oklahoma prairie looking for her killer. For Jake, this sighting marks the tip of his adolescence and the start of his quest to discover the reality of her story.

"During a beastly-hot Oklahoma summer season, on a hard-scrabble farm, Jake Leeds makes the emotional trip from effortless boyhood to complex youth while he uncovers a secret that issues to shattered truths and attractive secrets and techniques. Lisa Polisar's relocating tale and stylish prose deliver power and sweetness to an ages-old subject, turning The Ghost of Mary Prairie right into a modern masterpiece."--Pari Noskin Taichert, two-time Agatha Award finalist

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Lisa Polisar is a secret author, an award-winning journalist, a musician, and a filmmaker. She is the writer of Blackwater Tango, Knee Deep, directly forward (nonfiction), and dozens of brief tales. Polisar has lived in New Mexico in view that 1992. www.lisapolisar.com

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". . . an off-beat winner. . . ." -- The Courier-Gazette, Rockland, ME

"Polisar has woven into the material of this novel lots of hair-raising turns and emotional dips. . . . and he or she marvelously succeeds because the weaver." -- Albuquerque Journal

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