LeAnne Hardy

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Hearts in Atlantis

January 29, 2010

Tags: Steven King, Baby Boomers, 1960s


Don’t we look like something straight off Carnaby Street, London? I’m the one in the tunic with bare feet. My sister is in the hot pants. The picture must have been taken about 1968--the year of the Tet offensive in Viet Nam, the Chicago riots, and assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. My favorite singing group was Peter, Paul and Mary (not the Beatles.)

Hearts in Atlantis was my first Stephen King book other than On Writing (a wonderful memoir combined with writing advice.) I’m (more…)

Selected Works

Juvenile Fiction
Crossovers
Ben will be dead meat if the guys find out what he's doing at the ice rink in the early mornings.
Beads and Braids
Who will take care of Lindiwe when her sick mother passes?
Between Two Worlds
It’s never fun to be different, and Brazilian–born Cristina Larson feels very different.
The Wooden Ox
Despite the war, Keri’s parents wouldn’t let anything really bad happen to her... would they?
Fiction
Glastonbury Tor
A tale of the Holy Grail and the tumultuous England of King Henry VIII
Picture Book
So That’s What God is Like
God is like many things in a small African boy’s world—the wind, a rock, even his mother.

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