Every Secret Thing

"Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party find an abandoned stroller with an infant inside on an unf... (more)

"Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party find an abandoned stroller with an infant inside on an unfamiliar Baltimore street. What happens next is shocking and terrible, causing the irreparable devastation of three separate families. Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from 'kid prison' to begin their lives over again. But the secrets swirling around the original crime continue to haunt the parents, the lawyers, the police, and all the adults in Alice and Ronnie's lives. And now another child has disappeared, under freakishly similar circumstances."--P. [4] of cover. (less)

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'No one lives for ever. But the truth survives us all'. Kate Murray is deeply troubled. In front of her lies a dead man,... (more)

'No one lives for ever. But the truth survives us all'. Kate Murray is deeply troubled. In front of her lies a dead man, a stranger who only minutes before had approached her wanting to tell her about a mystery, a longforgotten murder. The crime was old, he'd told her, but still deserving of justice. Soon Kate is caught up in a dangerous whirlwind of events that takes her back into her grandmother's mysterious wartime past and across the Atlantic as she tries to retrace the dead man's footsteps. Finding out the truth is not so simple ... (less)

Kicked out of a birthday party, 11-year-olds Alice and Ronnie walk home and encounter a baby left in a carriage. Their e... (more)

Kicked out of a birthday party, 11-year-olds Alice and Ronnie walk home and encounter a baby left in a carriage. Their earnest desire to do a good deed ends tragically, however, and seven years later they are released from "kid prison" to start their lives anew. (less)

Returning to her high school alma mater two decades after her graduation fills English teacher Beth Gunner with both nos... (more)

Returning to her high school alma mater two decades after her graduation fills English teacher Beth Gunner with both nostalgia and trepidation. Soon she must confront a haunting secret from her past. (less)

In a small upstate New York town, two 11-year-old girls from opposite sides of the tracks are convicted of murdering an ... (more)

In a small upstate New York town, two 11-year-old girls from opposite sides of the tracks are convicted of murdering an infant and sentenced to juvenile detention facilities. But when a toddler goes missing seven years later, Detective Nancy Porter begins to suspect recently released Ronnie and Alice. As the investigation deepens, Porter may discover that the truth can hide the most shocking secrets of all. Diane Lane and Common co-star in this grim, gritty and gripping drama that marks the directing debut of documentary filmmaker Amy Berg, with a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener from the bestselling novel by Laura Lippman. (less)