Baby Love
NONFICTION
The Best of Us
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At Home in the World
Domestic Affairs
Looking Back
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
COUNT THE WAYS. Copyright © 2021 by Joyce Maynard. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Jane Kenyon, excerpt from “Happiness” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 2005 by The Estate of Jane Kenyon. Reprinted with permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of Graywolf Press, www.graywolfpress.org.
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FIRST EDITION
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Title: Count the Ways: a novel / Joyce Maynard.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020033202 (print) | LCCN 2020033203 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062398277 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780062398284 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780062398291 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Domestic fiction. | GSAFD: Love stories.
Classification: LCC PS3563.A9638 W57 2021 (print) | LCC PS3563.A9638 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020033202
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020033203
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Digital Edition JUNE 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-239829-1
Version 04192021
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-239827-7 (hardcover)
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-311316-9 (international edition)
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