The hour I first believed

author: Lamb, Wally
High school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife Maureen are both employed at Columbine High School but it is she that is caught up in the shootings while he is away on a trip. Maureen survives but later, due to stress-related drug addiction, accidentally kills a young boy while driving. While Maureen is in jail, Caelum uncovers his ancestor's diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings revealing a past of secrets, guilt, and grief.
year: 2008, 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: columbine high school massacre, littleton, colo., 1999, fiction, school nurses, family secrets, colorado, fiction, married people, violence, post-traumatic stress disorder, littleton (colo.), connecticut

Editions


The hour I first believed
Lamb, Wally
Harper (2008)
After his wife Maureen, a nurse at Columbine High School survived the 1999 student shooting incident, Caelum Quirk moves her to his family's farm in Three Rivers, but while Maureen struggles to recover her sanity, Caelum unearths old diaries, letters, and newspapers--representing five generations of his family's history--hidden in the house.
Schools: 6



The hour I first believed
Lamb, Wally
Harper Perennial (2009)
High school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife Maureen are both employed at Columbine High School but it is she that is caught up in the shootings while he is away on a trip. Maureen survives but later, due to stress-related drug addiction, accidentally kills a young boy while driving. While Maureen is in jail, Caelum uncovers his ancestor's diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings revealing a past of secrets, guilt, and grief.
Schools: 1


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