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Anna Quindlen
For fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler comes a brilliant and poignant novel from the Richard and Judy Book Club and Number One bestselling author Anna Quindlen
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Part of Quindlen's gift is that you don't just read about these characters, you inhabit them. . . . Luminous with life, hope and the…
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For fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler comes a brilliantly provocative novel from the Richard and Judy Book Club and Number One bestselling author Anna Quindlen.
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When a teenage couple abandons their baby at the gate of the estate owned by Lydia Blessing, Skip Cuddy, the estate caretaker, decides to raise the child himself, a decision…
The bestselling novelist and author of the phenomenal bestseller A Short Guide to a Happy Life returns with more irresistible advice and wisdom. At the heart of this beautiful and…
In Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen shares the events of her own life to illuminate our own…
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Mary Beth has built her life around her close knit and much loved family: husband Glen, a successful ophthalmologist, their beautiful and talented 17 year old daughter Ruby, and 14…
From the acclaimed author of Blessings, Black and Blue, and One True Thing comes a superb novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life…
A novel by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist about a woman who flees with her ten-year-old son from an abusive husband. Fran Benedetto begins a new life in Florida, and gains…
Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Quindlen takes readers on a delightful tour of the English capital, comparing the London of fact with the London of fiction.
A collection of articles by a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times addresses the author’s opinions on abortion, the right to die, political campaigns, rape, children’s rights, and…
This title presents a selection of reminiscences and reflections that, capturing moments from her and her contemporaries’ lives, explores the drama of everyday life.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Quindlen honors the life of her beloved black Labrador retriever, Beau, in this heartening and bittersweet work. With her trademark wisdom and humor, Quindlen reflects on how…
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Anna Quindlen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, Rise and Shine, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life, returns with a…
First time in trade paperback–the acclaimed, bestselling novel by the author of Living Out Loud. When she comes home to care for her dying mother, Ellen Gulden learns secrets which…
In this remarkable book, Anna Quindlen, one of America’s favorite novelists and a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, once again gives readers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern…
From Quindlen, acclaimed author of Blessings, Black and Blue, and One True Thing, comes a superb novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life…
In this irresistible memoir, Quindlen writes about a woman’s life, from childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, using the events of her life to illuminate new perspectives.
Ellen Gulden is a successful, young New York journalist. But when her mother, Kate, is diagnosed with cancer, she leaves her life in the city to return home and care…
The acclaimed New York Times columnist and author of Living Out Loud now gives readers a superb novel about an Irish-Italian family in the late 1960s. Quindlen’s sharp eye for…
Reading lists of some of the author’s favorite books accompany her thoughts on the role of books and reading in her life.
Contains author’s afterthoughts and a reading group guide.
Includes a reader’s guide with questions and topics for discussion.
Before mommy blogs were even invented, Anna Quindlen became a go-to writer on the joys and challenges of motherhood in her nationally syndicated column. Now she’s taking the next step…
The author shares her reflections on the meaning of life and explains how to get the most out of one’s experiences and relationships by refusing to take the world around…
Begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her…
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life (The New York Times Book…
After caring for her mother during her final, painful battle with cancer, Ellen Gulden discovers many surprising things about her mother’s life and finds herself accused of murdering her mother…
Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home - - in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless…
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A moving, suspenseful, and surprising novel by the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of A Short Guide to a Happy Life follows a suburban family and the disastrous, unintended…
When a girl who loves to read fairy tales is transported back to medieval times, she finds that the life of a princess in a castle is less fun than…
Diane Keaton
In her unforgettable memoir, actress Keaton realized she had to write about her mother, too, and how their bond came to define both their lives. In a remarkable act of…
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Nick Kelsh,Anna Quindlen
Photographs capture the perfection of babies, from the swirl of a cowlick to the smoothness of skin on a neck, while the text muses on moments like a baby’s first…
Anna Quindlen,Eavan Boland
It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City and twelve-years-old Maggie Scanlan begins to sense that despite the calm normality of her family everything is about to go horribly…
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Featuring conversations with Richard Russo, Trey Ellis, Augusten Burroughs, Edward Albee, Timothy Kreider, Ann Beattie, Susan Minot, and other parents and former children.
Nightingale-Bamford School
Now available again, this enchanting collection of 50 great poems continues to inspire with pleasure and wonder- a perfect gift.
When a group of fifth-grade students asked fifty celebrities what…
Edith Wharton
A satire of New York society at the turn of the century follows Lily Bart, who is torn between the pressure to marry a wealthy husband and the desire to…
Betty Friedan
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