Elizabeth Benedict
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When Eric Lavender meets the attorney Colleen O'Brien Golden, his position as one of Manhattan's chic psychotherapists and most eligible bachelors suddenly loses its appeal. The sexy, stylish Colleen lures him to live with her and her young daughter in the exclusive suburb of Scarsdale. To his amazement, Eric is besotted and soon settles into the unexpected bliss of marriage and domesticity with their new baby and his loving stepdaughter. He even...
2) Almost
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Forty-something narrator Sophy Chase has just begun a lighthearted, romantically adventurous life in New York City when she learns that her almost ex-husband has been found dead on the New England resort island where she left him just months before. Lured back to the island by feelings she thought she had left behind, Sophy must navigate treacherous emotional terrain involving her grown stepdaughters, a former lover who is now a celebrity lawyer,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
This celebrated coming-of-age novel moves from Manhattan during the early days of Mad Men to the swinging, chaotic 1970s: A sensitive girl burdened with her mother's drinking and long string of husbands becomes a special young woman when her best friend's family opens her eyes to art Esme Singer is a resilient girl from Los Angeles, new to Manhattan, who takes better care of her beautiful, alcoholic mother than her mother does of her. A former fashion...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[A] splendid collection . . . By turns wry, tender, pointed, and laugh-out-loud funny." -Publishers Weekly
"Untangles the many truths about hair, and the lives we lead underneath it." -Pamela Druckerman, author of Bringing Up Bébé
Ask a woman about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter's story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original pieces include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and celebrated broadcast journalists.
Whether a gift was meant to keep a daughter...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six novels in one volume by today’s most outstanding female writers—includes The Magician’s Assistant, Those Who Save Us, and more.
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto, to the multiple award-winning author of This Must Be the Place, this collection gathers a half-dozen top-notch literary talents in a treasure trove
7) Safe conduct
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Kate Lurie a documentary photographer whose films concern "people who have suffered enormous losses" is newly married to Eli MacKenzie, who is still grieving over the death of his son. Kate herself was for a long time afraid to enter into a binding relationship; now she feels Mac's pulse while he sleeps, sure that "something so wonderful could not last through the night." Mac has told her about his torrid three-week affair with luscious Lida in St....
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Essays by women of gifts from their mothers that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. Individually, the stories get to the heart of their mother-daughter relationship. Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides.
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of essays, women talk about their hair-- and in doing so, offer up reflections and revelations about family, race, religion, ritual, culture, motherhood, politics, and celebrity. Layered into these essays you'll find surprises, insights, hilarity, and the resonance of common experience. Many things in life matter more than hair, but few bring as much pleasure as a really great hairdo." --
