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1991
| From the author of "The Theory of Everything" comes an engrossing family drama with touches of the supernatural. When an accident takes the life of her son, a young mother is astounded to learn that her twin sister's child claims to be able to communicate with him in heaven. |
2002
| What does it take to be happy? How happy is happy enough? And what does "happy" mean, anyway? So asks Sally Farber-wife, mother, daughter, friend, working woman, and lover-in this wise and funny novel about a woman's search for happiness in some of the right, and a few of the wrong, places. Summer in the city looms long for Sally Farber when she sends her two daughters off to camp for the first time. Suddenly freed of her usual patterns in a city that becomes a grown-up's playground, , she embar....[more] |
2005
| These letters offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women's lives. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, "Women's Letters" is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived--and made--history. |
1999
| "Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen," write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last 100 years.Here is Mark Twain's hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union, an ecstatic letter from a ....[more] |
1990
| A brilliant physicist, who's about to reveal his theory that unites all scientific theories, finds that, despite all his professional success, his life is unraveling. Then he takes a mystical journey and comes to terms with the two most important women in his life: the guardian angel who evades his touch and the girlfriend who longs for it. |
2010
| Starred review and "pick of the week" in Publisher's Weekly:
Like T.S. Garp, Forrest Gump or Benjamin Button, Henry House, the hero of Grunwald’s imaginative take on a little known aspect of American academic life, has an unusual upbringing. In 1946, orphaned baby Henry is brought to all-girl’s Wilton College as part of its home economics program to give young women hands-on instruction in child-rearing (such programs really existed). Henry ends up staying on at the practice house and growing u....[more] |
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