Have you ever wished for the chance to talk with your mother or daughter about the things only she would knowThings I'd Love You to Know offers another way to celebrate the Bonus Years, the powerful t
Having shared a long-time affair with a married man she no longer finds desirable, Helen decides to end things as she approaches her fortieth birthday, only to see him finally leave his wife, a turn o
Having shared a long-time affair with a married man she no longer finds desirable, Helen decides to end things as she approaches her fortieth birthday, only to see him finally leave his wife, a turn o
Now in paperback: A hilarious and heartrending account of one mother's journey to understand and reconnect with her high-spirited preteen son-sure to beguile parents grappling with a child's bewilderi
The Donner PartyYou know how some died.Here’s how some lived. “My heart is big with hope and impatient with desire.”—Tamsen Donner, a letter to her sister In the spring of 1846, Tamsen Donner, her hu
The author explains how her and her husband headed west and failed in their endeavors, but still came out of it with a new-found faith in strangers and gratitude for family. 75,000 first printing.
In a heartwarming, charming and delicious memoir about food and family--and the meaning of home--the author explains how she longed for--and became reacquainted with--her childhood home of Singapore.
A Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Mommy Brain recounts her journey to understand and reconnect with her high-spirited preteen son—a story bound to beguile parents grappling with their children
An exuberant and heartfelt memoir by a single mom explores the depth of a friendship and the life-changing journey that started with a glass of cheap cabernet and led to a four-year odyssey fraught w
A year after the death of her unfaithful husband, Jo has managed to create a successful knitting business and helped her sons to adjust, as she deals with the consequences of having a brief affair and
The author relates the crisis she experienced when doctors diagnosed her 4-month-old child with meningitis and uses this story to show how, much like a hang glider, a person must go through a lot of t
A best-selling author and blogger at The Daily Beast chronicles her struggle to cope with being cheated out of her life savings by Bernie Madoff, and traces her journey back to sanity and security.
Living in 1915 near Niagara Falls, seventeen-year-old Bess Heath, who is struggling to cope with the death of her sister and the disgrace of her family, and Tom Cole, whose sixth sense of the river an
Relates the author's efforts to concoct family-friendly meals over the course of a year while juggling the responsibilities of her four young children, an effort fraught with trial-and-error dynamics
"This is the story of a year I spent in New York, studying with Yoga Master Alan Finger."When Katrina Repka moved to New York, she was eager to shed her past and begin a new life, but she soon discove
Devastated by the loss of her beloved home in the wake of a painful divorce, coffee shop owner and mom Ellen Flanagan finds herself in an unexpected relationship with the husband of a shrewish woman w
Bella Shaughnessy is addicted to lipstick with names like My Chihuahua Bites and Kiss My Lips, an occupational hazard, since she works as a stylist and makeup artist for her family's small chain of be
Dreaming of becoming an artist while living above her parents' garage, forty-one-year-old Ginger pursues a relationship with a commitment-phobic man and babysits her sister's kids while overseeing her
Returning in disgrace to her born-again Christian mother's home after an affair with her professor, temperamental Willie arrives at the same time the remains of a prehistoric creature is discovered in
As he prepares for his wedding to Rachel Gilbert, the woman he has been with for 12 years, 28-year-old Adam Newman begins to question everything when Rachel's fiercely independent and beautiful young
It's official: In these tough times, clueless is out---and crafty is in. For both financial and environmental reasons, life is all about doing well with what you have. But that doesn't mean you can't
"Heart-wrenching but triumphant."--Glamour"A lyrical, haunting, and utterly gripping memoir."--Redbook"A dark, evocative memoir from a woman forced to come to terms with her husband's death and the re
Three women who are neighbors share their struggles with unfaithful men, rebellious children, and parental expectations while taking long walks near their homes on Wildwater Way.
"For anyone who's ever been a parent, had a parent, or wanted to choke a parent, Deborah Copaken Kogan's book is for you. With obscenely funny and frighteningly dead-on insights, this book is so close
A young widow profiles the seemingly idyllic family life she shared with her husband and young daughter in New York City, her devastation over the pulmonary embolism that abruptly ended her husband's
Traces a San Francisco newspaper columnist's life experiences as evaluated during her late thirties, describing her relationships with her husband, children, and Irish-American father before and durin
In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subje
After the re-emergence of her husband and the introduction of a new love interest in her life, Jill Murray uses a Costa Rican vacation to figure out what is best for her and her 10-year-old daughter a
Six members of an elite writing circle meet to share their works-in-progress and over the course of one year together they experience love, friendship, and betrayal.
A woman who has gone through it all offers a humorous guide to perimenopause and menopause, frankly discussing the symptoms and providing stories of her own struggles.
Using the framework of rooms in a house to organize the issues in a woman's life, the authors show readers how to stop using the details of their successes to turn them into failures, and instead look
When they are trapped together after an earthquake, nine disparate characters take turns telling "one amazing thing" about his or her life, in a novel by the American Book Award-winning author of The
From the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver comes a hip, empowering, get-real guide, which aims to help women young and old accept themselves for who they are, inside and out, in a bo
From the fashion director of Marie Claire and star judge on Project Runway, comes an accessible and classy illustrated guide to what to wear on any occasion. By the author of The Style Strategy
They call themselves the Leopardi Circle--six members of a writing group who share much more than their works in progress. When Nancy, whose most recently published work is a medical newsletter, is as
“A wonderful love story . . . Buchanan weaves Niagara Falls’ history and her storytelling together masterfully.”—Elle 1915. Niagara Falls. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era. Seventeen-year-old
A high-spirited novel from the bestselling author of Must Love Dogs and Life’s a Beach that will have you planning a girlfriend getaway in no time!Just when Jill Murray’s finally figured out how to ma
Explains how women's growing financial equality will lead to true independence and ultimately the power to change the world via the grass-roots effects of their economic power. 50,000 first printing.
"Karen Stabiner's GETTING IN [is] humorous (in a wry kind of way) but pointed and surprisingly engaging novel about parental and teen obsessiveness regarding the college application process in indepen
