Most Popular Books by Alice Eve

“A riveting journey.” —Julie Metz, author of Perfection “A perfect book. I want to tell everyone, every mother, every daughter, to read it.” —Abigail Thomas, bestselling author of A Three Dog Life For the first time in decades I’m remembering Mom, all of her--the wonderful and terrible things about her that I’ve cast out of my thoughts for so long. I’m still struggling to prevent these memories from erupting from their subterranean depths. Trying to hold back the flood. I can’t, not today. The levees break. Thirty years after her death, Alice Eve Cohen’s mother appears to her, seemingly in the flesh, and continues to do so during the hardest year Alice has had to face: the year her youngest daughter needs a harrowing surgery, her eldest daughter decides to reunite with her birth mother, and Alice herself receives a daunting diagnosis. As it turns out, it’s entirely possible for the people we’ve lost to come back to us when we need them the most. Although letting her mother back into her life is not an easy thing, Alice approaches it with humor, intelligence, and honesty. What she learns is that she must revisit her childhood and allow herself to be a daughter once more in order to take care of her own girls. Understanding and forgiving her mother’s parenting transgressions leads her to accept her own and to realize that she doesn’t have to be perfect to be a good mother. “Alice Eve Cohen’s warm, witty, wise memoir is an elixir of love. It captures the struggles of every woman who ever wanted to be a better mother or daughter. Read it and weep, and laugh, and love.” —Nancy Bachrach, author of The Center of the Universe “Funny, painful, absurd, and heartwarming . . . Alice’s struggle to accept her imperfect self is a loving message tomothers who struggle to live life with grace. A beautiful book.” —Julie Metz, New York Times bestselling author of Perfection “Cohen navigates what was a perfect storm of a year . . . What she made of this year is a book so honest, so moving, and ultimately so wise that it is a privilege to take the journey with her.” —Abigail Thomas, bestselling author of A Three Dog Life “I love, love, love this book. It’s so rich, so real, and so moving . . . An astonishingly wonderful book—I was enthralled.” —Caroline Leavitt, bestselling author of Pictures of You “Compassionate, compelling, and told in luscious prose that practically begs you to sink in and linger, Cohen’s imaginative story and its fascinating characters will stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page.” —Jessie Sholl, author of Dirty Secret

"Darkly hilarious...an unexpected bundle of joy." -O, The Oprah Magazine Alice Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she had a new love in her life, she was raisu00ading a beloved adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Then she started experiencing mysterious symptoms. After months of tests, x-rays, and inconclusive diagnoses, Alice underwent a CAT scan that revealed the truth: she was six months pregnant. At age forty-four, with no prenatal care and no insurance coverage for a high-risk pregnancy, Alice was besieged by opinions from doctors and friends about what was ethical, what was loving, what was right. With the intimacy of a diary and the suspense of a thriller, What I Thought I Knew is a ruefully funny, wickedly candid tale; a story of hope and renewal that turns all of the "knowns" upside down.

WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW and Other Plays, by Alice Eve Cohen Here are four brave, haunting, and heart-breakingly funny solo plays by writer and performer Alice Eve Cohen. WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW is adapted from Cohen''s award-winning memoir about her wildly unexpected pregnancy and the terrifying odyssey that ensued. In THIN WALLS, twelve disparate lives collide inside a century-old residential hotel, in a city in upheaval. THE PLAY THAT KNOWS WHAT YOU WANT takes the audience on an intimate journey entwining the myth of Odysseus with our contemporary desires and fears. In JESSICA''S CERVIX, Jessica floats out of her body to the ceiling and performs a darkly comic monologue, while her cervix is filmed for medical research. Cohen writes with humor, guts and honesty, finding the humanity in even the darkest roles. These gripping one-person plays, filled with multiple vibrant characters, have been presented at theatres and colleges around the country. They offer a thrilling challenge for any actor or director.

Emil and Julianna are trapped in a winter wonderland--inside a giant snow globe! Cover glows in the dark.

Thirteen tales of supposedly real ghosts in various countries.

A collection of ghostly encounters, all concerning American ghosts reported in such places as suburban homes, city apartments, at a state college, and on airplanes.

A musical beat feels unhappy, and is lost during an orchestral tour.

Science fiction - Epouvante.

Contexte : la souffrance des soignants est en constante augmentation. Comme le montre la littérature, la médecine générale du fait de sa place primordiale dans les soins de premiers recours, est particulièrement exposée au risque de burn-out et doit s''en protéger. L''objectif principal de l''étude était de montrer l''existence d''un lien entre une mauvaise qualité de vie ressentie et la présence d''un burn-out sévère chez les médecins généralistes français. Méthode : étude quantitative, transversale et descriptive. Elle concernait les médecins dont les CDOM ont accepté la diffusion de l''auto-questionnaire comportant trois parties : données socio-démographiques, profil de santé de Duke et MBI. Résultats : sur les 1198 questionnaires recueillis (1,36 % de la population des médecins généralistes français), 42,8% des participants avaient au moins une dimension élevée dans le MBI et 3,8% étaient en burn-out sévère. La moyenne de qualité de vie des participants en santé générale était de 66,2% ± 14,5. Le risque de burn-out sévère était significativement plus élevé avec la majorité des facteurs testés : sexe masculin, divorce, milieu rural, salariat, 5 semaines de congés / an, 2 gardes/mois. Le sport aurait un rôle protecteur. Limites Parmi les facteurs associés, aucun lien de causalité n''a pu être établi. Conclusion : notre étude confirme que plus le burn-out est présent, moins la qualité de vie est satisfaisante. Devant ce constat il est primordial de mettre en œuvre des mesures agissant sur la qualité de vie du médecin qui devraient permettre d''endiguer ce fléau.