New Releases by Anna Quindlen

"J''avais dix-neuf ans la première fois que mon mari m''a battue." Durant dix-sept ans de mariage, la vie de Frances Benedetto, infirmière new-yorkaise, va être rythmée par les coups que lui assène Bobby. Véritable docteur Jekyll, ce policier héroïque, mari tendre et charmeur, peut en un clin d''œil révéler sa face sombre et devenir violent, alcoolique, un mister Hyde terrifiant. Un jour, la jeune femme réalise que le seuil de l''insupportable est depuis trop longtemps franchi et qu''elle craint pour sa vie. Par-dessus tout, elle veut rendre son sourire à son fils de onze ans, étouffé par cet écrasant secret. Elle quitte tout, sa douillette maison de Brooklyn, son travail, sa sœur, ses amis, n''emmenant dans sa fuite que son fils Robert. C''est dans une petite ville poussiéreuse de Floride que Frances, devenue Beth, entame sa renaissance. Mais, même si Robert semble aller mieux, son père lui manque terriblement...

When a baby is left on their doorstep, the lives of elderly, town matriarch Lydia Blessing and her down-and-out caretaker, Skip, are transformed. Skip wants to keep the baby and is surprised when Lydia wants to help. Together, they decide to keep the baby a secret between them-- and we discover that they have secrets of their own, secrets of the past that have made them who they are today.

Voici un livre à savourer et à méditer. Une invitation à porter un autre regard sur ce qui nous entoure, à découvrir la magie de l''instant. Une ode à la vie pour apprécier chaque jour les surprises qu''elle nous offre.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection on a meaningful life makes a perfect gift for any occasion. “Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves now to live, really live . . . to love the journey, not the destination.” In this treasure of a book, Anna Quindlen, the bestselling novelist and columnist, reflects on what it takes to “get a life”—to live deeply every day and from your own unique self, rather than merely to exist through your days. “Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us,” Quindlen writes, “because unless you know the clock is ticking, it is so easy to waste our days, our lives.” Her mother died when Quindlen was nineteen: “It was the dividing line between seeing the world in black and white, and in Technicolor. The lights came on for the darkest possible reason. . . . I learned something enduring, in a very short period of time, about life. And that was that it was glorious, and that you had no business taking it for granted.” But how to live from that perspective, to fully engage in our days? In A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen guides us with an understanding that comes from knowing how to see the view, the richness in living.

Na jaren door haar man mishandeld te zijn, weet een Amerikaanse vrouw met haar zoontje te ontsnappen en een nieuw leven te beginnen.

Beautiful, witty, inspiring, and totally original--this is an unparalleled gift book for every mother and mother-to-be. The black-and-white photos often focus on one aspect of a baby--the perfection of a hand, the swirl of a cowlick, the smoothness of skin on the neck. Quindlen''s essays, as graceful, snappy, perceptive, and personal as anything she has written, muse on special moments like a baby''s first steps. 75 duotone photos.

Een Amerikaanse journaliste wordt beschuldigd van euthanasie op haar moeder.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” (Booklist). “Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.”—Publishers Weekly “Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many things in which we recognize universal comfort—God, sex, food, family, friends—reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung, at least publicly, although it was really all I thought of, or felt, when I was eating up book after book, running away from home while sitting in a chair, traveling around the world and yet never leaving the room. . . . I read because I loved it more than any activity on earth.”—from How Reading Changed My Life

A passionate marriage becomes a living nightmare. Fran Benedetto leaves a dangerous marriage to make a fresh start with her son.

This inspirational gift book is an unforgettable collection of poems recommended by such celebrities as Allen Ginsberg and Isabella Rossellini, and handed down from one generation to the next. Proceeds from the sale of Poems for Life will be donated to the Women''s Commission on Refugee Women and Children.

A family finds a way to preserve the feeling of Christmas into the new year by filling a basket with the pine needles from the Christmas tree.