New Releases by Anna Quindlen

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book. “A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public events as it is a reflection on being a woman and on motherhood.”—The Sunday Oklahoman With her trademark insight and her special ability to convey the impact public events have on ordinary lives, Anna Quindlen here combines commentary on American society and the world at large with reflections on being a woman, a writer, and a mother. In these pieces, first written for Newsweek and The New York Times, Loud and Clear takes on topics ranging from social change to raising children, from the political and emotional aftermath of September 11 to personal values, from the impact on individuals of global events to the growth that can be gained by spending summer days staring into the middle distance. Grounding the public in the private, connecting people to each other and to the greater world, Quindlen encourages us to develop authentic lives, even as she serves as a catalyst for political and social change.

Deux êtres que tout oppose voient leur vie bouleversée par la découverte d''un bébé abandonné. Un grand roman pudique et élégant sur une amitié qui n''ose dire son nom. Mme Blessing, quatre-vingts printemps, vit seule parmi ses souvenirs dans son immense propriété. Eternelle insatisfaite, d''un caractère volontiers grognon, elle ne tolère que la présence de Skip, son homme à tout faire, jeune délinquant repenti. Quand ce dernier trouve devant la porte un bébé abandonné, il redoute la réaction de son austère patronne. Contre toute attente, Mme Blessing se prend d''affection pour la petite, rebaptisée Faith, et semble trouver une seconde jeunesse. Unis par ce secret, l''octogénaire et le jeune homme nouent de nouveaux liens, subtil mélange d''amitié et de respect. Mais l''arrivée de cet enfant force la digne Mme Blessing à s''interroger sur sa vie. Une vie tragique, jalonnée de secrets, de drames, de non-dits, dont elle n''a pas fini de payer le prix fort...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A well-told story of love and redemption” (The Washington Post Book World) from the bestselling author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs “A polished gem of a novel . . . lovingly crafted, beautifully written.”—The Miami Herald Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard house on the Blessing estate and leaves a box. In that instant, the lives of those who live and work at Blessings are changed forever. Skip Cuddy, the caretaker, finds a baby girl asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, while Lydia Blessing, the matriarch of the estate, for her own reasons, agrees to help him. Blessings explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present, what makes a person or a life legitimate or illegitimate and who decides, and the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community. Blessings is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and personal change by a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer.

"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.

A renowned collaborative team reunites to create the perfect gift book follow-up to their bestselling "Naked Babies". 60 duotone photos.

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.