Melanie Gideon
Author
Language
English
Description
Married to William for twenty years, Alice remembers the first time they met like it was yesterday. But these days she posts things on Facebook that she once confided to him. Invited to participate in an anonymous online survey on marriage and love, Alice's longings come pouring out in the answers of "Wife 22." And "Researcher 101" listens in a way that William hasn't in a long time. Meanwhile, everything in Alice's life is turning upside down.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
A disarmingly hilarious and honest memoir of marriage and motherhood by a woman who realized she was sleepwalking through life and decided she needed to do something about it.
“A love song to family and to life.... One of the happiest books to cross our paths in a very long time.” —San Francisco Chronicle
The Slippery Year chronicles her struggle to rediscover meaning and pleasure in life...
“A love song to family and to life.... One of the happiest books to cross our paths in a very long time.” —San Francisco Chronicle
The Slippery Year chronicles her struggle to rediscover meaning and pleasure in life...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Nora Sweetkale disappears into another world through a "door" created by Billy Nolan, these two young people with extraordinary abilities are caught up in a struggle with a powerful evil creature known as the Provisioner.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lux is a single mom struggling to make her way in the world when she stumbles across an idyllic town in the Sonoma valley where she feels instantly at home. It seems like a place from another time--until she realizes it actually is. One night in 1906, an earthquake left Greengage stuck in the past. Lux must keep one foot in her world, raising her son as well as she can with the odds stacked against her, but every day she is more strongly drawn in...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the indignities and consolations of modern domestic life describes the author's haphazard experiences after coming into a realization of her own mortality upon reaching her mid-forties, an awakening that prompted her efforts to find meaning in everyday activities.
