Anna Quindlen, Author Ballantine Books $10 (96p) ISBN 978-0-345-42278-1
In this pithy celebration of the power and joys of reading, Quindlen emphasizes that books are not simply a means of imparting knowledge, but also a way to strengthen emotional connectedness, to lessen isolation, to explore alternate realities and...
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Anna Quindlen. Random House, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9606-7
Bestseller Quindlen’s provocative novel (after Miller’s Valley) is a New York City drama of fractured marriages and uncomfortable class distinctions. Nora and Charlie Nolan, married 25 years, live in a posh neighborhood in Manhattan. She is a museum
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Anna Quindlen. Random, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9608-1
Quindlen’s latest novel, following Still Life with Breadcrumbs, is a moving exploration of family and notions of home. Mimi Miller recounts her life beginning in the 1960s in Miller’s Valley, a small Pennsylvania town where her family has been...
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Anna Quindlen. Random, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6575-2
Quindlen’s seventh novel, following Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, is a detailed exploration of creativity and the need for connection. Rebecca Winter is a 60-year-old photographer, once revered as a feminist icon, whose work isn’t selling as...
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Anna Quindlen. Random, $26 (190p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6934-7
Weary, battle-hardened reflections on growing older infuse this latest collection of essays by novelist and former New York Times columnist Quindlen (Every Last One). Having chimed in copiously in previous memoirs on now familiar talking points such
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Anna Quindlen, Author Random House (NY) $17.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-394-56964-2
In this collection of syndicated columns, based in the New York Times and called ``Life in the 30's,'' Quindlen gives ample evidence of why her reflections about herself, the progress of her life and feelings, resonate in a large readership. First,...
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Anna Quindlen, Author National Geographic Society $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6561-0
This latest entry in National Geographic's series of famous writers on famous cities is like the British dish bubble and squeak: a hash of thrown together bits and pieces that might be tasty but isn't very filling. An avid reader, Quindlen (Living...
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Anna Quindlen, Author Dell Publishing Company $8.3 (400p) ISBN 978-0-440-22103-6
Quindlen's story of a woman accused of helping her mortally ill mother die spent seven weeks on PW's bestseller list (Sept.)
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Anna Quindlen, Author Ivy Books $7.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0946-8
In this absorbing coming-of-age novel, a Literary Guild selection in cloth that spent 10 weeks on PW 's bestseller list, New York Times columnist Quindlen skillfully conveys the fierce ethnic pride of Irish and Italian communities. (May)
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Anna Quindlen, Author Ivy Books $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0527-9
``In this collection of syndicated columns, based in the New York Times and called `Life in the 30s,' Quindlen gives ample evidence of why her reflections about herself, the progress of her life and feelings, resonate in a large readership,''...
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Anna Quindlen, Author . Random $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-50223-1
Venturing into fictional territory far from the blue-collar neighborhoods of Black and Blue
and other works, Quindlen's immensely appealing new novel is a study in social contrasts and of characters whose differences are redeemed by the...
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Anna Quindlen, Author Random House $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6574-5
In her latest, Quindlen (Rise and Shine) once again plumbs the searing emotions of ordinary people caught in tragic circumstances. Mary Beth Latham is a happily married woman entirely devoted to her three teenaged children. When her talented...
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Anna Quindlen, Author , read by Joan Allen. Books on Tape $54 (, unabridged, five cassettes, 7.5 hrs., $54 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7366-8780-5
Quindlen's novel of redemption and second chances is given a warm, sympathetic reading by Allen. Skip Cuddy is one of life's losers: abandoned by his parents as a child and railroaded by so-called "friends" into a crime that wasn'
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Anna Quindlen, Author . Random $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6112-9
Bestselling author Quindlen (One True Thing
; A Short Guide to a Happy Life
; etc.), a veteran reporter and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, couldn't have picked a more apt title for her latest collection of columns from Newsweek
...
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Anna Quindlen, Author . Random $24.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-375-50224-8
Bridget Fitzmaurice, the narrator of Quindlen's engrossing fifth novel, works for a women's shelter in the Bronx; her older sister, Meghan, cohost of the popular morning show Rise and Shine
, is the most famous woman on television. Bridget...
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Anna Quindlen, Author Random House Inc $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40711-9
Concerned as she is with all manner of conflicts between public and private issues represented in this collection of essays from her syndicated New York Times op-ed column, Quindlen ( Living Out Loud ) admits to viewing even non-feminist topics...
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Anna Quindlen, Author Random House Inc $22 (289p) ISBN 978-0-679-40712-6
Quindlen (Object Lessons) again examines delicate family dynamics with this resonating tale of a matriarch's illness and the tempest of emotion that swirls around her deterioration and death. Manhattan psychiatrist Ellen Gulden recalls the dark time
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Anna Quindlen, Author Random House Inc $23 (293p) ISBN 978-0-375-50051-0
After two fine earlier efforts, Object Lessons and One True Thing, Quindlen has written her best novel yet in this unerringly constructed and paced, emotionally accurate tale of domestic abuse. Her protagonist is Frannie Benedetto, a 37-year-old...
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Anna Quindlen, read by Carrington MacDuffie. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4805-3312-7
Sixty-year-old Rebecca Winters is having a midlife crisis. Once an iconic photographer, her fame, and sales, have diminished over the years, and money problems have reached a crisis point. She’s long divorced, her son is grown, and she is lonely. To
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Anna Quindlen, Author, James Stevenson, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $13.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-670-86961-9
Quindlen's breezy, farcical romp centers on a tomboy who loves reading fairy tales when she's not on the Little League field. When a magical baseball mitt unexpectedly grants Kate's wish to ""try being a princess sometime,"" she suddenly finds...
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Anna Quindlen, read by the author. Random House Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-307-98986-4
A bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Anna Quindlen shares her thoughts on aging, family, marriage, and other slice-of-life topics in this reflective memoir. Although there’s nothing startling or groundbreaking here, her wit and...
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Anna Quindlen, Author, Anna Quindlen, Read by , read by the author. Simon & Schuster Audio $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-7199-9
Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and novelist Quindlen has recently met with tremendous success in the realm of short nonfiction with an inspirational and motivational bent. Recounting the life and death of her beloved Labrador retriever, Beau,
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Anna Quindlen, Author, Kate Medina, Editor Random House Inc $19 (262p) ISBN 978-0-394-56965-9
Readers of her ``Life in the 30s'' column in the New York Times (collected in Living Out Loud ) know Quindlen as an astute observer of family relationships. Her first novel is solid proof that she is equally discerning and skillful as a writer of...
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Anna Quindlen, Author, Nick Kelsh, Photographer, Nick Kelsh, With Penguin Putnam $24.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-670-86880-3
In this intriguing book, Kelsh, a partner in the communications firm Kelsh Wilson Design, and Quindlen (Object Lessons) capture the essence of naked babyhood--Kelsh in exquisite black-and-white photographs of dozens of babies, Quindlen in an elegant
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Anna Quindlen. Random House, $26 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9610-4
In this wise and endearing book, former New York Times columnist Quindlen (Alternate Sides) addresses the subject of grandparenting, sharing her own experiences and advice. Despite having raised three children, Quindlen admits that as a grandmother,
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Anna Quindlen. Random House, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-593-22983-5
Columnist Quindlen (Nanaville) encourages amateur writers to pick up their pencils in this inspirational if at times old-fashioned love letter to writing. Quindlen homes in on seven benefits of writing and provides anecdotes to illustrate each. For...
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Edited by Lori Marie Carlson-Hijuelos. Atheneum, $18.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4814-1975-8
Carlson-Hijuelos (Voices in First Person) ambitiously brings together 30 creators—including poet Jacinto Jesús Cardona, humanitarian Kamaal Majeed, and philosopher Alexandra Stoddard, among others—to detail their experiences navigating the “difficult
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Anna Quindlen. Random House, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-22980-4
A 30-something mother of four dies unexpectedly in the affecting latest from Quindlen (Alternate Side). “Bill, get me some Advil, my head is killing me” are the last words Annie Brown says to her husband before she drops dead on the kitchen floor in
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