Delia Ephron, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (312p) ISBN 978-0-06-154260-2
Sukie Jamieson, the vain yet glaringly insecure teenage protagonist of Ephron's (Frannie in Pieces
) second YA novel, has a lot on her mind. Is her hair—“worthy of worship”—in its proper place? Does the slope of her nose
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Delia Ephron, Author Putnam Adult $23.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-399-14052-5
The telephone plays an integral part in screenwriter and nonfiction author Ephron's (How to Eat Like a Child) humorous, if somewhat uncomfortable, look at the senility and death of a parent. Narrator Eve Mozell loves to chat on the phone, playing...
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Delia Ephron, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-399-14391-5
Ephron is best known for her screenwriting work (Sleepless in Seattle; You've Got Mail), but her talent for witty dialogue flourishes in her second novel (after Hanging Up), set in Sakonnet Bay, Long Island, where freelance reporter and single mom...
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Delia Ephron, Author Viking Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81240-0
The humorist who explained How to Eat Like a Child and Teenage Romance presents a third winner, a collection of 12 essays on the modern extended family. Today the group includes ""Us, The Ex, The Ex's New Mate, The New Mate's Ex, and The Kids.''...
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Delia Ephron, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (148p) ISBN 978-0-395-66139-0
The brand of ludicrousness found in this slight volume will especially appeal to disgruntled youngsters who have endured any form of torture from older siblings. For Violet Sparks, the last straw comes during a piano recital when older brother Simon
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Delia Ephron. Penguin/Blue Rider, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-15848-3
Ephron's newest (after The Girl with the Mermaid Hair) follows a trio of women looking to escape their pasts and build a new life in an unlikely place and with an even stranger companion—a former circus lion named Marcel. Lana is a tough recovering...
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Delia Ephron. Blue Rider, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-399-16655-6
“Life is such a jumble,” writes Ephron in one of many blunt essays from her fourth collection, a phrase that aptly describes these reflections on the monumental and the mundane. The lighter fare—including a spirited poem about bad hair days and a...
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Delia Ephron. Penguin/Blue Rider, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-16521-4
Ephron (Sister Mother Husband Dog (etc.)) undertakes a seductive and edgy dissection of two imploding marriages—and an unhinged mother-daughter alliance—alternately narrated by two ex-lovers who recount how a lifetime of small disappointments and...
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Delia Ephron, Author, Chad Beckerman, Illustrator . HarperTeen/Geringer $16.99 (374p) ISBN 978-0-06-074716-9
When 15-year-old Frannie stumbles upon an elaborately carved box bearing her name as she is sorting through her late father's art studio, she assumes she has found a birthday present that he made for her before his recent, untimely death....
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Delia Ephron, Author, Edward Koren, Illustrator Viking Books $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-670-82855-5
Acting in loco parentis, Ephron's ``Aunt Delia'' and ``Uncle Jerry'' try to effect behavior modification in their farouche little kin, whom they invite to take a manners quiz. The results appear in New Yorker cartoonist Koren's drawings, as drolly...
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Delia Ephron, read by Meg Ryan. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, four CDs, 4.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4805-5709-3
In this collection of essays, Ephron waxes poetic about the nature of relationships and how she negotiated them through good times and bad. From her poor choices in husbands and the love she has for her sister (the late Nora Ephron) to her life with
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Delia Ephron. Little, Brown, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-26765-6
Playwright and novelist Ephron (Siracusa) balances profound sorrow with unconditional love in this radiant account of the “many left turns, some perilous, some wondrous” that her life took following her husband’s death. After a year of grieving the...
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