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Emma Straub, Susan Straub; Illustrated by Jessica Love
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Will make you laugh, cry,
and call the people you love. Exceptional' EMILY HENRY 'Nostalgic,
wise, funny, and filled with love' GABRIELLE ZEVIN 'Her most
emotionally resonant work yet' VOGUE 'Has the makings of a dreamy,
witty, contemporary classic' EVENING STANDARD 'I just finished and
I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty'
JODI PICOULT 'A tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial
love' i ________ About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works
at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn't the man of her
dreams. And her beloved father Leonard is dying. But after one too
many drinks, she wakes up in her childhood home to find
forty-year-old Leonard celebrating her sixteenth birthday. Now
Alice gets to relive this one day in 1996, over and over. When the
slightest change will impact the rest of her life. Can she fix her
life and save her father? Or will her good intentions only cause
harm to those she loves most? ________ With her celebrated humour,
insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the traditional
time travel tropes on their head and delivers a different kind of
love story - about the lifelong, reverberating relationship between
a parent and child. 'A tender tale of time travel. Straub strips
back the layers to reveal what's important' STYLIST, 'BOOK OF THE
WEEK' 'An excellent time-travelling novel about adolescence and
second chances from the always brilliant Emma Straub' METRO
'Clever, complex and really rather lovely' BEST 'Magical,
heart-warming and insightful . . . Warm, wryly funny and
melancholic' DAILY EXPRESS 'This time-travelling take on a
hypothetical return to 1996 and the protagonist's 16th birthday
will be enough to remind you to cherish what you have' ELLE 'Full
of deftly managed plot twists, it's both fun and poignant' MAIL ON
SUNDAY 'Literary sunshine' New York Times on All Adults Here 'A
gorgeous and witty storyteller' Liane Moriarty 'Deliciously warm
and nostalgic' Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Wrong
Place Wrong Time 'A master of the domestic ensemble drama' Time
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from Emma Straub, THE ONE
MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A fiendishly clever, nostalgic, and
tender novel about adolescence and middle age, expectation and
anticipation, and how we must cherish what we have while there is
still time . . . 'Will make you laugh, cry, and call the people you
love. Exceptional' EMILY HENRY 'Her most emotionally resonant work
yet' VOGUE 'Has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary
classic' EVENING STANDARD 'I just finished and I'm crying at its
message and its honestly and its utter beauty' JODI PICOULT 'A
tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial love' i 'A
tender tale of time travel. Straub strips back the layers to reveal
what's important' STYLIST, 'BOOK OF THE WEEK' ________ If you could
go back, would you do things differently? Alice Stern isn't ready
to turn forty. She thought she'd have more time to figure it all
out. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father,
Leonard - but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if
she'll hear his voice again. When she falls asleep outside their
old apartment on the night before her birthday, she's surprised to
be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a
sixteenth birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging
to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood . . . Alice soon
discovers how she got back here, to 1996 and her sixteenth
birthday, and realises she can keep on coming, whenever she
chooses. But faced each time with different versions of her life,
and the consequences of her decisions, it's on her not to lose
sight of what she wants most . . . ________ With her celebrated
humour, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the
traditional time travel tropes on their head and delivers a
different kind of love story - about the lifelong, reverberating
relationship between a parent and child. 'An excellent
time-travelling novel about adolescence and second chances from the
always brilliant Emma Straub' METRO 'Clever, complex and really
rather lovely' BEST 'Magical, heart-warming and insightful . . .
Warm, wryly funny and melancholic' DAILY EXPRESS 'This
time-travelling take on a hypothetical return to 1996 and the
protagonist's 16th birthday will be enough to remind you to cherish
what you have' ELLE 'Full of deftly managed plot twists, it's both
fun and poignant' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Literary sunshine' New York Times
on All Adults Here 'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Liane
Moriarty 'A master of the domestic ensemble drama' Time
A fiendishly clever, nostalgic, and tender novel about how we must
cherish what we have while there is still time Alice Stern isn't
ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have it figured out by now,
and have spent more time with her father Leonard, who is very sick.
When she wakes up outside their old apartment on her birthday,
she's surprised to see a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth
birthday card for Alice, who is rapidly approaching adulthood . . .
Alice soon realises she can keep coming back. Faced each time with
different versions of her life, and the consequences of her
decisions, Alice must not to lose sight of what she wants most-
some time back with Leonard . . .
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Very Good Hats (Hardcover)
Emma Straub; Illustrated by Blanca Gomez
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THE IRRISISTABLE, UPLIFTING AND BIG-HEARTED STORY OF SURVIVING IN A
MODERN FAMILY . . . 'A wonderful read' Elizabeth Strout 'Literary
sunshine' New York Times 'A gorgeous and witty storyteller'
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls 'The world will love it'
Ann Patchett The instant New York Times BESTSELLER ________ After
Astrid Strick - a widowed, 68-year-old mother of three living in
upstate New York - witnesses an accident, she resolves to live more
honestly. Starting with the mistakes she made in raising her
family. But are her kids, tangled in their own messy adult lives,
really ready to be treated like grown ups? Charming, uplifting and
well-observed, All Adults Here is the delightful story about the
wonders and woes of modern family life. ________ Praise for All
Adults Here: 'Perfectly pitched summer reading' Stylist 'Smartly
observant, wryly witty, big-hearted . . . ' Sunday Times 'This
beautifully written book delves deeply, perceptively and humorously
into the contemporary human condition' Daily Mail 'A glorious
mash-up of Elizabeth Strout and Gilmore Girls' Red 'If you're a fan
of Anne Tyler's writing, you'll love this captivating well-observed
family drama' Good Housekeeping
** 'It's the beautifully drawn, vibrant characters that make this
smart, compelling novel so irresistible.' Liane Moriarty ** From
the New York Times Bestselling author of The Vacationers, Emma
Straub brings us a sharply observed tale of modern love . . .
Twenty years later and they were supposed to be grown-ups... Ditmas
Park, Brooklyn. Summer in the city . . . College friends Elizabeth,
Zoe and Andrew had a band, grew up, settled in New York and now
they are still living round the corner from one another (and in
each other's pockets). One hot summer as their kids come of age,
making those first hesitant steps into adulthood, it's the parents
who find that the lives they've so carefully stitched together
begin slowly to come apart . . . 'Has all the pleasures of Anne
Tyler's compelling family portraits . . . with a Lorrie Moore-like
sense of the absurdities of contemporary life' Michiko Kakutani,
New York Times 'Really entertaining. The characters are complex and
likeable. It's one of those stories that makes you realise that
life really does run away from you' Guardian 'Straub's characters
thrum off the page. The sort of witty and relatable summer title
you'll devour with a contented smack of the lips' Independent
'Funny yet tart, warm yet incisive. I adored it' Red
The Posts are going on their first family vacation in years, and
it's going to be a special one: Jim and Franny are taking their
daughter Sylvia, son Bobby and his girlfriend, and Franny's best
friend Charles and his husband, all the way to Mallorca for two
weeks of the sort of relaxation, culture and cuisine that only
Europe can offer. But there are problems. After a transgression
with a 23-year-old editorial assistant, Jim has been sacked from
his job, and now his and Franny's marriage is on the rocks. Charles
and Lawrence are feeling divided over their future, Bobby is mired
in debt problems and stuck in a relationship that's pulling in
opposite directions and his girlfriend Carmen, super-fit personal
trainer and, at 40-something, far too old for Bobby, seems to have
realised her mistake. As for Sylvia, she's 18, about to go to
college, and determined to lose her virginity before she gets
there.
A Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick
"At once a delicious depiction of Hollywood's golden age and a
sweet, fulfilling story about one woman's journey through fame,
love, and loss."--"Boston"" Globe "
In 1920, Elsa Emerson is born to the owners of the Cherry County
Playhouse in Door County, Wisconsin. Elsa relishes appearing
onstage, where she soaks up the approval of her father and the
embrace of the audience. But when tragedy strikes her family, her
acting becomes more than a child's game of pretend. While still in
her teens, Elsa marries and flees to Los Angeles. There she is
discovered by Hollywood mogul Irving Green, who refashions her as
an exotic brunette screen siren and renames her Laura Lamont. But
fame has its costs, and while Laura tries to balance career,
family, and personal happiness, she realizes that Elsa Emerson
might not be gone completely. Ambitious and richly imagined, "Laura
Lamont's Life in Pictures "is as intimate--and as
bigger-than-life--as the great films of the golden age of
Hollywood.
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Catlady (Hardcover)
Leah Goren; Contributions by Emma Straub, Aidy Bryant, Jen Gotch
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There's no question that cats rule the world-ask any cat owner and
they'll tell you how these balls of fur insert themselves into our
lives and establish dominion over the household. In this book, Leah
Goren brings together smart, funny essays by ban.do founder Jen
Gotch, writer Mara Altman, novelist Emma Straub, and designer
Justina Blakeney, among others. She also conducts illuminating
interviews with women who have built their lives or careers around
cats, such as the founder of a big-cat sanctuary in California, the
president of an animal advocacy organisation in NYC, and the
executive director of the world's largest registry of pedigreed
cats. Throughout the book, Goren's appealing illustrations bring
the joys of cat friendship to life, while her observations about
the roles that cats have played in history, fashion, mythology, and
art help us understand why the human-cat connection is so powerful.
Sophisticated yet accessible, and featuring the work of a hugely
popular illustrator, this book's wisdom and artwork reveal deeper
truths about what makes cats so appealing as companions. Catlady
will speak to the millions of cat lovers who know just how strongly
we identify with our feline friends.
In "Other People We Married," Straub creates characters as
recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of
triumph and transformation with wit, vulnerability, and dazzling
insight. In "Some People Must Really Fall in Love," an assistant
professor takes halting steps into the awkward world of office
politics while harboring feelings for a freshman student. Two
sisters struggle with old assumptions about each other as they
stumble to build a new relationship in "A Map of Modern Palm
Springs." In "Puttanesca," two widows move tentatively forward,
still surrounded by ghosts and disappointments from the past. These
twelve stories, filled with sharp humor, emotional acuity, and
joyful language, announce the arrival of a major new talent.
Irving snapped his fingers, so loudly that it echoed through the
room, over all the chatting and flirting. Elsa was surprised that
such a sharp, loud noise could come out of such a small person.
"Laura Lamont," he said. "You want it? It's yours. Come see me when
you're ready." When the most famous producer in 1930s Hollywood
plucks Elsa Emerson from a party and gives her a brand-new name, a
star of the silver screen is born. Step by step she succumbs to the
consuming power of the studio. But her transformation is more
profound than she could ever have foreseen . . .
The New York Times bestseller 'A wonderful read' Elizabeth Strout
'Literary sunshine' New York Times 'A gorgeous and witty
storyteller' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls 'Hugely
talented' BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour 'The world will love it' Ann
Patchett 'A joy to read' Sarah Haywood __________ Coming of age
isn't just for kids. Astrid Strick has always tried to do her best
for her three children. Now, they're finally grown up - but you
could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Elliot doesn't have any
idea who he really is, or how to communicate with his own sons.
Porter is, at last, pregnant - but feels incapable of rising to the
challenge. Nicky has fled to distant New Mexico, where he's living
the bohemian dream. And Astrid herself is up to things that would
make her children's hair curl. Until now, the family have managed
to hide their true selves from each other. But when Nicky's
incorrigibly curious daughter Cecelia comes to stay, her arrival
threatens to upturn everything... Witty, astute, and irresistibly
readable, All Adults Here is a novel about how to survive inside a
modern family from New York Times bestselling author Emma Straub.
__________ Praise for Emma Straub: 'Funny, poignant and beautifully
observed' Jojo Moyes 'Witty and big-hearted ... leaves you smiling
for days' Maria Semple 'Intimate, epic, beautifully observed'
Jennifer Egan 'Smart, compelling ... irresistible' Liane Moriarty
'Has all the pleasures of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits
. . . with a Lorrie Moore-like sense of the absurdities of
contemporary life' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
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