Anna Quindlen -- Recent and Upcoming Books

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Naked Babies
Anna Quindlen, Nick Kelsh / Paperback / Expected May 2000
Price: $11.96 - Savings of: $2.99 (20%) Not Yet Published
Anyone who has ever witnessed a baby escape from his mother's arms--sans clothing--and run wildly, or crawl as the case may be, about the house in what can only be described as a euphoric state knows that babies are really at their best when they're naked. No bonnets or booties to hold them in--just pure, blissful nakedness. In Naked Babies author Anna Quindlen and photographer Nick Kelsh expertly record this unique time in childhood when modesty means nothing at all. Quindlen's perceptive and personal essays are remarkable musings on motherhood and the amazing little miracles that babies are,...

Black and Blue [UNABRIDGED]
Anna Quindlen, Kimberly Schraf / Unknown Binding / Expected March 2000
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Black and Blue [UNABRIDGED]
Anna Quindlen, Kimberly Schraf / Audio Cassette / Expected March 2000
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Recent

Black and Blue
Anna Quindlen / Paperback / Published March 2000
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"A sad and important story, convincingly told--.--.--. Black and Blue is enormously readable--.--.--.--Like her columns, Quindlen's novels are written with intelligence, clarity and heart-rending directness." --Newsday

The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton, Anna Quindlen (Introduction) / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 2000
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The House of Mirth is the novel that first established the literary reputation of Pulitzer Prize-winner Edith Wharton. In it, she honed her devastating acerbic style, created one of her most memorable heroines in Lily Bart, and discovered her defining theme: the vulgarity, greed, human frailty, and false social values that form the true foundation of New York society.

Anne Frank : Beyond the Diary : A Photographic Remembrance
Ruud Van Der Rol, et al / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $16.85
A complement to Anne Frank's famed diary, this volume contains brief essays on topics such as the Jewish ghettos and more than one hundred photographs taken during Anne's brief lifetime. 50,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. BOMC.

One True Thing
Anna Quindlen / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $14.55 Special Order
Bestselling novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Quindlen writes with superb understanding about the complexities at the heart of life--themes of love and death and the ambiguities that make up marriage, families, and fate--in a compelling novel in which a woman confronts accusations of her mother's euthanasia.

Black and Blue
Anna Quindlen / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
Price: $15.15 Special Order
The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old, begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. Frannie, Frannie, Fran--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her...

Thinking Out Loud : On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private/Cassette
Anna Quindlen, Robin Cook / Audio Cassette / Published June 1999
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A collection of thought-provoking articles by a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times addresses the author's opinions on abortion, the right to die, political campaigns, rape, children's rights, and other key issues. 50,000 first printing.

Black and Blue : A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
Anna Quindlen / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 1999
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The New York Times Bestseller "Heartbreaking." --Time "Beautifully paced--keeps the reader anxiously turning the pages." --The New York Times Book Review "A gut-wrencher--another stunner." --The Denver Post "Impossible to put down--the tension is both awful and mesmerizing." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Engrossing--compassionate and tense." --The New York Times "Her best novel yet." --Publishers Weekly "Absolutely believable--Quindlen writes with power and grace." --The Boston Globe "A moving masterpiece." --Lexington Herald-Leader A selection of the Literary Guild and Oprah's Book Club

Happily Ever After (Puffin Chapters)
Anna Quindlen, James Stevenson (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published February 1999
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One day, while holding her treasured baseball mitt, Kate makes a wish. And poof!-- she turns into a princess in a fairy tale. But being a princess isn't at all what Kate imagined. Before long, she's fighting off dragons, entertaining witches, and teaching the ladies-in-waiting how to play baseball. With Kate around, fairy tale land will never be the same again!

How Reading Changed My Life and Interactive Excellence : Defining and Developing New Standards for the Twenty-First Century (Library of Contemporary t [UNABRIDGED]
Edwin Schlossberg, et al / Audio Cassette / Published December 1998
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Part of the exciting "The Library of Contemporary Thought" series, which tackles today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Giving top opinion makers a forum to explore topics that matter to them and their listeners, the aim of these works is to say things that need saying.

Siblings
Nick Kelsh, Anna Quindlen / Hardcover / Published November 1998
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A renowned collaborative team reunites to create the perfect gift book follow-up to their bestselling "Naked Babies". 60 duotone photos.

One True Thing [ABRIDGED]
Anna Quindlen, Anna Linney (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published October 1998
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The breathtaking novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Thinking Out Loud, and Black and Blue -- Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures.

How Reading Changed My Life (Library of Contemporary Thought)
Anna Quindlen / Paperback / Published August 1998
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A recurring theme throughout Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life is the comforting premise that readers are never alone. "There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books," she writes, "a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but never really a stranger. My real, true world." Later, she quotes editor Hazel Rochman: "Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere." Indeed, Quindlen's essays are full of the names of "fr...

Black and Blue (Wheeler Large Print Book Series (Cloth)) [LARGE PRINT]
Anna Quindlen / Hardcover / Published June 1998
Price: $26.95 Back Ordered
The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old, begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. Frannie, Frannie, Fran--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her...

Choices : Women Speak Out About Abortion
Karen A. Schneider(Editor), et al / Paperback / Published February 1998
Price: $14.95
Choices is an unapologetically one-sided glimpse of the rough roads traveled by many American women seeking abortions. This slim, eloquent volume has its share of hard cases--one woman was raped, another was carrying a baby not expected to live long after birth. It testifies passionately to what it was like to beg for a therapeutic abortion or go through the frightening ordeal of finding and surviving an illegal operation. If you can't trust a woman with a choice, says an actress forever scarred by a back-alley abortion, how can you trust her with a child? S...

Turning Stones : My Days and Nights With Children at Risk
Marc Parent(Afterword), Anna Quindlen / Paperback / Published February 1998
Price: $11.16 - Savings of: $2.79 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter 23 floors to her death? As a city caseworker, Marc Parent has searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers to these and other questions about children at risk. In this powerful book, he shares his findings with readers Print ads. National media publicity. .

Black and Blue
Anna Quindlen / Hardcover / Published February 1998
Price: $16.10 - Savings of: $6.90 (30%) - Ships in 24 hours
The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old, begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. Frannie, Frannie, Fran--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her...

Black and Blue (AUDIO CASSETTE) [ABRIDGED]
Anna Quindlen, Lili Taylor (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published February 1998
Price: $20.40 - Savings of: $3.60 (15%) - Ships in 24 hours
Fran Benedetto tells a spellbinding story of how a passionate marriage became a nightmare, and what finally makes her run away to start a new life with her son, under a new name. Living in fear of discovery, yet also with increasing confidence, freedom, and hope, Fran unravels the complex threads of family, identity, and desire that shape a woman's life, even as she struggles to create a new one; and Quindlen writes with depth, humor, and insight about the real lives of men and women, the varieties of love, the deep bond between mother and child, the solace of family and friendship. Simultaneo...

The Tree That Came to Stay
Anna Quindlen, Nancy Carpenter (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published December 1997
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With excitement and anticipation, two young boys and their baby sister await the arrival of their Christmas tree. In this warm Christmas story for the whole family, author Anna Quindlen sensitively evokes the emotions all children feel at Christmas. Full color.

Object Lessons
Anna Quindlen / Paperback / Published July 1997
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The acclaimed New York Times columnist and author of Living Out Loud now gives readers a superb novel about an Irish-Italian family in the late 1960s. Quindlen's sharp eye for the way we live, her intelligence and humor have won her an enormous following, and this coming-of-age tale of an entire generation will delight readers of any era.

One True Thing
Anna Quindlen / Paperback / Published June 1997
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Ellen Gulden comes home to care for her dying mother, who reveals the secrets she has hidden for life and the pain she endures daily, and suddenly finds herself on trial for a crime she could not have committed. Reprint."

Happily Ever After
Anna Quindlen, James Stevenson (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published March 1997
Price: $10.49 - Savings of: $3.50 (25%) - Ships in 24 hours
Eight-year-old Kate is a tomboy, but not your typical tomboy. She loves baseball and hates wearing dresses, but she can often be found in her room reading a good old fairy tale and imagining herself as the beautiful princess. One day, while dreamily staring at the princess's crown, Kate magically wishes herself into the fairy tale. Now Kate is the princess and she will soon find out that being royalty isn't all that it's cracked up to be. After rescuing herself from the evil knight (the wimp of a prince couldn't manage this on his own), teaching a witch and troll to play jacks, and...

Poems for Life : The Nightingale-Bamford School
Anna Quindlen(Introduction) / Paperback / Published January 1997
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The students at a New York City school discovered how important poetry can be even in the busiest lives when they asked journalists, politicians, musicians, novelists, filmmakers, actors and poets, to send in their favorite verse with an explanation of why they chose it. This book presents works selected by 50 well-known people, from Jane Alexander to Elie Wiesel to Tom Wolfe, from Peter Jennings to Isabella Rossellini to Wendy Wasserstein. Line drawings throughout.

Naked Babies
Anna Quindlen, Nick Kelsh (Contributor) / Hardcover / Published November 1996
Price: $17.47 - Savings of: $7.48 (30%) - Ships in 24 hours
Anyone who has ever witnessed a baby escape from his mother's arms--sans clothing--and run wildly, or crawl as the case may be, about the house in what can only be described as a euphoric state knows that babies are really at their best when they're naked. No bonnets or booties to hold them in--just pure, blissful nakedness. In Naked Babies author Anna Quindlen and photographer Nick Kelsh expertly record this unique time in childhood when modesty means nothing at all. Quindlen's perceptive and personal essays are remarkable musings on motherhood and the amazing little miracles that babies are,...

Turning Stones : My Days and Nights With Children at Risk
Marc Parent, Anna Quindlen / Hardcover / Published September 1996
Price: $18.75 - Savings of: $6.25 (25%) - Ships in 2-3 days
A social worker in a New York City agency created to help abused children recounts his most difficult, most desperate cases, including one that left him feeling responsible for a child's death, and his battle against despair. National ad/promo. Tour.

Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Series)
Jane Austen, Anna Quindlen (Introduction) / Hardcover / Published January 1996
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A Modern Library edition of the classic novel about the courtship of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet is also the companion edition for the BBC television version, to be broadcast on the Arts and Entertainment network in August 1995. TV tie-in.

One True Thing
Anna Quindlen / Paperback / Published September 1995
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Ellen returns to her parents' home to care for Kate, her dying mother--the glue that holds the family together. In Kate's final days, Ellen learns the secrets her mother has held in her heart--the choices she's made. When Kate's pain becomes unbearable, Ellen believes she shouldn't have to endure it. Suddenly, Ellen is on trial for killing her mother--a crime she could not commit.

Poems for Life : Famous People Select Their Favorite Poem and Say Why It Inspires Them
Anna Quindlen / Hardcover / Published May 1995
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Anne Frank : Beyond the Diary : A Photographic Remembrance
Ruud Van Der Rol, et al / Paperback / Published May 1995
Price: $7.99 - Savings of: $2.00 (20%) - Ships in 24 hours
Excerpts from Anne Frank's original diaries and interviews with the last people to see her alive offer insight into her life--from her happy childhood to the concentration camps after her family was captured and separated. 150 photos.

One True Thing (Wheeler Large Print Book) [LARGE PRINT]
Anna Quindlen / Hardcover / Published February 1995
Price: $25.95 Back Ordered

Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
Louisa May Alcott, Anna Quindlen / School & Library Binding / Published November 1994
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Published fall 1994. These new editions of Alcott's classics are more attractive on the outside than on the inside: lovely covers, including illustrations by Jane Dyer, do not lead the reader to expect the lack of internal illustrations, the poor paper quality, and the less-than-generous margins. Little Women features an introduction by journalist Anna Quindlen. -- Copyright 1995 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

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