Product Description: Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends—third cousins, really—living in Cambridge and dreaming about their futures. Guido plans to write poetry while Vincent feels confident he will win a Nobel Prize for physics. When Guido spots Holly while exiting a museum, he can immediately sense that she is difficult, quirky, and hard to live with—it’s love at first sight...read more

The author combines her writing skills with her love of cooking in a collection of essays on food and entertaining that discuss the challenges of being a working mother

Jane Louise Parker, a book designer in her thirties, enters into marriage with Teddy and plans on becoming pregnant, hoping it will cure the vague rootless feelings she experiences

Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends—third cousins, really—living in Cambridge and dreaming about their futures. Guido plans to write poetry while Vincent feels confident he will win a Nobel prize for physics. When Guido spots Holly while exiting a museum, he can immediately sense that she will difficult, quirky, and hard to live with. He loves her on sight. Vincent, open-minded and cheerful, meets Misty at work. Though she is a bored and misanthropic brunette, he finds himself desperate to know her. Through courtship, jealousy, estrangement, and other perils, Happy All the Time follows four sane, intelligent, and good-intentioned people who manage to find love in spite of themselves.

Product Description: Within these fourteen hilarious and insightful tales of urban life, you'll meet:Raiford Phelps, an ornithologist who discovers new patterns of animal behavior when he meets Mary Leibnitz.Benno Morna, a temporary bachelor, free to indulge in TV, junk food, and Greenie Frenzel when his wholesome wife is out of town...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Eight interconnected stories recount the temporary, eventful affair of Billy DeLielle and Frank Clemons and Billy's gradual achievement of confidence and openness, especially with and within her marriage (view table of contents)

Thirteen stories about love, privacy, and emotional adventure focus on young women--grave, strict, sassy, or beautifully composed--and their men--charming, skittish, fiendishly elusive princes and sluggards (view table of contents)

When her daredevil husband is killed, Elizabeth "Olly" Bax is left a widow at age 27 and must find the strength to sort out her feelings and prepare for the future.

With all the weight, privilege, and arrogance of her old American Jewish family bearing down on her, Polly Demarest finds herself in an adulterous affair that gives an unexpected balance to her life. Reissue.

Geraldine Coleshares, former backup singer for Ruby Shakely and the Shakettes, muddles through marriage, motherhood, and employment while struggling to reconcile youth with maturity and expectations with real life

The courtship of Vincent Cardworthy and Misty Berkowitz and the marriage of Holly Stergis and Guido Morris are marked by practical concerns, romance, surprises, luck, and no upper hands

Product Description: Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this beloved book. Equal parts cookbook and memoir, Laurie Colwin's Home Cooking combines her insightful, good-humored writing style with her lifelong passion for wonderful cuisine in essays such as "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant," "Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir," and "Stuffed Breast of Veal: A Bad Idea...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Laurie Colwin's last novel is a charming and endearing exploration of the joys and trials of motherhood and its effects on marriage, friendship, careers, and romance--with her heroine, Jane Louise, and Jane's best friend, Edie, pregnant together. Reprint. NYT.

With all the weight, privilege, and arrogance of her old, old American Jewish family bearing down on her, Polly Demarest finds herself in an adulterous affair that gives an unexpected balance to her life

Stories about love, privacy, and emotional adventure focus on young women--grave, strict, sassy, or beautifully composed--and their men--charming, skittish, fiendishly elusive princes and slugards

Offers thirty-four anecdotal chapters of reminiscences, experiences, and opinions on food, cooking, and eating, as well as thirty-five recipes ranging from traditional to inventive