The Pursuit of Alice Thrift

The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
Author: Elinor Lipman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307429237

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In her newest well-tuned, witty, and altogether wonderful novel, bestselling author Elinor Lipman dares to ask: Can an upper-middle-class doctor find love with a shady, fast-talking salesman? Meet Alice Thrift, surgical intern in a Boston hospital, high of I.Q. but low in social graces. She doesn’t mean to be acerbic, clinical, or blunt, but where was she the day they taught Bedside Manner 101? Into Alice’s workaholic and wallflower life comes Ray Russo, a slick traveling fudge salesman in search of a nose job and well-heeled companionship, but not necessarily in that order. Is he a conman or a sincere suitor? Good guy or bad? Alice’s parents, roommate, and best friend Sylvie are appalled at her choice of mate. Despite her doubts, Alice finds herself walking down the aisle, not so much won over as worn down. Will their marriage last the honeymoon? Only if Alice’s best instincts can triumph over Ray’s unsavory ways.

The View from Penthouse B

The View from Penthouse B
Author: Elinor Lipman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547576218

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Two newly-single sisters, one a divorce?, the other a widow, become roommates with a handsome, gay cupcake-baker as they try to return to the dating world of lower Manhattan.

Time Is a River

Time Is a River
Author: Mary Alice Monroe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2009-01-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439141770

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While recovering from breast cancer in a remote cabin in North Carolina, Mia Landan finds the journal of Kate Watkins, a 1920s fly fisher, and, inspired by Kate's example, learns to fish and uncovers many secrets around her.

Rachel to the Rescue

Rachel to the Rescue
Author: Elinor Lipman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2021
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0358653258

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Rachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticizing Donald Trump. As she is escorted off the premises she is hit by a speeding car, driven by what the press will discreetly call "a personal friend of the President." Does that explain the flowers, the get-well wishes at a press briefing, the hush money offered by a lawyer at her hospital bedside? Rachel's recovery is soothed by comically doting parents, matchmaking room-mates, a new job as aide to a journalist whose books aim to defame the President, and unexpected love at the local wine store. But secrets leak, and Rachel's new-found happiness has to make room for more than a little chaos. Will she bring down the President? Or will he manage to do that all by himself? Rachel to the Rescue is a mischievous political satire, with a delightful cast of characters, from one of America's funniest novelists.

The Inn At Lake Devine

The Inn At Lake Devine
Author: Elinor Lipman
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755385101

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It's 1962 and Natalie Marx is shocked when her mother receives this reply to her enquiry about summer accommodation in Vermont: 'Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles.' It was not complicated, as her mother pointed out. 'They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews. We were Jews.' For the intrepid twelve-year-old Natalie, the words are an infuriating, irresistible challenge. She manages to wangle an invitation to join a friend on holiday there - and, as her obsession begins with the family that has excluded her, she sets in train events which will change her life, and which will tie her forever to the eccentric family who run the Inn at Lake Devine

Death in Venice

Death in Venice
Author: Thomas Mann
Publisher: urzeni yayınevi
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2017-07-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 6057941705

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One of the most famous literary works of the 20th century, the novella “Death in Venice” embodies themes that preoccupied Thomas Mann (1875–1955) in much of his work; the duality of art and life, the presence of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, the connection between love and suffering, and the conflict between the artist and his inner self. Mann’s handling of these concerns in this story of a middle-aged German writer, torn by his passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, resulted in a work of great psychological intensity and tragic power.

Tweet Land of Liberty

Tweet Land of Liberty
Author: Elinor Lipman
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0807042447

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Elinor Lipman (@elinorlipman) chronicles the 2012 election season with a poem a day—all in 140 characters or less.

The Way Men Act

The Way Men Act
Author: Elinor Lipman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1993-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0671748416

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One-time popular and eye-catching Melinda LeBlanc finds her world as a successful florist is not enough.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Author: Rachel Cohn
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010-10-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375896686

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Now a Netflix original series starring Austin Abrams and Midori Francis! A whirlwind holiday season romance from the New York Times bestselling authors of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. “I’ve left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.” 16-year-old Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on her favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. Dash, in a bad mood during the holidays, happens to be the first guy to pick up the notebook and rise to its challenges. What follows is a whirlwind romance as Dash and Lily trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations all across New York City. But can their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions, or will their scavenger hunt end in a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions? Co-written by Rachel Cohn (GINGERBREAD) and David Levithan, co-author of WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON with John Green (THE FAULT IN OUR STARS), DASH & LILY'S BOOK OF DARES is a love story that will have readers scouring bookstore shelves, looking and longing for a love (and a red notebook) of their own.

Hedwig and Berti

Hedwig and Berti
Author: Frieda Arkin
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2006-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146683871X

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Thirty-five years after publication of her first novel, The Dorp (followed by other works on cooking and gardening), Frieda Arkin returns to the world of fiction to give us another darkly humorous novel, Hedwig and Berti. Hedwig and Berti is a saga of the totally unlikely marriage of a grandly Teutonic woman, Hedwig Kessler, and her diminutive cousin Berti, two upper-class German Jews forced to leave their homeland during the rise of the Nazis. They flee to London, then to New York City, and from there, finally, to a university town in Kansas. In London, Hedwig gives birth to a daughter whose broodingly dark construction and immense genius for the piano point back in time to the tragedy of her bloodline. This is a story of prejudice taken to extremes, both within the domain of a severely class-conscious German-Jewish family and beyond it. The characters are subtle, and finely-honed, and their story is told with grace and unexpected humor. Like Penelope Fitzgerald, Frieda Arkin possesses a rare gift for combining love, wit, and dark realism in the reactions and behavior of her characters in the several cultures they are forced to adapt to.