"Getting advice from Ann Landers is like chatting with a neighbor across the back fence." --Los Angeles Times In a career spanning nearly half a century, Ann Landers has counseled millions of people with her comforting words, wise advice, and no-nonsense answers to some of life's most sensitive, personal, and compelling questions. Now in The Best of Ann Landers, she has chosen her favorite letters from her beloved column. Tackling such diverse topics as marital infidelity, teenage sex, the death of a loved one, and homosexuality, A... [Read More]
In her first collection in more than a decade, the most trusted woman in North American shares her wisdom and sage advice. Ann Landers reprises the counsel and anecdotes that make her column such a popular newspaper feature, providing timeless yet amazingly contemporary questions and answers on topics from care of elderly parents to homosexuality to AIDS. She also includes many of the beloved essays and aphorisms that make her columns so heartwarming and memorable. Illustrations.
My mother wrote this book. It took her forty-four years... Three generations of Americans grew up reading Ann Landers. Her advice guided and inspired millions. Now, by reading the letters she wrote to her daughter, everyone who loved her column can get to know the woman behind the famous name. Ann Landers was born Eppie Lederer to immigrant parents in Iowa, but her extraordinary success would bring her into the world of the rich, the famous, and the talented. She met with popes and presidents and socialized with the best and brightest of her generation. And she told her daughter all about it a... [Read More]
The famous columnist offers advice on everyday problems in human relations, health, and general well-being, soliciting opinions from leading experts in the various areas of concern
America's most beloved columnist shares 40 years of advice through letters to her only child, published here for the first time. In this witty, wise, and intensely personal collection of letters to her daughter Margo, Ann Landers delivers her own unintentional memoir.
The Ann Landers Encyclopedia is many books in one--a sensible health guide, a warm and helpful handbook on marital and chid-raising problems, a perfect book for teenagers, a survival guide for families in crisis, a sourcebook for emotional, psychological, sexual and spiritual self-impovement.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “More powerful and moving than anything [Tyler] has done.” —Los Angeles TimesUnfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel encompasses a lifetime of dreams, regrets and reckonings. Maggie and Ira Moran are on a road trip from Baltimore, Maryland to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of a friend. Along the way, they reflect on the state of their marriage, its trials and its triumphs—through their quarrels, their routines, and their ability to tolerate each other’s faults with pa... [Read More]
"Miss Manners with Fangs." ―LA Weekly We live in a world that's very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many of us who are nice (but who also sometimes say "f*ck") are frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person who deals effectively with the increasing onslaught of rudeness we all encounter. To lead us out of the miasma of modern mannerlessness, science-based and bitingly funny syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon rips the doily off the manners genre and gives us a new set of rules for our twenty-first century lives. With wit, style, and a dash of... [Read More]
This exploration of the Ann Landers phenomenon introduces the woman behind the pen--Eppie Lederer--and discusses how America's values toward family, love, sex, marriage, and lifestyle have evolved in the thirty-two years since the advice column's inceptio
For two generations of Americans, reading Ann Landers's daily column was as important as eating breakfast. For nearly fifty years an entire nation turned to this quick-witted, worldly-wise counselor for advice on everything from dinner etiquette to sex. But who was the woman behind the byline?Iowa-born Eppie Lederer was first hired by the Chicago Sun-Times to take over the daily advice column in 1955 -- and over the next half-century she helped shape the nation's social and sexual landscape. Award-winning journalist Rick Kogan was Ann Landers's last editor and close friend, and he paints a fas... [Read More]
The true measure of a man is not in the mistakes he makes…but in how he handles those mistakes.Rafe Walker gained fame while in the Army when he was photographed for a Military Calendar. Afterward, modeling contracts rolled in but he found his life in California lacking and longed for a change.Accepting an offer to work as a groundkeeper for a shut-in one summer, near his family in Virginia, he jumps at the chance to return to his roots.But as he got to know the enigmatic woman, he began to desire a more permanent change with her.But secrets abound between the two and when they are revealed... [Read More]
America's most beloved columnist shares 40 years of advice through letters to her only child, published here for the first time. In this witty, wise, and intensely personal collection of letters to her daughter Margo,
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Told in riveting, keenly observed poetry, a moving first-person narrative as experienced by a young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846. The journey west by wagon train promises to be long and arduous
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