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  • The Three Weissmanns of Westport

    A Novel

    A New York Times Best SellerA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceBetty Weissmann has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years. Exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husband's mistress, she and her two middle-aged daughters, Miranda and Annie, regroup in a run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. In Schine's playful and devoted homage to Jane Austen's Sense and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • They May Not Mean To, But They Do

    A Novel

    "A very funny novel . . . reminds us that a family is as united by its trials as by its triumphs. . . . deftly handled storytelling." ―Penelope Lively, The New York Times Book ReviewThe Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families don't just grow, they grow old.The clan's matriarch, Joy, is not slipping into old age ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Grammarians

    A Novel

    An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language.From the author compared to Nora Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language.The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret "twin" ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The New Yorkers

    A Novel

    Series series
    A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceInspired by her account in The New Yorker of adopting a profoundly troubled dog named Buster, acclaimed author Cathleen Schine's The New Yorkers is a brilliantly funny story of love, longing, and overcoming the shyness that leashes us. On a quiet little block near Central Park, five lonely New Yorkers find one another, compelled to meet by their canine ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Fin & Lady

    A Novel

    From the New York Times– bestselling author, a coming of age story set in 1960s New York "proves as unexpected and luminous as love itself" (Caroline Leavitt, People ).It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin... ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • To the Birdhouse

    A Novel

    In Cathleen Schine's comic novel To the Birdhouse, newlywed Alice Brody appears to have the perfect life. The one fly in the ointment is her mother's detestable boyfriend, Louie Scifo: champion of incredibly bad taste and a bona fide stalker. After Alice's mother cuts him loose, Louie's determination to win back her love casts Alice's whole family into disarray. So Alice embarks on a mission to ... Read more

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  • Rameau's Niece

    A Novel

    A "gem of a novel" that sends up marriage, academia, and literary stardom, by the New York Times–bestselling author of They May Not Mean To, But They Do ( Publishers Weekly).In this delightful novel from an author who "has been favored in so many ways by the muse of comedy," we meet Margaret Nathan, the brilliant but forgetful author of an unlikely bestseller ( The New York Review of Books). ... Read more

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  • Künstlers in Paradise

    There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in ... Read more

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  • Alice in Bed

    A Novel

    Stricken by a mysterious malady, college sophomore Alice Brody has suddenly lost the use of her legs. How does a bright, beautiful, and now immobile young woman proceed with her passions? As she convalesces in a Manhattan hospital, Alice finds herself attended by a motley group of visitors: indifferent nurses, doctors both good and bad, divorcing parents, and eccentric relatives. But Alice is a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • She Is Me

    A Novel

    The Love Letter was a beloved and bestselling novel, and She Is Me is a return to that winning form -- a novel about women's friendships, love, and family. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Evolution Of Jane

    In this "witty novel about family, friendship, and survival of the fittest,"* Cathleen Schine, one of our most astute social observers, examines the origin of species alongside the origins of who we come to be.In some mysterious family feud or unintended slight, Jane Barlow Schwartz lost a friend, her cousin and soul mate, Martha. But years later, surrounded by the exotic wildlife of the Galapagos ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Love Letter

    An anonymous love letter upends a seaside town, entangling a sharp-witted bookseller in a passionate, illicit summer romance.In praise of Rameau's Niece, the New York Times hailed "the sheer delight of listening to Cathleen Schine's wonderfully inventive comic voice."The coastal village of Pequot provides an affectionate setting for Horatio Street Books, an offbeat seaside haven that balances ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD