Delia Ephron
1) Siracusa
Author
Language
English
Description
"An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from each other are exposed and relationships are unraveled. New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine--Finn, his wife Taylor, and their daughter Snow."From the beginning," says Taylor,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry's death, she decided to make one small change in her life--she shut down his landline, which...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Click. Sukie Jamieson takes a selfie after her tennis lesson. Click. She takes one before she has to give a presentation in class. Click. She takes one to be sure there's nothing in her teeth after eating pizza at Clementi's. And if she can't take a selfie, she checks her reflection in windows, spoons, car chrome—anything available, really. So when her mother gives her an exquisite full-length mirror that once belonged to her grandmother,
...Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1978
Language
English
Description
Universal and timeless, Delia Ephron's How to Eat Like a Child is a delightful revisiting of the joys -- and tricky ploys -- of childhood. Made into a children's television special and a musical theater revue performed across the country each year, How to Eat Like a Child offers advice beyond the artful etiquette of food consumption. Ephron also teaches us "How to Laugh Hysterically," "How to Have a Birthday Party," "How to Torture Your Sister," and...
6) Hanging up
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
At 44, Eve Mozell has a wonderful husband and a creative job. She also has a temperamental teenage son, two headstrong sisters, and a demented old father. As she deals with her family's frequent crises, her days overflow with lengthy phone calls. She is never far from a dial tone. But as her father begins to die, Eve is tempted to disconnect and to sort out her feelings for this difficult man. Delia Ephron's balance between warm humor and sharp wit...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Escaping from their personal lives and taking refuge in a nightclub, a runaway bride, a recovering alcoholic, and a downtrodden minister's wife adopt a retired circus lion and spend their days waitressing until the past catches up with them
12) You've got mail
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A romance in which superstore book chain magnate Hanks and cozy children's bookshop owner Ryan are anonymous e-mail cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love, unaware that they are combative business rivals
13) Hanging up
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Three sisters struggle to deal with each other and their aging father
14) Mixed nuts
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A wild and wacky comedy about oddball characters in Los Angeles at Christmastime, centered around a suicide hotline service
15) Bewitched
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A feature film adaptation based on the long-running ABC television series. It tells the story of Samantha, a pretty modern day witch who tries to abandon her supernatural powers for the sake of her mortal husband Darren, but temptation gets in the way