Most Popular Books by Delia Ephron

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 (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone). 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 crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell. She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist, who emailed her to commiserate. Recently widowed himself, he reminded her that they had shared a few dates fifty-four years before, set up by Nora. Delia did not remember him, but after several weeks of exchanging emails and sixties folk songs, he flew east to see her. They were crazy, utterly, in love. But this was not a rom-com: four months later she was diagnosed with AML, a fierce leukemia. In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love. With Peter and her close girlfriends by her side, with startling clarity, warmth, and honesty about facing death, Ephron invites us to join her team of warriors and become believers ourselves. A "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" by TIME, Bustle, Parade, Publishers Weekly, Boston.com A "Best Memoir of 2022" by Marie Claire A "Best Memoir of April" by Vanity Fair

Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of unforgettable, moving and provocative essays. The emotional lynchpin is the author''s stirring, eloquent response to the death of Nora Ephron, her older sister and frequent writing companion. In ''Sister'', she deftly captures the love, rivalry, respect and intimacy that made up her relationship with her sister in a way that is at once deeply personal and comfortingly universal. Other essays in the collection run the gamut from a hysterical piece about love and the movies - how romantic comedies completely destroyed her twenties - to the joy of girlfriends and best friendship, the magical madness and miracle of dogs, keen-eyed observations about urban survival, and a serious and affecting memoir of life with her mother - growing up the child of alcoholics. Ephron''s sparkling wit and humanity is present on every emotionally resonant page.

"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, ''it was a conspiracy for Lizzie and Finn to be together.'' Told Rashomon-style in alternating points of view, the characters expose and stumble upon lies and infidelities past and present"

Destined for a Christmas film release from Columbia Pictures, this heartfelt novel by the co-screenwriter of "Sleepless in Seattle" is about a woman trying to keep her life and her loose-cannon family in order. "Delia Ephron is blessed with the driest of wits, the tenderest of hearts, and an uncanny ear for the way people talk."--Armistead Maupin. The movie will star Meg Ryan and Diane Keaton.

"One of the sharpest observers of human behavior around."—Booklist (starred review) BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIRACUSA, coming in trade paperback on June 6, 2017! Tracee is a runaway bride and kleptomaniac. Lana’s an audacious beauty, a recovering alcoholic. Rita is a holy-roller minister’s wife, desperate to escape her marriage. One warm summer’s night, these three women go on the lam together. Their car breaks down on a rural highway in North Carolina and they’re forced to seek shelter in a seemingly abandoned nightclub. Which is where they meet Marcel. And soon everything changes. Marcel, you see, is a lion. Written with the deftness, humor, and sparkling wit that mark her books, plays, and movies, Delia Ephron’s The Lion Is In is an unforgettable story of friendship, courage, love—and learning to salsa with the king of the jungle.

A very humorous expose of typical childish habits, complete with illustrations, draws attention to various behavior patterns. Eating habits are typified by the mashed potato dam and how to eat in the school cafeteria. Helpful hints on caring for a pet (Goldfish: Overfeed. Flush down toilet), expressing opinions (omitrocious and scuzzy), torturing a sister (follow her everywhere), and riding in a car are just a few of the instructions which will enable kids to endear themselves to their peers and parents.

"To keep her son safe, Lily Davis, single mom, moves from Manhattan to Sakonnet Bay, a picture-postcard town on the Long Island coast, where teenagers, she hopes, do not get in trouble. She finds a house (with wildlife in the front yard), a friend (her realtor, a fellow displaced New Yorker), and a job (writing for the weekly paper). Her son, Sam, enrolls in high school, shaves his head, and makes a friend (a girl who speaks fluent Klingon). Things are looking good, until the dog bite." "It is while covering a local story that Lily gets bitten and then meets Tom McKee, a police sergeant, both rakish and married. Trespassing in a vacant summer house, they spy a naked woman, asleep. The conspiratorial aspect of the incident (not to mention the voluptuousness of the naked woman) alerts them to the sexual tension between them. When Lily begins to suspect that the woman may be dead, the stakes are raised - on their secret and their affair - and Lily learns that in a sleepy seaside village, rumor travels faster than the response to a 911 call." "Through her weekly column, Lily explores the mores and manners of small-town life as seen through her big-city eyes and, in the process, bares enough of her soul to make her a local celebrity. In the glare of the Sakonnet Bay spotlight, she attempts to have a private life, raise a child, solve a murder, and not fall in love."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Fed up with the injustices she suffers at the hands of her older brother, Violet organizes the younger siblings of the neighborhood into a formidable army to demand retribution and a change in the status quo.

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, Sukie is thrilled. So thrilled that she doesn''t listen to her mother''s warning: “This mirror will be your best friend and worst enemy.” Because mirrors, as Sukie discovers, show not only the faraway truth but the truth close up. And finding out that close-up truth changes people. Often forever. Acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Delia Ephron crafts a powerful novel of truth, beauty, and the secrets about family and friends that lie beneath perfection.

Ephron takes a hilarious look at today''s family relationships. Her 21 pieces span a variety of subjects from the powerful attachment between children and their toys to the sophistication of today''s child. From the bestselling author of How to Eat Like a Child (see Humor/Games category).

What does you in—brain or heart? Frannie asks herself this question when, a week before she turns fifteen, her dad dies, leaving her suddenly deprived of the only human being on planet Earth she feels understands her. Frannie struggles to make sense of a world that no longer seems safe, a world in which one moment can turn things so thoroughly for the worse. She discovers an elegant wooden box with an inscription: Frances Anne 1000. Inside, Frannie finds one thousand hand-painted and -carved puzzle pieces. She wonders if her father had a premonition of his death and finished her birthday present early. Feeling broken into pieces herself, Frannie slowly puts the puzzle together, bit by bit. But as she works, something remarkable begins to happen: She is catapulted into an ancient foreign landscape, a place suspended in time where she can discover her father as he was B.F.—before Frannie. Delia Ephron makes you laugh and makes you cry—often at the same time!

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia’s Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-ups is back, and do we and our kids all need it. In a series of light-hearted multiple choice quizzes, alternate scenarios, and true-or-false questions, Delia Ephron and Edward Koren, the author and illustrator team who brought us the best-selling How to Eat Like a Child, depict a range of possibilities that reflect life as it is as well as life as it ought to be. Covering table manners, car manners, playground manners, school manners, and more, this is a book that is sure to delight (and horrify) adults and children of all ages. Aunt Delia knows what makes the difference between a pleasant and an excruciating visit to a friend’s house in the company of a young child. She knows the proper order in which the following actions take place: (a) Throw up; (b) Get out of the car; (c) Ask Uncle Jerry to pull over. In short, she is practical and basic: she does not get into fish forks, but she knows what to do with bubble gum. She also deals with such things as kindness, sharing, consideration, generosity, and diplomacy. Delia Ephron’s painfully on-target text is complemented by Edward Koren’s hilarious drawings, which–as ever–present us not as we might wish to appear, but as we really are.

The simple way to spectacular clothes - a guide to creative crochet.

Dopo Siracusa, arriva nelle librerie italiane il romanzo d’esordio di Delia Ephron, sorella della famosa Nora e insieme a lei autrice di film indimenticabili come C’è posta per te. Eve Mozell è un’organizzatrice di eventi quarantaquattrenne che vive a Los Angeles. Quella da cui proviene è una famiglia di eccentrici artisti. Da tempo la madre ha lasciato il padre per un altro uomo e, ora che lui è divenuto anziano, tocca a lei farsene carico, insieme alle sue sorelle: la maggiore, Georgia, estrosa e brillante, è la direttrice di un’importante rivista e trasforma in moda qualsiasi cosa indossi o dica; la minore, Maddy, è un’attrice stralunata alle prese con una gravidanza imprevista e il conseguente licenziamento dalla soap opera in cui lavora. Il padre, con il suo alcolismo, i suoi episodi maniaco-depressivi, i suoi tentativi di suicidio e le sue assurde storie d’amore e di sesso, è un disastro. Ma Eve ha anche altri problemi: gli impegni lavorativi, le preoccupazioni per il figlio adolescente, l’angoscia per il proprio declino fisico. Per questo esistono le sorelle: nonostante le gelosie e le incomprensioni, basta alzare la cornetta del telefono per trovare un po’ di sollievo... Le carriere, gli amori e le rivalità di tre sorelle fra New York e Los Angeles: in Avviso di chiamata, romanzo che ha molto di autobiografico, l’autrice svela una serie di squisiti retroscena sulla famiglia Ephron, a partire dall’indimenticabile Nora. Da questo romanzo è stato tratto il film omonimo con Meg Ryan e Diane Keaton (anche regista). «Il tempismo comico di Ephron è perfetto. Avviso di chiamata è pieno di vita e, in fin dei conti, di amore». «The New York Times Book Review» «Ci sono dentro tutte le dinamiche familiari: la rivalità fra sorelle, la tristezza, la malattia mentale, le risate» «Vogue» «Affettuoso, toccante e vivace: è come ritrovare un’amica». «Elle»

THE STORY: A play of monologues and ensemble pieces about women, clothes and memory covering all the important subjects--mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses and why we only wear black. Based on the bestselling book by

Alex has a very unusual adventure when he decides to wait up for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.

Press kit includes 3 pamphlets and 7 photographs.

L''amour, la mort, le téléphone... Elles sont trois soeurs. Entre Georgia à New York, débordée par ses responsabilités de rédactrice en chef, et Maddy, l''éternel bébé de la famille, il y a Eve, la quarantaine, mariée à un doux rêveur et mère d''un adolescent difficile. C''est sur elle que les deux autres n''ont cessé de compter pour veiller sur leur père, Lou Mozell, un vieil égocentrique dépressif et alcoolique qu''il a fallu interner en catastrophe dans un service de psychogériatrie à Los Angeles. Devant l''imminence de la mort de son père, Eve oscille entre panique et soulagement. Confrontée soudain à la perspective de son propre vieillissement, elle replonge dans son passé : celui d''une famille traumatisée par une mère qui un jour a quitté son foyer pour suivre un autre homme, laissant à la charge de ses trois jeunes filles un père incapable d''encaisser cette rupture. Entre exaspération, culpabilité et élans de tendresse, Eve tente de se débattre au milieu des névroses du clan Mozell. Heureusement, il y a le téléphone. C''est par téléphone que les trois soeurs se disputent et se réconcilient, se révoltent et se réconfortent, se font rire et pleurer. C''est par téléphone que leur père les harcèle jour et nuit de ses fantasmes et de ses obsessions. C''est aussi par téléphone qu''Eve va faire la connaissance d''un homme qui enfin semble la comprendre. Un sujet grave, mais un ton, un humour et une légèreté irrésistibles, au service d''une idée résolument moderne, l''équivalent téléphonique d''un roman épistolaire.

Ils sont beaux, riches, américains. Ils ont décidé de partir ensemble découvrir Rome, puis Syracuse. Michael est écrivain, ancien lauréat du prix Pulitzer. Sa femme Lizzie est une journaliste en perte de vitesse. Finn est restaurateur et Taylor, son épouse, se dévoue entièrement à l''éducation de leur fille unique, Snow, une enfant énigmatique qui fait aussi partie du voyage. Tout est en place pour qu''ils passent des vacances de rêve dans des sites enchanteurs. Mais chacun arrive avec ses secrets, ses mensonges, ses non-dits, ses désirs inassouvis. Et petit à petit, dans les ruelles de la Sicile baroque, se noue un roman d''amour et de trahison au suspense implacable, où les personnages avancent à la fois masqués et aveugles. D''une justesse à faire froid dans le dos. Laurence Caracalla, Le Figaro magazine. Comme dans un roman de Patricia Highsmith, le dénouement apparaît aussi vicieux que vénéneux. Nathalie Dupuis, Elle. Traduit de l''anglais (Etats-Unis) par Claire Desserrey.