Joyce Maynard is een gevierde auteur van fictie en non-fictie wiens werk zich verdiept in thema's als verlies, familie en het vinden van je plek in de wereld. Ze wordt geprezen om haar openhartige en introspectieve schrijfstijl, die lezers uitnodigt in de diepten van de menselijke ervaring. Haar verhalen worden gewaardeerd om hun emotionele resonantie en toegankelijke verkenning van de complexiteit van het leven. Maynard's doordachte proza spreekt haar publiek voortdurend aan en raakt hen.
This new edition has new photography and fresh new recipes. Inspired by the author's son, leaving for university, who was clueless in the kitchen. What was needed was an easily attainable taste of home, and pictures with every recipe! Joy helps to take the chore out of cooking, giving students a taste of success and making the experience fun.
"That's the beauty of television. It's like an eye that's on you all the time ... Kind of like God, if you want to get heavy" Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him. She seduces a fifteen-year-old admirer, Jimmy, and persuades him to do her dirty work. Mission accomplished, Suzanne takes to the airwaves in her new role as grieving widow, in search of a TV deal. If that means selling Jimmy down the river, she's ready. Maynard's brilliant, funny, and groundbreaking novel-adapted by Gus Van Sant into the cult classic movie of the same name, starring Nicole Kidman-was first published in 1992 before the era of manufactured stardom and the phenomenon of televised murder trials as entertainment. The book still stands as a razor-sharp satire of celebrity-fixated culture and the American obsession with TV-a novel that imagined the phenomenon of reality television before its creation, with alternately bone-chilling and hilarious accuracy.-- Publisher's description
NOSH Vegan is packed with down-to-earth everyday recipes that are guaranteed to get your taste buds singing! Whether you are a beginner, expert, or toe- dipper, when it comes to vegan cooking, this book has something for you.
When Nate Chance arrives home from school, he sees two police cars and an ambulance in his yard. Before his mother can get him and his little sister, Junie, inside, Nate and Junie witness their father, blood pouring down his face, being led by two police officers into an ambulance. He has tried to kill himself.Home quickly becomes a different place. Junie stays curled up in front of the TV; Nate's mom retreats inside herself; and the rumor of mental illness makes Nate a social pariah at school. Only the promise of winning the science fair holds any hope of happiness for Nate. He's building a cloud chamber, the project that he and his dad dreamed of working on together. Maybe if he can build it, Nate can give his father something that will help him feel better and finally come home.
Explore the enchanting realm of La Llorona through the lens of Joyce Maynard, a New York Times bestselling author. The narrative weaves together elements of folklore and personal discovery, inviting readers to delve into the haunting tales and rich cultural heritage surrounding this legendary figure. Maynard's storytelling captures the emotional depth and complexities of the characters, making it a captivating journey that intertwines magic and reality.
A book originally inspired by the author's son leaving for university with no cooking skills. What was needed to encourage him to cook was an easily attainable taste of home, oh, and pictures with every recipe! "Nosh for Students" was born. Joy has now helped over 200,000 students get cooking with her straightforward approach.
This book is full of fresh, new ideas, all of which are easily attainable. For those of you with younger children, there are some tips on getting them to eat and not getting stressed when they dont! There are recipes designed to encourage your children into the kitchen and for when the funds are low. All are designed with busy lives in mind.
"In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard takes on the topography of the heart - a landscape of grief, reconciliation, forgiveness, and the way the mistakes of parents are passed down through generations, to fester, or to be healed"--
Joy May, author of the best selling student cookbook Nosh 4 Students, gives answers to the 101 most popular questions from real students about cooking. Illustrations throughout the book are there to help explain and add a little bit of fun.
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways--a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor. Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby's older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the surface. How the Light Gets In follows Eleanor and her family through fifteen years (2010 to 2024) as their story plays out against a uniquely American backdrop and the events that transform their world (climate change, the January 6th insurrection, school violence) and shape their lives (later-life love, parental alienation, steadfast friendship). With her trademark sensitivity and insight, Joyce Maynard paints an indelible portrait of characters both familiar and new making their way over rough, messy, and treacherous terrain to find their way to what is, for each, a place to call "home."