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The author describes her relationship with friend and confidante Joan Erikson, whose struggles with widowhood, her own impending death, and humerous written works about aging inspired Anderson to accept life changes.

In A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson documented her brave decision to take a year of solitude away from her marriage. Her frank assessment of herself in midlife and openness in sharing her fears struck a chord with thousands. In this moving sequel, Anderson gives fresh hope for all women and men negotiating their own marital passages. Using the same very personal approach, she explores the challenges of rebuilding and renewing a marriage with her trademark...

Rivers uses her verve and wit to candidly reveal how she hit rock bottom and made it back to the top in 1 year. She endured her husband's suicide, her estrangement from her daughter, the cancellation of her talk show and near financial ruin.

A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnesses the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.

Documents the life of the fifteenth-century French teenage peasant who led an army into battle and became a saint.

"From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold, illusion and reality, and what looks like happiness from the thing itself. Born into a world of make-believe as the daughter of a larger-than-life film producer,...