Joan Anderson

A woman, separated from her husband and a flat marriage, spends a year alone in a Cape Cod cottage, examining her life and finding the affirmative wisdom and peace that allows her to revitalize her marriage and freely engage life. Reprint.

Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

A Year by the Sea

An Unfinished Marriage

The third installment of the author's trilogy on midlife renewal describes her relationship with friend and confidante Joan Erikson, whose struggles with widowhood, her own impending death, and numerous written works about aging inspired Anderson to accept life changes. By the author of A Year by the Sea and An Unfinished Marriage. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Tales of Wisdom from an Unconventional Woman

A Walk on the Beach

"Anderson's warm, inviting tone will appeal to women who feel, as she did, that they need time and space to reinvent themselves." --Publishers Weekly "Encourages us all to take the breaks that we need to regain our emotional balance . . . a fulfilling chronicle." --Philadelphia Inquirer From the bestselling author of A Year by the Sea, this memoir is a coming-of-age story for every woman who has asked herself: "Now what" The Second Journey chronicles Anderson's quest to restore equilibrium to her life after the responsibilities of being a mother, wife, grandmother, caretaker, and bestselling author distract her--almost dangerously--from taking care of herself. Suffused with Anderson's characteristic humor and warmth, this book is a permission slip for any woman who seeks to step out of line and create her own destiny. As Joan shares her stories of balancing love, marriage, family, parents, and spirituality, she inspires and instructs readers to find peace and a unique purpose within their own lives. She offers reassurance that the best is yet to come, and empowers other women to come of age in the middle of life.

The Road Back to Yourself

The Second Journey

The best-selling author of A Year by the Sea and A Walk on the Beach explains how women can identify one's authentic self, providing insights and step-by-step techniques to help women move beyond the roles they play in relationship to others to reclaim their individuality, nurture long-neglected talents, revitalize personal goals, and redefine oneself. 60,000 first printing.

Find Your Authentic Self After a Lifetime of Being All Things to All People

A Weekend to Change Your Life

Richie builds a rocket on the roof of his apartment building and flies to the moon, where he explores to his heart's content.

Richie's Rocket

Offers single mothers advice on such topics as legal concerns, child care, home security, time management, romance, and dealing with ex-partners

A Practical Guide to Managing Your Children, Career, Home, Finances, and Everything Else

The Single Mother's Book

Presents practical solutions for single mothers dealing with family, career, finances, and personal lives, and provides tips for surviving and succeeding as a single mother.

Joan Anderson Wilkins

A step-by-step program for controlling television viewing shows how to eliminate television viewing in four weeks, offering supplemental activities for children and alternative projects for adults previously obsessed with news and sports programs

Breaking the TV Habit

Veronica Jane Strong-Boag

Avigail Eisenberg

Sherrill Grace

Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of raceand gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics and healthcare. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist, postcolonial,and critical theory in a wide-ranging discussion that encompasses bothhigh and popular forms of culture, the deliberation of policy and itsexecution, and social movements as well as individual authors andtexts. The contributors, who come from many fields, establish connectionsamong discourses of race, gender, and nation-building that haveconditioned the formation of Canada for more than one hundred years.They analyze ways in which these elements have participated in andcontributed to exclusionary practices and policies, such asmarginalization of women and racialized groups. Together, their essayspaint a picture of a nation that privileges whiteness, masculinity, andChristianity. This book gathers many insights on the construction of Canada,hitherto scattered in the literature. It will be of interest tofeminist scholars and others concerned with issues of race and gender.At times provocative, Painting the Maple illuminates thechallenges that lie ahead for all Canadians who aspire to create abetter future in a reimagined nation.

Essays on Race, Gender, and the Construction of Canada

Painting the Maple

Marlene D. Morèl is an emotionally troubled Chinese-American teenage girl growing up in Utopia-Zurich, Switzerland. To avoid her drunk, abusive father, who is the Swiss version of Oscar Wilde and her American mother, a has-been soap opera star, who has no interest in her chubby, slant-eyed daughter, Marlene spends most of her time hiding inside the warehouse, which houses the family business, Morèl Theatrical Costumier. Preferring life among mannequins, props and costumes, Marlene has created over the years, a life of make-believe, where her imagination runs rampant. Trouble is, unbeknownst to her, she's also created an alter-ego named Bad Egg who happens to be a 'toon' and who wants to eliminate Marlene's personality all together. And to make things worse, Bad Egg has also created an alter-ego ego in the form of Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Sex and Destruction who plans on murdering Marlene's abusive father. Between these three out of control personalities, not to mention, Marlene's difficult circumstances with both parents, the poor girl ends up in a mental institution. With the help of a Jungian psychologist named Dr. Karin Sommerfeldt, Marlene D. Morèl's multiple act of misfits finally become solo again. Deflection of Pig-Ponies is a cross between the films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and American Beauty.

Joan Anderson

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