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Welcome to the Coral Lounge, a room in Helen Ellis's New York City apartment painted such an exuberant shade of Sherman Williams that a peeping Tom once left a sticky note with the doorman asking for the color. It is in the Coral Lounge that the magic of Helen's marriage unfolds: shindigs where strangers swap clothing in the powder room, a party game called 'What's in the box?' makes its uproarious debut, the Puzzle Posse pounces on a 500-piec...

Welcome to the Coral Lounge, a room in Helen Ellis's New York City apartment painted such an exuberant shade of Sherman Williams that a peeping Tom once left a sticky note with the doorman asking for the color. It is in the Coral Lounge that the magic of Helen's marriage unfolds: Shindigs where strangers swap clothing in the powder room, a party game called 'What's in the box?' makes its uproarious debut, the Puzzle Posse pounces on a 500-piec...

What is it truly like being a son or daughter who leaves home to live in an expat/migrant setting? How does it feel to be geographically separated from your parents, grandparents and other family members? Maybe you've left home for your studies, your career, a sense of adventure, for a challenge, for love. But how do you venture forth into your global world and still retain and nourish connections with 'home', always knowing "it was my choice ...

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny, deeply felt collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women.When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids, lost parents and lost jobs, powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges, dirty jokes and sunscreen wi...

Is your family geographically scattered? Has globalisation made your family a Distance Family? This book tells the candid story of how Distance Parents and Distance Grandparents struggle - and succeed - to adapt to their new reality. This isn't family life as they had imagined it. If you are a Distance Parent or Distance Grandparent, all those how, why and what-if questions will find answers in these pages. You'll realise, perhaps for the firs...

When Helen Mae was a young child, she was awestruck as she watched the moon follow her home from family trips. This story illustrates those adventures. So take some trips of your own and watch the moon follow you home.

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny, deeply-felt collection of literary essays on love, family, and friendship among grown-ass women.When Helen Ellis and her lady gang arrive for their vacation at the Redneck Riviera they bring a lot with them: stories of five husbands, past and present, seven kids, lost parents, lost jobs, a bad diagnosis, and enough gin and powdered onion dip mix...

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny, deeply-felt collection of literary essays on love, family, and friendship among grown-ass women.When Helen Ellis and her lady gang arrive for their vacation at the Redneck Riviera they bring a lot with them: stories of five husbands, past and present, seven kids, lost parents, lost jobs, a bad diagnosis, and enough gin and powdered onion dip mix...

I loved it." -Ann Patchett Helen Ellis has a mantra: "If you don't have something nice to say, say something not-so-nice in a nice way." Say "weathered" instead of "she looks like a cake left out in the rain" and "I'm not in charge" instead of "they're doing it wrong." In these twenty-three raucous essays, Ellis transforms herself into a dominatrix Donna Reed to save her marriage, inadvertently steals a Burberry trench coat, avoids a neck lift...

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In this volume of Recent Advances in Phytochmistry you will find a record of the pioneering attempts of plant biochemists and molecular biologists to modify the patterns of secondary metabolism in plants, as presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America, in Asilomar, California, on June 27 -July I, 1993. The studies described here represent a marriage of the newest of technologies with one of the oldest hum...

A collection of dark and funny stories, which will appeal to fans of Miranda July, Lorrie Moore and Lydia Davis. Ellis is behind the American Housewife twitter account (at)whatidoallday.

The debut novel by the author of American Housewife. Eating the Cheshire Cat lures us into a world of perfectly planned parties and steep social ladders, where traditional rites of passage take unpredictable and horrifying turns as three girls and their overbearing mothers collide.In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, beauty is as beauty does, with axes and knives and killer smiles. Sarina Summers and her mother will stop at nothing to have it all. Nicole H...

Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) und Victoria (Helen Mirren) waren einst CIA Top-Agenten, doch ihr geheimes Wissen macht sie nun zu den Top-Angriffszielen der Agency. Des Pensionärs-Daseins ohnehin überdrüssig, finden sich die vier Ex-Agenten in einem Hagel von Mordanschlägen wieder. Nun müssen sie besser, schneller und härter sein als ihre jüngeren Kollegen. Sie setzen ihre jahrelange Erfahrung, ihre ganze D...

Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) und Victoria (Helen Mirren) waren einst CIA Top-Agenten, doch ihr geheimes Wissen macht sie nun zu den Top-Angriffszielen der Agency. Des Pensionärs-Daseins ohnehin überdrüssig, finden sich die vier Ex-Agenten in einem Hagel von Mordanschlägen wieder. Nun müssen sie besser, schneller und härter sein als ihre jüngeren Kollegen. Sie setzen ihre jahrelange Erfahrung, ihre ganze D...

-> R.E.D. - Älter. Härter. Besser. (USA 2010, 111 Min., FSK 16): Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) und Victoria (Helen Mirren) waren einst CIA Top-Agenten, doch ihr geheimes Wissen macht sie nun zu den Top-Angriffszielen der Agency. Des Pensionärs-Daseins ohnehin überdrüssig, finden sich die vier Ex-Agenten in einem Hagel von Mordanschlägen wieder. Nun müssen sie besser, schneller und härter sein als ihre j...

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Downers Grove bei Chicago sieht aus wie ein ganz normaler und durchschnittlicher Vorort - aber Downers Grove hütet ein beängstigendes Geheimnis. Seit acht Jahren stirbt jedes Jahr ein High School Absolvent einen bizarren Tod - immer kurz vor den Abschlussfeiern. Und dieses Jahr hat Chrissie Swanson das schreckliche und paranoide Gefühl, diejenige zu sein, die sterben muss. Kann Chrissie den Fluch von Downers Grove besiegen - oder wird sie ster...

Downers Grove bei Chicago sieht aus wie ein ganz normaler und durchschnittlicher Vorort - aber Downers Grove hütet ein beängstigendes Geheimnis. Seit acht Jahren stirbt jedes Jahr ein High School Absolvent einen bizarren Tod - immer kurz vor den Abschlussfeiern. Und dieses Jahr hat Chrissie Swanson das schreckliche und paranoide Gefühl, diejenige zu sein, die sterben muss. Kann Chrissie den Fluch von Downers Grove besiegen - oder wird sie ster...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Catchy, smart and very, very funny." -The Washington Post Meet the women of American Housewife. They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies from the oven. Taking us from a haunted pre-war Manhattan apartment building to the unique initiation ritual of a book club, these twelve delight...