Maria Semple est une écrivaine dont l'œuvre mêle un esprit vif à une profonde profondeur émotionnelle. Ses récits explorent souvent les complexités de la vie moderne et les dynamiques familiales, livrés avec une voix distinctive à la fois humoristique et perspicace. Elle est connue pour créer des personnages captivants et des intrigues complexes qui maintiennent les lecteurs engagés du début à la fin. La perspective unique de Semple offre un regard rafraîchissant et stimulant sur l'expérience humaine.
Focusing on effective communication, this guide empowers entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders to bridge the gap between their ideas and their target audiences. It emphasizes that both for-profit and nonprofit ventures can utilize similar strategies to amplify their impact. The book encourages readers to recognize the value of their offerings and provides practical tips to enhance visibility and growth, regardless of their business model.
A stranger's life hangs in the balance. What if you had the power to decide if she lives or dies? Dr. Charlotte Reese works in the intensive care unit of Seattle's Beacon Hospital, tending to patients with the most life-threatening illnesses and injuries. Her job is to battle death - to monitor erratic heartbeats, worry over low oxygen levels, defend against infection and demise. One night a Jane Doe is transferred to her care from a rural hospital on the Olympic Peninsula. This unidentified patient remains unconscious, the victim of a hit and run. As Charlotte and her team struggle to stabilize her, the police search for the driver who fled the scene. Days pass, Jane's condition worsens, and her identity remains a mystery. As Charlotte finds herself making increasingly complicated medical decisions that will tie her forever to Jane's fate, her usual professional distance evaporates. She's plagued by questions: Who is Jane Doe? Why will no one claim her? Who should decide her fate if she doesn't regain consciousness - and when? Perhaps most troubling, Charlotte wonders if a life locked in a coma is a life worth living. Enlisting the help of her boyfriend, Eric, a science journalist, Charlotte impulsively sets out to uncover Jane Doe's past. But the closer they get to the truth, the more their relationship is put to the test. It is only when they open their hearts to their own feelings toward each other—and toward life itself—that Charlotte and Eric will unlock Jane Doe's shocking secret, and prepare themselves for a miracle. Filled with intricate medical detail and set in the breathtaking Pacific Northwest, Gemini is a riveting and heartbreaking novel of moral complexity and emotional depth.
A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and "divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times). Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is her best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette vanishes. It all began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, and secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and surprisingly touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
The new novel from Maria Semple, author of bestselling Where'd You Go, Bernadette and writer for hit US TV shows Ellen and Saturday Night Live. Meet Eleanor Flood, who wakes up one day determined to be her best self. Eleanor Flood is going to clean up her act, only change into yoga clothes for yoga, which today she will actually attend, and be a better version of herself. But then, as it always does, life happens. Eleanor's husband is missing, and their son, Timby, is wearing eye shadow to school and getting into fashion battles on the playground. (It's true that it's Eleanor's fault: She did put makeup in his Christmas stocking.) Just when it seems like things can't get weirder or more in the way of Eleanor's personal transformation, a graphic memoir called The Flood Sisters surfaces, and the dramatic story it tells reveals long-buried secrets and a sister to whom Eleanor never speaks. With all the artistic madness, genius plotting, and bold social observation that made Bernadette a hit, TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT is a hilarious and heart filled day-in-the-life romp filtered through Maria Semple's brilliant eyes.
The sparkling debut novel of Maria Semple, author of the WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-shortlisted WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, including reading group notes. Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life - but she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the picture are David's hilariously high-strung sister, Sally, on the prowl for a successful husband, and Jeremy, the sportscaster savant who falls into her trap.
Bernadette Fox nie cieszy się dobrą reputacją. Jej własny mąż, guru w środowisku Microsoftu, uważa, że jest niesłychanie uparta. Zdaniem sąsiadów i rodziców ze szkoły jej córki, przynosi hańbę miastu i szkole. Dla orłów designu jest genialną rewolucjonistką w dziedzinie architektury. Dla swojej piętnastoletniej córki, Bee, jest najlepszą przyjaciółką i, po prostu, mamą. Nagle Bernadette znika. Zaczyna się, kiedy Bee przynosi znakomite świadectwo i prosi o obiecaną nagrodę: rodzinną wycieczkę na Antarktykę. Ale nasilająca się alergia Bernadette na Seattle – i na ludzi w ogóle – wykształciła w niej taką agorafobię, że teraz w podstawowych czynnościach pomaga jej wirtualna asystentka z Indii. Podróż na kraniec ziemi może być więc sporym problemem. Żeby odnaleźć matkę, Bee zbiera e-maile, oficjalne dokumenty, prywatną korespondencję – tworząc wciągającą i wzruszającą powieść o niezrozumianym geniuszu i niezachwianej miłości córki do niedoskonałej matki. Gdzie jesteś, Bernadette? to światowy bestseller, pełna humoru cięta satyra na współczesną rodzinę, współczesne mieszczaństwo, na środowisko Microsoftu i informatyków w ogóle. Jest książką wyjątkową, wymykającą się wszelkim próbom klasyfikacji. Na nowo odkrywa zapomniany gatunek powieści epistolarnej. W dodatku autorka, scenarzystka niejednego popularnego sitcomu, potrafi bawić czytelnika od początku do samego końca.
