By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+).BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books.Kirkus Reviews In other hands, a novel about a fictionalized Martha Stewart would be an occasion for a hatchet job. Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits gift for telling detail, rueful but compassionate insight and effortless imagery. Vogue Emmas Table is a marvel: a whip-smart juggling act, as light as meringue, with a perfectly tender heart.

Tom Perrotta, author of The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children This summers delicious read. Philip Galanes has written a sweet, sly comedy of manners with an oddly familiar and slightly notorious figure at its center. Holly Peterson, author of The Manny Emmas Table is a charming urban fairy tale about characters who actually learn from their mistakes. Philip Galanes serves up a pitch-perfect comedy of manners with a deft and elegant touch. Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today Sophisticated, witty, and fun, Emmas Table had me hooked from the first page, and smiling through the very last.

Anyone who can build nail-biting suspense out of a Sunday dinner gone horribly wrong is deserving of praise. touchingly bittersweet comedy of modern urban existence. She needs a clean slate-a second chance that might be provided by two unlikely saviors: Benjamin Blackman, a terminally charming social worker and Emmas part-time assistant, and one of Benjamins most heartbreaking wards, an overweight little girl from Queens named Gracie. Fresh from a yearlong stretch in prison, Emma finds her life just as she left it-filled with glittering business successes, bruising personal defeats, rolling television cameras, and awkward Sunday dinners at home. What she gets is a chance to set things right. Book Synopsis From the moment Emma Sutton walks into the FitzCoopers auction house, the disgraced media darling knows exactly what she wants: an antique dining table.

Emma's Table by Philip Galanes