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One Day at a Time
Some twenty years after they graduated from college, full of hope and plans for the future, Claudia Adams is the envy of her friends. Her husband Todd is a successful investment banker, whose money pays for glamorous Caribbean holidays and a desirable New York home. But appearances are not everything. When Todd's business success turns out to be founded upon a fraud, and their marriage is revealed as a sham, Claudia must find out the hard way about financial insecurity and the realities of the employment market. As a middle-aged woman with no real work experience except as a wife, mother and hostess she is forced to take a low-level job as a saleswoman at Millers Department Store. Gradually, she starts to rebuild her shattered life one day at a time . . .
208 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2005
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Julie Ellis
155 books14 followersLibrarians note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
From the inside cover of the Kappa Books edition of Eden:
Julie Ellis was born in Columbus, Georgia. She moved to New York at age 16 with her parents, after her high school graduation. Julie studied drama, and was part of the mid-'50s Off-Broadway scene as actress/playwright/co-producer. Seven of her plays were produced Off-Broadway and presented on the summer hotel/bungalow colony circuits. She wrote 76 sides of children's records (hitting BILLBOARD'S Bestseller List). Her first paperback novel was published in 1960 and between 1960 and 1974 she wrote 143 contemporary, gothic, romantic suspense novels and 3 non-fiction titles that were published by major paperback houses.
Julie has written one hardcover/softcover bestseller per year (a number of early paperback originals now being re-published in hardcover in the United Kingdom). Ellis is published in thirteen countries. A favorite among library readers across the country, Julie regularly appears on LIBRARY JOURNAL'S "Pre-publication Bestseller Lists." In 1993 she made the United Kingdom's Registrar of Public Lending Rights List of the most-read authors in the United Kingdom Library System (minimum of 300,000 loans per author).
A single mother since 1972 (first separated, then widowed), Julie considers her major productions her daughter Susan and her son Richard. Julie is a passionate environmentalist whose convictions appear regularly in her novels (the devastation of our Northwest forests in LOYALTIES, the unnecessary deaths caused by the tobacco industry in LASTING TREASURES, gun control in COMMITMENT). Julie is a vegetarian with occasional lapses due to social circumstances. She alternates between her Manhattan apartment and beach house in Montauk.
From the inside cover of the Kappa Books edition of Eden:
Julie Ellis was born in Columbus, Georgia. She moved to New York at age 16 with her parents, after her high school graduation. Julie studied drama, and was part of the mid-'50s Off-Broadway scene as actress/playwright/co-producer. Seven of her plays were produced Off-Broadway and presented on the summer hotel/bungalow colony circuits. She wrote 76 sides of children's records (hitting BILLBOARD'S Bestseller List). Her first paperback novel was published in 1960 and between 1960 and 1974 she wrote 143 contemporary, gothic, romantic suspense novels and 3 non-fiction titles that were published by major paperback houses.
Julie has written one hardcover/softcover bestseller per year (a number of early paperback originals now being re-published in hardcover in the United Kingdom). Ellis is published in thirteen countries. A favorite among library readers across the country, Julie regularly appears on LIBRARY JOURNAL'S "Pre-publication Bestseller Lists." In 1993 she made the United Kingdom's Registrar of Public Lending Rights List of the most-read authors in the United Kingdom Library System (minimum of 300,000 loans per author).
A single mother since 1972 (first separated, then widowed), Julie considers her major productions her daughter Susan and her son Richard. Julie is a passionate environmentalist whose convictions appear regularly in her novels (the devastation of our Northwest forests in LOYALTIES, the unnecessary deaths caused by the tobacco industry in LASTING TREASURES, gun control in COMMITMENT). Julie is a vegetarian with occasional lapses due to social circumstances. She alternates between her Manhattan apartment and beach house in Montauk.
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September 10, 2012
A lecture by British author on the problems of health care in America.
A lecture by British author on the problems of diet in America.
A lecture by British author on the economics of America.
Claudia's wealthy investment banker husband comes home and announces that he's headed to
South America to avoid prosecution for investment fraud. OH, and he's getting a divorce and marrying
his girl friend. Did I forget to mention the house is being foreclosed on? Wife will be notified on Monday
and need to be out by Sunday. But she can have what's in the checking account. $47.
Penniless, Claudia goes to work at a department store, where new manager Michael has been sent to
save the store from low sales and possible closure.
Both are into low-fat cooking and have a desire to open a healthy restaurant.
But Michael has agreed to support his ex-wife for life, which includes checks for $7,000 at a whack
for "medical procedures", paid unquestioningly or without receipts...because he is a man of his word.
He also pays for a "medical attendant" to attend to his ex, also without any proof that there is a
medical attendant. How stupid is this guy?
Fortunately, a business trip to the city in which the ex lives gives Claudia the opportunity to catch
the ex with a much younger boy-toy with matching jags. You get the picture.
There is also a daughter investment banker and her gay roommate. Is the guy really gay? He is such
a good cook. And a loving, generous, respectful kind of guy.
And there is a son who at an ivy league college, of course.
You can see it coming from a mile away.
This book sucked.
A lecture by British author on the problems of diet in America.
A lecture by British author on the economics of America.
Claudia's wealthy investment banker husband comes home and announces that he's headed to
South America to avoid prosecution for investment fraud. OH, and he's getting a divorce and marrying
his girl friend. Did I forget to mention the house is being foreclosed on? Wife will be notified on Monday
and need to be out by Sunday. But she can have what's in the checking account. $47.
Penniless, Claudia goes to work at a department store, where new manager Michael has been sent to
save the store from low sales and possible closure.
Both are into low-fat cooking and have a desire to open a healthy restaurant.
But Michael has agreed to support his ex-wife for life, which includes checks for $7,000 at a whack
for "medical procedures", paid unquestioningly or without receipts...because he is a man of his word.
He also pays for a "medical attendant" to attend to his ex, also without any proof that there is a
medical attendant. How stupid is this guy?
Fortunately, a business trip to the city in which the ex lives gives Claudia the opportunity to catch
the ex with a much younger boy-toy with matching jags. You get the picture.
There is also a daughter investment banker and her gay roommate. Is the guy really gay? He is such
a good cook. And a loving, generous, respectful kind of guy.
And there is a son who at an ivy league college, of course.
You can see it coming from a mile away.
This book sucked.
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