Elise Miller: 4 books

Maddy Braverman, thirty and single, has taught first grade at an uber-elite private school in Greenwich Village for the past six years, a hip downtown school lauded as much for its progressive pedagogy as its privileged progeny—and its multitude of sex-crazed staff—including the headmaster, aka...

In A Time to Cast Away Stones, Elise Frances Miller catapults the late 1960s beyond media stereotypes that have inflamed opinions of the era for decades. This powerful novel tells the story of Janet Magill, a shy, straight-arrow Berkeley freshman with com-pelling reasons to join the antiwar movement....

Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...

• 80% of women fantasize about having extramarital affairs. • Back pain is the number one cause of disability for Americans under age 45. • The second leading cause of disability for Americans under age 45 is depression. • 20.4 million Americans practice yoga (Eve’s favorite pastime/mode...