 | Revising Romance a Novel Release Date: May 1, 2004With an ex-husband in the wings and a cantankerous author front and center, editor Elaine Salter is disillusioned witht he idea of romantic involvement. But when she finds herself drawn to local bookseller Nathan Marks, Elaine reassesses her expectations and concludes tht romance isn't dead. It's alive and well, and full of surprises. ...
 |  | Once Upon a Wedding Release Date: July 9, 2002Mom, Dad, I'm getting married.What do you do when your daughter tells you the big news? If you're Camille Delonga, you fight the urge to go lie down for a year or so ... and then you do what any self-respecting mother of the bride would -- you march right out and buy a sky-high stack of bridal magazines. Once upon a Wedding In award-winning author Kathleen Eagle's astonishing and warm new novel, we see just what happens to Camille, her family, and her friends when her beautiful and young daughter, Jordan, speaks those unforgettable words. After all, weddings are a t...
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 |  | Running Away Publication Date: July 31, 2008Isabel finally has it all: a rising career as a TV producer, a warm relationship with Marshall, the man who wants to marry her, and a tenuous rapport with her rebellious teenage daughter, Denny. But in the blink of an eye, everything changes. When Denny Runs away, Isabel's world falls apart. Marshall is incapable of understanding her anguish over her daughter's disappearance, and just when she needs him most, he, too, runs away. Alone, Isabel must deal with the mounting pressures of a competitively cutthroat job, her anxiety over Denny's whereabouts, and the my...
 |  | Not Ready for Prime Time Publication Date: July 1999A green-eyed blonde with pouty lips and an edgy twenty-two, Justine Nichols has five secrets. One of them is not that she's pierced her navel. Or that she sings Thursday nights at Das Den with the girls' band Purple Nurple, her snarling vocals accompanied by boot-stomping beats. Or that she works daytime in a used and rare bookstore for an eccentric, sixty-year-old poet. Or that she's falling in a big way for a guy who writes plays about killer weasels. Or that she hates America's most popular TV sit-com, My Way Or The Highway, which each week partly resolves anoth...
 |  | The rainbow dress, and other Tollush tales Publication Date: 1975Despite their poverty, Tollush and her mother find joy in simple things. ...
 |  | A Road Through the Mountains Release Date: April 27, 2004From Elizabeth McGregor comes an unforgettably moving, richly layered novel with a timeless love story at its core. Beautiful, suspenseful, hauntingly erotic, A Road Through the Mountains tells of one woman’s extraordinary journey to a new life with the help of the man she thought she’d lost long ago—a journey that will take hold of your heart.Anna Russell is a talented painter and single mother. Her daughter, Rachel, is a ten-year-old whose undoubtedly gifted mind is trapped by a form of autism known as Asperger Syndrome. When a car accident ...
 |  | Nina, the Bandit Queen Publication Date: April 3, 2012In a part of town so beaten down that even prostitutes and drug dealers have written if off, Nina Dolgoy imagines that if the local pool wasn't boarded up, her little daughters could use it to burn off their wayward energy and avoid falling into utter degradation. So the bitterly self-proclaimed "welfare queen" leads her neighbours on a fundraising, pool-fixing community-improvement campaign that proves the sad old adage that no good deed ever goes unpunished.The only way Nina can think to raise money herself is by robbing a bank. Unfortunately, she isn't very ...
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 |  | Mothers & Daughters:Irish Short Publication Date: November 19, 1998A collection of Irish short stories, including: "Cards", where a daughter tries to shock her mother with her bohemianism; and "In Bed", where a mother shows enormous patience in dispelling her daughter's phobia about fleas and dirt. ...
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