 | It Had to Be You
Release Date: February 27, 2007 Still-unpublished author Molly Harper would die for a passion like those depicted in the novels sold at Happily Ever After, the bookshop she manages in the Irish village of Burnaby that specializes in romance fiction. And she'd love a boss—any boss—other than her store's detestable, super-smooth new owner, Milo Jones . . . though Milo's very attractive son may be the one good reason why Molly should not take flight. Molly's best friend, Paige Brady, is a happily married mother of two and running for local office. But suddenly she faces two unanti...
 |  | The Fragmented Female Body and Identity (Modern American Literature)
Publication Date: October 18, 2010| Series: Modern American Literature (Book 56) The Fragmented Female Body and Identity explores the symbol of the wounded and scarred female body in selected postmodern, multiethnic American women's novels, namely Toni Morrison's Beloved, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata, Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Emma Perez's Gulf Dreams, Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, and Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School and Empire of the Senseless. In each of these novels, disjointed, postmodern writing reflects the novel's fo...
|  | Show World: A Novel
Publication Date: June 15, 1998An aspiring writer careens blindly from job to job, city to city, pursuing that peculiarly American Dream: to shake the past and invent a future she can live with. But after a series of moral compromises--some desperate, some careless--she finds that her dreams, through neglect, have turned against her. ...
|  | Inge and Mira
Publication Date: March 1, 2001Inge is tall and cool and Mira is petite and dynamic. When they meet, each is attracted by something special and different about the other. But friendships based on the attraction of opposites can be stormy, and theirs is no exception. Blonde Inge is a native of Sweden, while dark Mira has fled there to escape the living hell of Chile at the time of the military coup led by General Pinochet. They are brought together by their mutual love of plants, but this gentle pastime is soon overshadowed by the terrible legacy of Mira's past.It is a legacy that will reach ...
|  | Shameless
Release Date: July 31, 2005Kyle is sexy, single, and smart; Jasmyn is a hot and sassy drama queen. These two complete opposites find love - or something real close to it - while away at Marshall State University. Jasmyn is busy wreaking havoc on every man she meets. Kyle, on the other hand, is trying to walk the line between his faith and all the guilty pleasures being thrown his way, one of which is Jasmyn. But when the partying college days end and Jasmyn tests HIV positive, reality sets in. Now, Jasmyn must decide whether or not to tell the men from her past, including the one she never g...
|  | Rose
Publication Date: September 15, 2003Rose is the eagerly awaited third installment in Tomson Highway’s “rez” cycle—a large-cast musical set on the Wasaychigan Hill Reserve in 1992, reintroducing many of the characters from the first two plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.The play features, as the title suggests, Roses. One Rose has recently become chief of the reserve, a woman who must fight constantly to keep her position and maintain the integrity of her native culture. Another Rose died seven years earlier in the saddle of her Harley whil...
|  | Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
Publication Date: November 2003| Series: Dr Who Radio Collection Vera small and Irene Spencer are at it again. The two keep up a regular correspondence and now with the advent of email, the ladies of letters can communicate daily. As Irene and Vera fall in and out of friendship, they accuse each other of everything from alcoholism to mental illness (but only in a loving, caring way, of course). Their hilarious put-downs and gossip give a wonderful insight into the trials of modern family life. ...
|  | Diary of a Mad Fat Girl
Publication Date: February 27, 2012Graciela "Ace" Jones is mad-mad at her best friend Lilly who cancels their annual trip to Panama City for mysterious reasons; at her boss Catherine for "riding her ass like a fat lady on a Rascal scooter;" at her friend Chloe's abusive husband; and especially at Mason McKenzie, the love of her life, who has shown up with a marriage proposal three years too late. Ace is never mad, though, at her near-constant companion, an adorable chiweenie dog named Buster Loo.Ace's anger begins to dissipate as she takes matters into her own hands to take down Chloe's phil...
|  | Fair Weather Friend (Open Doors)
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|  | Instances of the Number 3: A Novel
Publication Date: April 13, 2002When a man dies and leaves behind a wife and a mistress, we expect certain responses to follow. But as the narrator of Salley Vickers's second novel explains, "this is not an account of feminine jealousy, or even revenge, and not all human beings (not even women) conform to the attitudes generally expected." Indeed, in this ironic and witty novel nothing is quite as we expect to find it. Telling the story of Bridget Hansome and Frances Slater, Vickers brings to life a loving marriage and a love affair that exist side by side for years - and continue to reverbe...
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