 | First Fridays
Release Date: December 27, 2006A bright new talent in African-American fi ction returns with her second novel, filled with smarts, sass, and sex . . .Naja's on a nine-month countdown -- for her baby, but not the kind youd expect. Naja's baby is an Internet caf, the entrepreneurial dream she's been pursuing secretly while working in a St. Louis office. When she's laid off, Naja finds herself looking for new ways to network; at her best friend's suggestion, she attends a First Fridays gettogether. To her surprise, she meets Russ, a handsome, charismatic man who offers to back her venture. Soon...
 |  | Cherished Illusions
Publication Date: April 2005| ISBN-10: 0892216123 | ISBN-13: 978-0892216123This first novel from Sarah Stern weaves startling facts about ancient hatreds directed toward the Jewish people with a rich, detailed narrative that readers will find engrossing. Through her supple writing and an imagination rooted in truth-seeking, Stern has crafted a novel for all ages. Blends historical truths with an engaging fictional setting and characters. A fascinating story for anyone interested in the Middle East conflict. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Wishful Thinking
Publication Date: April 27, 2006Louise wishes she could be slim, pretty, and popular. So she can’t believe it when it seems her wish is coming true. If only it didn't all cost so much . . .Dara wishes she could go back in time, and change everything. But she's married now, and nothing can change that. Can it?Rosie wishes she knew how to make her children happy. Even though they're both grown up with their own lives, they seem to need her more than ever.Three very different women, about to make a journey that will change their lives forever. You should be careful what you wish for . . ...
|  | Divalicious
Release Date: August 3, 2004The author of Fives Dimes is back with a sexy and suspenseful novel of love and success-with a vengeance. Three actresses vie for the #1 spot in the bedroom and on the screen as secrets, lies, and killer ambitions threaten their careers and their lives. ...
|  | Dear Stranger, Dearest Friend
Publication Date: March 2001Lara and Susan are very different women with one important thing in common -- breast cancer. Susan, a two-year survivor, has already been through treatment; for Lara, it is just beginning. When they "meet" over the Internet, a valuable friendship is born. Corresponding only through e-mails, they share the most intimate details about their husbands and children; their fear and joy; their daily ups and downs; and their deepest desires. Helping each other with laughter and tears, Lara and Susan build a bond that will ring true to anyone who has ever faced adversity w...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Your Oasis on Flame Lake (Beeler Large Print Series)
Publication Date: August 2003| Series: Beeler Large Print Series Best friends fast approaching forty in the small Minnesota town of Flame Lake, Devera and BiDi were recently voted “Least Changed” at their twentieth high school reunion—a label neither one finds very appealing. For each craves a change in her life: Devera desires a break from her humdrum marital routine; BiDi longs to reconnect with her distant fourteen-year-old daughter (the only girl on the high school hockey team), not to mention jump-start a sex drive stuck in neutral. So when Devera’s husband d...
|  | Tasting Salt
Publication Date: January 1, 2001From the author of Intimacy and Solitude, this literary novel explores the search for freedom, satisfaction, and meaning in life, as two women who have lost love enter new phases in their lives. ...
|  | Down with Love
Release Date: March 18, 2003Abstain from love ...Indulge in chocolate ... Enjoy sex à la carte!Can a woman living in the early '60slead such a life? Barbara Novak believed so and made it the premise of her revolutionary bestseller -- a feminist manifesto inviting women to say no to love and yes to career, self-fulfillment, and independence. Follow Barbara as she conquers the bestseller lists and quickly becomes the target of notorious ladies' man Catcher Block, a hotshot journalist determined to prove her book a lie. What happens when the woman with all the answers meets the man o...
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