 | Summer in Tuscany
Publication Date: August 2002Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a mother who worries that Gemma has no life. So when her mother Nonna receives a mysterious letter telling her about an even more mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, the three of them throw caution and convention to the wind: they leave for Italy. What they encounter is a crumbling old village and a town divided: half believe Nonna's villa belongs to Ben Raphael, an unnervingly handsome American. As cultures clash, gossip soars and intrigue unfolds, Gemma is caught up in the m...
 |  | Summer
Release Date: December 12, 1985Hard cover book, the author's first novel. ...
|  | The Porno Girl: and Other Stories
Publication Date: June 11, 2003Brazen and sharp-witted, Merin Wexler’s linked stories bind mothers, daughters, and wives wrestling with a fear of intimacy in sexual and family relationships. These are women and teenagers caught in the pivotal conflicts of their lives, questioning and testing out their desirability, and their fitness as wives, mothers, and friends.Merin Wexler touches a nerve, capturing longings and terrors that are both all-too-familiar and usually kept private.A new mother finds herself inexplicably drawn to the local porn shop, her baby strapped to her chest.A caree...
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| | The rainbow dress, and other Tollush tales
Publication Date: 1975Despite their poverty, Tollush and her mother find joy in simple things. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Sunday's Child
Release Date: April 1, 1989Ten-year-old Jenny's new foster mother dosen't live up to her expectations until Jenny discovers that there are more important things in life than lavish gifts and fancy homes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Places Where Names Vanish
Release Date: April 19, 1998The Places Where Names Vanish explores the frightening, encoded, and potentially explosive realities of Quebec and Montreal as seen by Ecuadorean expatriates.Marta longs for escape from her impoverished village, where she is pulled between traditionalism, spiritualism, Catholicism, and a dirty, brutal reality. The Places Where Names Vanish is a wonderfully evocative, subtle and heartfelt novel, which concentrates on one brave human spirit, but raises more questions than any sociological expose. ...
|  | Shore Lights
Publication Date: September 2, 2003A USA Today Bestselling AuthorLiving under her mother's roof makes Maddy feel like a teenager -- and a sullen misunderstood one at that -- but Maddy is worried about her mother and determined to give her something to smile about, even if it means engaging in a heated on-line auction for an old Russian samovar. Ex-firefighter Aidan O'Malley wanted that samovar for his teenage daughter, and he isn't happy at being outbid. But from a bidding war, a most unlikely -- and romantic -- connection is formed. Both wary and weary, neither Maddy nor Aidan expect to car...
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