 | Autobiography of Us: A Novel
Release Date: February 5, 2013A gripping debut novel about friendship, loss and love; a confession of what passed between two women who met as girls in 1960s Pasadena, CaliforniaComing of age in the patrician neighborhood of Pasadena, California during the 1960s, Rebecca Madden and her beautiful, reckless friend Alex dream of lives beyond their mothers' narrow expectations. Their struggle to define themselves against the backdrop of an American cultural revolution unites them early on, until one sweltering evening the summer before their last year of college, when a single act of betrayal ch...
 |  | As If Nothing Happened
Publication Date: August 2002Joya, Yvonne and Jennifer realized a long time ago thatfamily is about more than blood. And so these friends since collegehave a bond so fierce it's as strong as that of the closestsisters. They've shared the ups and downs of their lives. Butsomething is happening now. Each holds back something from her friendsbecause she doesn't think the others will understand. For Joya, that'sa career disaster in the making and personal pain she can't thinkabout. For Jennifer, that's a marriage on the rocks. And for Yvonne,dear Yvonne, it's just everything. Through this series...
|  | 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...
|  | The Perfect Place
Release Date: March 11, 1989The monologue of a woman drifting in monied ease from one hotel to another and appearing to be weary of her quest to find the perfect habitation for her troublesome health. As she tells everything about her life the narrative becomes a murder story. This is the author's first novel. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Young Wives
Publication Date: November 1, 2002Fergus is older than Sheila, in the British Army, and fond of his drink, but he loves her and Sheila doesn't hesitate when he proposes, although their marriage will mean leaving Dublin. In November 1961, Sheila finds herself and her twin baby girls with three other young women on their way to join their husbands stationed in Germany. The young women are plunged into a very different life from the ones they have left. They become friends, sharing their worries, secrets, disappointments, and troubles. Elaine Crowley creates a community bound together by the sp...
|  | 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...
|  | What A Girl Wants
Release Date: March 2, 2004Debut novelist Liz Maverick takes readers on a hilarious ride through the ups and downs of twenty-something love and life...Hayley Jane Smith doesn't want much. Well, she does want a job, ever since she asked for a raise...and promptly got fired. And she wants a certain rugged, handsome detective, who seems to be interested in her too...although it might be because she's a suspect in a murder he's investigating. Fortunately, Hayley has her three best pals to help her out-Diane the brainiac, Audra the career wiz, and Suz the sexpot-who are, unfortunately, brimming...
|  | Hungry Ghosts
Publication Date: April 9, 2002At once a love story, a riveting tale of suspense, and an illumination of the artist's psyche, this searing novel introduces one of Australia's most acclaimed authors to American readers. A seductive work of vast geographical and psychological scope, "Hungry Ghosts" follows two young painters from Sydney to London to Hong Kong, probing the raw terrain between love and friendship, creativity and madness.Emerging from Susan Johnson's hallucinatory evocation of late twentieth-century Hong Kong -- a fading colony bathed in neon, teeming with political and emotion...
|  | Wives of the Fisherman
Publication Date: October 1998From the critically acclaimed author of "Land Girls" (soon to be a major motion picture from Gramercy Pictures) comes a new novel that explores the intricate mechanism of women's friendship with tenderness, intelligence, and understanding. ...
|  | Special: A Novel
Publication Date: May 9, 2003A group of schoolgirls go off with two teachers on a field trip to the English countryside. They soon discover that the nearby town offers alcohol, drugs, and sex, at once tempting and terrifying. In this illicit, raw new world, isolated from the larger society and its familiar rules and repressions, some become more vulnerable, others more vicious. There are the almost casual daily cruelties the girls inflict on one another, the dangerous fault lines of their friendships, their insecurities and little shames, the awful power of the "most popular" girl and of the...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
請先 登入 以發表留言。