 | 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. ...
 |  | Come Rain or Shine
Release Date: May 30, 2005There were four of them: young women employed at an exclusive jewellery store in the 1960s. Close friendships were forged as Natasha, Prudence, Rachel and Maisie worked together. Now, in 1980, Natasha, newly divorced and back from America, decides there must be a reunion. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Black Beauty (Modern Contemporary Fiction Po)
Publication Date: March 9, 2010| Series: Modern Contemporary Fiction Po Set in a beauty salon by the same name, the novel, Black Beauty is a story full of hope, determination, deception, and a longing to be accepted. Just before the new millennium, the lives of three women will never be the same when truths are revealed and self-discovery is realized. Terri is trying to find herself--Naomi is holding on to secrets--Estralita holds the missing pieces.Prequel to Broken Appointments ...
|  | 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...
|  | A SUMMONS TO NEW ORLEANS: A Novel
Publication Date: August 9, 2000Nora's life is falling apart. With the shrill chorus of her mother's incessant "I-told-you-so"s sounding in her ears, Nora has just watched her husband run off with a waitress almost young enough to be his kid. So when her old college friend Simone calls to invite her to New Orleans, Nora jumps at the chance to get away from it all and get a fresh perspective. But it soon becomes clear that Simone has more than relaxation in mind.Simone, an embattled rape victim, has called upon her oldest friends for support during her attacker's trial. Nora, already emotiona...
|  | The Autobiography of Vivian
Release Date: June 25, 2002Meet Vivian . . .A small-town girl who conquers the Big City on her own terms . . . a sucker for happy endings with an attraction to all things fattening—and a personality that oddly gets her in (and out of) trouble at lightning speed. This is her story . . . and perhaps a little of yours, too.True, Vivian Livingston has the gig of a lifetime, starring 24/7 as the heroine of www.Vivianlives.com, a kind of “girls rule” Web site. But it wasn’t always that way. So rewind, back to the traditionally traumatic last semester of college, when Vivian...
|  | 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...
|  | South of Reason: A Novel
Release Date: February 25, 2003Everybody wondered why the Sanders family had come back to Rosalita, Texas, and moved in next door to Lou Jean Perry. It was apparently the absolute last place they should want to be, though thirteen-year-old Kayla Sanders had no idea why. As the summer heat intensified, Kayla's brittle mother's motives for moving next to bright-spirited Lou Jean would become clear, but not before Kayla discovers that passion listens not to the mind's reason but to the heart's demands. Writing with poignant intensity, Cindy Eppes draws on her Southern roots in a coming-of-age s...
|  | 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...
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