 | 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...
 |  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Star Light, Star Bright (Mira S.)
Publication Date: December 1, 2002| Series: Mira S. As a young man, Rafe McClure came to work at FoxHaven, ancestral home to the Forsythes and a place of sanctuary and secrets. Now, twelve years later, he's loved by two women who are as close as sisters -- Lily Forsythe, who suffers from a mysterious illness, and Brook Blair, the protective "sister" with the copper hair and clever mind. One of them is destined to become his wife, but only after every dark secret is revealed.... ...
|  | Three Wise Men
Publication Date: December 4, 2000A warm, witty and wise novel about love, friendship and being in your thirties. Gloria, Eimear and Kate have been friends since they were a trio of six-year-olds cast as the Three Wise Men in the nativity play. Twenty-five years on, they've left Omagh for Dublin and grown up to be Three Unwise Women, all too prone to misuse the gifts they've been given. Eimear's beauty captivates men but robs her of independence. Kate's dazzling wit blinds her to the consequences of betraying a friend. And Gloria's urge to nurture, thwarted by infertility, threatens to destr...
|  | 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...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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 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...
|  | 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. ...
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