 | The Geography of Women: A Romantic Comedy
Publication Date: January 1998Telling her comic story at the end of the 20th century, Laydia Spain O'Hara, untangles the past of fourteen characters' lives tied together in a small southern Illinois town from the mid-1950s of Elvis through the mid-1960s after Kennedy's Camelot. Her madcap tale of faces unmasking--and conflicts resolving--is a human journey about women's coming of age and inventing one's self despite all gossip while keeping the torch of true love burning. In a love triangle with her two best friends, Jessarose and Mizz Lulabelle, Laydia Spain outwits convention, opens her ow...
 |  | 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...
|  | A Good Man
Publication Date: October 19, 2005Rhonda, Gina Kay, and Holly were the best of friends in their small-town Texas high school until the day Gina Kay ran off and married Rhonda's boyfriend, Terry Robertson. Now, twenty-five years later, news of Terry's sudden death has reunited them, bringing to the surface old bonds and betrayals they thought they'd left behind as well as many questions: How many of their dreams did they actually pursue, and how many have they relinquished? ...
|  | 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...
|  | Diary of a Mad Fat Girl
Publication Date: February 27, 2012Graciela "Ace" Jones is mad-mad at her best friend Lilly who cancels their annual trip to Panama City for mysterious reasons; at her boss Catherine for "riding her ass like a fat lady on a Rascal scooter;" at her friend Chloe's abusive husband; and especially at Mason McKenzie, the love of her life, who has shown up with a marriage proposal three years too late. Ace is never mad, though, at her near-constant companion, an adorable chiweenie dog named Buster Loo.Ace's anger begins to dissipate as she takes matters into her own hands to take down Chloe's phil...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Getting Even
Publication Date: November 7, 2002How would you feel if your best friend at work betrayed you? Was secretly having an affair with an influential colleague? Did you out of a coveted promotion, then teamed you up with a mere junior, leaving you feeling completely demoted? What would you do? For Ivy, there's no choice. The only person she has ever trusted, Orianna, has blown it big time. So there's only one way forward. Revenge. Ivy's campaign is brilliant, if horribly destructive, and she's determined to get even with the woman has dared to cross her. But is Ivy really the innocent party? Or i...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Inge and Mira
Publication Date: March 1, 2001Inge is tall and cool and Mira is petite and dynamic. When they meet, each is attracted by something special and different about the other. But friendships based on the attraction of opposites can be stormy, and theirs is no exception. Blonde Inge is a native of Sweden, while dark Mira has fled there to escape the living hell of Chile at the time of the military coup led by General Pinochet. They are brought together by their mutual love of plants, but this gentle pastime is soon overshadowed by the terrible legacy of Mira's past.It is a legacy that will reach ...
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