Unfailingly optimistic Emma Corrigan has a problem. During an episode of flight turbulence, she tells her troubles (the job she hates, the seemingly perfect boyfriend she is not sure she loves) to the handsome man sitting next to her. Then, who walks into her office the next morning but the man from the flight--who turns out to be Jack Harper, the ...
The bestselling author of "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Everyone Worth Knowing" is back with a delicious new novel about a trio of best girlfriends in Manhattan which makes a dramatic pact to change each woman's life in one year.
One of McCall Smith's particular talents is his ability to portray archetypes without resorting to stereotype or cliche. Thus we immediately recognise the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership to Muirfield golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five ...
Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. Crosby's strikingly original voice chronicles the struggles and unexpected beauty of modern urban life.
With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, the author of the #1 "New York Times"-bestseller "Shopaholic & Baby" returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament.
From the author of the international bestseller "Incendiary" comes a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
Becky Bloomwood, British heroine of CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC, returns. Once again, Becky's credibility as a financial expert is severely compromised when her clients discover that she's a compulsive spender. This time around, she's shopping her way to disaster in Manhattan, where she has moved to be near her boyfriend Luke.
An illustrated hardcover edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, first produced in 1938, follows the changes that gradually occur in the lives of two early-twentieth-century New Hampshire families and their neighbors. 15,000 first printing.
A librarian named Veronika attempts suicide by overdosing on pills, and when she comes out of her coma she is in a mental institution and told she has only a week to live.
DeMoss teams up with established youth author Gresh to give girls aged 13-19 the tools they need to identify where their lives and beliefs are off course, while offering practical, faith-based approaches to overcome these hurdles.
Handsome, eligible ranch owner Stuart York knows Ivy Conley is too young for him, so he closes his heart to her and sends her away. Now years later, Ivy is determined not to be treated like a little girl anymore, but for some reason, Stuart is always fighting her battles for her. Original.
First published in 1816, Jane Austen's EMMA is about an unconventional heroine--and one whom Austen thought no one but herself would like. Emma Woodhouse is bright, beautiful, and rich; she is also snobbish and judgmental, and she can be cruel, with a tendency to interfere in other people's lives. The novel chronicles Emma's attempts to make a ...
In this irresistible follow-up to her "New York Times"-bestselling debut, "Garden Spells," author Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets--and secret passions--are about to change her life forever.
Taylor Greer, from rural Kentucky, buys a 1955 Volkswagen and drives west. Along the way, she picks up an abandoned 3-year-old Native American girl named Turtle, and by the time she pulls up at the Jesus Is Lord Used Tire Auto Repair Shop, Taylor is well on her way towards establishing an adventurous new life in the desert land of the Southwest.
Jane Austen's last and most melancholy novel was published posthumously in 1818. In PERSUASION, Austen creates a strong, mature, and independent heroine, Anne Elliot. Having foolishly broken off an engagement eight years earlier to Frederick Wentworth, a penniless naval officer, Anne at the age of 27 has remained unmarried--and secretly devoted to ...
In SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen writes about two ways of looking at the world in the personalities of two sisters, Elinor the determinedly practical and Marianne the madly romantic. Forced to live in reduced circumstances with their widowed mother and younger sister, the Dashwood girls must rely on marrying well if they are to survive in the ...
Once again, the Baxter family is touched by love and loss, including the tragic events surrounding September 11. Ashley Baxter has locked up her heart, convinced that no one--including God--could love her because of the past behavior she is trying to forget. A few highly unlikely people help her open up to love and redemption.
Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class, this mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction.
A woman named Cannie Shapiro is (like the author) a columnist for a Philadelphia newspaper. Life is good until her ex-husband starts writing his own column, for a hip magazine, called "Good in Bed," in which he details the intimate truths of their relationship, including his opinion of her plus-size body. Finally determined to lose some weight, ...
In her Simply novels, Balogh has woven irresistibly enthralling tales of four close friends--teachers at the genteel Miss Martin's School for Girls in Regency England. Now, in this final novel, Balogh turns her attention to the owner and headmistress of the school, Miss Claudia Martin herself.
NORTHANGER ABBEY is about a naïve young woman whose head is full of the Gothic novels she consumes, and who begins to imagine that life may well be even stranger than fiction. Catherine Morland makes a touching, if somewhat charmingly brainless, heroine; Henry Tilney is a self-possessed and witty hero; and the plot device in which Catherine sees ...
Jane Austen's beloved novel concerns two sisters, Elinor the practical and Marianne the romantic, who are forced to leave their home with their mother and younger sister and live in reduced circumstances in the West of England. The girls must rely on marrying well if they are to survive in the world, and the way in which this goal is eventually ...
This epistolary novel consists of the letters a newlywed named Alice writes to her sister Lizzie. Alice's husband is off fighting for the Union; Alice is living with her mother-in-law, learning to quilt, and coping with her first pregnancy.
Because of its sexual frankness and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, Hardy's novel was considered shocking when it was published in 1891. It is the tale of Tess Derbeyfield, a young country girl whose rape by Alec D'Urberville, a distant aristocratic relative, leads to pregnancy. Tess's baby dies, and she finds work as a dairymaid at a farm ...
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