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In her shoes: a novel (Cannie Shapiro Ser. #Bk. 1)
Par Jennifer Weiner. 2002
Estranged sisters Maggie, who is dyslexic, and Rose Feller, an attorney, were left motherless as children and haven't seen their…
maternal grandmother, Ella Hirsch, in twenty years. Widowed Ella searches for her granddaughters, and the three attempt to become a family again. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002Moon over Manhattan: mystery and mayhem
Par Larry King. 2003
Wealthy teenager Allison Vandameer, daughter of a liberal television commentator in New York City, plots a fake elopement to blackmail…
dad into letting her attend film school. The plan goes awry when her dim-witted boyfriend, Goonie, gets confused. Further schemes involve Goonie, a doorman, a reporter, and other hustlers. Some strong language. 2003Eat cake: a novel
Par Jeanne Ray. 2003
Beleaguered housewife Ruth Hopson is suddenly saddled with an unemployed husband, estranged parents who both need temporary refuge, and a…
sullen teenage daughter. Her solution is to bake. Includes recipes. Some strong language. 2003Alice, I think
Par Susan Juby. 2003
Humorous diary of fifteen-year-old misfit Alice, who is home-schooled by hippie parents in a rural Canadian town. On the advice…
of a new counselor she calls Death Lord Bob, she enrolls in high school and copes with finding friends, fitting in, and dating. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2003The future homemakers of America
Par Laurie Graham. 2002
Five Americans and one English woman become friends in 1952 when the American women's husbands are stationed in England. Over…
the next forty years they keep in touch, supporting and comforting each other through relocations, marriages, divorces, births, and untimely deaths. Some strong language. 2002Compromising positions
Par Susan Isaacs. 1979
When a lecherous Long Island dentist is murdered in his office, his last patient, Marilyn Tuccio, is suspected. Judith Singer,…
a wisecracking housewife and Marilyn's neighbor, cannot resist playing detective. She also finds police lieutenant Nelson Sharpe more appealing than her stodgy husband. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1978The book against God
Par James Wood. 2003
Thomas Bunting, supposedly working on his doctorate in philosophy, is actually writing a secret book asserting his atheism. After his…
minister father dies in northern England and his concert pianist wife leaves him because of his chronic lying, Bunting is forced to reexamine his life. 2003Miss Julia hits the road (Miss Julia Ser. #4.)
Par Ann B. Ross. 2003
When elderly widow Julia Springer learns that her housekeeper Lillian and other tenants are being evicted by slum landlord Clarence…
Gibbs, she organizes a fund-raising motorcycle race to save the neighborhood. Sequel to Miss Julia Throws a Wedding (DB 54718, BR 14243). 2003Ces petites choses: roman
Par Deborah Moggach. 2007
"Délocaliser les vieillards ! C'est l'idée lumineuse qui va sauver le docteur Ravi Kapoor, un médecin londonien épuisé par son…
travail quotidien et surtout par les soucis que lui cause son insupportable beau-père, Norman Purse, un vieux satrape aux révoltantes manies, combinant avec un rare bonheur l'égoïsme, le sans-gêne et l'obsession sexuelle sénile. Déjà expulsé de toutes les maisons de retraite convenables, Norman semblait impossible à recaser. C'est alors qu'un cousin de Ravi, un homme d'affaires au dynamisme sans bornes, va créer en Inde une chaîne de maisons de retraite très "Vieille Angleterre", où les Britanniques d'âge avancé, déconcertés et parfois même affolés par les conditions de vie nouvelles de leur pays natal, pourront retrouver, au soleil et dans la paix, les moeurs et l'atmosphère de leur jeunesse évanouie. Dans la grande tradition de la littérature satirique anglaise, Deborah Moggach met en scène avec un humour acerbe, mais souvent teinté de tendresse, ce petit monde dépassé par le temps, mais qui ne va tarder à découvrir que la vie peut encore apporter d'étranges bonheurs". -- 4e de couvL'espoir, cette tragédie
Par Shalom Auslander. 2013
" Calme et sérénité, c'est tout ce que Solomon Kugel espérait trouver en s'installant avec mère, épouse et enfant dans…
cette vieille bâtisse perdue en pleine campagne. Raté ! Car allez trouver la paix quand votre femme vous accable de reproches, que votre mère vous bassine avec la Shoah qu'elle-même n'a pas vécue, et qu'un pyromane sévit dans la région. Mais ce qui pourrait bien achever de vous rendre fou, ce sont ces bruits incessants au grenier. Alors, n'écoutant que votre courage, vous vous décidez à monter et vous découvrez là une bien étrange créature. Une très vieille femme très en colère, une icône que le monde entier pensait morte depuis longtemps. Une héroïne de l'Histoire bien décidée à rétablir sa vérité... " -- 4e de couv335, rue des Geais bleus (Roman (Éditions La Semaine))
Par Claudie Moreau. 2017
" Le passage de l'adolescence vers l'âge adulte peut être un véritable casse-tête, comme l'apprendra Charlie, nouvellement déménagée au 335,…
rue des Geais bleus. C'est à cette adresse, entre une mère thérapeute qui lui enseigne le sens de la vie à coups de réflexions psychologiques, un va-et-vient incessant d'animaux domestiques, une famille recomposée pas toujours reposante, des locataires colorés à souhait, une entrée à reculons au cégep, une envie pressante de trouver l'homme de sa vie et l'urgence de faire sa marque dans le milieu du showbiz, que Charlie devra trouver son identité. La jeune femme en devenir trouvera-t-elle l'amour? Réalisera-t-elle son rêve de faire carrière dans le monde artistique? Les séances de tarot aux chandelles chez sa voisine apporteront-elles des réponses à ses nombreux questionnements existentiels? Réussira-t-elle à calmer son petit coeur agité et à dompter ses montagnes russes émotionnelles? Et si Charlie n'était qu'un frêle petit oiseau qui apprenait à déployer ses ailes pour voler vers sa propre destinée? "Photo hero: a satire of photography
Par George A Covington. 2001
Anthony Slone, a widowed photographer whose career has been revitalized by a scandal, agrees to help a dying multimillionaire achieve…
a lasting reputation as a famous photographer. Thomas Adderly-Phillips is rechristened "Taps" and with Slone's help perpetrates a hoax on the world. Strong language. 2001Knocked out by my nunga-nungas: further, further confessions of Georgia Nicolson
Par Louise Rennison. 2002
Georgia continues her journal entries following On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God (RC 52090,…
BR 13560). Her parents drag her on a vacation to Scotland. Then back home she sees two boys at the same time. For senior high readers. Bestseller. 2001Backpack
Par Emily Barr. 2001
Darkly comic misadventures of Londoner Tansy Harris, who, following her alcoholic mother's funeral and a cocaine overdose, travels to Southeast…
Asia on her inheritance. Finding Vietnam depressing, she joins a group of campers to explore other places. Tansy begins reassessing her life--even as a killer targets blond tourists. Strong language. 2001My little blue dress: a novel
Par Bruno Maddox. 2001
Spoof of memoirs purports to document the heroine's varied experiences throughout the entire twentieth century. Facts and details soon become…
suspect, and the author reveals his gender, identity, and satiric intent. Some strong language. 2001Miss Julia throws a wedding
Par Ann B Ross. 2002
Widow Julia Springer of Abbotsville, North Carolina, insists on planning a wedding for attorney Binkie Enloe and her fiancé, deputy…
Coleman Bates. But Miss Julia really wants her friend Hazel Marie to get hitched to her live-in lover as a good example to Hazel's young son. 2002Maybe once, maybe twice
Par Alison Rose Greenberg. 2023
You know that old saying "if we are still single when we're 35, we should get married?" Well, Maggie Vine…
made that vow with two different people at two very different stages of her life. And they both showed up. Maggie Vine's life is going extra-medium. At 35, she's pursuing her dreams of being a singer and being a mother—though neither are successfully panning out. So when Garrett Scholl—stifled hedge-fund manager by day but electrifying aspiring rock singer by night—comes to her 35th birthday party with the intention to kiss Maggie senseless, it feels like one piece might click into place. But he's engaged to someone else, and Maggie knows she won't fit into the cookie-cutter life he's building for himself. Enter Asher Reyes. Her first boyfriend from summer camp turned into heartthrob actor, he's lived a successful yet private life ever since he got famous. When a career-changing opportunity is presented to Maggie after her reconnection with Asher, it feels like everything—music, love, family—will fall into place. But her past won't let her move on without a fight. Filled with the romance and angst that defines the years you come to know yourself, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice is a novel of second chances and finding your own way that's perfect for fans of Josie Silver and Sophie CousensHorse thief: a novel
Par Robert Newton Peck. 2002
Chickalookee, Florida; 1938. First, rodeo worker and seventeen-year-old orphan Tullis Yoder loses two fingers on his first bull ride. Then,…
when he learns that his only family--the thirteen horses he cares for--are going to be sold for dog food, he steals them--with help, of course. For junior and senior high readers. 2002It's my f---ing birthday!: a novel
Par Merrill Markoe. 2002
A thirty-six-year-old unmarried art teacher begins a journal on her birthday highlighting her mistakes and resolutions. Over the course of…
seven years, she chronicles hilarious episodes with emotionally crippled boyfriends and with her abusive parents, until she discovers that she doesn't mind living alone. Strong language. 2002The salmon of doubt: hitchhiking the galaxy one last time
Par Douglas Adams. 2002
Editor Peter Guzzardi pieces together what may have been the third Dirk Gently novel by the late author of The…
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BR 14438). Includes Adams's letters, writings, and ruminations on numerous diverse subjects, including the Beatles, Monty Python, and a young, two-headed Zaphod. 2002