Jennifer Weiner
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Thirty-four-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. She's got good friends, her bike, and her bike club in Philadelphia. She's at peace with her plus-size body - at least, most of the time - and she's on track to marry her childhood sweetheart. Abby and Mark met at the weight-loss camp Abby's perpetually dieting mother, Eileen, forced her daughter to attend. Yet Abby can't escape the feeling that something isn't right . . . or the memories...
Author
Language
English
Description
After Senator Richard Woodruff's extramarital affair makes the headlines, his wife, Sylvie, and daughters, Lizzie and Diana, are caught in the national spotlight and begin to reconsider the choices that they have made in life and who they believe they were meant to become.
Author
Language
English
Description
Eight years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask: Will she be her maid of honor at the society wedding of the summer? Daphne finds herself powerless, as ever, to resist her friend's siren song and promises of single men. On a perfect summer night, as generations of Cavanaughs descend on the family beach...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Daisy Shoemaker seems to have the ideal life: a thriving business, husband and child, and a beautiful home. However, under the surface Daisy feels her life is getting mundane. Then Daisy started receiving emails meant for a Diana Starling. The women meet and become friends. As they get closer, we learn that their connection was not completely accidental. Who is Diana, and what does she want with Daisy?
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Childhood best friends Addie Downs and Valerie Adler, now in their thirties, find their relationship evolving once again when Valerie shows up at Addie's house with blood-stained clothes and says Addie is the only person who can help her.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah's mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family's beach house in Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
Author
Series
Littlest Bigfoot volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"The story of twelve-year-old Alice, a misfit who is ignored by her own family and shipped off to boarding school. She'd love a friend, and one day she rescues mysterious Millie Maximus from drowning in a lake. Millie, it turns out, is a Bigfoot, part of a clan that lives deep in the woods. Alice swears to protect Millie and her tribe, and the two girls try to find a place where they both fit in"--
10) Certain girls
Author
Series
Cannie Shapiro volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
386 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her debut novel, a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life, became an overnight bestseller, Cannie dropped out of the public eye. As preparations for her daughter Joy's bat mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie's world. Then Joy discovers the novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth about her own conception, the story her mother hid from her all her life.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"You know Jennifer Weiner as many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and 'an unlikely feminist enforcer' (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Tina...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Edition
(Abridged.)
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (ca. 5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Weiner brings readers a tale of romance, friendship, forgiveness, and extreme sleep deprivation, as three very different women navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journey of new motherhood.
13) Who do you love
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
"From the "hilarious, heartbreaking, and insightful" (The Miami Herald) bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a sweeping, modern day fairy tale about first romance and lasting love. When the love you love is the one who got away... Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are just eight years old when they meet late one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenital heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she's intrigued by the boy who shows...
Author
Series
Littlest Bigfoot volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After discovering that she is not human, twelve-year-old Alice Mayfair is on a mission to find out who and what she is, but she must do it alone because her best friend Millie Maximus, an undersized Bigfoot who lives in the forest near Alice's school in upstate New York, is focused on fulfilling her dream to sing for a nationally televised talent competition.
15) In her shoes
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
Free-wheeling irresponsible Maggie gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her complete lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose when she is in need of financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and Rose have a grandmother, but Maggie ends...
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 201 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.