Contemporary Women

By Jill Churchill

Regardless of a whole time table, frazzled suburban unmarried mother Jane Jeffry has agreed to be in agreement in the course of a two-day collecting of her good friend Shelley's former highschool girl's club.So whereas the reunited girls are dishing dust, Jane is sweeping it up -- and she or he inadvertently turns into aware of every kind of fascinating postgraduate gossip and long-smoldering resentments. yet then a corpse turns up one of the one-time pupil physique, the unlucky sufferer of a few quite nasty after-school actions. And until Jane will get to the ground of a sordid senior-year scandal, extra alumnae are certain to die by the hands of a calculating classmate who is majoring in homicide.

By Diana Palmer

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By Jo Dereske

Librarian extraordinaire leave out Helma Zukas wakes up at the morning of her forty-second birthday within the throes of multiple midlife obstacle. Her championing a set of neighborhood authors' works ignites a firestorm of jealousy and anger in Bellehaven. She's blackmailed via her conniving boss, library director could Apple Moon, into attending team counseling classes - and of the individuals take place lifeless. An obnoxiously bubbly new librarian is popping the pinnacle of Helma's longtime admirer, Police leader Wayne Gallant. And worst of all, her uncuddly tom cat significant other, Boy Cat Zukas disappears.

By Penny Vincenzi

In an issue of seconds, totally every little thing can swap …In this masterfully crafted page-turner, peopled with extreme characters and based on one devastating second that includes all of them, plot-twist queen Penny Vincenzi vividly captures how the activities of 1 individual can dramatically impact many within the blink of an eye.On a normal Friday afternoon, on an important highway open air of London, a trailer truck unexpectedly and violently swerves throughout fives lanes of traffic—careening automobiles into each other like dominoes and leaving a path of chaos and confusion. in the area of a minute, an amazing miles-long pileup has accumulated, and, because the survivors watch for aid, their tales unfold.Vincenzi expertly maneuvers the plot among the panic-stricken husband trapped in his automobile along with his younger mistress, his adultery guaranteed to be came across; the bridegroom attempting frantically to get to the church on time (he won’t); the widow on her strategy to reunite with the affection of her existence after sixty years, now compelled to wonder whether she’ll ever see him back; the junior health care professional ready to obtain the crash sufferers within the ER … And on the epicenter of this box of destruction lies the truck driving force, struggling with reminiscence loss, whereas the mysterious hitchhiker, the one one that is aware what rather occurred, has fled the scene.Spellbound through those intimate and evocative stories, we watch as destiny takes its strong direction and the far-reaching results of the crash ripple during the lives of thousands of individuals. Written with outstanding verve, candor, and wit, Penny Vincenzi finds human habit in all its attention-grabbing element as she demanding situations her characters to stand hindrance boldly—and she surprises us with the implications at each flip.

By Nicola Griffith

By Elizabeth Flock

It is so skinny and small it kind of feels most unlikely that it might finish a human existence. lengthy, quickly slices and the soreness bleeds away. . . So starts yet within i am screaming, an excessive and soaking up novel. it's the unforgettable tale of 1 woman's account of what it's to lose keep an eye on because the international watches, to determine what went so each flawed, and to just accept a less than excellent existence in an international that calls for perfection. whereas breaking the most popular new tale of the yr, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy unravels on lifestyles tv in entrance of an viewers of thousands. She lands at 3 Breezes, a four-star psychiatric clinic nicknamed the "nut hut," the place she starts off the painful technique of recuperating the existence every person suggestion she had. yet accepting her position between her fellow sufferers proves more challenging as Isabel struggles to reconcile the truth that she is, certainly, one in all them, and faces the truth that during order to fix her painfully fractured existence she needs to count exclusively on herself.

By Emilie Richards

Former socialite Tracy Deloche has not anything to her identify yet 5 ramshackle seashore cottages and the not going friendships she's shaped along with her tenants. Wanda, clever waitress grew to become well known pie-shop proprietor. Janya, the younger Indian spouse whose prepared marriage surprises her on a daily basis. Alice, a widow elevating her advanced tween-age granddaughter. And Maggie, Wanda's daughter, a former Miami cop with a love existence as complex as Tracy's own.The new guy in Tracy's existence hasn't pointed out love or dedication— and Tracy has simply stumbled on she's pregnant. Janya longs to be a mother—and by surprise has younger siblings in her care. Maggie is helping out at Wanda's excellent Pies…but is the kitchen sufficiently big for either grey girls? And Alice may perhaps lose her loved granddaughter to somebody not anyone expected….As a tropical typhoon brews, the wind includes surprises and secrets and techniques over the bridge to Happiness Key. Now, greater than ever, 5 associates will detect simply how a lot they want each other.

By Catherine Alliott

While Ella married the good-looking, celebrated artist Sebastian Montclair at simply nineteen she used to be head over heels in love. Now, these completely happy years of marriage have became the very definition of an unconventional set-up. Separated in each method yet distance, Sebastian is living in an outhouse around the garden from Ella's ramshackle farmhouse.

With an ex-husband residing lower than her nostril and a house crowded by way of opposed teenaged young children, gender-confused chickens - let alone her hyper serious mom whose personal marriage slips spectacularly off the rails - Ella reveals convenience within the corporation of the very fascinating gardener, Ludo. yet is he particularly the reply to her prayers?

Then abruptly Sebastian comes to a decision he needs to stream away, catching Ella horribly unawares. How for much longer can she cover from what fairly destroyed her marriage . . . and the key she keeps to maintain?

By Nadine Haobsh, Nadine Jolie

From Nadine Haobsh, aka Jolie in NYC ("The poster baby for the blogger generation...you can not help yet love her."—New York Post), comes a tasty novel that just a real good looks insider can have written! Bella Hunter will be down yet she's now not out yet—and she's able to tackle the area of beauty...one undesirable makeover at a time. Pity the negative twenty-eight-year-old good looks professional and columnist for ultra-chic Enchant? journal, knocked correct out of her Jimmy Choos—and out of a job—when her off-the-cuff remark to a reporter is blown approach out of share. as soon as the authority on type, Bella's lowered to taking a place at Womanly international, a publishing dinosaur of no curiosity whatever to any lady lower than fifty. all of sudden she's acquired to take orders from a dreary and dowdy good looks director—and is quickly at struggle along with her male writer, who may really be attractive if he wasn't so completely frosty. Bella's stick insect boyfriend, a native land marriage ceremony, and a Paris junket are superb distractions, to be certain. yet how can she face her acquaintances and ex-coworkers now that she's caught in an place of work the place khaki—not Cavalli—is the lifestyle? And if beauty's no longer what it is all about...then what's?

By Zdenko Cepic (Editor)