Three women, Molly, Paige and Kate, all have some goals they still haven’t reached. So although they are content with their lives some things are missing. For Molly and Kate a reliable male mate is missing and Paige wants to be a deputy. When all the goals are in hands reach it all seems so easy to grab it all, but especially then life gets more and more difficult. All three women have to look at themselves (and their pasts) to get noticed by the others. A harsh but necessary task if they want true happiness and a full life.
this is a preview of it had to be you – sarah webb
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I just finished my first book for 2010 and realised I didn’t post my read book of 2009. Although I didn’t read that much, I picked good ones. Not all, of course, that would be inhuman but still….I did good overall.
this is a preview of 2009 in books
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Jaine Austen (yes, her “mother is an Anglophile, and a bad speller”) has her own writing service and one day she has to write a letter for geeky Howard, who wants to ask a blonde female fitness instructor named Stacy for a date. Jaine is a bit reluctant to write it, but in the end, does what is asked by her client – money had a big influence in that decision. She had better gone with her instinct to refuse him, because next thing she knows, Howard is in prison, arrested for the murder of Stacy.
Jaine is 100% sure, Howard isn’t the culprit. The only thing she has to do now is prove her female intuition is right. Something that easier said than done.
this is a preview of this pen for hire – laura levine
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Aurora (Roe) Teagarden gave up her work as librarian when she unexpectedly inherited a house and money. She decided to give the real estate business a chance. After all, her mother is one of the most successful agents in town. It should give Roe a head start. Well…it gives Roe a start, but not the start she wanted, for her first house showing ends with a naked corpse in the master bedroom. Not the way Roe hoped her new career would take off and to make matters worse, one of her new-found colleagues has fallen under suspicion.
Time to jump into action. Roe, the natural-born sleuth, will not have piece until she has unraveled this mystery.
this is a preview of three bedrooms, one corpse – charlaine harris
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Frankie is a pediatrician in the Upper East Side of New York. Her clients are the high society of the city and throughout the book Frankie is the binding factor for all of the other characters we get to meet. There is Judy the wannabe, Samantha the accomplished and Barry the Hollywood movie-maker, amongst others. Per chapter we get to hear from them, about their struggles to get to the top or the tiresome task of staying there. At some point their lives aren’t as real anymore as they all might have thought and that is when everything starts to crumble down. How do they cope when their society as they know it seize to exist.
this is a preview of elements of style – wendy wasserstein
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Cannie is a ‘larger woman’ and the whole freaking world knows it because her ex-boyfriend Bruce explained her body so fully in his column for the Moxie magazine.
Cannie just wanted a little break in her relationship with Bruce, but he seems to have moved on. Cannie is miserable. This is not how she imagened her break-up to end.
But Cannie is a fighter and wants to make the best of it. So she signs in for a test at the hospital with an experimental drug to help her lose spare pounds…and sits at home waiting for Bruce to call…not pathetic at all, right?
When Bruce’s father dies they see, and especially feel, each other, what later proved to be the last time, at his parent’s house. And from that moment on Cannie’s life does a 180.
Will she continue the be brave, will she keep going to the hospital and will she really get over Bruce?
this is a preview of good in bed – jennifer weiner
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Kate Stein is a housewife. Together with her husband Ben and her three children she lives in Upchurch, a little city in Connecticut with, so it seems, only perfect housewives. The problem is, she is not one of them. She can’t look sophisticated, doing the household, looking after the kids, have time for extracurricular activities all at the same time.
She is used to the lifestyle of New York where she has lived most of her life. First together with her parents, then together with her best friend Janie and even with Ben for a little while. But New York is no more and she is bored. What can happen to make her feel like an independent woman with her own life again? Well…a murder! One of the perfect wives is murdered under suspicious circumstances. Why should a normal housewife be killed and who did it? Kate is intrigued and determent to unravvel this mystery. Will she succeed together with Janie and her old flame Evan?
this is a preview of goodnight nobody – jennifer weiner
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Not as good as Rachel’s holiday, but good enough non the less.
Lisa is send from London to Dublin to set up a new Women’s magazine Colleen. Lisa is used to her glamorous lifestyle, something she has to give up in Ireland so it seems. Ashling is her “second in command” with her own set of problems. She is very insecure about her lack of waist, her lack of brilliant ideas and her lack of self esteem. Clodagh is Ashling’s best friend, married, two kids, in a total dip and wanting something completely different in her life. Jack is Lisa’s and Ashling’s boss, having problems in his relationship with a finger biting Asian girlfriend.
this is a preview of sushi for beginners – marian keyes
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