"Peter Underhill was smitten by Ebony Mills the moment she joined his street hockey team--a coal-eyed, tomboy goddess, as dark and dazzling as he was pale and awkward. That she returned his affection was a boy's dream come true. But despite a bond that gre."--

Where are all the good men at? Are they married, in jail or on the down low? LAYLA JAMES and her thirty-something girlfriends, CHANEL DOUGLASS, REESE MARTIN and SKYE CHANDLER ask themselves. Or maybe they are looking for love in all the wrong places?LAYLA, a successful financial advisor is stuck on the one man she can't have: her live-in boyfriend Conrad, who won't commit. CHANEL, a bartender turned hair stylist doesn't want to end up like her mother...

One woman's struggle with illness, her daughter's will to survive, and a circle of friends shrouded in secrets."Megan's Way...beautiful and tender portrayals...very enjoyable read on the order of a Jodi Picoult novel. " --The Bookish DameWhat would you give up for the people you love?When Megan Taylor, a single mother and artist living on Cape Cod, receives the shocking news that her cancer has returned, she's faced with the most difficult decision...

"Originally published in book form in 1954, A Spy in the House of Love contains some of Anais Nin's best poetic prose. The main character, Sabina, realizes that she is a composite of many selves, each one seeking identity within relationships with five very different men, and while she seeks to live out each part of herself, she also craves unity, setting the stage for the battle for self-awareness. Consider the following passage, which describes...

Chrissie loves her London life and job as an events manager. She loves her loyal lodger and cleaner Melina (a bit neurotic but hardly ever breaks anything), and her daughters Scarlet (loud, vegan, activist) and Ruby (quiet, musician, boffin). She even loves her husband Rob, despite him deciding to cycle across Africa. For a year. But life as the only responsible adult has left Chrissie stressed and overworked, so much so that she is almost relieved...

When the son she was forced to relinquish 18 years ago sends her a cryptic letter and then disappears, Janine, an artist and the widowed mother of 6-year-old twins, plunges into a search for the missing boy, reluctantly enlisting the aid of Dan, the high school boyfriend who has never forgotten her.

"Reckless is an exciting, sexy anthology from three hot authors of urban lit.''Desperate Housewife'' by Cydney RaxCarmen Foster thinks she has it all -- a perfect house, kids, and marriage -- until she stumbles upon racy texts from her husband, Forrest, to his baby mama, Toni, who desperately wants Forrest back. Carmen has an affair of her own, but when scheming Toni threatens to reveal her secret, revenge takes an unexpected turn.''Sinful'' by Niobia...

Herland" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a highly successful utopian novel. However, when it was first published, it was not given so much attention. It was first published as a serial in 1915. The novel was first published in a book form only in the year 1979.The novel depicts a society that is completely isolated, composed of entirely of women. The women in that society reproduce through asexual reproduction, parthenogenesis.Literature Help: HerlandCopyrightChapter...

"Sometimes Life Imitates Art. And Sometimes Life Imitates Really Bad Art. . . Rebecca Abbot's life has just gone from vintage feather boas to boring office casual. Thanks to Sylvie Arnaud's heart attack, she's out of a job. But it's Sylvie's French, vaguely famous name on Rebecca's creatively embellished resume that lands her an associate editor position at romance heavyweight Candlelight Books. Editing is a far cry from scouting out exotic groceries,...

It’s the late 1970s, and ex-Pentecostal Black female electric guitarist Rory Tharpe navigates the cutthroat world of corporate rock, dive bars, dusk-to-dawn recording sessions, and shady contracts as she travels the nation in a dilapidated tour bus with her bickering, boozing all-male band. Much-imitated and little-credited, Rory is in a late career tailspin when she goes on tour with international superstar Jude Justis, a white woman blues-rock...