Contemporary Women

Marie Bostwick weaves the unforgettable story of four very different women whose paths cross, changing their lives forever...

It’s a long way from Fort Worth, Texas, to New Bern, Connecticut, yet it only takes a day in the charming Yankee town to make

Opening night, and Mattie suspects sabotage. Contemplating art, love and the meaning of life in the bottom of her brandy glass, she's aware treachery is in the air. Her masterwork stage-set design is not safe, and neither it appears, are the affections

Jake LaMotta was named after a champion fighter, but lately she's been feeling beaten down. The newspaper where she works as a reporter won't raise her pay. She's got a new editor to impress. She's having dizzy spells. Worst of all, Jake and her husband

Shortly before turning the big 5-0, boisterous party planner and Cooking with Gusto! personality Augusta "Gus" Simpson finds herself planning a birthday party she'd rather not-her own. She's getting tired of being the hostess, the mother hen, the woman

"Perceptive, touching and always hilarious, Family Affair is Caprice Crane's best work yet. It's an irresistible story with equal parts humor and heart." —Emily Giffin, author of Love the One You're With

"The phrase 'You don't marry the man;

Monica McInerney is the author of the international bestseller The Alphabet Sisters. She lives in Ireland.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Bertie is at it again. It starts when she wants a traffic light at a dangerous intersection. But because the purchase of an automatic traffic counter would cut into the city council's Christmas party fund, Bertie is forced to count each car personally

Putting corporate disregard for ecology on trial, this novel follows Vexcorp, a wealthy corporation that, at a safe distance, counts both the lives of others and the health of the environment as expenses on a balance sheet-but that distance is about to

Outrageous artist August Stockyard - attention-seeking heir to a media and property empire - dies in typically theatrical fashion . and the mischief that drove his life's work culminates in the bequest of adjoining houses to his pregnant girlfriend, Cressida,

What's a man to do when he's seen too much of life's dark side and suddenly finds himself believing in flesh-and-blood angels who can heal with a single touch? What's a girl to do when she believes in true love but can't trust the eyes of her own heart?