by Stephanie Reents
"An inventive debut that recalls the imagination of Aimee Bender and the sardonic wit of Lorrie Moore. The interlocking stories in The Kissing List feature an unforgettable group of young women – Sylvie, Anna, Frances, Maureen – as their lives connect, first during a year abroad at Oxford, then later as they move to New York on the cusp of adulthood.
We follow each of them as they navigate the treachery of first dates, temp jobs and roommates, failed relationships and unexpected affairs – all the things that make their lives seem full of possibility, but also rife with potential disappointment. Shot through with laugh-out-loud lines, yet still wrenchingly emotional and resonant, The Kissing List is a book about women who bravely defy expectations and take outrageous chances in the face of a life that might turn out to be anything less than extraordinary." - publisher
Cross My Heart
by Carly Phillips
Marrying Up
by Jackie Rose
A Life of Bright Ideas
by Sandra Kring
"Nine years ago Button and Winnalee began recording observations in their
Book of Bright Ideas, a tome they believed would solve the mystery of
how to live a mistake-free life. Now it's 1970, a time of peace, love,
war, and personal heartbreak. Button's mother is dead and her grieving
father has all but abandoned his children. Quiet, thoughtful Button has
traded college for a sewing job in her mother's bridal shop to help her
Aunt Verdella raise her whirlwind six-year-old brother. In Button's free
time, she writes letters to the boy she loved from afar through high
school, hoping he will come to love her as more than a friend.Then, like that magical Wisconsin summer of '61, Button is greeted with the wild, gusty arrival of Winnalee. Now a beautiful flower child, Winnalee is everything Button is not. She's been to Woodstock and enjoys "free love," but their steadfast bond of friendship is tested as Button begins to notice the cracks in Winnalee's carefree façade. And then Winnalee's mother arrives with a surprise that Button never sees coming, and the fiery determination to put things right in both families once and for all." -publisher

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