Take one part love and mix
it with one part laughter and you get a rollicking good romantic comedy.
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- Sarah Bird. Alamo
House: Women without Men, Men without Brains
- The sorority sisters of Alamo House at the University of Texas
may be at comic odds with each other, but at least they have one
thing in common: They all hate the fraternity rats across the
street, the Sigma Upsilon Kappas-aka the SUKs. Amid the turmoil,
the house is home to an enduring friendship of three women. Together
they embark on a roller coaster of escapades that changes them
all-and galvanizes Alamo House into an all-out counterattack against
the SUKs. The result is infectious, side-splitting fun sure to
convince everyone that Mary Jo, Collie, and Fayrene are the best
southwestern mixture since tequila, lime, and salt.
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- Sarah
Bird. Virgin
of the Rodeo
- Sonja
Getz, a strapping, loud-mouthed outcast from small-town Texas,
hitches up with an over-the-hill trick roper to search for the
father who abandoned her as an infant.
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- Dorothy
Cannell. Bridesmaids
Revisted and others
- More laugh-out-loud lunacy is offered by the wickedly witty
outrageously popular Cannell as sleuth Ellie Haskell ventures
beyond the grave and through the murderous maze of her family
tree.
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- Jennifer
Crusie. Tell
Me Lies and others
- Maddie
Faraday's life would be perfect--if it weren't for her cheating
husband, her suspicious daughter, her gossipy mother, her secretive
best friend, her nosy neighbors, and that guy she lost her virginity
to twenty years ago...
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- Nora
Ephron. Heartburn
- Out
of analysis and seven months pregnant, cookbook writer Rachel
Samstat discovers that her husband is into analysis and an affair
and suffers six weeks of intense heartburn.
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- Katie
Fforde. Stately
Pursuits
- From the author of "Wild Designs" comes the funny, endearing
story of a young woman who, after finding her lover in bed with
another woman, retreats to the crumbling Victorian estate of an
aging relative and ends up finding a new love.
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- Suzanne
Finnamore. Otherwise
Engaged
- What happens to an attractive, intelligent, formerly rational
woman when the man she has been chasing finally pops the question?
Eve has 12 months and 27 Valium left until the big day--plenty
of time to contemplate the exasperating ritual otherwise known
as modern marriage.
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- Patricia
Gaffney. Crooked
Hearts and others
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As two crooked hearts
go, Reuben and Grace are made for each other. But in the gambling
dens and sinful backstreets of 1880s San Francisco, it's love
-- not larceny -- that's about to become the most dangerous
and delicious game they've ever played....
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- Olivia
Goldsmith. Switcheroo
- This is the hilarious tale of two women, a wife and a mistress,
who switch places when they realize that each wants what the other
has.
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- Helen Fielding. Bridget
Jones's Diary and others
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Bridget Jones's Diary charts a devastatingly self-aware, hilarious
year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton. Here is the
daily chronicle of her permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement
- a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of
each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not
merely to buy a sandwich, and form a functional relationship with
a responsible adult.
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- Jane
Heller. Secret
Ingredient and others
- Bestselling author Heller delivers a rollicking social satire
for any woman who has ever said, "If only he would change." After
a visit to a Beverly Hills doctor, Elizabeth Baskin is convinced
she's found the secret ingredient to save her marriage: a packet
of miracle herbs to restore her husband to his "perfect" self.
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- Susan
Isaacs. Long
Time No See and others
- She's back! After more than two decades, Judith Singer, the
heroine of Compromising
Positions, returns in a rollicking new novel. Singer's life
has changed and she finds herself surrounded by crime and chaos
when a prominent Long Island housewife vanishes into thin air.
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- Marian
Keyes. Other
Side of the Story and
others
- In her signature style, bestselling author KeyesU new, funny,
warm-hearted novel takes place in the whirlwind world of book
publishing, and concerns the fate of three women trying to climb
the ladders of career, karma and that elusive bestseller list.
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- Elinor
Lipman. The
Pursuit of Alice Thrift and others
- Poor Alice Thrift is book-smart but people-hopeless. When Ray
Russo, social-climbing purveyor of carnival fudge, decides to
pursue her romantically, Alice reluctantly follows. "The Pursuit
of Alice Thrift" brings the socially tone-deaf Alice out from
under the burden of her clueless and beautiful mind.
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- Judy
Markey. The
Daddy Clock
- Charlie is a sportswriter whose father's unexpected heart attack
sets his own biological clock ticking. He decides he wants a family,
but he doesn't have a girlfriend. He enlists the help of Lacy,
a single mom who works on the advice desk of their newspaper.
Lacy thought her biolocical clock had stopped, but complications
ensue when she becomes pregnant.
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- Linda
Nichols. Handyman
- Sweet, struggling Maggie Ivey is a twenty-six-year-old single
mom trying to keep it all together, burdened by a lecherous boss,
a dead-end job, and a worried mother who just wants her to move
back home to Georgia. Maggie's prospects look dim, until her friend
Gina signs her up for the famous Dr. Jason Golding's "21-Day Overhaul".
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- Susan
Elizabeth Phillips. It
Had to Be You
and others
- The Windy City isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville--the
trendy, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the
Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared
for the Stars' head coach Dan Calebo--an Alabama-born former gridiron
legend and blond barbarian. He's everything Phoebe abhors, and
she is everything Dan despises. So why are they drawn to each
other?
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