Penelope

Author	Joe Meno
ISBN	1617750751

No one dies in Office Girl. Nobody talks about the international political situation. There is no mention of any economic collapse. Nothing takes place during a World War.

Instead, this novel is about young people doing interesting things in the final moments of the last century. Odile is...

Author	Meg Howrey
ISBN	0307949826

I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake last night.

So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company who is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world. At every turn she is haunted by her close relationship with her younger sister, Gwen, a fellow...

Author	Elizabeth Crane
ISBN	0062099477

A funny and moving debut novel that follows four generations of a singularly weird American family, all living under one roof, as each member confronts a moment of crisis in a narrative told through a uniquely quirky, charming, and unforgettable voice. Acclaimed short story writer Elizabeth Crane,...

Author	Don Lee
ISBN	0393083217

A sparkling bildungsroman about friendship and betrayal, art and race.

In 1988, Eric Cho, an aspiring writer, arrives at Macalester College. On his first day he meets a beautiful fledgling painter, Jessica Tsai, and another would-be novelist, the larger-than-life Joshua Yoon. Brilliant,...

Author	Molly Shapiro
ISBN	0345527631

In Molly Shapiro’s fun and sexy debut novel, four women try to sort through the wild and complicated world of text messaging, status updates, and other high-speed connections.  
 
Best friends and fellow midwesterners Katie, Annie, Maxine, and Claudia are no strangers to dealing with...

Author	Ted Heller
ISBN	1565126203

In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world.

When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn,...

Author	Claudia Welch
ISBN	0425247430

In 1975, trying to find a place to belong, four young women found each other in the same sorority pledge class. Through parties and pranks; finals and skipped classes; boyfriends and break-ups, they forge a bond that takes them by surprise. No one expected it to last beyond college graduation....

Author	Karl Taro Greenfeld
ISBN	0062132393

Karl Taro Greenfeld, author of the acclaimed memoir Boy Alone, delivers a stylish first novel about a group of families in a fashionable Manhattan neighborhood wrestling with the dark realities of their lives.

A book reminiscent of Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists and Jennifer Egan's...

Author	Elizabeth Collins
ISBN	9780982859

What is beauty? Why do women usually think they are not beautiful, and what do women (and men) find truly beautiful in life? These important questions are answered in "THE BEAUTIFUL ANTHOLOGY: Essays, Poems & Art," the new book from the acclaimed literary site The Nervous Breakdown (TNB Books)....

Author	Kris D'Agostino
ISBN	1565129512

In the spirit of novels by Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta, a smart, funny debut about a disillusioned young man whose fledgling leap from postadolescence to adulthood lands him back in an already overburdened family nest.

Calvin Moretti can’t believe how much his life sucks. He’s a twenty-four-year-old...

Author	Ted Sanders
ISBN	1555976166

The winner of the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, a bold debut collection 
The animals (human or otherwise) in Ted Sanders's inventive, wistful stories are oddly familiar, yet unlike anyone you've met before. A lion made of bedsheets, with chicken bones for teeth, is brought to life by a grieving...

Author	Shane Jones
ISBN	0143121197

Ever since he was a boy, Daniel Suppleton has been deathly afraid of hurricanes, which he fears will arrive suddenly and reduce everyone he knows and loves to trembling skeletons. Retreating to live in a tipi in the woods, Daniel battles demons real and imagined. As his ex-wife, Karen, frantically searches...

Author	Jessica Grose
ISBN	0062188348

As a writer for Chick Habit, an increasingly popular women's website, Alex Lyons gets paid to be a bitch. She's churning out several posts a day, and she saves her juiciest ones for blog prime time, when working women eat their sad desk salads in their offices. Alex tells herself she's fulfilling her dream...

Author	Janet Groth
ISBN	1616201312

In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands,...

Author	Davy Rothbart
ISBN	0374280843

Davy Rothbart is looking for love in all the wrong places. Constantly. He falls helplessly in love with pretty much every girl he meets—and rarely is the feeling reciprocated. Time after time, he hops in a car and tears across half of America with his heart on his sleeve. He’s continually coming up...

Author	Amy Sohn
ISBN	1439158495

In her trademark blend of social satire and sexy drama, New York Times bestselling author Amy Sohn delivers a candid, unsentimental look at modern marriage.

With her trademark blend of “social satire, interpersonal drama, and urban glamour” (The New York Times), Amy Sohn delivers a...

Author	Meredith Goldstein
ISBN	0452298059

Take an instantly recognizable social dilemma—attending a wedding alone—add a good laugh (and maybe a cry), and meet The Singles, the warm and witty debut by Boston Globe “Love Letters” columnist Meredith Goldstein.

Beth “Bee” Evans’s first vow as a bride is that everyone...

Author	Ben Hewitt
ISBN	1616630566

Alone and adrift in the world, Chase Pollard wakes up one morning and makes the decision to abandon it all, leaving behind his family, friends, and everything he's ever known. Thus begins Ben Hewitt's debut novel, I Toss Till Dawn, the episodic road adventure of one teen seeking meaning and purpose for...

Author	Karen Bergreen
ISBN	1250001765

Think you want to be the perfect mom? Think again.....

Kate Alger has finally found the cure for her post-partum depression. After years of suffering, all it takes to bring this mommy back to life were a few gruesome homicides! When someone starts offing the alpha-moms from Kate's daughter's...

Author	Nancy Star
ISBN	0446581828

Annie Fleming's family has always adjusted well to her hard driving career. How could they not? Annie keeps them in line at home with typed, edited, and proofed to-do and not-to-do lists for her husband, her babysitter, and her daughter. (No TV on a school night, please!) But when an obnoxious co-worker...

Author	Susan Wiggs
ISBN	0373892276

Bestselling author Susan Wiggs literally wrote the book on happily-ever-after love. But orchestrating her daughter Elizabeth's real-world wedding turned into a different story altogether, and one that takes two to tell—the mother and the bride.Here is the all-too-true tale of a mother and daughter...

Author	Erin K. McCambridge
ISBN	1490926550

17 days, 13 hours and 24 minutes, that’s how long it took me to realize that I had fallen in love, with him of all people.
Charlotte Murs. Young, beautiful and in a happy relationship, perfect even.
She never meant to fall in love with him, she didn’t even like him but I guess that being held hostage...

Author	Yona Zeldis McDonough
ISBN	0451237943

The Silverstein family is coming together in Great Neck, Long Island, for the nuptials of the youngest daughter. Always considered the favorite—and the object of much envy and resentment—Angelica has planned a fairy tale wedding to her fiancé, a former fighter pilot. But there are storm clouds...

Author

C. Elizabeth

Triggering an intervention of fate, 42 year old Rose Gerbaldi, discovers her heart and soul has been forever united with beautiful, 30 year old, British movie star, Michael Terrance. A discovery that compels her reality to firmly reclaim her - consequently devastating the very lives fate had so lovingly...

Author	Megan Crane
ISBN	0446698563

Courtney, Norah, and Raine Cassel are as different as three sisters can be. Norah, the oldest, is a type A obsessive who hasn't forgiven Raine, the middle sister, for ruining her wedding day six years ago. Raine is Norah's opposite, a wild child/performance artist/follow-your-bliss hippie chick...