Waking Beauty: A Novel

Author

Doris Buchanan Smith

What do you do without
your best friend?

Jamie isn't afraid of anything. Always ready to get into trouble, then right back out of it, he's a fun and exasperating best friend.

But when something terrible happens to Jamie, his best friend has to face the tragedy alone. Without Jamie,...

Author	Sigrid Nunez
ISBN	0312425945

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year

Sigrid Núñez's The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate,...

Author	Karin Cook
ISBN	0679769447

In the most moving and emotionally stirring fictional debut since Anna Quidlen's One True Thing or Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here, Karin Cook gives us a novel about girls and their mothers, about sibling rivalry and kinship, about the mysterious tug between love and antagonism that lies at the heart...

Author	Liz Ireland
ISBN	0758205430

It's bad enough that actress/waitress Edie Amos's boyfriend leaves her for a job in Istanbul. And that she's been fired from her only acting job--as a dancing fava bean in an industrial show. But how can she possibly pay the rent on her Chelsea dream apartment? Is nothing permanent in this life? The only...

Author	Marguerite Henry
ISBN	0528871471

I enjoyed this book a lot as a kid. The illustrations are very nice and the story, while simple, has a good lesson.

The only qualm I have with it now is that Chip kind of did have a reason to get mad, even if he didn't handle it well and blamed the wrong person. He was used to being spoiled and doted on by...

Author	Darcy Cosper
ISBN	1400051452

Seventeen weddings. Six months. Only the strong survive.

Joy Silverman and her boyfriend, Gabriel Winslow, seem perfect for each other. Living together in New York City, they have everything they want and everything in common--most important, that neither one wants to get married. Ever.

But...

Author	Sharon Krum
ISBN	0452287456

At thirty-one, Jane Spring has everything a woman could ask for and seemingly everything a man could long for--great legs, brains, rising star status in the Manhattan D.A.'s office--but she just can't find a man who'll fall madly in love with her. Men are always lining up to ask her out, but for some reason...

Author	Gail Carson Levine
ISBN	0060560436

In a land far, far away . . .

A boy with magical powers to win Princess Charming's heart. A fairy who likes turning humans into toads. A true love forbidden by the King.

A world of fairies and magic -- what could be more perfect than that? But is it perfect enough to help a simple farm boy marry...

Author	Nick Sullivan
ISBN	0439260078

Okay, I was sitting in church today, thinking about writing a review for this book online. I would have listened to the speakers, except...they were boring. I'm sorry! They are nice people. But really boring.

So anyways, this has to be one of the best books ever written, of all time. I read it 500...

Author	Molly Jong-Fast
ISBN	0375757597

"Randa, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing. I mean, I'm a crazy cocaine addict with a hankering for heroin, but other than that, I'm just a nice Jewish girl from the Upper East Side with Prada shoes. How could anything be wrong?"

Molly Jong-Fast's Normal Girl is striking-and as funny...

Author	Caroline B. Cooney
ISBN	0553494813

Annie Lockwood is testing Time. She asks to travel back a hundred years to 1899, when her beloved Strat is in Cairo. But in what feels like a cruel joke, Annie is transported to ancient Egypt instead, thousands of years before Strat was born.

Powerless, Annie and Strat both look to Time. Can its...

Author

Elaine Barbieri

Reviewed for THC Reviews
Wings of a Dove marks the first time I’ve read a book by Elaine Barbieri, a rather prolific author, I discovered, who’s been published in the romance genre for over thirty years. It’s an epic tale that spans fourteen years in the lives of our hero and heroine, starting...

Author	Pamela Anderson
ISBN	0743493745

Star Wood Leigh's hasty, secret marriage to rock 'n' roll bad boy Jimi Deeds triggers a chain of events that makes Hollywood-tabloid history. Together the couple will soar past the brightest lights and greatest heights of stardom. But as Star and Jimi's lives become more public, their secrets grow...

Author

Melody Carlson

I had a really hard time getting into this book for about the first third. From then on, I didn't want to put it down. The writing style is fairly simple, and the story isn't fancy, but it is a good tale of perseverance and strength.

I have a history of attending a church in which people were a little...

Author	Erin Merryn
ISBN	0757302823

Eleven-year-old Erin Merryn's life was transformed on the night she was sexually abused by her cousin, someone she loved and trusted. As the abuse continued, and as she was forced to see her abuser over and over again in social situations, she struggled with self-doubt, panic attacks, nightmares and...

Author	Linda Jaivin
ISBN	0767901592

In this eye-popping first novel--a bestseller in both the United States and Australia--Linda Jaivin invites readers to overhear what women really talk about when they talk about sex.

When four bright, successful friends meet in Sydney's designer cafés and restaurants to gossip about...

Author	Johanna Edwards
ISBN	0425213846

The national bestselling author of The Next Big Thing and Your Big Break presents her coolest novel yet.

After shedding seventy pounds, Kylie found a new career transforming the socially inept from geek to chic. Her classes on How to Be Cool are Chicago's hottest ticket. But Kylie's still a...

Author	Andrew Klavan
ISBN	0586218459

Voices invade a young woman’s head, compelling her to kill

When Nancy Kincaid comes into work, an unfamiliar woman tells her to leave. This is Nancy Kincaid’s office, the woman says, but you are not Nancy Kincaid. As Nancy protests, her memory grows fuzzy and her reason seems to slip away....

Author	Mina Ford
ISBN	0373250541

I gave up on this book because I HATED the main character and got tired of her insulting pretty much everybody, including overweight people. (Not other characters in the book, mind you; these were general rules to be applied to all of humankind.) Maybe she redeemed herself later in the book, but I wasn't...

Author	Sharon Wyse
ISBN	1573229962

Lou Ann Campbell is nearly twelve years old. She lives on a farm in Texas, and keeps five little dolls in a homemade shoebox house she fixed up for them. The box children are her only friends, the brothers and sisters she never had, the babies her mother was supposed to have but didn't. This is her first diary,...

Author	HelenKay Dimon
ISBN	0758222238

It's Not You, It's Me. . .

For Gabby Pearson, being dumped in public before the dessert course has to be the lowest of the low--especially when it's the old, "It's not you, it's me" speech. Honestly, how about something original: "I have five minutes to live" (very possible); "It's not you, it's...

Author	Danielle Crittenden
ISBN	0446692468

Maybe you know Amanda. Maybe you are Amanda. Whoever you are, you will love Amanda. An important, shrewd, and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel that answers the question: What happens when Bridget Jones or the Sex and the City girls get married and have babies? Nothing ever prepared Amanda for this:...