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	"Berg, Elizabeth - Pull of the Moon - PMUP" Code:0515120898PMUP Price: $1.64 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Jove] 271 pages. From the Publisher Sometimes you have to leave your life behind for a while to see it and really live it freshly again. In this luminous and exquisitely written new novel by Elizabeth Berg, a woman follows the pull of the moon to find her way home. Now, in the middle of her life and with her soul fraying, Nan begins an impromptu trek across the country, inspired by a turquoise leather journal she sees in a bookstore and knows she must buy - and fill. As she writes in it, and talks with people she meets, she also sends letters home to her husband: ""I have felt for so long like I am drowning. And we are so fixed in our ways I couldn't begin to tell you all that has happened inside me...I would be standing over you pouring your coffee...and inside me would be howling so fierce I couldn't believe the sounds weren't coming out of my eyes, out of my ears, from beneath my fingernails."" What makes for this kind of a change in a person? How do we lose our strength, our clarity of vision, our sureness of purpose? And, more important, how do we regain it? Sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, always intimate and honest, The Pull of the Moon is a novel about a woman coming to terms with issues of importance to all women. Nan addresses the thorniness - and the allure - of marriage; the sweet ties to children; the gifts and lessons that come from random encounters with strangers, be they a handsome man appearing out of the woods or a lonely housewife sitting on her front porch steps. Most of all, Nan writes about the need for the self to stay alive. "
	"Blume, Judy - Summer Sisters - PMUG" Code:0440226430PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. Used. [Dell Publishing] 399 pages. From the Publisher Summer Sisters chronicles the lifelong friendship between two women, from their girlhood summers together on Martha's Vineyard to their more complicated adult relationship. Caitlin dazzled Vix from the start, sweeping her into the world of the Somers family, a world of privilege, adventure and sexual daring. Vix's bond with her 'summer' family had forever reshaped her relatioship to her own, opening doors to opportunities she had never imagined. Then, the summer she falls passionately in love, in one shattering moment on a moonswept beach, everything changes, exposing a dark undercurrent in her extraordinary friendship with Caitlin that will haunt them through the years. A riveting exploration of the choices that define our lives, of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and those we struggle to create, and a story for every woman who has ever had a friend too dangerous to forgive and too essential to forget. "
	"Campbell, Bebe Moore - Sweet Summer: Growing Up With & Without My Dad - PMUG" Code:0449149846PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group] 323 pages. From the Publisher This acclaimed memoir by Bebe Moore Campbell, the bestselling author of Brothers and Sisters and Singing in the Comeback Choir, recalls the sweet summers spent with her father-an extraordinary man of dreams and inspiration-in the American South of the 1960s. Bebe Moore Campbell is the author of Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. She is a frequent contributor to NPR's ""Morning Edition"" and is a contributing editor to Essence magazine. "
	"Clarke, Breena - River, Cross My Heart - PMUG" Code:0316898163PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. Used. [Little, Brown & Company] 272 pages. "
	"French, Marilyn - Our Father - PMUG" Code:0345384903PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Random House Publishing Group] 448 pages. From the Publisher Marilyn French has written an extraordinary novel about four sisters who come to terms with the haunting past they share - opening up, discovering themselves and one another for the first time. Their father, the rich and powerful Stephen Upton, lies in the hospital following a stroke. His four daughters - each born of a different mother and ranging widely in age - are estranged from one another. Gathered in Upton's country mansion, awaiting his recovery - or death - they eye one another suspiciously. The eldest, Elizabeth, cold, acerbic, a government economist, takes charge of running the household, just as her father would have expected. Mary, beautiful, charming, a social jet-setter, secretly agonizes about money and finding another wealthy husband. Alex desperately wants to be close to her sisters, but they mock her warmth, kindness, and lack of sophistication. And Ronnie, born of Upton's affair with his Mexican housekeeper, sleeps in the maid's room, feeling her sisters' contempt. Buried within each of them lies their father's legacy - the anger, resentment, and disillusionment they share but have borne silently all these years. At first it is their feelings of pain, rage, and fear that bind them, that continue to cast shadows over their lives. But slowly the walls between them begin to crumble and they come to accept, understand, even love one another. In the novel's powerful and cathartic climax, they are at last able to confront the father they share with what he has done to them. Marilyn French has created a profoundly moving novel in which four women discover sisterhood, and sisterhood sets them free."
	"Gibbons, Kaye - Charms for the Easy Life - PMUG" Code:0380722704PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [HarperCollins Publishers] 290 pages. From the Publisher A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts. Sophia, Margaret, and Charlie Kate find strength in a time when women almost always depended on men, and their bond deepens as each one experiences love and loss during World War II. Charms for the Easy Life is a passionate, luminous, and exhilarating story about embracing what life has to offer ... even if it means finding it in unconventional ways.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. "
	"Goldsmith, Olivia - The First Wives Club - PMUG" Code:0671797050PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group] 528 pages. From the Publisher A sexy, wickedly funny story of three first wives who band together to seek revenge on the husbands who used, abused, and then abandonded them in their 40s for younger wives. "
	"Goudge, Eileen - Trail of Secrets - PMUG" Code:0451187741PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Signet] 526 pages. From the Publisher Ellie Nightingale was a struggling unwed teenager when her baby daughter was kidnapped. Nearly twenty-five years later, Ellie, now married and a respected psychologist, remains haunted by her loss. Unable to conceive another child, she is desperately trying to adopt - an obsession that is destroying her marriage to Paul, a neonatologist for whom each day is a battle to keep his tiny infant patients alive. Former equestrienne Kate Sutton, left crippled by the riding accident that cost her the baby she was carrying, knows the truth about Ellie's child - a dark secret she guards jealously, because to reveal it not only would risk her husband's devotion, but tear from her arms the adopted daughter she loves as her own. Skyler Sutton is a young champion for whom no hurdle is ever too high - until she's challenged by her seemingly impossible love for Tony Salvatore, a tough-talking New York City mounted policeman. Pregnant with Tony's child, she makes the most heart-wrenching decision of her life: to give up their baby for adoption. And Tony knows a woman therapist who wants a baby more than anything ... a desire that ultimately leads to an explosive courtroom climax in which fate is brought full circle. "
	"Hoffman, Alice - At Risk - PMUG" Code:0425117383PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Penguin Group (USA)] 275 pages. From the Publisher In a novel the Village Voice calls ""memorable"" and ""striking"", Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when 11-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS. "
	"Hoffman, Alice - Illumination Night - PMUG" Code:0449215946PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Random House Publishing Group] 247 pages. From the Publisher ""Subtle touches...make this intelligent novel shine. Ms. Hoffman knows how to tell a story."" THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Set on Martha's Vineyard, here is a stunning novel that brings that beautiful island to vivid life-a novel that weaves together the lives of a little boy, an elderly woman, a blond giant, a young couple, and a teenaged girl...lives of intense erotic longing, of quiet understanding, of willful determination. It is a novel of magic and mystery, and a literary event that confirms Alice Hoffman as one of our finest and most compelling writers. "
	"Hoffman, Alice - Second Nature - PMUG" Code:0425146812PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Penguin Group (USA)] 290 pages. From the Publisher A New York Times bestseller, Second Nature tells the story of a suburban woman, Robin Moore, who discovers her own free spirit through a stranger she brings home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood. As Robin impulsively draws this beautiful, uncivilized man into her world-meanwhile coping with divorce and a troubled teenage son-she begins to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart, and ultimately she changes her ideas about love and humanity. "
	"Hoffman, Alice - Seventh Heaven - PMUG" Code:0449220184PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Random House Publishing Group] 288 pages. From the Publisher ""SEVENTH HEAVEN confirms her place as one of the finest writers of her generation."" NEWSWEEK Nora is ahead of her time. A single mother in 1950s suburbia, she's strong, sexy, passionate, and mysterious. Everyone in town is touched by her, and in the mirror of her magnetism, people see themselves as never before. With Nora's courageous image before them, they begin to ask themselves questions they had never asked-finding answers they had never dared to imagine.... ""Brilliant and astonishing...Suffused with magic."" COSMOPOLITAN "
	"Lott, Bret - Jewel - PMUG" Code:0671042572PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Pocket Books] 560 pages. From the Publisher In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable heroines in contemporary American fiction. "
	"McCullough, Colleen - Creed for the Third Millennium - PMUG" Code:0380701340PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [HarperCollins Publishers] 458 pages. From the Publisher Tomorrow's America is a cold and ravaged place, a nation devastated by despair and enduring winter. In a small New England city, senior government official Dr. Judith Carriol finds the man she has been seeking: a deliverer of hope in a hopeless time who can revive the dreams of a shattered people; a magnetic, compassionate idealist whom Judith can mold, manipulate and carry to undreamed-of heights; a healer who must ultimately face damnation through the destructive power of love."
	"McMillan, Terry - Disappearing Acts - PMUG" Code:0671872001PMUG Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group] 384 pages. From the Publisher He was tall, dark as bittersweet chocolate, and impossibly gorgeous, with a woman-melting smile. She was pretty and independent, petite and not too skinny, just his type. Franklin Swift was a sometimes-employed construction worker, and a not-quite-divorced daddy of two. Zora Banks was a teacher, singer, songwriter. They met in a Brooklyn brownstone, and there could be no walking away... In this funny, gritty urban love story, Franklin and Zora join the ranks of fiction's most compelling couples, as they move from Scrabble to sex, from layoffs to the limits of faith and trust. Disappearing Acts is about the mystery of desire and the burdens of the past. It's about respect, what it can and can't survive. And it's about the safe and secret places that only love can find. "