It’s not the shoes, the scarves, or the lipstick that gives French women their allure. It’s this: French women don’t give a damn. They don’t expect men to understand them. They don’t care about being liked or being like everyone else. They accept the passage of time; celebrate the immediacy of pleasure; embrace ambiguity and imperfection; and prefer having a life to making a living. In What French Women Know, Debra Ollivier goes beyond stale ooh-la-la stereotypes, challenging ingrained notions about sex, love, marriage, motherhood, and everything in between. With savvy, provocative thinking from French mistresses and maidens alike,
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Mia Wells’s eco-friendly career goals are about to become a reality, but her life-altering moment is interrupted when an unexpected call ushers in a tremulous past. The man who’s never left Mia’s memory, the one whose disappearance broke her heart, has mysteriously resurfaced.
As a college student in Athens, Georgia, Mia lived a predictable life. It all changed when Flynn arrived—a man with a doubtful past, half a name, and no ties to anything earthbound, except Mia. His edgy appearance has a story to match, pushing every boundary Mia knows. Fiercely passionate, deeply sensitive, Flynn’s dark past isn’t enough to stop Mia from trusting him with her dreams and her life.
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From one of today’s hottest novelists—a provocative story about friendship and self-discovery.
Catherine Madison left her small town in Nebraska after her husband deserted her. She’s also left behind her most shameful secrets—of a family and a marriage that have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she’s trying to become a new person. But running away from the past isn’t as easy as she’d hoped. Her journey leads her to Las Vegas, where she forms surprising new friendships that compel her to reveal what she’d sworn she’d keep hidden,
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Joanie’s ex-husband is having a baby with his new girlfriend. Joanie won’t be having more babies, since she’s decided never to have sex again.
But she still has her teenaged daughter Caroline to care for. And thanks to the recession, her elderly mother Ivy as well. Her daughter can’t seem to exist without texting, and her mother brags about “goggling,”-while Joanie, back in the workforce, is still trying to figure out her office computer. And how to fend off the advances of her coworker Bruce.
Joanie, Caroline, and Ivy are stuck under the same roof,
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A captivating sequel to the national bestselling novel Veil of Roses.
Knowing she could never be happy in Iran, Tamila Soroush took her mother’s advice to “Go and wake up your luck” and joined her sister in the United States. Now, after a spur-of-the-moment exchange of “I do”s with her true love, Ike Hanson, Tami is eager to start her new life. But not everyone is pleased with their marriage, and Tami’s happily- ever-after is no sure thing. With an interview with Immigration looming, Tami wonders if she’s got the right stuff when it comes to love,
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In life, Frank could’ve had any woman he wanted.
In death, he’ll try to win back the one that mattered…
Frank Wildermuth always regretted a mistake he made as a teenager: choosing Clara Murphy over her sister Gert. And like a true Murphy woman, Gert got on with her life, never admitting to heartbreak. Not even now, decades later, with Frank dead-dead, that is, but not quite gone. Now, Frank’s niece, Andie Murphy, is back in town to settle his estate, and she sees that things have changed in Hartman, Connecticut.
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