I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
I Feel Bad About My Neck and others thoughts on being a woman by Nora Ephron

Amazing Grace by Danielle Steel

From the back cover:

On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom, as a glittering celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect- until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway….

In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge… Sarah Sloane, the wife of financial whiz, watchers her perfect world fall to pieces…. Grammy -winning singer Melanie Free comes to a turning point in her life and career… Photographer Everett Carson finds new purpose amid the carnage… and Sister Maggie Kent, a nun who works with the homeless, searches through the rubble – and knows that there is much to be done….

As the  city staggers back to life, a chain reaction of extraordinary events will touch each of the survivors… Sarah discovers a crime and a betrayal, then a strength she never knew she had. Volunteering at a refugee camp opens new worlds of possibilities for Melanie. Everett will forge an unlikely relationship with Maggie, who helps him rebuild his shattered life – and upends her own in the process. And as a year passes, each discovers the unexpected gifts in a tragedy’s wake… and the amazing grace of new beginnings.

Throughout these enthralling pages. Danielle Steel creates a stunning array of contrasts – from the dazzle of a society benefit to the chaos of a makeshift hospital, from the pampered lives of rock stars to the quiet heroism of emergency volunteers. It is her most powerful and life-affirming novel to date.

ISBN: 978-0-440-24327-4

Match Game by Beverly Brandt

From the back cover: On the most special day of your life, your wedding day, the cops bust in and wrongfully arrest you at the altar for money laundering and tax evasion. The only rings you leave the church with that day are the ones made by the handcuffs on your wrists. You are soon released because you prove to the Feds that is was someone else who stole your identity… but your fiance isn’t as easily convinced and hits the road. Continue reading →

Then Comes Seduction by Mary Balogh Copyright 2009

ISBN 978-0-440-24423-3

From the back cover:

In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his reputation as London’s most notorious lover on one woman. His challenge? To seduce the exquisite, virtuous Katherine Huxtable within a fortnight. But when his best-laid plans go awry, Jasper devises a wager of his own. For Katherine, already wildly attracted to him, Jasper’s offer is irresistible: to make London’s most dangerous rake fall in love with her. Then Jasper suddenly ups the ante. Katherine knows she should refuse. But with scandal brewing and her reputation in jeopardy, she reluctantly agrees to become his wife. Now, as passion ignites, the seduction really begins. And this time the prize is nothing less than both their hearts…..

Irresistible by Mary Balogh

From beloved New York Times best selling author Mary Balogh comes this passionate tale of a proper lady who discovers just how desirable she really is after one very improper night….It was unthinkable. It was irresponsible, It was…

IRRESISTIBLE

Sophia Armitage was a friend, indeed. She had agreed to help Sire Nathaniel Gascoigne find a husband for his cousin Lavinia in the glittering city of London – only half hoping that she’d find one for herself. Sophia knew the odds were against her. Men simply did not seem to be attracted to her – not that way. Even her late husband had treated Sophia more as a companion than a lover. But then something shocking happened in London – Sophia found herself in the arms of Nathaniel himself ! Not only did this act of indiscretion threaten their lifelong friendship, it revealed a depth of passion that defied everything Sophia believed about herself..

ISBN: 978-0-425-22103-7
Type: Historical Romance

Star Flight by Phyllis A. Whitney

From the inside jacket cover:

The hauntingly beautiful mountains of North Carolina provide the stunning back-drop for the latest novel from Phyllis Whitney. She spins a chilling tale of Lauren Castle’s search for the truth behind her husband’s accidental death and her famous grandmother’s suicide. Two generations divide these tragic events, yet both seem curiously and inextricably linked.

In 1938, two of Hollywood’s most glittering young stars, Victoria Frazer and Roger Brandt, were cast in a movie set in these mountains. Drawn to each other with a passion that was destined to cool, their ill-fated affair ended with the birth of an illegitimate daughter, Victoria’s death, and the end of Roger’s career. Ostracized by the movie industry, judged morally corrupt by fans, Roger Brandt stayed on in North Carolina, but still the scandal became the stuff of Hollywood legend.

Many years later, Lauren Castle is drawn into Brandt’s orbit by a more recent tragedy: the death of her filmmaker husband. Only Lauren  knows that she is the daughter of Roger and Victoria’s love child. As she begins to make sense of what happened to her husband and what happened in her family’s past, she risks exposing herself to an evil that reaches with undiminished virulence across two generations.

IBM 0-517-59499-4

Murder in the Hamptons by Amy Garvey

From the back cover:

Maggie Harding has a few rules for living. Order, control, and carefully checked-off to do-lists equal a safe life. Safe is good. What’s not good is, oh, hmmm, maybe having a wild, passionate, naked pizza-eating weekend fling with type A  Brody, the kind of guy who leaves a girl shaken and stirred, deep down. Bad. Bad, bad, bad. What to do? Run away. Constraint is better than chaos. Right?

So what’s that same girl to do when she runs into the guy five years later at a big Hamptons bash, and he’s staring at her with that naughty, right-here-right-now grin, while she’s trying not to make an idiot of herself in front of lots of rich people and “It” list Hollywood stars? Make another run for it. Except that she can’t. Because somebody’s dead on the lawn and “house party” has just become “house arrest”. The only way out of this insanity is for Maggie to find the murderer herself, even if the biggest mystery is why she ever belived that saying good-bye to Tyler was the right thing to do…

ISBN 0-7582-1041-8

The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella  Copyright 2005 ISBN 978-0-440-24238-3

The Undomestic Goddess is a genuinely funny sweet book. Kinsella is a comic whiz who consistently delivers what her readers crave.

Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of partnership.

Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big beautiful house, she’s mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as a housekeeper.

Her employers have no idea they’ve hired a lawyer – and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. she can’t sew on a button, bake a potato, or get the #ing ironing board to open. How she takes a deep breath and begins to cope – and finds love – is a story as delicious as the bread she learns to bake.

But will her old life ever catch up with her? and if it does, does she want it back?

Hunting Season by Nevada Barr Copyright 2002 ISBN 0-425-18878-7

Park Ranger Anna Pigeon returns to face her most duplicitous for – human nature- in the latest entry in Nevada Barr’s series….

The quiet beauty of t autumn on Mississippi’s Natchez Trace is swiftly shattered when Anna answers a call to Mt. Locust, once a working plantation and inn, now a tourist spot. But the man Anna finds in an old bedroom is no tourist in distress.  He’s nearly naked and very dead – his body bearing marks consistent with sex games gone awry. On a writing table nearby is an open Bible with ominous passages circled in red.

There are secrets that prominent men in this God-fearing country wish to keep under wraps – and Anna has stumbled into a nest of them.

Dare to Die by Carolyn Hart copyright 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-145305-2
She came in the rain. Alone. On a bicycle. After more than a decade Iris Tilford is back in Broward’s Rock – and her return has nasty and unexpected repercussions that are rocking Annie and Max Darling’s sea island hometown. Years ago Iris disappeared after a fatal high school tragedy. Now that she’s home again, Annie’s extending the hand of friendship by inviting the sad, beautiful, and mysterious stranger to the Darling’s party at the pavilion.

But Death, as it turns out, is an uninvited guest at their gala. Suddenly Max and Annie are in the middle of a devastating storm of rage, secrets, and murder that they don’t understand. All they do know is that now someone is trying to kill them- an it’s someone they call their friend.