A wickedly funny fairy tale for modern women from Sarah Strohmeyer,the "laugh- out-loud funny" (Washington Post Book World) author of The Cinderella Pact and The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives. "Opening a book by Sara...

Two years after the opening of Liquor, New Orleans chefs Rickey and G-man are immersed in the life of their restaurant, enjoying a loyal cast of diners, and cooking great booze-laced food. All’s well until a bad review in a loca...

Pardon our French, but in Miss Julia's newest nonstop adventure, "steel magnolias kick butt" (Kirkus Reviews). Miss Julia has promised her adoring husband, Sam, to mind her own business. What a relief! Instead of trying to...

A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring a cow-creamer, the redheaded Miss Wickham, and the formidable schoolmaster Aubrey Upjohn.Jeeves is infallible. Jeeves is indispensable. Unfortunately, in How Right You Are, Jeeves, he is also in ...

This justly popular underground classic is an ecologist's delight: a band of renegade activists set out to sabotage the developers who are taking over their beloved desert landscape. Abbey's famously crabby, indignant, and powerfully ...

In a remarkable debut novel that sizzles with sensuality, crackles with life-affirming energy and moves the reader to laughter and tears, author Pearl Cleage creates a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate unde...

Newlywed Megan finds her marriage to Matt compromised by her secret pregnancy, mooching family members, battling mothers-in-law, her college midterms, an infant niece left in her care, and an incontinent terrier. By the author of sMot...

From the acclaimed author of Gucci Gucci Coo and Apocalipstick comes a funny, sexy novel about questionable engagements—and a love worthy perhaps of the big screen.Florist Abby Crompton has a knack for arranging the most exquisite b...

When best friends Gemma and Sarah decide to get even with the men who have wronged them, they start a Web site dedicated to exposing cheaters and cheapskates, but the site quickly spirals out of control. Original. 35,000 first printin...

A modern classic, now in a welcome new edition, Wonder Boys firmly established Michael Chabon as a force to be reckoned with in American fiction. At once a deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and ...

Since 1976, Maupin's Tales of the City has etched itself upon the hearts and minds of its readers, both straight and gay. From a groundbreaking newspaper serial in the San Francisco Chronicle to a bestselling novel to a critically acc...

In 1955, Auntie Mame spent 112 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, but that was only her first act. Three years later, thousands of fans celebrated her reappearance in a novel of international hijinks. Narrated once again by ...

There seems no reason why the courtship of a wealthy bachelor like George Finch should not run sweetly to its natural conclusion. But George has fallen in love with Molly Waddington. And Mrs Waddington prefers the idea of an aristocra...

Perfect for fans of Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin, this tender and heartwarming novel explores the trials of losing what matters most—and how there's always more than we can imagine left to find. Dear Libby, It occurs to me that...

Three decades after its original bestselling publication, Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York is still completely on target as the most achingly funny book-length suicide note ever written by an agonizingly single 30-year-old...

"Sublime comic genius"—Ben EltonThese eleven stories describe the misadventures of the delightfully idle "Eggs," "Beans," and "Crumpets" that populate the Drones club: young men wearing spats,...

From the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a wise, clever story of New York in the '60sIt's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't se...

British businessman and dedicated angler Paul Torday has found a way to combine a novel about fishing and all that it means with a satire involving politics, bureaucrats, the Middle East, the war in Iraq, and a sheikh who is really a ...

It is a time of stress at Market Snodsbury, as Bertie must protect himself from the affections of Madeleine Bassett. Bertie always tries to look on the bright side—only this time there doesn't seem to be one. If only Jeeves could co...

Jimmy Crocker, aka Piccadilly Jim, is a lively young American ex-newspaper man who meets Ann Chester, the girl of his dreams, in London. The problem is that Jim once wrote a bad review of her first book of poetry. They set sail to New...

When Tuppy tells his fiancee that her hat makes her look like a Pekingese, she huffily calls off their engagement. But love is in the air for Gussie Fink-Nottle. He abandons his beloved newts to court the new object of his affections,...

The ninth Earl of Rowcaster, also known as Bill, has a certain Jeeves temporarily in his employment. At the racetrack, Bill, posing as a bookie, has run off with Captain Biggar's generous winnings and retreated to Rowcaster Abbey.

The New York Times bestseller by one of the best-loved authors in women's fictionWith this life-affirming tale of friendship and fate, Jane Green once again shows why she is a nationally bestselling author with legions of loyal fans. ...

Struggling to deal with serving as maid of honor at her younger sister’s wedding, turning thirty, and her demanding job as personal assistant to Hollywood’s sexiest movie star, Drew Stanton, Charlize "Charlie" Ed...

A woman named Cannie Shapiro is (like the author) a columnist for a Philadelphia newspaper. Life is good until her ex-husband starts writing his own column, for a hip magazine, called 'Good in Bed,' in which he details the intimate tr...

After an arranged marriage in India, Priya and her husband move to California, where they share a house with his parents and she is expected to play the traditional role as daughter-in-law, but her growing love for her new husband is ...

After breaking with her erratic newscaster boyfriend, disaffected British publicist Rosie Richardson finds a new, fulfilling career running a relief camp in Africa. When famine hits her community, she returns to London to organize a c...

On generating the perfect party in Hollywood: If celebrities don’t walk your red carpet, you don’t exist.If you don’t make Page Six, you don’t exist.To get ten celebrities to show up, invite four hundred. And s...

A sequel to the best-selling I Do (But I Don’t) finds Lily Crandell, the sister of Lauren, impulsively eloping with an up-and-coming rock star whose promising career proves more difficult than expected, a situation that compels ...

A high powered Wall Streeter named Becca Reinhart and a playboy named Edward Kirkland--who runs a family philanthropic foundation--are brought together when they are given joint custody of a young girl. Whether these two can overcome ...