A woman's guide to getting rid of her deadbeat husband, boyfriend or boo thing.

They were the first generation in their families to graduate from college and to work at salary paying jobs: Adrian, Deshaun, Earl, and Fiona. They've found out that it was after the climb, came the real struggle to stay Out of the Barrel.

Elementary school teacher Viv Nowak has a sympathetic heart and abominable taste in men. She expects an engagement ring when her live-in lover of six years lands a terrific job in a new city. Instead, she gets dumped . . . on Valentine’s Day! Everyone, from her best friends to her father to her estranged mother, has an opinion on how she should fix her life. Her friends even insist on a dating do-over. But will they like her choice when she finally decides what her heart wants? Tags: contemporary women's fiction, chicklit, romance, humor, friends to lovers, pets, fashion shoes

Happy endings aren't always the end. Emmie Duncan believed in lots of things: fairy tales, destiny, knights in shining armor. She dreamed of a successful life in the big city and finding true love was all a part of the plan. Charlie Cooper was a modern day Prince Charming with a penthouse castle and a knack for sweeping girls off of their feet. But Emmie was about to find out that life isn't as easy as riding off into the sunset with the first handsome man you meet. And when she meets Jackson, an artist from SoHo who has nothing to offer her but his love, she must decide if love is worth giving up her dream of Fifth Avenue, or if fairy tales really do come true.

Combines Runner's World insights with the expertise of a professional sports nutritionist to counsel readers on how to reach weight-loss goals by simultaneously reducing calorie intake and increasing calories burned, sharing advice for such areas as shopping, cooking and exercise. Original. 35,000 first printing.

She's counting sleeps until she can spend Christmas with her boyfriend. But can she find him the perfect gift to make up for the fact her parents won’t even let him in the house? Rahn and Roman are in love. Her parents? Not so much. The last thing they want is their daughter dating a bad boy from the wrong side of town. For the first time in her life, Rahn is willing to stand up to her family and fight for what she really wants. But is she strong enough to combat her parents' vehement disapproval? Roman wishes he could be a better person for Rahn. He wishes he could leave his checkered past behind him. But he just can’t seem to shake it. He wants to give Rahn the perfect Christmas, but when she takes off without telling him only four days before the big day, he’s convinced he’s lost the girl he loves. As he starts a desperate search for the girl he loves, he soon discovers that this Christmas is going to give him more than he ever bargained for...

Kathrine Leigh was traumatized by her father’s deathbed confession. He was not her father, and she was not Kathrine Leigh. Her entire life was a lie made up to protect her from a family she never knew existed. A family he made her swear she would never go near. To find the truth she must break the promise she had made to her father on his deathbed. To find a family she never knew existed, she must leave the wall of security he had built around her. To find out who she really was, she must leave behind the only man she had ever loved.