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Jennifer Weiner
21) The half life
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Piper met Tosh when she was only twenty-two, just the way self help books said she would, when she wasn't looking. Now at forty, she wonders how, through all those years, they'd gotten to this place in their marriage. When her flight is canceled due to volcanic ash spreading from Iceland across Europe, and when a handsome stranger offers her an invitation to share a cab, she realizes she can take a departure from her own life. And after a day of living...
Author
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
In high school, childhood best friends Addie Downs and Valerie Adler grow apart, with Valerie becoming quite popular and Addie falling out of every social circle. Fifteen years later, though, when a horrific tragedy occurs, Valerie, now the local TV weathergirl, must rely on the lonely Addie for help.
23) In her shoes
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Free-wheeling irresponsible Maggie gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her complete lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose when she is in need of financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and Rose have a grandmother, but Maggie ends...
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.