Having driven her grown children far from home, cynical widow Jerusha scoffs at their choices in life and finds herself becoming unexpectedly attached to her ten-year-old next-door neighbor, the son of an equally dysfunctional mother. Reprint.

Secondhand Smoke

Friedmann, Patty

Literature & Fiction

Berkley Trade

Here are the Yuffies--young urban failures. Friedmann defines "failures" as "the eminently sane process of avoiding prosperity" and has declared herself a Yuffie, claiming that, inspite of a stratospheric IQ and a Smith College education, she has never earned more than $10,000 a year. Illustrated.

Too Smart to Be Rich

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

New Chapter Pr

Too smart to be rich: On being a yuffie

Celestial Pub. Co

In the midst of the biggest natural disaster in American history--Hurricane Katrina--15-year-old Summer "Sumbie" Elmwood's two-year-old sister disappears from the hospital after open-heart surgery and Sumbie is the prime suspect. But in the chaos of New Orleans after the storm, no one is looking for just one little girl. Sumbie must find her missing sister and enlists her two would-be boyfriends to help her, hoping against hope that it's not too late.

Taken Away

Children's Books

Mysteries & Detectives

Tiny Satchel Press

Otto Fisher has ADHD. He’s also adopted. At thirteen, he never thought much about where he came from until his seventh-grade teacher at the prestigious St. Michael’s school in New Orleans asks her class to write about an ancestor. Each student must perform their piece in a school play. Otto’s adoptive mother, whom he adores, helps him write about one of her ancestors, who was in the Holocaust. Otto’s story is the most moving of allbut not for his father, a college English professor who is also a racist and an anti-Semite. The play triggers a series of conflicts in the Fisher household, culminating in Otto’s father beating his mother. Otto’s older sister, Ada, stops the fight. Then their father moves out. Which leaves Otto torn between the mother and sister he adores and the father he desperately needs. When he goes to visit his father, a series of events forces everyone in the Fisher family to question the meaning of family. In this funny, bittersweet, poignant and thoroughly engaging short novel, Otto narrates the story of his young life with humor, grace and surprising insight.

No Takebacks

Teen & Young Adult

Eleanor Rushing knows Maxim Walters loves her. At the crowded city council meeting, he chooses to sit beside her; from his pulpit, he preaches only to her, a vision in white sitting in the first pew. Soon, he invites her along on a business trip to Nashville, where they make love all night long. But Maxim sees things a little differently. The distinguished and very married preacher denies his love for Eleanor, but she understands his reluctance to walk away from the plain wife and the narrow path of virtue he chose long ago. Refusing to be refused, Eleanor showers Maxim with gifts and volunteers at the church simply to be near him. Though she appears to be undaunted, Eleanor is, in fact, deeply troubled. Sparing no detail, she recounts the tragedy that left her mute for four years, and the abuse she has suffered at the hands of her friends and family. Though these memoirs are often at odds with those of others around her, the now-loquacious Eleanor charms us completely until we can't help but become her willing and faithful supporters. In this narrative tour-de-force - at once hilarious and deeply moving - Friedmann gives a memorable look at the willfulness of obsessive love, the caustic mix of money and leisure, and the power of memory to damage the soul.

Eleanor Rushing: A Novel

United States

Counterpoint

Eleanor Rushing's obsessive love for the distinguished and very married preacher, Maxim Walters, leaves her undaunted in her pursuit of him

Living in New Orleans with her husband and twin sons--one born physically perfect, and one born deformed--Anna Riggs Duffy is devastated when a tragic accident claims the life of one of the twins and turns to gambling to assuage her grief, while her husband, George, turns to another woman. 15,000 first printing.

Odds

Literary

Living in New Orleans with her husband and twin sons--one born physically perfect, and one born deformed--Anna Riggs Duffy is devastated when a tragic accident claims the life of one of the twins and turns to gambling to assuage her grief, while her husband, George, turns to another woman. Reprint.

Contemporary

Having driven her grown children far from home, cynical widow Jerusha scoffs at their choices in life and finds herself becoming unexpectedly attached to her ten-year-old next-door neighbor, the son of an equally dysfunctional mother.

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

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Secondhand Smoke

Too Smart to Be Rich

Too smart to be rich: On being a yuffie

Taken Away

No Takebacks

Eleanor Rushing: A Novel

Eleanor Rushing: A Novel

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Secondhand Smoke