WITNESS TO HOPE the biography of Pope John Paul II

George Weigel

Biographies & Memoirs

Cliff Street Books

A post-World War II romance between Rose, a local waitress, and a drifter named Cody, is set on the banks of a mountain lake in Montana

The Lake Dreams the Sky: A Love Story

Literature & Fiction

Wolfe, Swain

United States

A "biography" of the nation's largest and most influencial generation looks at all the major movements, stages, and consumer fetishes that have influenced the development of 75 million "baby boomers."

My Generation: Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith, and Silicon Chips

History

Gross,Michael

Americas

The wife of country singer George Jones and a leading reporter on country music present a revealing look inside the lives and marriages of the wives of America's country music stars, from courtships to highly publicized infidelities. 125,000 first printing. Major ad/promo.

Nashville Wives: Country Music's Celebrity Wives Reveal the Truth About Their Husbands and Marriages

Tom Carter

Nancy Jones

Arts & Literature

Valerie Harper, a.k.a. Rhoda Morgenstern, is sick of those phony fabulous at 50 books written by women whose skin is free of laugh lines and who wouldn't know a cellulite pocket if it bit them on the side. So she's decided to tell it like it is in Today I Am a Ma'am. With her trademark straight-from-the-hip, call-'em-like-she-sees-'em style, she helps women figure out, with humor and grace, what it means to be middle-aged. Included are essays on bodies, from alligator skin to bubble-wrap thighs; secrets -- from mastering the art of indifference to finding new appreciation for Lady Macbeth; and pleasures, from the joy of crankiness to the thrill of saying Let us eat cake Today I Am a Ma'am is a witty, irreverent call-to-arms from America's most reliable girlfriend, a Chicken Soup for the funny-bone, a book that women can pick up whenever they need a laugh -- or a reminder that midriff drift is not the end of the world.

Today I Am a Ma'Am: And Other Musings on Life, Beauty, and Growing Older

Whitney, Catherine

Harper, Valerie

Community & Culture

The Ten Commandments: What's in It for Me?

Parenting & Relationships

Schlessinger, Laura C.

Vogel, Stewart

Parenting

An unlikely friendship develops between Gabrielle Bissonette, who has returned home to wilderness Michigan to care for her father, and Valley, her sister-in-law, as they struggle to cope with the growing rage and violence of Gabrielle's brother, a troubled Vietnam veteran. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.

Second Sight

Diamond, Rickey Gard

In Oklahoma, where Kraft Macaroni &amp; Cheese is a staple and Bob Barker is king, twenty-eight-year-old Darla Moon struggles to break free and pursue her dreams. A talented seamstress and designer, she is cursed with a semiretired hooker for a mother, a hypochondriac for a sister, a no-good loafer for a brother-in-law, a frog-collecting grandma, and Momma's British lesbian friends, Muff and Freda Bottrell--"Clairvoyants and Tea Leaf Readers Extraordinaire." To make matters worse, Darla lives in Paradise, a drought-ridden bend in the road that's spitting distance from Lamb of God Pentecostal Church and Big Bucks Bingo--a world away from where she wants to be, New York City. But Darla is blessed with the devotion of Elijah True, an elderly black man who nurtured her through childhood; the friendship of Brandy, the town's lonely beautician; and the unexpected love of the Reverend Spirit E. Jackson, a transplanted Australian who drives into town in an old white Cadillac and sweeps her off her feet. 
 Sadly, as Darla formulates her plan to escape Paradise, turmoil erupts. Family once more stands between her and her suitcase. Momma runs off with a long-distance trucker, Darla's sister is hospitalized with cancer, her sister's two children are sick with worry, and brother-in-law Frank is thrown in jail--charged with impregnating a neighbor's sixteen-year-old daughter. Left unsupervised, Granny gets into trouble of her own, and Pearl, Darla's fourteen-year-old niece, can't cope with her world. Torn between her love for Spirit, her love for Elijah and young Jesse, her keen sense of duty, and the pursuit of a dream, Darla must, for the first time in her life, cast an unflinching eye on all the hard-to-accept truths regarding love, responsibility, and survival. 
 The Bingo Queens of Paradise is a tour-de-force first novel that lyrically blends a powerful comic voice with a poignant tale of a woman who longs to escape her life and follow her dreams.

The Bingo Queens of Paradise

Park, June

A television producer, author, and single mother describes her intense love affair with a cowboy, who barely finished high school, lives in a trailer in the desert, and makes rawhide bridles for a living, discussing the various ways in which the affair transformed her life and relationships

Cowboy

DAVIDSON, Sara

Miles Derby, a desperate alcoholic barely keeping up with his child-support demands, transforms his life when he assumes the identity of a dead Navy chaplain, taking his place at sea and finding himself in the process

One of the Guys

Young, Robert Clark

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