Helen is serving a life sentence at Sloatsburg women's prison for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, a recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, is the new chief of psychiatry there. Captain Ike Bradshaw is the corrections officer who wants her. And Angie, an ambitious Hollywood starlet contacted by Helen, is intent on nothing but fame. Drawing these four characters together in a story of shocking and disturbing revelations, The Big Girls is an electrifying novel about the anarchy of families, the sometimes destructive power of maternal instinct, and the cult of celebrity.
When plus-sized beauty Isis and her sister, Egypt, start a new chapter of the Big Girls Book Club in Richmond, Virginia, they discover that drama follows them everywhere as they deal with family issues, scandalous new members, and betrayal.
Journalist and Salon writer Rebecca Traister investigates the 2008 presidential election and its impact on American politics, women and cultural feminism. Examining the role of women in the campaign, from Clinton and Palin to Tina Fey and young voters, Traister confronts the tough questions of what it means to be a woman in today’s America. The 2008 campaign for the presidency reopened some of the most fraught American conversations—about gender, race and generational difference, about sexism on the left and feminism on the right—difficult discussions that had been left unfinished but that are crucial to further perfecting our union. Though the election didn’t give us our first woman president or vice president, the exhilarating campaign was nonetheless transformative for American women and for the nation. In Big Girls Don’t Cry, her electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining first book, Traister tells a terrific story and makes sense of a moment in American history that changed the country’s narrative in ways that no one anticipated. Throughout the book, Traister weaves in her own experience as a thirtysomething feminist sorting through all the events and media coverage—vacillating between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and questioning her own view of feminism, the women’s movement, race and the different generational perspectives of women working toward political parity. Electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining, Big Girls Don’t Cry offers an enduring portrait of dramatic cultural and political shifts brought about by this most historic of American contests.
Opening with a powerful cycle of elegies for her long-distant, half-brother, this major new collection by one of our bestselling poets then goes on to include both serious and funny poems about women and poems about the precarious balance of nature, ending with the beautiful, life-affirming "The Art of Blessing the Day." 160 pp.
African American Naomi Jefferson struggles to find success in her career and personal life, from her school and college days in the 1960's and 1970's into her professional life in the 1980's.
Life is good for thick-boned Keisha Jackson. With a good education, well-paying job, and supportive parents, she has everything a young woman could ask for, except maybe a healthy dose of self-esteem. But after a chance meeting with Rico, the neighborhood “bad boy,” her fairy tale life is quickly dismantled. Blinded by emotion, she gives in to all his cruel intentions. Under the false claim of love, Rico vindictively tears down all that good-girl Keisha has built. His sole purpose seems to be to make her miserable. Rico has no limits on the grief he causes and the disrespect he shows. Having endured physical, mental, and sexual abuse, Keisha finally sees the light, and she’s not having it anymore. The tables are turned, and Rico feels her well-deserved wrath. It ain’t no fun when the rabbit got the gun, and Rico will soon find out what A Big Girl’s Revenge truly feels like.
From the acclaimed bestselling authors of Living Large and A Whole Lotta Love come four romantic and sexy stories celebrating big, bold, and beautiful women. Includes stories by Hill, Brenda Jackson, Monica Jackson, and Francis Ray. Original.
Starr is a bodacious and bold young beauty and the leader of the Double G's, a powerful and ruthless social club of plus-sized women. Queen Fem founded the group of professionals-by-day, gangster-biker-chicks-by-night to prove that this isn't just a man's world. The Double G's go after men of power and privilege with blackmail and manipulation, but a Special Agent may have finally found his way inside the group to destroy them. These women are on a mission, and they believe the only way they can accomplish it is by keeping the game and the players in a chokehold.
SERVICE WITH A SMILE Sota was roped into becoming the hall director and coach for his sister's college volleyball team. Being so short, he's naturally the perfect plaything for these voluptuous amazons. Can the diminutive Sota satisfy all the rambunctious giantesses and navigate the endless challenge of being the only boy in the girls' dorm, or will his sister live to regret her big idea?
"The Big Girls Club" is ""Sex in the City" meets Eckhart Tolle." Written for women about their relationships in the workplace (good and bad), "The Big Girls Club" sets forth ten rules that work for today's Big Girls, just as they did when we were little girls, with chapters such as "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die," "Pinky-finger Swear," and "Kiss and Make Up," as well as some just for grownups: "Not with My Ex," and "Beware of Women without Female Friends." The rules, along with meaty anecdotes, are a guide for women and our complicated relationships. If we act and think BIG, we can accomplish so much together!
