This Side of Married by Rachel Pastan

This Side of Married by Rachel Pastan is witty, intelligent, and utterly delicious.

The Rubin daughters are three eligible sisters from an affluent suburban Philadelphia family whose well-meaning but domineering mother is single-mindedly determined to see them all happily married.

The book opens at a Sunday brunch where Dr. Rubin, mother and obstetrician, is scheming to introduce her eldest daughter, Alice, to a doctor who is almost too good to be true. But why hasnt Alice, who is beautiful and smart (as well as extremely nice), been able to find a husband on her own?

Is her sister Isabel, the real heroine of the story, genuinely happy in her marriage, and, if so, why wont her husband co-operate with her attempts to get pregnant?

And is Tina, the youngest of the sisters, as shallow as she seems, or is she something worse than shallow?

Full of surprises, This Side of Married is  filled with feeling,

How to be Single by Liz Tuccilo

How to be Single is a chick-lit novel written by Liz Tuccilo who also
worked on Sex and the City. It’s the most annoying question and they just can’t help asking you:
Why are you single? On a brisk October morning in New York, Julie Jenson, a single thirty-eight-year-old book publicist, gets a hysterical phone call from her friend Georgia. Reeling from her husband’s announcement that he is leaving her for a samba teacher, Georgia convinces a reluctant Julie to organize a fun girls’ night out with all of their single friends to remind her why it is so much fun not to be tied down.

But the night becomes a wake-up call for Julie because none of her friends seem to be having much fun: Alice, a former legal aid attorney has recently quit her job to start dating for a living; Serena, who is so busy becoming a fully realized person that she can’t find time to look for a mate; and Ruby, a curvy and compassionate woman, has been mourning the death of her cat for months.

Fed up being single in Manhattan, Julie sets off to find out how women around the world deal with this dreaded phenomenon. From Paris to Rio to Sydney, Bali, Beijing, Mumbai, and Reykjavik, Julie falls in love, gets her heart broken, sees the world, and learns more than she ever dreamed possible. Written in Liz Tuccillo’s pitch-perfect, hilarious, and relatable voice, How to Be Single is the ultimate novel for the adventurer in us all.

Chances by Jackie Collins

Now in this intimate recording of Chances, Jackie Collins takes you further into the fast-lane world of Lucky Santangelo than ever before.

He started with nothing, and built an empire. She was born to bad times — and lived through much worse. Orphans and outlaws alike, Gino Satangelo and Carrie Jones were survivors in a harsh, loveless world…a passionate young Italian and an exotic dark beauty whose chance meeting yields a secret that can’t be spoken for years to come…

From the luxury of Park Avenue to the early days of Las Vegas, the raw heat of jazz-era Harlem to the brutality of gangland Chicago, the Santangelo saga begins to unfold — a tale of secrets, betrayal, and unbridled lust that sets the stage for one of the most unforgettable heroines that Jackie Collins ever created…the incomparable Lucky Santangelo! Chances. is written and narrated by Jackie Collins.