Magnolia Wednesdays

Magnolia Wednesdays
Author: Wendy Wax
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0515149845

At 41, Vivian Armstrong Gray learns that she's pregnant, jobless, and very hormonal. This explains why she accepts a dreadful job back home in Georgia. As she digs up her long buried roots, she starts to wonder if life inside the picket fence is really so bad after all.

Women's Fiction

Women's Fiction
Author: Rebecca Vnuk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1610695380

Offering a fresh perspective on women's fiction for a broad reading audience—fans as well as librarians—this book defines and maps the genre, and describes hundreds of relevant titles. Women's Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests celebrates the books in this broad genre—titles that explore the lives of female protagonists, with a focus on their relationships with family, friends, and lovers. After a brief introductory history and a chapter that defines the characteristics of women's fiction, the author showcases annotations and suggestions of approximately 300 titles by more than 100 authors. She explains how women's fiction differs from romance fiction, enabling readers to appreciate this rich body of literature that encompasses titles as diverse as Meg Cabot's lighthearted chick lit to the more serious novels of Elizabeth Berg and Maeve Binchy. The book identifies some of the most popular and enduring women's fiction authors and titles, and provides invaluable reading lists and readalike suggestions that will be appreciated by both librarians and general readers.

Romance Fiction

Romance Fiction
Author: Kristin Ramsdell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1138
Release: 2012-03-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

A comprehensive guide that defines the literature and the outlines the best-selling genre of all time: romance fiction. More than 2,000 romances are published annually, making it difficult for fans and the librarians who advise them to keep pace with new titles, emerging authors, and constant evolution of this dynamic genre. Fortunately, romance expert and librarian Kristin Ramsdell provides a definitive guide to this fiction genre that serves as an indispensible resource for those interested in it—including fans searching for reading material—as well as for library staff, scholars, and romance writers themselves. This title updates the last edition of Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, published in 1999.While the emphasis is on newer titles, many of the important older classics are retained, keeping the focus of the book on the entire genre, instead of only those titles published during the last decade. Specific changes include new chapters on linked and continuing romances, a new section on "Chick Lit" in the Contemporary Romance chapter, an expansion of coverage on the alternative reality subset. This is THE romance genre guide to have.

And the Stars Go with You: Soulful Interiors, Ineffable Fashion & Mindful Ramblings

And the Stars Go with You: Soulful Interiors, Ineffable Fashion & Mindful Ramblings
Author: Robin Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780578568317

If the soaring quotes of Elizabeth Gilbert, Marianne Williamson and other contemporary and classic creative luminaries were to fly together in a beautifully minimalist landscape amongst vintage-inspired dresses, holy boots and top hats, you would have this book. Part memoir, part fairy tale and all inspiration, Magnolia Pearl's "And the Stars go With You" is far beyond your typical fashion tome. Delving deep into creator-visionary Robin Brown's childhood, influences and ethos, the book is a vital volume on a mission to spark a revolution. The fashion is featured in context amidst landscapes and showrooms dotting the countryside in Fredericksburg, Texas that Brown and the Magnolia Pearl family inhabit. 240 pages of images richly convey Magnolia Pearl's aesthetic as a sense of time and place as opposed to a blip on the radar of an industry. Timely quotes from beloved masters and contemporary seers tie the pages together into a narrative with the feel of a movement; contributions from Magnolia Pearl's rebel sidekicks such as Donavon Frankenreiter sail this movement further towards the horizon. Magnolia Pearl is a "horizonal" brand-a work in progress instead of a destination, an elusive sense of a beauty that adheres to a curve even as others insist on a line. "And the Stars go With You" is a pair of binoculars and a backstage pass to the journey. You're already on it anyway, might as well bring a friend.

Magnolia Table, Volume 2

Magnolia Table, Volume 2
Author: Joanna Gaines
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0062820192

From breakfast to dinner, plus breads, soups, and sides, Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Table, Volume 2 gives readers abundant reasons to gather together—an instant #1 New York Times bestseller! Following the launch of her #1 New York Times bestselling cookbook, Magnolia Table, and seeing her family’s own sacred dishes being served at other families’ tables across the country, Joanna Gaines gained a deeper commitment to the value of food being shared. This insight inspired Joanna to get back in the kitchen and start from scratch, pushing herself beyond her comfort zone to develop new recipes for her family, and yours, to gather around. Magnolia Table, Volume 2 is filled with 145 new recipes from her own home that she shares with husband Chip and their five kids, and from the couple’s restaurant, Magnolia Table; Silos Baking Co; and new coffee shop, Magnolia Press. The book is beautifully photographed and filled with dishes you’ll want to bring into your own home, including: Mushroom-Gruyére Quiche Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bread Grilled Bruschetta Chicken Zucchini-Squash Strata Chicken-Pecan-Asparagus Casserole Stuffed Pork Loin Lemon-Lavender Tart Magnolia Press Chocolate Cake

Ten Beach Road

Ten Beach Road
Author: Wendy Wax
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0515150665

The author of "The Accidental Bestseller" presents a novel about three women who are left with co-ownership of a ramshackle beachfront house. As they restore the historic property, they begin to discover the power of friendship--until secrets threaten to tear down their trust.

The House on Mermaid Point

The House on Mermaid Point
Author: Wendy Wax
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425263320

In this new novel from the author of Ten Beach Road and Ocean Beach, three unlikely friends who were thrown together by disaster get a do-over on life, love, and happiness . . . Maddie, Avery, and Nikki first got to know one another—perhaps all too well—while desperately restoring a beachfront mansion to its former grandeur. Now they’re putting that experience to professional use. But their latest project has presented some challenges they couldn’t have dreamed up in their wildest fantasies—although the house does belong to a man who actually was Maddie’s wildest fantasy once . . . Rock-and-roll legend “William the Wild” Hightower may be past his prime, estranged from his family, and creatively blocked, but he’s still worshiped by fans—which is why he guards his privacy on his own island in the Florida Keys. He’s not thrilled about letting this crew turn his piece of paradise into a bed-and-breakfast for a reality show . . . though he is intrigued by Maddie. Hard as that is for her to believe as a newly single woman who can barely manage a dog paddle in the dating pool. But whether it’s an unexpected flirtation with a bona fide rock star, a strained mother-daughter relationship, or a sudden tragedy, these women are in it together. The only thing that might drive them apart is being trapped on a houseboat with one bathroom . . .