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Hope Springs: A foster child lovingly raised in an old Victorian house comes back, buys the old house, and opens up a Bakery Cafe where she can sell her special brownies.

19 Years of Reviews

There is a yummy baked goods kitchen feeling, because the woman baking the cookies has an organized sense of her world, she has friends, one dead and one living ex-husband, girl-children, and flour in her pantry. But -- and there are 50 years worth of buts-- she also has aThe Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman read by Gabra Zackman

There is something beautiful and more than beautiful about these women who enjoy their kitchens, who love all the rooms of domesticity. Jane gives us wives, book club ladies and hostesses, in Manhattan or Westchester, well groomed and well mannered and well off, obedient to husbands or mothers in lawPromises To Keep by Jane Green read by Cassandra Campbell

Miss Sophie Long is a Catholic School teacher who can't parallel park, until she meets Lois, Vietnam Vet, trained sniper, mechanic, and lesbian. They live in the same neighborhood as Morgan, a size 16-18 police detective with a demented mother. At some point, to make ends meet, Sophie and LoisRetirement Plan by Martha Miller read by Bernadette Dunne

Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find No highway more, no track, all being blind The way to go shall glimmer in the mind. Though you have conquered Earth and charted Sea And planned the courses of all Stars that be, Adventure on, more wonders are in Thee. Adventure on, for from the littlest clue HasNevil Shute No Highway read by Robin Bailey

It is said that this book does not reconstruct the Diana accident. It doesn't. It reconstructs what might not have been an accident if a sensitive, guilt ridden orphan named Samuel Carver ("Call me Carver") who threatens to break pinkies had arranged for a car to blow up in aThe Accident Man by Tom Cain read by John Lee

A nice little vignette of malicious 1990's life with its Coke, its Sexual Saturation & its top of the mornin' Fuck You Very Much Sadism. P.I. ex-con Harding is hired to track and video rich respected Plastic Surgeon & wife-beater in the course of perverse sexual scenes. Erotic, staccato descriptions of girls tied up,This Far No Further by John Wessel read by Richard Ferrone

"Let's start the day with a reminder of our boundaries, Henry." Indeed. But some boundaries are more forgettable than others... Consider, for example, the boundaries between Scarpetta and Marino... Posted By: admin () Date: 10/21/2004 5:11 pm Trace by Patricia Cornwell read by Kate Reading

Although I didn't see her face, I knew that the woman in the coloring chair was beautiful. It wasn't just because she had long, lush, gorgeous hair, but because she was tearing out a page of WWD, where she had eyed another beautiful woman with long hair. And beautiful womenI Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron read by Nora Ephron

Women are divisive. Among themselves and between their generations. Go to any academic women's conference and see for yourself. Or listen to Blair Brown's crisp, young, feminine voice reading The Senator's Wife. And listen for this divisiveness. In the pasteurized neighborly conversations of Miller's two women: the 37 year oldThe Senator's Wife by Sue Miller read by Blair Brown

Wry, infinitely bored, softhearted ex-cop holes up in the Upper Peninsula, runs his snow plow up and down the block, and hangs out in a Scottish pub, drinking Canadian beer. Then trouble comes knocking at his door.... "You spend your whole life up here sitting in The Hunting Wind by Steve Hamilton read by Nick Sullivan

Two London twits, one Giantess and one Mum, run a domestic agency, performing unlovable chores for unlovable wives with money. The two twits rehash I Love Lucy daffiness during the subprime era of extravagance. Another dose of the English language fading into bad American dialogue and imitation Hollywood idiocy.Getting Mad, Getting Even by Annie Sanders read by Suzy Aitchison

4 grandmasters of plot. Extraordinary Vietnam tale by King. Posted By: admin () Date: 08/03/2005 11:02 amLawrence Block, Stephen King, John Farris, edited by Ed McBain

A conspicuously intelligent society wife with perfect manners and an unfaithful husband is driving home from the country club and her BMW is hit by a huge truck. Stuck inside the car, she promises the Gods to do good, if only she does not go up in flames. She doesThe Social Climber of Davenport Heights by Pamela Morsi read by Isabelle Gordon

It could be any small college town and any next door neighbor. But the town is Promise Falls and the neighbors next door are The Langleys. The story begins when they are murdered. Bert the policeman investigates the neighborhood, starting with Jim Cutter's house. Jim has beenToo Close To Home by Linwood Barclay read by Christopher Lane

It is not inconceivable that the prime minister should don a cheap blonde wig, heels and a little a after his first name , in order to ride on broken trains, wait on soda-machine queues, lie untreated in a public emergency rooms, drink and flirt in roadside pubs, and re-connectNumber 10 by Sue Townsend read by Barbara Rosenblat

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The Second Chance Cafe by Alison Kent read by Natalie Ross