Books tagged: contemporary women

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The Trouble with Mattie    by Mary Berger
Price: $5.99 USD. 57400 words. Published on August 18, 2010. .

Set in NC, The Trouble with Mattie is the story of the youthful, dynamic, comical, and recently widowed Mattalie Morgan, whose conniving stepdaughter dumps her in a crooked housing set-up for "needy" adults, turning Mattie's world upside down. But the housing owners don't care; they're sharks. Soon, Mattie is battling the ranks and her stepdaughter, who flew the coop with Mattie's estate money.
Spellcheck Nation and other stories    by Consuelo Saah Baehr
Price: Free! 11180 words. Published on October 4, 2010. .

Spellcheck Nation : Does Spellcheck have a sinister side? Can it help you strategize for power when society is screaming that you don't have a chance! What People Pray For: The congregation calls to God for favors during mass. What do they ask? What I wore for Loss: A love-song to the repurposed fiftysomething looking for a life. The Obesity Study: OMG. This is inhuman but it pays $100.
Bridesmaid Lotto    by Rachel Astor
Price: Free! 66840 words. Published on April 10, 2011. .

McMaster the Disaster Series, Book 1 Josie is shocked to be picked in the Bridesmaid Lotto. Now how will she keep her true klutzy self from showing up for all the world to see?
The Divorce Club    by Jayde Scott
Price: $3.99 USD. 80650 words. Published by Aurora Press  on June 19, 2011. .

A bitter divorce from a two-timing husband leaves Sarah with no money to fend for her daughter, but she won't be beaten, so she opens The Divorce Club, a meeting place for women who want to divorce their cheating husbands, but don't know how. Soon things start to go seriously wrong. If you like Sophie Kinsella, you'll love THE DIVORCE CLUB.
Momentary Mother    by Lisa De Niscia
Price: $2.99 USD. 53410 words. Published by WhitepointPress on June 25, 2011. .

Los Angelena Lulu Rosetti, a thirty-three year old word processor and tarot reader, is urgently summoned by her mother to her New Jersey childhood home to help Lulu's only sibling, a younger sister, recover from a vitamin-induced suicide attempt. Over the course of Lulu's one week stay with her too-close family, she's sure that moving to California was the right thing to do.
My Valley is Icky Too    by Lisa De Niscia
Price: $2.99 USD. 32800 words. Published by WhitepointPress on June 28, 2011. .

A self-imagined free spirit, Janice Huntington endures her days at Suzanne’s Newsclipping Service sifting through mountains of information, and on her own time she navigates sexual encounters in a search for who knows what. Her frantic, lonely routine begins to unravel with an inquiry into the fate of the inventor of her favorite form of birth control.
To the Left of the Microwave    by Lisa De Niscia
Price: $2.99 USD. 31560 words. Published by WhitepointPress on July 5, 2011. .

The eclectic characters in this collection of ten tales contend with the classic, American quest after freedom. The women in these stories grapple with greed in 1980s New York, tangle with an Indiana abortion clinic surrounded by protesters, and succumb to a wacky adventure with a scientist who thinks he’s losing his mind in California.
Twin Flames    by Debbie Christiana
Price: $2.99 USD. 98630 words. Published by Black Opal Books  on July 19, 2011. .

She’d never met him before...or had she? Forty-year old Natalia Santagario didn’t expect to sit on a Manhattan barstool ogling a man she’s never met, but swears she knows. He didn’t know her at all...or did he? The mysterious woman at the end of the bar stops twenty-eight year old Marc Tremonti in his tracks. His head assures him she’s a stranger, but his heart tells him otherwise.
A Spy in the House of Love    by Anais Nin
Price: $4.99 USD. 34680 words. Published by Sky Blue Press  on August 9, 2011. .

Originally published in book form in 1954, A Spy in the House of Love contains some of Anais Nin's best poetic prose. The main character, Sabina, realizes that she is a composite of many selves, each one seeking identity within relationships with five very different men, and while she seeks to live out each part of herself she also craves unity, setting the stage for the battle for self-awareness.
The Pride    by Faydra D. Fields
Price: $2.99 USD. 50640 words. Published by SolaPress  on August 16, 2011. .

Four women have two things in common. They're all mothers, and the father of their children is the same man. On of the women convinces the other three that the four of them must pick up the slack where their children's father is unable.