Jennifer Weiner is a celebrated author whose novels delve into the complexities of modern womanhood, exploring themes of identity, family, and societal expectations with both humor and profound empathy. Her distinctive narrative voice captures the nuances of relationships and the search for self-acceptance, resonating deeply with readers. She masterfully weaves contemporary experiences into compelling stories that are both insightful and entertaining, solidifying her reputation as a keen observer of the female condition.
"A smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world. Mrs. Everything is an ambitious, richly textured journey through history--and herstory--as these two sisters navigate a changing America over the course of their lives"
The story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journey of new motherhood.
Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are only eight years old when they meet late one night in an ER waiting room. Their encounter is brief - born with a congenital heart defect, Rachel is no stranger to the Miami hospital, but Andy is there only to treat a broken arm. They think they'll never meet again. Rachel will return home and grow up safe and sheltered by two doting parents who worry about their daughter's health. As the only child of a single mom, Andy will cook dinner for himself while his mother spends nights out on the town searching for a new husband, a father for her son. Rachel will have lots of friends and long for nothing. Andy will find solace in running and become the star of his track team. But over the years, their paths will continue to cross. And when they think of each other, it's simply as that great first love. But what if some first loves are meant to last?
The story revolves around sisters Cassie and Zoe Griffin, whose contrasting personalities shape their paths in the music industry. While Zoe pursues fame with relentless ambition, Cassie's musical talent brings her into the spotlight, yet she struggles with self-acceptance. Two decades later, the sisters are estranged, each facing the consequences of their choices in the harsh reality of celebrity life. As Zoe's daughter Cherry seeks to follow in their footsteps, the sisters must confront their past mistakes and the possibility of healing their fractured relationship. This novel explores themes of love, forgiveness, and the cost of fame.
From bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a heartwarming tale of friendship and belonging. Twelve-year-old Alice, often overlooked, finds a friend in Millie, a Bigfoot she rescues. As they navigate challenges, including Bigfoot hunters, Alice and Millie learn to trust each other and embrace their true selves.
Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized reporter was perfectly happy writing about other people's lives for her local newspaper. And for the past twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her job, her friends, her dog and her life. She loves her apartment and her commodious, quilt-lined bed. She has made a tenuous peace with her body and she even felt okay about ending her relationship with her boyfriend Bruce. But now this... 'Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world,' Bruce has written in a national woman's magazine. And Cannie - who never knew that Bruce saw her as a larger woman, or thought that loving her was an act of courage - is plunged into misery, and the most amazing year of her life.
New York Times bestselling author Weiner takes readers into the heart of women's lives in an unforgettable, timely tale. When India Bishop's attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology to help make her dreams come true, but disrupts the lives of those involved.
Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family she's ashamed to invite to Parents' Weekend. With the income she'll receive from donating her "pedigree" eggs, she believes she can save her father from addiction. Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became the mother to two boys. After years of staying at home and struggling to support four people on her husband's salary, she thinks she's found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash. India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), has changed everything about herself: her name, her face, her past. In New York City, she falls for a wealthy older man, Marcus Croft, and decides a baby will ensure a happy ending. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology, and Annie and Jules, to help make her dreams come true. But each of their plans is thrown into disarray when Marcus' daughter Bettina, intent on protecting her father, becomes convinced that his new wife is not what she seems. With startling tenderness and laugh-out-loud humor, Jennifer Weiner once again takes readers into the heart of women's lives in an unforgettable, timely tale that interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, the rights of a parent and the measure of motherhood
"Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night? While Daisy tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction, she's also receiving misdirected emails meant for a woman named Diana Starling, whose email address is just one punctuation mark away from her own. While Daisy's driving carpools, Diana is chairing meetings. While Daisy's making dinner, Diana's making plans to reorganize corporations. Diana's glamorous, sophisticated, single-lady life is miles away from Daisy's simpler existence. When an apology leads to an invitation, the two women meet and become friends. But, as they get closer, we learn that their connection was not completely accidental. Who IS this other woman, and what does she want with Daisy?"--Publisher.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering novel about love, family, friendship, and the transformative power of travel. Thirty-four-year-old Abby Stern is content, with good friends, a bike club in Philadelphia, and a plan to marry her childhood sweetheart, Mark. Their connection began at a weight-loss camp, and fifteen years later, Abby is surprised to find Mark still adores her. However, lingering memories of a passionate night with a man named Sebastian two years ago leave her feeling uncertain. When Abby is called to lead a bike trip from New York City to Niagara Falls, she welcomes the chance to reflect away from Mark. But she is taken aback to find Sebastian among the group, complicating her resolve to keep her distance despite their undeniable chemistry. Adding to the tension, Abby's mother, Eileen, whom she blames for years of body shaming, unexpectedly joins the trip. Over two weeks, strangers become confidantes, hidden truths emerge, and a teenage girl with a secret connects the riders in unexpected ways. As Abby navigates her relationships and confronts her past, her beliefs about herself, her mother, and the nature of love are profoundly challenged.
21 TALES FROM THE HOTTEST FEMALE WRITERSIn this must-have short-story collection, Jennifer Weiner revisits on of her Good in Bed characters (and tells the story from, ahem, his point of view), Jill A. Davis (Girl's Poker Night) offers darkly humorous take on starting over in New York and working with "the Elizabeths" and Alisa Valdes-Rodriquez (The Dirty Girls Social Club) muses on how different the words lady and woman are when paired with cat.Girl's Night In features stories about growing up, growing out of, moving out, moving on, falling apart and getting it all together. So turn off your cell phone and curl up on the couch: this is one Girl's Night In you won't want to miss.
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s unforgettable story of adjusting to suburbia—and all the surprises hidden behind its doors.For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia has been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground routinely snub her. Her days are spent carpooling and enduring endless games of Candy Land, and at night, most of her orgasms are of the do-it-yourself variety.When a fellow mother is murdered, Kate finds that the unsolved mystery is the most exciting thing to happen in Upchurch, Connecticut, since her neighbors broke ground for a guesthouse and cracked their septic tank. Even though the local police chief warns her that crime-fighting's a job best left to the professionals, Kate launches an unofficial investigation -- from 8:45 to 11:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, when her kids are in nursery school.As Kate is drawn deeper into the murdered woman's past, she begins to uncover the secrets and lies behind Upchurch's picket-fence facade -- and considers the choices and compromises all modern women make as they navigate between marriage and independence, small towns and big cities, being a mother and having a life of one's own.
The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
Allison Weiss has a great job, a handsome husband, an adorable daughter ... and a secret
"For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She’s finally even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body. But when she opens up a national women’s magazine and sees the words “Loving a Larger Woman” above her ex-boyfriend’s byline, Cannie is plunged into misery…and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can become. "-- Provided by publisher
Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this time--she doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media--so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. Drue was always the one who had everything--except the ability to hold onto friends. Meanwhile, Daphne's no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was back in high school. She's built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a plus-size Instagram influencer. Letting glamorous, seductive Drue back into her life is risky, but it comes with an invitation to spend a weekend in a waterfront Cape Cod mansion. When Drue begs and pleads and dangles the prospect of cute single guys, Daphne finds herself powerless as ever to resist her friend's siren song. A sparkling novel about the complexities of female relationships, the pitfalls of living out loud and online, and the resilience of the human heart, Big Summer is a witty, moving story about family, friendship, and figuring out what matters most
A follow-up to Irish Girls About Town and Scottish Girls About Town journeys acrss the Atlantic to present a collection of sixteen tales from some of America's most popular women authors, including Adriana Trigiani, Jennifer Weiner, Quinn Dalton, Judi Hendricks, Lauren Henderson, Lauren Weisberger, Nancy Sparling, and others. Reprint.
Jennifer Weiner re-introduces readers to the much-loved heroine of 'Good in Bed', Cannie Shapiro: older, wiser and (seven pounds) thinner, raising her lovely and rebellious daughter, Joy.
Popular television personality Valerie Adler turns to her long-forgotten, Illinois hometown friend Addie Downs when she runs into a bit of trouble involving betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets.
At her stepdaughter's wedding day to her pandemic boyfriend--the last gathering at the family's beach house in Cape Cod--Sarah is faced with lovers being revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings, and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician's wife - her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her senator husband. Lizzie, the Woodruffs' youngest daughter, is a recovering addict, whose mantra HALT (Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired?) helps her keep her life under control. Still, at twenty-four, trouble always seems to find her. Diana, an emergency room physician, has everything Lizzie failed to achieve - a husband, a young son, the perfect home - and yet she's trapped in a loveless marriage. With temptation waiting in one of the ER's exam rooms, she finds herself craving more. When Richard's extra-marital affair makes headlines, the three women are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight. Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider their lives, who they are and who they are meant to be.
Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.
A collection of short stories that explores the progress of love and relationships over a course of a lifetime, from a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a widow accepting two young women into her home.
From the bestselling author of Good in Bed and In Her Shoes, a truthful, poignant and hilarious collection of short stories on love and loss
From Barbies to Bras to Botox . . . Remember your first period? What about the first time you wore a suit for a job interview or were catcalled on the street? Do you recall saying something that echoed your mother’s words, losing a dear friend, or the trauma of a department store makeup counter? How about your first earth-shattering orgasm? A woman’s life is marked by significant passages, shaped by a series of “first times.” Cathy Alter presents a captivating collection of these experiences through first-person accounts from women of diverse backgrounds, evoking memories of both mortifying and monumental moments. Explore first tales of bras, designer jeans, and stilettos that define our beauty; first adventures with dirty books and naughty pleasures; first accounts of the power of T&A; and first escapades in the working world, revealing that it’s not all pantyhose and briefcases. Delve into first sagas of leaving home, breaking up, and moving on. Whether you’re in love for the first time or navigating your first hot flashes, this collection celebrates the sisterhood of women, inspiring you to share your own firsts with friends.
Andie wil haar eerste huwelijk zo snel mogelijk vergeten en opnieuw trouwen. Haar ex vraagt haar om een laatste gunst. Hij zoekt dringend een oppas voor twee weeskinderen die al drie nanny’s tot waanzin hebben gedreven. Andie stemt toe en het wordt één grote puinhoop. De kinderen wonen in een griezelig oud huis waar een helleveeg van een huishoudster de baas speelt. Wat volgt is een hilarisch avontuur inclusief bemoeizieke geesten, een geïrriteerd medium, Andies tarotkaarten lezende moeder, haar jaloerse verloofde natuurlijk, en bananencake.
Six years ago, a sudden quarrel put an end to Daphne and Drew's friendship. Since then, the friends stopped communicating. Suddenly, Daphne asks Daphne to be a bridesmaid at her chic wedding in the summer. Daphne hesitates: should she, a successful blogger who runs an Instagram page for plus-sized people, let Drew back into his life. In the end, Daphne succumbs to her charms and goes to a tabloid wedding. This is a touching and dramatic story about human relationships that are not simple, the power of social media and the search for the most important thing in life. A wonderful book for better understanding yourself and the world, in which it is so difficult to recognize what is fake or manipulation, and what is real and sincere.
In Bij jou of bij mij? beschrijft Jennifer Weiner hoe liefde, vriendschap en behoefte aan menselijk contact op verschillende manieren mensenlevens kunnen beïnvloeden. Zo ontmoeten we Marlie Davidow, op vrijdagavond alleen thuis met haar baby, die langs het onlinehuwelijksregister van haar ex surft en zich afvraagt wat er was gebeurd als ze met hem was verdergegaan. Weiners personages in Bij jou of bij mij? zijn van vlees en bloed en zoeken hoop, geloof, humor en liefde in de stille hoekjes van het bestaan.
Kenny is a happy and successful woman who has a great job, friends and a loyal dog. Despite her curvy body, she has the look of a confident lady. But one day Kenny sees an article in a magazine about loving a big woman, written by her ex-boyfriend Bruce, and her life suddenly changes. She is disappointed in her lover, decides to lose weight, looks for creative fulfillment and finally realizes that all her fears were in vain...
Evening in the hospital, a fateful meeting. Eight-year-old Rachel and Andy accidentally bump into each other in the corridor. The girl has a congenital heart defect and is already used to these wards, but the boy is confused because he is alone in the hospital, without his parents, with a broken arm. They are not hoped to see each other again. They are completely different: she grew up in a comfortable, wealthy family, and he was raised by a poor single mother. Because of a sick heart, she does not like to play sports, and he is one of the best athletes. But their meetings and partings do not stop until each of they graduate from school, get married and divorced, build a career... Someday Rachel and Andy will have to decide who they love and whether they should be together.
À ma gauche, Rose Feller, trente ans, avocate dans un grand cabinet de Philadelphie, toujours sur le point de commencer un régime. Son rêve? Qu'un homme lui enlève ses lunettes, la regarde droit dans les yeux et lui dise qu'elle est très belle... et que sa petite sœur Maggie arrête de lui piquer ses chaussures, son argent et ses amoureux. À ma droite, Maggie Feller, vingt-huit ans, chanteuse, serveuse, vendeuse, toiletteuse pour chiens, un corps de rêve, un succès fou auprès des hommes. Son rêve à elle ? Devenir une star de la télé. Ou de la chanson. Ou du cinéma. Et prouver à tous qu'on peut être une bombe sexuelle et avoir un cerveau. Leurs seuls points communs? L'ADN, leur pointure, un drame familial et une revanche à prendre sur la vie...
Nenáročný, ale čtivý román pro ženy v příběhu s kriminální zápletkou popisuje epizodu ze života bývalé novinářky, matky tří malých dětí, kterou z nudy a konvencí maloměstského prostředí nešetrně vytrhne vražda kamarádky.
