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Maggie battles an enemy she cannot escape--her own brain.
University of Pittsburgh law student, Maggie Hovis, battles an enemy she cannot escape--her own brain. Her family calls her a drama queen. Her fiancé, Sam, moves out after she throws a shoe at his head. Maggie knows there is only one way to get him back--control her moods. So she takes the step most of her family is against: therapy.
After a diagnosis of Bipolar II Disorder, Maggie begins to investigate her family tree--which is plagued by mental illness and hidden relatives--and develops empathy for her deceased Great Aunt Ella, who lived her life in a mental institution. But Maggie' | |  | | Jerusalem Stone
On 9/15/08 Julie loses her job and her twin, Jack, in a car crash. Feeling responsible for his death, she escapes by running to her brother’s dream destination, Thailand. There a sexy Israeli tries to make her let go of her guilt. Can he do it? Or will it take something more?
On September 15, 2008, Julie Wasserman’s life collapsed. In the morning, she lost her job at Lehman Brothers. That afternoon, she lost her twin brother, Jack, in a car crash. A year and a half later, she returns home to Pittsburgh to start a new job and live up to a pledge to visit her brother’s grave every day. With six weeks to wait before the start of the new job, she steps out of character and purchases a plane ticket to Thailand, the one place her brother dreamed of visiting. She arrives in Thailand, focused on trying to figure out how she is going to live in the world without her twin br | |  | | The Kiddush Ladies
Reminiscent of a darker Steel Magnolias, The Kiddush Ladies follows Naomi, Becky, and Myriam-—three women whose tight-knit Jewish community of home-spun support has sustained their life-long bond.
Life-long Jewish friends Naomi, Miriam, and Becky are approaching middle-age gracefully and are content—despite a few hot flashes and mood swings—until life tosses each woman a crisis and a dusty discovery delivers a potentially lethal blow to their friendship. While two of the women fight to save the relationship, one desires nothing more than its complete demise. |
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