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21) A piece of cake
Author
Language
English
Description
When Mama Elephant puts her family on a diet, their will power remains strong until Granny sends a cake.
22) Skinny: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, Gray Lachmann, finds herself compulsively overeating. Determined to take control again, she takes a job at a weight-loss camp. There she has to deal with devious co-counselors. combative teenage campers and the discovery of a teenage half-sister she never knew she had.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Loretta Crawford's family's love of food shows all too clearly on her 280-pound frame, until one day her loser husband, Lyman, leaves her for another woman and Loretta realizes she's had enough. Down but determined, Loretta opts for weight loss surgery. As her size plummets, her horizons expand and the Houston catering business that was once her hobby begins to take off in earnest.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Jones is a physics prodigy on track to unlock the secrets of the universe. But when she meets Jake Kristopher during their first week at Yale they instantly feel a deep connection, as if they've known each other before. They quickly become a couple, and as college goes on, Sophie distances herself from academia as Jake intensely pursues a finance career. But when a shocking change forces Sophie into a new reality, she returns to physics and...
25) Angus is here
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After losing Angus, his beloved dog, a young child journeys through grief and learns how to keep memories of Angus close forever"--
26) Speed shrinking
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she's got her addictive personality under control. Then her psychoanalyst moves away, her husband takes off to L.A. and her best friend moves to Ohio. Feeling lonely and left out, Julia fills in the void with food. This is a huge problem--especially since she's about to go on national television to plug her hot new self-help book about how she conquered her sugar addiction. Julia desperately sees eight...
29) All that shines
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Chloe's affluent family loses everything, she sets out to discover herself with the help of new and surprising friends.
30) Yummers!
Author
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Emily Pig accepts Eugene Turtle's advice to walk as a way of losing weight but runs into too many tempting edible diversions.
31) Miracle
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Amie struggles to find herself through friendship and music in the wake of her father's death.
Author
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
A troubled European family struggles to make a life in India during WWII in this "absorbing" novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews). Eight years ago, Louise Pool left her husband, Charles, in India, fleeing a marriage marked by anger, disillusion, and mistrust. Now, with Europe engulfed in the flames of World War II and Germany's Nazi juggernaut rolling through occupied France, Louise is reluctantly returning to East Bengal,...
39) Steamed to death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aging soap star Felicity Davenport is revamping her image and using Gigi's Gourmet Se-Lite to help her shed a few pounds, but when Felicity is murdered in her sauna, things start getting too hot for Gigi to handle.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Forty-one years old, the last of her friends to marry, and down to a size 12, Lauren Leo is in her gown and about to tie the knot. There's just one thing missing: the groom. With one blindsiding text, Lauren is unceremoniously dumped at the altar. In the aftermath, her mother is an endless well of unsolicited advice (Stay on your diet and freeze your eggs). Her sisters only add to the Great Humiliation: one is planted on Lauren's couch while the...
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