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Jane Heller
1) Best enemies
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Amy Sherman is doing just fine---she has a nice apartment in Manhattan, a good job as publicity director at a publishing company, and a decent social life---until she runs into Tara Messer, the beautiful blond prom queen who was once her best friend. It's been four years since Tara stole Amy's fiancé---four years since Amy swore she'd stop playing second fiddle to spotlight-hog Tara. Amy thought she had finally made peace with herself, but when Tara...
2) Lucky stars
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Stacey Reiser left Cleveland for Hollywood to pursue an acting career—and to escape her lovable but meddlesome mother, Helen. But her plan backfires when the widowed Helen sells her house and follows Stacey to tinsel town, invades every aspect of her daughter’s world and drives her crazy. As in eye twitch crazy. Insomnia crazy. Acid reflux crazy. “If only Mom would get a life,” Stacey wishes after her mother has called for the zillionth time...
3) Some nerve
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Thirty-year-old Celebrity journalist Ann Roth has one last chance to prove herself. She is different from the other reporters at Famous, the L.A. magazine, where she has her dream job interviewing stars like Britney Spears and Angelina Jolie. She values her ethics-she doesn't pick through people's garbage, doesn't print rumor and gossip, doesn't try to pervert the truth. But when her editor tells her she's too nice, that what he needs is a killer...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A teacher at a fancy Manhattan preschool, Nancy Stern spends her days cleaning spills, moderating bathroom breaks, and preventing that one kid in the back of the room from eating glue. With America's precious future in her hands, Nancy rises to the occasion-but sometimes she yearns for something a little more glamorous. Meanwhile, another woman by the name of Nancy Stern has moved into her apartment building-and as if the constant mail mix-ups aren't...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Soap opera writer Deborah Peltz can handle any kind of drama, so long as it's not attached to her sister Sharon. A wedding planner in Boca Raton, Sharon thinks she has the answers to everything, but with three divorces under her belt, she should be the last person on the planet to dole out the eye roll-worthy advice she heaps.
Normally, Deborah survives her sister by keeping her distance safe in the bustle of New York, but when their mother has...
6) The club
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Description
Judy Price has it all: a handsome husband, a thriving career, and a landmark house on two sylvan acres. But when Judy is downsized by her company, her husband suggests she network by hanging around at The Oaks, the country club he reveres and she abhors. Judy knows the misogyny at the antiquated club is all par for the course, but she finds an unexpected ally in Claire Cox, a staunch feminist who has broken the club's ironclad rule against admitting...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Florida real estate agent Barbara Chessner is down on her luck, up several dress sizes, drowning herself in Bloody Marys-and, worst of all, has just been dumped by her husband for a blonde TV weatherperson. Tired of living the life of a woman in a "before" ad, Barbara stumbles outside in the midst of a thunderstorm and beseeches heaven to help her-unaware that someone diabolical might be listening . . . Barbara wakes up with golden hair (not her...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Three divorced friends-and one killer-set out to sea in the New York Times–bestselling author's hilarious cruise-ship murder mystery. Three best friends are on a Caribbean cruise for their latest vacation together. But the trip could be their last-unless they sort out which of the passengers is Mr. Right and which is the hit man hired by one of their ex-husbands... Feisty, fast-talking P.R. executive Elaine Zimmerman needs some persuading by her...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005
Description
The battle of the sexes rages on in this smart, witty, and extremely timely comedy from the phenomenally popular Jane Heller.
At first, Manhattan financial planner Melanie Banks adores Dan Swain, her pro-football player husband who has a sexy Oklahoma drawl to go with his athletic good looks. But then his career comes to a screeching halt, and he spends the next few years out of a job, seemingly unconcerned about it. Suddenly, she's the one bringing...
10) Cha cha cha
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
Abandoned by her husband and facing foreclosure on her home, Alison Waxman Koff takes a job as a maid for malicious celebrity biographer Melanie Moloney, only to find herself the prime suspect in her employer's murder.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Realizing that her marriage has gone stale since her husband Roger has put on the pounds, lost interest in sex, and stopped talking to her, Elizabeth Baskin, a professional perfectionist, finds the solution to her problems in a packet of miracle herbs, which she feels will restore Roger to his former glory, but she soon learns that perfection is highly overrated.
