Author: Gabrielle Burton
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: hotel, heartbreak
Number of Pages: 303
Published: 1999-07
List price: $13.50
ISBN-10: 1564781674
ISBN-13: 9781564781673

Fiction. Women’s Studies. Re-printed by Dalkey Archive Press. Devoted to the pains and pleasures of being female, the Museum of the Revolution--with exhibits such as "The Menstrual Show" (performed in redface), "The Hard-to-Please Momma," and "The Litany of Clothes"--is under siege. The City Fathers, frightened by its continual expansion, are out to destroy it once and for all. But the City Fathers haven’t reckoned with the residents of Heartbreak Hotel..."Bold and bawdy in its humor, penetrating in its insight, this novel deserves to be a feminist classic. Any woman can fi

Author: Margo Rabb
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Keywords: heartbreak, cures
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-08-12
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0385734034
ISBN-13: 9780385734035

"IF SHE DIES, I’ll die," are the words 15-year-old Mia Perlman writes in her journal the night her mother is diagnosed with cancer. Nine days later, Mia’s mother is dead, and Mia, her older sister, and her father must find a way to live on in the face of sudden, unfathomable loss. But even in grief, there is the chance for new beginnings in this poignant, funny, and hopeful novel.From the Hardcover edition.

Author: Anjanette Delgado
Publisher: Atria
Keywords: novel, pill, heartbreak
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0743297539
ISBN-13: 9780743297530

Is it really necessary to suffer for love? What if an easy-to-swallow pill could turn love off and on? You wouldn’t desire what isn’t good for you. You wouldn’t cry for what cannot be. You’d just live. You’d be happy. Erika Luna is a thirty-something scientist living and working in Miami. When her husband of seven years -- the very successful, very smart, very good-looking founding partner of one of Miami’s top public relations firms -- falls in lust with another woman, their marriage spirals toward divorce and Erika’s practical nature leads her down a

Author: Saul Bellow
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, heartbreak
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-08-31
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0142437743
ISBN-13: 9780142437742

Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die of Heartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdown." Imagining that a settled existence will end his anguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood of new torments. As Kenneth gra

Author: Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher: Pocket Star
Keywords: hotel, heartbreak
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-08-28
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1416544909
ISBN-13: 9781416544906

Anne Rivers Siddons "cannot be surpassed in evoking a kind of life peculiar to the South," says Publishers Weekly. Her classic novel Heartbreak Hotel, praised as "anything but nostalgic" by The New York Times, excels with an insightful, troubling tale of the coming of age of a privileged young Southern woman during the turbulent Civil Rights era.In Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King has organized a bus boycott. In Tuscaloosa, outrage surrounds the entrance of the state university’s first black student. But at little Randolph University, sweltering in the summer heat, life remains dr

Author: Gilbert Hernandez
Publisher: Fantagraphics Book
Keywords: rockets, love, soup, heartbreak
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-03-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1560977833
ISBN-13: 9781560977834

This beautiful, affordable volume collects the first half of Gilbert’s modern-day classic, featuring the acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the Central American hamlet, and its memorable inhabitants. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets is finally released in its most accessible form yet: As a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story in perfect chronological order. This volume collects the first half of Gilbert Hernandez’s acclaimed magical-realist tales of "Palomar," the small Central American town, begin

Author: Tom Lonergan
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: thriller, marathon, boston, heartbreak
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2002-05-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0595227139
ISBN-13: 9780595227136

Terrorists Threaten the Boston MarathonRace Director KilledWorldÂ’s Largest Spectator Event at RiskThe trouble with most terrorists is they think too small. This is the message Boston police receive days before fifteen thousand runners and two and a half million spectators descend on the city for the marathon. Even bin Laden only killed thousands. What if the target was larger? What if millions were at risk?Sgt. Mike Quinn, Vietnam vet, homicide detective and addicted marathoner, is called in to help when domestic terrorists, looking too piggy-back onto the World Trade Center disaster, thr