Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

In the years after graduating from Boston University, six Latina friends from widely varied backgrounds meet every six months to dine, share the stories of their everyday lives, and offer advice to one another. A first novel. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

A Novel

The Dirty Girls Social Club

Three Latin-American women in their late twenties, including an actress, a suburban mother, and a music manager, take Los Angeles by storm in their shared quest to find healthy relationships and success in a cutthroat city. By the author of The Dirty Girls Social Club. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

Playing with Boys

Ricky, a rising Latin music star, pursues his career from a vantage of Miami's hotspots and is orbited by six women, including his plus-sized publicist, a club owner, his pregnant wife, his firefighter high-school girlfriend, a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Ricky, and a media-hungry fellow singer. By the author of The Dirty Girls Social Club. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

Make Him Look Good

Alisa Valdes

New York Times bestselling author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez has done it again, this time bringing us the tale of a young Latina professional cheerleader in Houston, who dreams of being a photojournalist and finds a mentor in a powerful older African American woman sports agent. As their friendship grows, each woman ends up mentoring the other as they each seek to balance love, life and career. Satisfying romances for both women, with men you come to love. Poignant tale of friendship and family.

All that Glitters

Haters

In the years after graduating from Boston University, six Latina friends from widely varied backgrounds meet every six months to dine, share the stories of their everyday lives, and offer advice to one another.

Lauren struggles to find love in spite of her career successes, Usnavys seeks fun away from her husband and baby daughter, and Rebecca faces the prospect of a life without children.

Dirty Girls on Top

From the first day at her new Southern California high school, Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta ("Paski") learns that the popular students may be diverse in ethnicity but are alike in their cruelty. While Paski tries to concentrate on mountain biking and not thinking too much about ultra-hot Chris Cabrera, she is troubled by the beautiful and wicked Jessica Nguyen. Jessica is the queen of the haters and she's got her eye on Paski.

In this third installment of the popular Dirty Girls Social Club series by NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Alisa Valdes (formerly Valdes-Rodriguez) we find Boston newspaper columnist Lauren Fernandez running for her life from a handsome sociopathic killer, with the help of her two best friends -- and straight into the arms of a hot, mysterious New Mexico cowboy. We also find plus-sized materialistic glamazon Usnavys Rivera laid off and confronted with a downsized bank account and impending bankruptcy as her shopping spirals out of control; and prim and perfect Rebecca Baca discovering her father's secret "other" familiy, while also seeing the passion slip out of her marriage after the birth of her autistic son.

A Dirty Girls Social Club Novel

Lauren's Saints of Dirty Faith

The Dirty Girls are back, saucier and sexier than ever....but would it be wrong to ask them to be a little smarter, too?? Especially when it comes to men. And sex. Lauren Fernandez is at the top of her game as the cleverest columnist the Boston Gazette has on board—but she can't quite figure out how to pick a guy or how to eat (and not drink) like a healthy person. Usnavys is still sashaying all over town, 260 pounds of her dolled up in designer duds and ready for action—from anyone except her husband Juan, that is. He's become just a bit boring staying home scrubbing the tub and cooking up chicken fingers for pre-schooler Carolina while somebody else brings home the bacon. Maybe the other Dirty Girls could help Lauren and ‘navy out, but they've got their own messes to deal with: Rebecca Baca hasn't gained a pound since college (well, who would, if they had an ounce of self-control?) but suspects her picture-perfect marriage may not yield the baby she longs for; Sara may be the star of her own decorating show on cable television, but her dangerous pull toward her ex-husband Roberto isn't so pretty; Amber keeps renaming herself and doesn't want to hear that her soulfulness and reinvention aren't enough to make fans actually buy her music; and Elizabeth is discovering that a relationship with another woman takes more than bravery and a nesting instinct. Dirty Girls on Top is about trying to figure it all out without quite as much time left as there was five years ago. And it's about sex and love—getting it, not getting it, yearning for it, having it with the wrong person, fighting it from the right person, trying it a new way, giving up on it. And, in the end, if your fingers are crossed and the planets are in alignment, having it come out just the way it should.

The Dirty Girls are back, saucier and sexier than ever....but are they any wiser? Lauren is at the top of her game as a newspaper columnist--but her romantic life is a total disaster. Usnavys is still ready for action--from anyone except her husband Juan, that is--his role as stay-at-home dad bores her. Maybe the other Dirty Girls could help Lauren and 'navy out, but they've got their own messes to deal with: Rebecca hasn't gained a pound since college (well, who would, if they had an ounce of self-control?) but now that she has a picture-perfect marriage, all that's missing is a baby; Sara may be the star of her own decorating show on TV, but her dangerous pull toward her ex-husband isn't so pretty; Amber keeps reinventing herself and doesn't want to hear that it isn't enough to make fans buy her music; and Elizabeth is discovering that a relationship with another woman takes more than bravery and a nesting instinct. Dirty Girls on Top is about trying to figure it all out--sex, love, careers, friendship, motherhood. And, in the end, if your fingers are crossed and the planets are in alignment, having it come out just the way it should.

Una estimulante novela sobre seis mujeres y sus relaciones con un hombre muy carismático... Ricky Biscayne es un sexy cantante latino que ha llegado a la cima de las listas de éxito y ha arrasado con el mundo de la musica pop como si fuera una tormenta. Tambien ha sido una tormenta en las vidas y sueños de las mujeres que orbitan a su alrededor: --Milán, la nueva publicista de Ricky, superinteligente, gordita y muy consentida por sus padres. --Génova, la hermana de Milán, delgada y chic como no es lo Milán; la aperture de su Club G promete ser un suceso sensacional e Miami. --Jasminka, la Hermosa modelo Serbia y esposa de Ricky, que finalmente comerá un poquito ahora que está embarazada. --Irene, una mujer bombero cuyo romance con Ricky duranto la seundaria fue el ultimo amor de su vida, trata de lograr una existencia para ella y su hija Sophia. --Sophia, quien está comenzando a sospechar que ella y Ricky Biscayne se parecen un poquito. --Jill Sanchez, una estrella Latina come-hombres, maniática con los medios de comunicación; su carrera ha ido desde CD hasta perfume, ropa y cine. Sexy, romántica y llena de noches de diversion par alas chicas, con escenas del medio de la música, clubes y modelos de Miami, la novella El hombre que yo quiero es una ficción irresistible de una de las voces más originales de los Estados Unidos.

(Spanish Edition of Make Him Look Good)

El hombre que yo quiero

Who's bearing gifts this Christmas? Three hot, single guys! Christy de la Cruz has it all: a great career as an interior designer for the stylish homes of New Mexico, marriage to a tall and handsome man, and a great family—especially her cousin Maggie. But as the holidays approach, she's down to two out of three—that handsome husband has walked out the door. Christy is so not up for dating . . . until Maggie takes Christy on as the ultimate romantic project. Just like the wise men in the nativity story, Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar arrive bearing gifts and displaying their best stuff. One's a pretty boy, one's a rugged cowboy, and one's an animal lover. Which one will win Christy's heart? Everyone Loves Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's Novels! "Intoxicating."—New York Post "Exhilarating."—Jennifer Crusie "Must-haves."—Latina magazine

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