Judith Rossner

By day she is a caring school teacher, with her favourites. By night, she is a drug abusing, heavy drinking, hooker, chasing rough sex in bars and picking up whatever is available.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar— the story of two women, a psychoanalyst and her patient who help each other through very different periods in their lives. When Dawn Henley, the beautiful, talented Barnard College freshman steps into psychoanalyst Dr. Lulu Shinefeld’s office, she’s immediately intrigued. What could have driven this girl to such extreme levels of depression? Over the course of five years, Dawn’s bizarre and tortured childhood is drawn out, and both women are inevitably changed.

August

Rossner

Judith Posner

Emmeline

Emmeline Mosher is sent from her parents' Maine farm to the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, a new life and new values, shocking revelations, two great love affairs, and a completely undreamed-of new world

The story of Emmeline Mosher, who, before her 14th birthday, was sent from her home on a farm in Maine to support her family by working in a cotton mill in Massachusetts. The year was 1839. An extraordinary novel from the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", the story of a desperate young girl thrust into one of America's early industrial towns is a haunting tale of seduction.

The four daughters of Hollywood producer Sam Pearlstein--by three different wives--vie in a fervent race for their father's attention

A Novel

His Little Women

From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar comes an enthralling tale of money, love, and one woman’s quest to have both in a world that wants her to have neither. Young, beautiful Ruth Kossoff is drawn dangerously by two equal desires—the love of her best friend David Landau, and wealth enough to take her from her family’s tenement home. When she sacrifices one to marry the wealthy Walter Stamm, she finds herself still greedy for life and love and willing to risk everything she has worked towards for a chance to be with David again.

To the Precipice

From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar—after running away to a commune, Margaret Adams discovers the joys, burdens and limits of family. When Margaret Adams, 250 pounds and pregnant, decides to leave her life behind and take to the open road on a motorcycle stolen from her nutty husband Roger, she doesn’t know where her future will take her. Quickly she meets David, a withdrawn nineteen-year-old hitchhiker who leads her to a communal farm in Vermont. There she discovers an unusual makeshift family who teach her about herself, her relationships, and the joys and burdens of the family you choose and the family that chooses you.

Any Minute I Can Split

From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar comes the story of one family’s unfinished business and overcoming the weight of the past. Caroline Ferrante is a gifted chef who has just been tapped for her own cooking show. But her turbid past returns to haunt her when her estranged teenage daughter, Olivia—raised to hate her by a Caroline’s vindictive ex-husband—returns home. Overcoming Olivia’s anger while navigating a new career and burgeoning love life proves to be her greatest challenge.

Olivia

From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar— the epic family saga of four very different sisters and their Hollywood producer father. A spellbinding saga of the four daughters of larger-than-life Hollywood producer, Sam Pearlstein, and the fallout that occurs when one sister writes a bestselling novel and a man she swears she’s never known brings a libel suit against her. Through these four women, Rossner brilliantly explores what it means to be a sister and a daughter.

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