Chic Lit
The hot new trend in the literary marketplace, Chic Lit is taking over the shelves. With the success of Bridgette Jones’s Diary and Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood it’s no wonder.
A Model Summer  Ever wondered what it would be like to be whisked into the world of high fashion modeling? High Maintenance [offsite link] If you think that you´re high maintenance, you have got to read this! High Maitenance is a novel fit for a diva! Seducing Harry: An Epicurean Affair  The art of seduction should involve all of the senses and this is exactly what author Judith Marks-White gives us in Seducing Harry: An Epicurean Affair Shoe-ology  Can’t judge a person by their shoes? Well…um yes you can, at least that is according to Karn Knutson’s self inspired Shoe - ology.
Swimming Upstream, Slowly: A Novel  What would you do if you hadn´t had sex in two years but found out during a routine office visit that you were pregnant?That is theme of Melissa Clark´s novel Swimming Upstream, Slowly: A Novel The Devil Wears Prada [offsite link] It´s a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And it´s killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now she´s written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the... Read more The Dirty Girls Social Club [offsite link] From Publishers Weekly
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez´s debut novel delivers on the promise of its sexy title, offering six lively, irreverent characters: the sucias ("dirty girls" in Spanish), who have been friends since college and get together twice a year to catch up. The book opens at just such a meeting, six years after they´ve graduated from Boston University, and takes us through an eventful year in their late 20-something lives. This diverse group of women defies stereotypes. Using What You Got [offsite link] Using What You Got" by Karen E. Quinones Miller (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
Eighteen-year-old college student Tiara Bynum is as pretty as a princess, and just as spoiled. Her castle is the Harlem housing project where she lives with her younger sister, Jo-Jo and her doting father Reggie. Her fiefdom is the legion of men at her beck and call when she snaps her always perfectly manicured fingers. She has no qualms about flaunting her charms to get what she wants because she´s "got it like that."
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