Hungry for Love is a heartfelt screwball comedy about Bill, a Beverly Hills diet doctor rethinking his relationship with his food-phobic, exercise-obsessed girlfriend, who pales in comparison to the memory of the great love of his life, his deceased wife. With two kids who need a mom, Bill's just trying to hold his family together. Bill's patient Angie, a formerly-fat chef with daddy issues, is obsessed with his philandering business partner Kevin, the frazzled victim of a pair of misguided vigilantes. Kevin is determined to seduce Bill's girlfriend until it seems he might lose his wife. Angie is worried about the seemingly psycho girlfriend of her best friend, a guy who's desperate to snake Angie away from her crush. Will anybody find love? Is Sunset Boulevard as dangerous as it seems? A poignant, laugh until you cry story filled with sweet sentimentality, love starved women, road rage, and fudge.

This is your chance to understand your own heart, and the needs and desires of those you love best. The planets Venus and Mars are the source of everything romantic and sexy about you. In this newly updated and expanded version of her first, best-selling astrology book, internationally acclaimed astrologer Nancy Frederick concentrates on Venus and Mars, the planets of love and sex, and gives detailed information about both planets in every sign. In addition, there are in-depth delineations of all the 144 Venus-Mars combinations. You need to have no prior knowledge of astrology to understand and benefit from the information in this book. Nancy Frederick shows you how to locate the exact position of Venus and Mars at your birth in the easy-to-navigate charts right here in this book. If you know your birthday, you can instantly look up your Venus and Mars-right here. Then she tells you what the planets reveal. To know the secrets of your lovestyle, all you need to know is your birthday And the same goes for that special someone who's caught your eye. In this fascinating guide to the planets that rule the heart and the sensual passions, Nancy Frederick shows you how to discover your own romantic and sexual requirements: Find out if the lover who turns you on today is the one who will bring you happiness tomorrow and "forever after"; Look into the heart of a potential partner; Please your partner--and yourself; Liberate your sensual self. Love and Sex Under the Stars is an in-depth guide to your personal lovestyle and the key to the romantic needs and desires of everyone you meet.

Alice has too much on her plate. As the owner of a children's party restaurant, she's understaffed, overextended, and the frequent brunt of parents' complaints. At home, she has a relationship that never worked, an ailing great aunt, and a daughter whose personal crisis threatens the entire family. But to forty-year-old Alice, scarred and traumatized by a tragic accident in her teens, the present is far easier to handle than memories of her past. When a stranger arrives with a legal document from years ago, that's only the beginning of a series of events which upturn her life and bring the devastating past back into the present. Can she allow herself to take necessary risks, in order to cast away her hand-me-down life and find success and true love, or is she destined always to be that wild, headstrong girl who can't resist making faulty choices? Dawn Any Minute is a story of awakenings, in which hearts long slumbering arise from the ashes to claim a bright new day.

The true compelling story of a young boy's courage in the face of death. And his mother's journey through hope, frustration and despair, in and out of the shadow of death and beyond.

When her husband of many years abruptly abandons her, Annabeth is devastated but must learn to build a new life. Lacking confidence and terrified of the future, Annabeth hesitantly enters the world. All her life she's put the needs of loved ones ahead of her own and must change if she's to function as an independent adult, but what is she really suited to do? Learning she must leave her beloved house, Annabeth feels that her entire life has been wrenched from her. She marches up to the attic to empty it, and as she confronts the memories of a lifetime, an inner transformation begins to happen. Annabeth finds a way to create success, to accept the love she truly deserves and to become the person she was meant to be. When her old school chum comes back to town, she finds a friend and the possibility of so much more. This is a beautifully told story of growth and transformation, one you won't want to miss.

Awash in despair, Addie swallows a handful of pills, expecting to extinguish her misery along with her life. She is dead but she isn't gone. Instead she is trapped in the Afterlife, where Addie finds herself surrounded by loving guides and terrifying apparitions as she is forced to do what she's most wanted to avoid-examine the key moments of her life. Can she release the notion of herself as a victim, offer forgiveness and embrace redemption? Can she die and live to see another day? This is a story of transformation, of embracing truth and releasing lies and rationalizations, of spirituality, and it's an exciting thriller with non-stop action, turns and twists that will keep you enthralled to the very end.

After Liana's marriage imploded, her only desire was to reconnect with happiness. She didn't expect to fall desperately in love with the man of her dreams-or what happened next. Kevin was enamored with Liana and she remained on his mind long after they parted and he moved cross country. He kept trying to forget her but never expected to run into her thousands of miles from home. Lou decided to open his home to his cousin Kevin because this lusty babe magnet could provide him with some choice castoffs that being a doctor still couldn't get him. He worried it could get messy-and he was right. Delilah yearned for a mad, passionate love, and was thunderstruck when the man she most desired also wanted her. This is the singles scene and it features turbulent romances that are heart wrenching and tantalizingly sexy, singles whose lives intertwine and disconnect in the meet market. It's a small world and you never know who will capture-or break-your heart.

Colt Hardison was a boy from the South who became the hottest star in Hollywood, the guy every woman desired in her fantasies and her bedroom. But he wanted to forget a treacherous past and the fact that all his personal love stories ended either in tragedy or tears. Jelena Coldwell was a neglected child of Hollywood and was shadowed by a past equally forlorn. No matter how many times Colt and Jelena yearned for each other, something always conspired to keep them apart. They had spectacular careers which they could share but each felt they might be destined for loneliness and despair. Would happiness ever be part of their equation and would they be able to bury the past in order to build a happy future on a foundation of pain? In a world of Hollywood glamour, Starstruck is a deep and luxurious character study of two long-unfulfilled people seeking a home for their hearts.

For three decades businesswomen have been told that the key to advancing is to "play like a man." Candy Deemer and Nancy Fredericks, corporate consultants and authors of Dancing on the Glass Ceiling say that it's playing like a woman that will get a woman to where she wants to be, relying on her inherent, feminine-based strengths to distinguish themselves as leaders: exceptional communication skills, team-and-relationship building, intuition, and a supportive mindset that nurtures both their companies and their employees. The real-life stories, research, insights, techniques, and advice in this book illustrate the potency of those feminine-based skill sets. Written in a friendly, workshop-like tone, Dancing on the Glass Ceiling combines conceptual wisdom with accessible, practical guidance for all professional women for the present and ever-changing business world.

Was Herman Melville, one of the most canonical of American authors, an early practitioner and advocate of multiculturalism? In Melville's Art of Democracy, Nancy Fredricks examines Melville's search for literary strategies compatible with egalitarian, democratic, and multicultural values. Fredricks argues that Melville's concern with the limits of representation is central both to his literary aesthetic and to his interest in exploring the "unrepresentedness" of marginalized social groups, including women, ethnic minorities, and the underclass. Through readings of Moby-Dick and Pierre, as well as some of Melville's short stories, the author traces the development of Melville's egalitarian aesthetic in relation to Kant's critique of fanaticism and theory of the sublime and contemporaneous developments in nineteenth-century American landscape painting, theater, and the philosophy of music. By focusing on questions of gender, class, and ethnicity, Fredricks accounts for neglected and often misunderstood aspects of Melville's work that reflect his sympathies with the radical-democrat movement. The author investigates the politics of Melville's aesthetic through his engagement with popular melodrama, his valorization of music, his sympathetic treatment of the "tinhorn rebellion" in upstate New York, his critique of typology, and his use of such formal devices as the diptych structure Fredricks claims links Moby-Dick and Pierre. Finally, Fredricks considers her own experience as a feminist reader of Melville while juxtaposing his treatment of lower- and working-class women with nineteenth-century discourses on gender, genre, and the sublime. This challenging and timely study demonstrates that the problems Melville faced as a writer--the relationship between politics and aesthetics and the representation of the marginalized without appropriation--are similar to issues faced in the academy today.