Weeping Underwater Looks A Lot Like Laughter

by

Michael J. White

George Flynn can’t help himself. He’s still haunted by the fallout from his first love, and keeps sneaking glances back to how it began. Uprooted after his family’s move to Des Moines, George is the new nobody on the block, with no friends and no clue. He soon finds his footing when he falls in with the enchanting Schell sisters. Emily, an aspiring actress and the mysterious star of St. Pius High School, becomes the object of his deep infatuation. But it’s the younger sister, Katie—with her crush, her quirks, and her scathing deadpan humor in the face of multiple sclerosis—who really gets George hooked on the Schells.

Told with razor-sharp wit and no-holds-barred honesty, this is a vivid, moving novel about friendship and first love—about dealing with grief and trying to come of age without coming undone. With this debut, Michael J. White proves himself to be one to watch: a writer with talent and imagination to spare.

The Cougar Club
by
Susan McBride

If you think that life and romance end at forty . . .
think again!

Meet three women who aren’t about to run and hide, just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation:

Kat Maguire: her life seems perfect until she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromising position—with his computer!

Carla Moss: this sexy TV news anchor is in danger of being replaced by a twenty-something blond bimbo. Wasn’t it just yesterday that she was the up and coming star?

Elise Randolph: a married dermatologist, Elise thinks her plastic surgeon husband is playing doctor with someone else.

Kat firmly believes that aging gracefully isn’t about giving up; it’s about living life with your engine on overdrive. So this unofficial “Cougar Club” quickly learns three things about survival of the fittest in today’s youth-obsessed society: true friendship never dies, the only way to live is real, and you’re never too old to follow your heart.

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