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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The newest heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author tells the story of two friends who make a promise to face their deepest hopes and greatest fears by agreeing to stop waiting to lose weight and start living now. Marley, Georgia, and Emerson met at fat camp as teens, and they never would have survived it without each other. They bonded against the disapproval of their family and friends by loving each other for who they were...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family
Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria Dawson loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister, Gracie, and when Grace announces her engagement to a...
Author
Series
Spoiler alert volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. While the world knows him as Aeneas, the star of the biggest show on TV, Gods of the Gates, he's known to fanfiction readers as Book!AeneasWouldNever, an anonymous and popular poster. Marcus is able to get out his own frustrations with his character through his stories, especially the ones that feature the internet's favorite couple to ship, Aeneas and Lavinia. But if anyone ever found out about his online persona,...
Author
Series
Slaying it volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Dumplin' meets True Blood in this paranormal romantic comedy from debut author Gloria Duke. Lily Baines is a plus size girl trying to deal with internalized sizeism, a well-meaning but critical mother, and a world determined not to take fat people seriously. She figures things can't get any harder...until she's turned into a vampire. Now she's left to grapple with a whole new crop of problems, including the fact that the body she's in (the body she...
Author
Series
Mad Fat Girl novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Graciela "Ace" Jones is a sassy high school teacher, known in her small town of Bugtussle, Mississippi, for an outsize presence and a mouth to match. But that big mouth might get her into big trouble. When her best friend and coworker, Lilly, is fired by their horrible principal, Ace and their mutual friend Chloe know they have to prove Lilly's innocence. Then Chloe lands in a crisis of her own when her aristocratic--and emotionally abusive--husband...
Author
Series
Christmas Notch volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone--a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life--between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's happy in love and in friendship until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world. Unmoored and grieving a major loss, Lena finds herself trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself. Lena questions everything she's learned about dating, friendship, and motherhood, and through...
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Language
English
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"Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this time - she doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media - so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. Drue was always...
12) If the shoe fits
Author
Series
Meant to be volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In this modern-retelling of Cinderella, plus-size Cindy dreams of becoming a shoe designer. But when a spot opens up on her stepmother's famous reality dating TV competition, Cindy is thrust into the spotlight in ways she never thought possible"--
13) Making it big
Author
Publisher
Oldcastle Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Sad, lonely Sharon Plunkett is a size 18. She's tried every fad, every diet, every cream, but like a stain of grease on a pure silk blouse, her rolls of fat refuse to budge. The man of her dreams is not interested, and her slim friend Debbee uses her to look good. But all that changes when Sharon magically finds herself in a fantastic, reversed world where it's suddenly 'in' to be fat, and 'out' to be slim! Now feted and adored for her curvaceously...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two sisters fight for their legacy while breaking out of their comfort zones in this new women's fiction novel by Ali Brady, author of The Beach Trap. Sisters Hannah and Libby need to make a big change. The PR agency they inherited from their grandmother-her pride and joy, her legacy-is failing, and clients are leaving left and right. They're about to lose hope until in walks Big Betty, a well-known self-help guru of the famed Ted Talk "Crushing...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Focusing on her demanding job and harboring a secret crush on her photographer best friend after her divorce, Willow struggles with self-esteem issues when comparing herself to her slim and happily married identical twin before finding an amazing pair of vintage shoes that seem to have a magical effect on her life.
17) Size matters
Author
Series
Perfect fit (Alison Bliss) volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Sam Cooper tells her judgmental mother that they are engaged, baker Leah Martin must keep up with the fake engagement, stay "just friends" and make her family hate him enough to call the whole thing off, but Sam has an insatiable sweet tooth for both her decadent desserts and her decadent curves.
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Once again, Carl Weber brings together two literary divas to give readers what theyve been asking for: empowering stories about big, beautiful women. "Birthday Girl" by Skyy: Coral has spent her life working toward her professional goals. Not wanting to follow in the footsteps of church friends who had children before they made it to college, Coral has decided to forgo relationships until her dreams come true. With her birthday approaching, she does...
19) Hide & snoop
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Odelia attempts to confront her new boss, Erica Mayfield, after she leaves her three-year-old niece with her for the weekend, she finds Erica's sister murdered and must prove her innocence.
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