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Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She's at peace with her plus-size body, at least, most of the time, and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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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.
24) If the shoe fits
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Meant to be volume 1
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English
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"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"--
25) Out of the blue
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Perfect fit (Alison Bliss) volume 4
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Preslee Owens is happy with her single life and her plus-size body. But a visit to the doctor leads to a prescription to make a lifestyle change before her 'pre-diabetic' status escalates to permanent. So she steps foot in the local gym for the first time ... and almost steps right back out amid the overwhelming testosterone levels. Just when she's ready to quit, the sexy gym owner, Adam Caldwell, gives her a much-needed pep talk. When he offers...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Savannah friends arrange for her to be a competitor on a reality show called "Man of my dreams." When one of the show's producers is found dead in a walk-in freezer, felled by a carton of Killer Fudge ice cream, the show becomes the worst kind of soap opera.
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Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Plus-sized Vivian resolves to learn her husband's secrets, Monica taps her inner strength to avenge herself against an unfaithful spouse, Kelly navigates her husband's coming out, and single-mom Sonya discovers her teenage daughter's pregnancy.
28) 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.
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Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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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...
30) Hide & snoop
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Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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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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Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Too often, fatness has been viewed as a moral failing. Fat Christian women in particular are shamed and marginalized by the message that they are failing God because they can't change their bodies. More of You will challenge that status quo, teaching readers to resist the shame and guilt that is pressed onto them by the world and instead to embrace their bodies, take up space, and learn to navigate the world in ways that allow them to flourish.
32) Hopeful
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Series
Return to Sugarcreek volume 1
Publisher
Avon Inspire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Miriam Zehr has worked at the Sugarcreek Inn longer than she cares to admit. The restaurant is a favorite of town residents as well as the many tourists who come to taste the famous Amish fare. Though she always tries to have a smile for every customer who comes in, deep down Miriam knows something's missing. Miriam has never felt particularly beautiful, especially because she's always been a bit heavier than other girls her age. When the man she's...
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Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023].
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English
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Love won't let me wait. "Giánni's past is riddled with failed relationships and broken hearts, so she has chosen to focus on her self-worth instead. However, when she finds herself just going through the motions in her job, she feels the need for some entertainment. A new customer's flirtatious advances might just offer her a new way to occupy her downtime. When Ford decided to skip out on a four-year degree to become a truck driver, his parents...
35) Full figured 17
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Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Big girls deserve love too, and Brandie Davis and Niko Michelle introduce readers to two women who are determined to get it." -- Back cover.
Camgirl: "Lots of women weight 300 pounds would have a problem with their size and wish for a smaller frame, but not Draya Ruckers. She's content with her weight and has no issues with her outside appearance. It's in the inside she's at war with. Her mind is her biggest enemy, and emotions are her personal...
38) More to love
Author
Series
Perfect fit (Alison Bliss) volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Jessa Gibson may be new in the little town of Granite, Texas, but in no time at all her gourmet food truck business is booming. Soon she'll have enough money to open the restaurant of her dreams. But first, she'll have to appease the hot local health inspector, no matter how strange his "violations" sound to her. No pink plastic gloves? Really? Max Hager isn't exactly who he says he is. Pretending to be a health inspector is a (mostly) innocent mistake....
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Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Poppy Banks would rather be writing mysteries than writing listicles for her dead-end job at Thought Buzz. But after a series of rejections, she's ready to accept life on the sidelines as a plus-size woman. Her aunt Margot is the one person unwilling to give up on her niece's dreams and tells her so at their secret yearly lunches. But all of Poppy's beliefs about herself are challenged when her beloved aunt dies and leaves her niece a grand surprise--a...
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