Desperate for marriage and motherhood but impossibly in love with the wrong man, real-estate agent Patty Hansen comes up with an ingenious, if offbeat, solution to accomplishing her goals. By the author of Talk Before Sleep. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

Would you sell your soul for your dream job? That's the question that confronts Chiah Deng when she's offered the chance to join the 20-something jet-setting elite, to enter the world of Hollywood stars, rock idols and fashion mavens.

For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. He writes, "It is a story about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, within the space of a year and a half. But what a year and a half it is!" Welch offers a brief biography of Walker, who wrote nine of her thirteen novels while living in Montana.

The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted it its entirety, each with a foreword by General Editor Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in a historical and literary perspective. Ranging from serious cautionary tales about moral corruption to amusing and trenchant social satire, these books provide today's reader with a unique window into the earliest American popular fiction and way of life. Written in 1822, A New-England Tale is the first of Catherine Sedgwick's twenty novels in addition to the one hundred short magazine pieces she published in her lifetime. The story of an orphan girl in rural New England and the moral and religious trials she faces as she grows up, this intriguing portrait provides a unique look at the religious and political climate of this crucial period in America's development as a country. Addressing many of the complex religious, political, and philosophical issues of the time, as well as theoretical issues of the woman writer, A New-England Tale is a classic nineteenth-century story of a young woman's moral and material triumphs.

When a race of elegant, superintelligent dogs arrives in twenty-first-century New York, they become instant celebrities, but, unable to adjust to the modern world and confronted with an incurable disease, they construct a fantastic castle and barricade themselves inside. A first novel.

In a story set against the backdrop of Dust Bowl Canada of the 1930s, the two Hardy sisters--Lucinda and Norma-Joyce--fall for the same man, Maurice Dove, a visitor to the Saskatchewan farm of their widower father, igniting an emotional storm that has a profound impact on their lives. By the author of A Student of Weather. 30,000 first printing.

What is a woman to do? Mean Woman raises and answers the question time and again. The female characters in the novel rule countries, are oppressed, and rise again individually and in groups. Shifting scenes of Latin American politics are evoked in kaleidoscopic play. Swaggering heroines of tango, the Argentines Eva and Isabelita Perón, the itinerant Filipina Imelda Marcos, and their male consorts may be glimpsed in a vision whose sustained humor dazzles us with the conundrums of violence, machismo, and exile.

Controlled and devoured by his addiction to gambling, Jorge enlists the help of Lucia, a beautiful analyst, in a battle of wits for his soul.