Terry Mangan Memorial Library

"Being Someone" is the story of how two women stay in love while losing four jobs, moving across the country, and ending up on opposite sides of an anti-nuke demonstration. -- Back cover

"Sister Diana Colletti's dream has always been to serve her church in Kenya. Now her time has come, she has her chance to achieve that dream, by qualifying as a nurse practitioner. For her training she has been assigned to Dr. Victoria (Torrie) Lassiter, a dedicated, gifted physician-teacher who will act as her preceptor. Into this situation comes only one problem: Diana and Torrie fall deeply in love. The cost of their love seems impossibly high....

Photographer Nicky Hennessey is at a crossroads. Passionately involved with old friend Beth Forrester, she must face the painful truth that Beth is unwilling, and perhaps unable, to leave her marriage. To make matters worse, the property that Nicky has bought appears to be a financial disaster. But from the moment she meets Meg, Nicky's life takes a new direction. Still, Meg has her own tangled relationship with jealous, possessive, Denise. Beth,...

"Stevie Geller doesn't do conflict. She likes her job as a successful novelist and playwright because it allows her to peacefully ensconce herself in her New York City loft, avoid human interactions, and leave personal drama for the page and stage. When her agent asks her to return to her hometown of Darlington, Illinois, to accept an award, she agrees only because he promises the process will be quick and easy. One panic attack and concussion later,...

A novel about sanity, secrets and cyber-sex . Joss has a nice lover, a nasty neighbor and a job on a pointless magazine. She has the kind of pals who go camping for the weekend and wind up lying in a field getting stoned. They don't know she has another life on-line, where she meets women for cyber fun. But one friend does know -- one friend who would like nothing better than "a private chat" with Joss. And it's her best friend's girlfriend. A funny...

Product Description: Setting out on the "vacation of a lifetime" Marissa Chabot is well-provisioned with sunblock, rum and a stack of good books. Being one of the founders of Finders Keepers, the successful, high-tech "soul-mate matching service," she knows that vacation romances are hopeless. When Linda Bartok-tall, dark and beautiful-sweeps her off her feet anyway, Marissa yields to the magic of a storybook rescue, moonlit walks on the beach and...

When Dr. Paris DeMont lost her beloved Gabriella to the mindless tragedy of Nine Eleven, she lost more than her partner of eight years. She lost her will to love. A successful cardiologist to New York City's elite, Paris now lives a sterile emotionless existence on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But Paris finds out that even when one tries to give up on life, life has a way of interfering and forcing you to live it. When Paris returns to Banyon, Missouri,...