Mameve Medwed
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What do a chamber pot, a famous poet, a family feud, and a long-ago suitor all have in common? Elizabeth Barrett Browning might have written about the length and breadth of love, but Abby Randolph has given up on all that, preferring to spend her time between her cluttered "needs work" apartment and an overcrowded antiques mart optimistically named Objects of Desire. Yet Abby can't help but wonder what happened to her earlier passionate self . ....
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Lee Emery is an empty nester, contentedly married to a man she has known forever and hunkering down in the house where she grew up. She believes she is happy occupying such a familiar emotional and physical space. But questions of the path not taken start to haunt her after she publishes a memoir of her deliciously eccentric grandmother with whom she traipsed through Europe at eighteen. It was then that Lee fell in love for the first time. Twenty-five...
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Maisie Grey, the divorced mother of a teenage son, Tommy, strives to be nothing like her ex-mother-in-law, Ina, whose controlling and narcissistic ways contributed to the demise of Maisie's marriage. Maisie also runs her own company, Factotum, which provides personal-assistant services for her clients, many of whom are eccentric professors from one of the many universities in the Cambridge, MA, area where she lives. When Tommy returns home from his...
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Annie and her husband Sam seem to live a charmed life, running their gourmet sandwich shop, when in drops a scary medical diagnosis for Annie and she must find a way to help Sam go on without her. Her step by step plans for her replacement grind to a halt with the unexpected appearance of her mother Ursula, who brings her own brand of chaos. A poignant and hilarious novel about the bonds of marriage, the burdens of maternal love, and the courage to...