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Naive Venetia Lanyon lives a quiet life until she meets her notorious neighbor Jasper, Lord Damerel, who would marry her in a heartbeat if he didn't think it would ruin her.

An unattractive, ignored spinster daughter, determined not to be forgotten, takes drastic measures when her father brings home a new wife.

Jana Bibi, a Scottish fortune-teller, inherits her grandfather's house in India and hopes to attract tourists when the town is threatened by a government dam.

Londonite Bridget Jones faces the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by, the nightmares of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need ninety buttons and three remotes to simply turn on.

TV writer Hilary Winston offers up a witty collection of autobiographical tales about her misadventures in dating. Just when she feels she's getting her life together, Hilary discovers that her ex has written a novel about their relationship in which he calls her the ?fat-assed girlfriend.? Her response to this affront is just one of the stories in this deliciously funny, laugh-out-loud, tell-all, newly available in paper.

Like most women, whether they?ve chosen the Fortune 500 career path or have had five kids by 35, Anna David wondered if she?d made the right choices. Anna vowed to use a newly discovered book as a lesson plan, venturing out of her comfort zone in the hope of overcoming the fears and insecurities that had haunted her for years. Embarking on a journey both intensely personal and undeniably universal, she becomes adventurous and spontaneous?reviving her wardrobe and apartment, taking French lessons, dashing off to Seville, and whiling nights away with men she never would have considered before. In the process, she ends up meeting the person really worth changing for: herself.

Top two don'ts for the Office Party: Don't dress in a revealing manner...Don't make a spectacle of yourself."--back cover.