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2) Dietland
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. She is biding her time at a job answering fan mail for a popular teen girls' magazine until she can afford weight-loss surgery. But lately she is being followed by a girl in outlandish clothes and combat boots. When Plum finally confronts her, she finds herself falling into the mysterious world of Calliope House, where an odd collection of women orbit...
3) Pretty woman
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vickie Winters tries to warn her best friend, Rosie Gardener, overweight and unable to see her own worth, that the man she is marrying is a two-timing cad who is using Rosie as his meal ticket. After three years of marriage, Rosie kicks her husband out and starts to change her life with diet and exercise. But the biggest life-changing news of all is her winning lottery ticket worth $302 million.
Author
Publisher
Planeta [Colombiana]
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
259 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Rebeca soporta el tormento de su grotesca gordura. La soledad, la amargura y la rabia abonan su sed de culpabilizar a alguien. Ese alguien tropieza con ella en un avión. Es Rebeca, su amiga secreta del colegio, que ya como adulta goza de una vida plena y prestigiosa.
Author
Series
Cannie Shapiro volume 1
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cannie is a 28-year-old Philadelphia Examiner reporter preoccupied with her weight and men. After a "temporary" break-up with her boyfriend of three years, she reads his debut column, "Good in Bed," in the women's magazine Moxie. Titled "Loving a Larger Woman," this very personal piece triggers events that completely transform her and those around her.
6) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked... until Will takes a job at Harpy's, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn't surprised to find herself...
7) The gaze
Author
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An overweight woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go, and decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make up, and the woman draws a moustache on her face. The couple deal with the gaze of passers by in different ways. The woman wants to hide away from the world, while the man meets them head on, even compiling his own 'Dictionary of the Gaze' to show the powerful effects a simple look can have. The narrative...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. With a huge following and two supportive moms, Bee couldn't ask for more. But when Bee's favorite producer casts her to star in a Christmas movie he's making for the squeaky-clean Hope Channel, Bee's career is about to take a more family-friendly direction. Forced to keep her work as Bianca under wraps, Bee quickly learns this is a task a lot easier said than...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 349 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman chasing two frightened homeless men along a deserted causeway at night, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind. Within hours, Lucy becomes a hero. Her celebrity is short-lived, though: the "crazed gunman," turns out to be a victim of child sexual abuse and the two men are serial pedophiles. The solitary eye-witness, the depressed and...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughter’s looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, and her father has always said she looks just...
Author
Language
English
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Description
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...
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