Born in the U.S.A....
American gals are taking liberties -- and pursuing happiness on their own terms -- in this star-studded story collection featuring the nation's red-hot women writers.

They've declared their independence
Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel" -- and the trouble with falling for an incognito Hollywood actor. Lauren Weisberger (The Devil Wears Prada) sends a single New Yorker on a backpacking trip halfway around the world -- where she sees her love life back home with new eyes --...

It has been eight years since pharmacist and longtime spinster Ave Maria Mulligan married coal miner Jack MacChesney. What she hasn't counted on is that fate and the ghosts of the past will come to haunt her, and test the love she has for her husband.

Transporting readers from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia to the Italian Alps, New York City and the Tuscan countryside, this novel is the story of a shifting mother daughter relationship.

Seismic changes are about to take place in Ave Maria's life. Her daughter, Etta, barely eighteen, is married and living in Italy; the health of her husband, the gorgeous and ever-dependable Jack Mac, is failing and she has scarcely noticed; friendships she has enjoyed forever are under threat. And then to town comes a mysterious stranger, revealing a long-buried secret. Her world shaken, Ave Maria must face up to the past in order to build a new life for herself and for Jack.

A mesmerizing epic that has, at its heart, a retelling of the extraordinary love affair between Clark Gable and Loretta Young in 1930s' Hollywood