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It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words but an old photograph can inspire many more.

For Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz, business isn't just booming--it's skyrocketing. But as her friend Marla is constantly warning her, 'Success can kill you.' Goldy knows she needs to slow down before she breaks down, and she vows she'll do it--right after her next booking: a cocktail party for the Westside Mall's Elite Shoppers Club. It's the event of the shopping season: the Princess Without a Pricetag party for the wealthy shopaholics who drop at least a thousand dollars a week at the mall.

There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world. These characters and more confront issues of trust, love, and loss.

Determined to take control of her life, Goldy Bear moves her catering business and her son to ritzy Aspen Meadows Country Club. Just as she's beginning to think she's got it made--catering decadent dinners and being wooed by both a handsome shrink and a rugged cop--the sightly doctor inexplicably drives his BMW into an oncoming bus. Godly is convinced the doctor's death was no accident.

Goldy Bear, recently divorced, has made a home for herself and her young son in scenic Aspen Valley, Colorado. There, calls for Goldilock's Catering have been steady enough to pay the bills. But when a mourner is felled by rat poison during a funeral buffet Goldy is serving, the police quickly close her business. Now it's up to Goldy to find the rat who has tainted her food and her reputation.

The newest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned home from the Middle East, only to discover that her son has been exposed to the worst of evils: cartoons, movies, and even carbonated beverages. But the one who should be most concerned is her unfortunate husband, Stuart, upon whom her wrath is about to descend.

Twelve-year-old New York City twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so they are just as shocked as everyone else when Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a hilarious showdown.

Ada est une vraie grincheuse: elle boude, elle râle, elle déteste tout. Mais ce qu'elle déteste le plus, c'est le samedi, parce que c'est le jour de son cours de ballet. Ada déteste son tutu rose, le long trajet en auto pour s'y rendre et les postures qu'on lui demande de reproduire. Mais ce samedi là, un imprévu vient perturber le cours. Suffira t-il pour arracher à Ada la grincheuse un petit sourire?

Riley and his best friend Finn know that their zombie movie has what it takes to win the class film competition. But Riley's plan to get their video some attention at a hockey game is ruined when the camera focuses on Finn as a dancing hockey fan instead. With Finn refusing to promote their movie and wanting to go viral on his own, the boys stop collaborating and start competing -- for fame, friendship and their classmate Jasmine.

Generation X is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s--a generation known vaguely up to then as "twentysomething."