Amanda.bright@home
by Danielle Crittenden
Amanda left a job at the National Endowment for the Arts after her second child was born. She adores her kids, Ben and Sophie, but she can't help but be a little envious of her husband, Bob, who has just been assigned to a software company antitrust case at work, and her glamorous friend Susie, who has just gotten her own television show. When Susie starts dating a billionaire involved in the antitrust case, Amanda accidentally gives a gossip columnist information that could jeopardize Bob's career.

Babes in Captivity: A Novel
by Pamela Redmond Satran
Deirdre is married to a sweet, helpful, gangly doctor, but what she really desires is her old singing career with her old singing partner. Because Anne and her independent filmmaker husband are always financing his movies, she is the main breadwinner, but what she would really like to do is open her own restaurant. Juliette is a stay-at-home mom whose son has emotional issues, but that doesn't stop her from wanting another child. And Lisa is the least needy of the group. Her life and her children are as regimented as the army. She wants for nothing, but her orderly life will soon be topsy-turvy.

Bye-bye, Black Sheep
by Ayelet Waldman
Their fledgling detective agency has spread its wings--and now partners Juliet Applebaum and Al Hockey, once in the hole, are finally flying high. A Hollywood lawyer uses them regularly to clean up after some of his less-than-discreet celeb clients. They see people come through the doors of their garage-turned-office, seeking defense investigation. They also see insurance investigation cases. But Juliet and Al are about to find out, they ain't seen nothin' yet.

Deadly Housewives
by Christine Matthews
In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready for a lethal mix of meddling mothers-in-law, creepy neighbors, cheating husbands, fickle female friends, careers left behind, out-of-control kids, steamy sex, and much, much more in this thrilling collection of never-before-published stories! You'll laugh, you'll scream, you'll recognize yourself or your best friend in each of these deadly situations.

For Love and Money: A Novel of Stocks and Robbers
by Leslie Glass
Successful stockbroker Annie Custer is the perfect working mom: Her only problems are her career and her domestic life. Impossible clients are driving her mad at work, while home is total chaos. Her burned-out husband refuses to tackle anything more strenuous than his golf game. As for her two teenage daughters, one won't get out of bed, and the other is flunking out of school. And now Annie's housekeeper, Dina, the glue keeping them all together, has just quit.

Goodnight Nobody
by Jennifer Weiner
Kate Klein, an "accidental mother of three" in suburban Connecticut, misses New York City and just doesn't seem to fit in with all of the expensively dressed mommies. A former journalist, Kate is bored staying at home until the day she is invited to lunch at a neighbor's house and finds the woman's body lying in a pool of blood. With the help of her outrageous best friend and a detective, a former flame from New York, she swiftly begins her own investigation into the murder, uncovering plenty of suburban secrets along the way.

Mary, After All: a Novel
by Bill Gordon
Meet Mary Nolan, a tough-talking Jersey City native who comes of age during the turbulent 1970s. Adored by the small-time Mafia types in her extended Italian American family, Mary grew up believing she could always count on men to protect her. But by the time she's in her early twenties, she finds herself sidelined by life with a philandering husband and two needy young sons, her dreams as shattered as the city around her. How she pulls herself up by her bootstraps-with the help of the colorful Mafioso relatives who get her started in "business"...

Miriam the Medium
by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
Being psychic is tough on Miriam-it's just not something that nice Jewish women who live in an expensive suburb on Long Island do. Although Miriam's part-time job as a phone psychic brings in a nice second income, it's probably not enough to save her husband's pharmacy from going under. To make matters worse, Cara, Miriam's teenaged daughter, is ashamed of her; one of her clients-who seems to be a member of the Mafia-becomes infatuated with her; she's thoroughly humiliated on a local television program; and she fears that her husband is having an affair with her business agent.

Multiple Choice: A Novel
by Claire Cook
March Monroe is the spunky protagonist who left college life behind to marry a civil engineer named Jeff and raise a daughter and son while working as an aerobics instructor, party planner and finally a life coach. With Olivia off to college and Jackson not far behind, March finally takes her husband up on his longstanding offer to send her back to school.

Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch
by Haywood Smith
Southern housewife Linwood Breedlove Scott was happily content in her comfortable, complacent thirty-year marriage, but when her husband cleans out their bank accounts and runs off with a stripper, her life takes a hilarious, yet touching, right turn into reality. With no place to go but home, she's forced back to her insular hometown and the "eccentric" family she escaped by marrying at nineteen: her senile father, her loving-yet-controlling mother, her long-suffering aunt, her crazy uncle, and her good-for-nothing brother.

Rattled
by Debra Galant
What better target for satire than the McMansions looming over once fertile farmland? The SUVs of housing, monuments to hubris and overconsumption, these behemoths are familiar terrain for Galant, who writes a column on suburban life for the New York Times. In her smart and diverting first novel, she shrewdly parses the repercussions of this brazen misuse of precious land in a nimble and ironic comedy of errors featuring the materially ambitious Heather Peters and her dream house in a new development in New Jersey ludicrously named Galapagos Estates.

Rockville Pike: A Suburban Comedy of Manners
by Susan Coll
Jane Kramer studied literature in college and had high hopes for a glamorous life in New York City; but at 41, she finds herself stuck exactly where she never thought she'd be: discontented, deep in debt, and helping to run her father-in-law's failing discount furniture store in the suburbs. Frequent fights with her husband, worry over her teenage son's Goth tendencies, and the well-publicized discovery of human bones behind the store drive Jane to seek solace across Rockville Pike at the grave of F. Scott Fitzgerald...

The Hazards of Sleeping Alone
by Elise Juska
With her free-spirited daughter away at college and her "hip" ex-husband living across the country, Charlotte has grown used to being alone. She relies on familiar routines: manicures, grocery shopping, game shows. But at night, no matter how hard she tries she can't stop her logical mind from running wild -- imagining burglars, strange noises, and all manner of trouble that might befall her fearless daughter Emily. When Emily and the new boyfriend arrive for a weekend visit, secrets are revealed that compel Charlotte to take a stand.

What Do You Do All Day
by Amy Scheibe
Scheibe's hilarious debut is rife with wry observations from one overwhelmed mother of two, Jennifer Bradley. Jennifer's life goes awry when her husband, Thom, sets off on a three-month business trip to Singapore, leaving her in New York to deal with their five-year-old daughter, Georgia, a princess in training, and their rambunctious toddler, Max. The author wittily explores the questions that plague modern-day, middle class moms: What does it mean to be a good mother? Is it possible to balance work and home life? How do you preserve your identity when you are being pulled in so many directions?