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"When Janey Sweet, CEO of a couture wedding dress company, is photographed in the front row of a fashion show eating a bruffin--the delicious lovechild of a brioche and a muffin--her best friend and business partner, Beau, gives her an ultimatum: Lose thirty pounds or lose your job. Sure, Janey has gained some weight since her divorce, and no, her beautifully cut trousers don't fit like they used to, so Janey throws herself headlong into the world...
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2003.
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First edition.
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English
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"Heartbreaking." - Kirkus Reviews
"Amanda Davis writes gently, even poetically about extraordinary brutality. She has a distinctively creepy, even noirish sensibility." - New York Times Book Review
"An utterly unique take on what it means to run away and join a circus." - Elizabeth Strout, author of AMY AND ISABELLE
"This book is a circus Pygmalion -- a spectacular tale of injury, heartbreak, and metamorphosis." - Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra...
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"The newest heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author tells the story of two friends who make a promise to face their deepest hopes and greatest fears by agreeing to stop waiting to lose weight and start living now. Marley, Georgia, and Emerson met at fat camp as teens, and they never would have survived it without each other. They bonded against the disapproval of their family and friends by loving each other for who they were...
5) Elevation
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English
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"Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs...
6) The fat girl
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[1984]
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First edition.
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English
Description
Jeff, a high school senior, becomes obsessed with creating a new, beautiful, person out of an unhappy fat girl, but when she begins to think independently, he loses control of the situation.
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[2007]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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English
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Sunny Weston always wanted to be perfect . . . and that meant being thin. Now, after what seemed like a million years on the treadmill-and a million miles from the nearest brownie-she finally fits into those slinky black dresses she's been eyeing for years.
But being a perfect size doesn't necessarily equal a perfect life. Suddenly Sunny's best friends are all bitter and jealous. She's become a stranger in her own body. And though her longtime work...
11) A piece of cake
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English
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When Mama Elephant puts her family on a diet, their will power remains strong until Granny sends a cake.
12) Skinny: a novel
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2011.
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
After her father's death, Gray Lachmann, finds herself compulsively overeating. Determined to take control again, she takes a job at a weight-loss camp. There she has to deal with devious co-counselors. combative teenage campers and the discovery of a teenage half-sister she never knew she had.
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[2010]
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English
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Loretta Crawford's family's love of food shows all too clearly on her 280-pound frame, until one day her loser husband, Lyman, leaves her for another woman and Loretta realizes she's had enough. Down but determined, Loretta opts for weight loss surgery. As her size plummets, her horizons expand and the Houston catering business that was once her hobby begins to take off in earnest.
14) Speed shrinking
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2009.
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First edition.
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English
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Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she's got her addictive personality under control. Then her psychoanalyst moves away, her husband takes off to L.A. and her best friend moves to Ohio. Feeling lonely and left out, Julia fills in the void with food. This is a huge problem--especially since she's about to go on national television to plug her hot new self-help book about how she conquered her sugar addiction. Julia desperately sees eight...
19) Yummers!
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Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Emily Pig accepts Eugene Turtle's advice to walk as a way of losing weight but runs into too many tempting edible diversions.
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