adult books

What Men Want
by Deborah Blumenthal
Red Dress Ink

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"I don't know if Deborah Blumenthal really, as the title of her novel suggests, knows what men want. But her WHAT MEN WANT (Red Dress Ink) does an excellent job of spelling out exactly what a 30-something newspaper columnist would want."

--Chicago Sun-Times

"Blumenthal might not come up with the answer to the eternal question of what men want, but readers will enjoy watching the heroine of her second novel try to figure it out."

--Booklist

Fat Chance
by Deborah Blumenthal
Red Dress Ink, 2004
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"Spring's Best Chick Lit"

--PEOPLE magazine

“Fat Chance is a modern Cinderella story…and great fun!”

--New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs

“Deborah Blumenthal’s deliciously amusing novel offers a refreshing chick-lit twist: a heroine who embraces with gusto her inner—and generously proportioned outer—food-loving self. Zaftig Maggie O’Leary happily devours barbecued ribs rather than obsessing about whether her own will be visible to the naked eye—and builds a high-profile career encouraging fellow females to do the same. Fat Chance is as much sparkling, laid-back fun as good champagne sipped from a bottle!”

--Wendy Markham, author of Slightly Single and Slightly Settled

Description

As Americans throw themselves body, soul and pocketbook into the latest weight-loss craze, Maggie O’Leary’s informed column about the pitfalls of dieting is the one sane voice crying out against the dietocracy. Plus-size Maggie, also known as American’s Anti-Diet Sweetheart, is perfectly happy with who she is and the life she leads. Until she gets a call from Hollywood’s most enticing bachelor, Mike Taylor.

At first, Maggie thinks the call is one big joke put on by a particularly obnoxious colleague. But when Maggie learns that Taylor is the real enchilada and that he truly does need her to come out to Hollywood to help him on an upcoming film about a diet doctor, she’s in a pickle. Maggie can’t possibly turn down this opportunity of a lifetime, but she can’t exactly go to Hollywood looking, like…well, herself.

Swearing her trusted assistant to silence, Maggie embarks on a “secret” makeover. From showdowns with her boss, who suspects his star columnist is losing her edge—er, girth—and sends her Italian pastries to sabotage her efforts, to run-ins with her closest male friend, from walking through the famed red door of beauty to winding up on the wrong side of a positively lethal Elliptical trainer, the newly svelte Maggie finds herself navigating a new course. Full of doubts about abandoning the comfortable life she’s known—not to mention deceiving legions of loyal readers who still think of her as their champion—L.A.-bound Maggie is hell-bent on living out her most tantalizing fantasies!

Beauty: The Little Black Book for New York Glamour Girls
by Deborah Blumenthal
City & Company, 1997 paperback.

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"This is THE book if you're a hip NYC chick-or just a "bridge 'n tunnel" girl who wants to look like one! A guide to dozens of cosmetics stores, salons, and other beauty/skin and hair care (inc. medicinal) services. Lots of tips on saving money: Points you toward several little-known locations where you can buy expensive brands at low prices, as well as local chains that produce their own lines of cosmetics and accessories, at big savings over national brands. Also tells you which salons offer services on training nights at big discounts. Reveals which stores, both high-end and low, the celebrities, models and make-up artists flock to. Fabulous!" —a reader from CT.

The New York Book of Beauty
by Deborah Blumenthal
City & Company, 1995, hardcover, out-of-print.
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The New York Book of Beauty was re-released in paperback as Beauty: The Little Black Book for New York Glamour Girls in 1997.