Murphy, Julie
Summary: "Magnolia "Maggie" Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight ... if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MURDavis, Amanda
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVGreen, Jane
Summary: Jemima Jones, nearly one hundred pounds overweight and in love with a man she believes she can never have, meets a California hunk on the Internet, introducing herself as JJ, a slim, beautiful, glamour girl; but when her online love demands to meet her in person, Jemima knows it is time to take action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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Summary: Freelance writer Sora Reid has an intense dislike for Valentine's Day, having been betrayed and disappointed more than once. When her pledge to stay single in February inspires readers to #gosolo, Sora has a responsibility to empower her readers-- even though her soon-to-be married, overachieving younger sister needs her to have a date for the wedding. Enter Jack Mann. A muscle-bound baker who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2023
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Summary: "Two friends make a promise to their dying friend to face their deepest hopes and greatest fears by agreeing to stop waiting until they lose weight and start living now. As they begin to work on their list of things to do, they grow stronger and learn to embrace themselves just the way they are"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Summary: In the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, unlikely alliances, a foot race, and the mystery of Scott Carey's weight loss bring out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINHiggins, Kristan
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGRohan, Ethel
Summary: "At four hundred pounds, Billy Brennan can always count on food. From his earliest memories, he has loved food's colors, textures and tastes. The way flavors go off in his mouth. How food keeps his mind still and his bad feelings quiet. Food has always made everything better, until the day Billy's beloved son Michael takes his own life. Billy determines to make a difference in Michael's memory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROHSykes, Lucy
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYKSykes, Lucy
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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Summary: Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens. When Emerson tragically passes away, she leaves one final wish for her best friends: to conquer the fears they still carry as adults. For each of them, that means something different. For Marley, it's coming to terms with the survivor's guilt she's carried around since her twin sister's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIGMcKevett, G. A.
Summary: P.I. Savannah Reid learns that you can never be too rich, too thin, or too twisted when her boss, the newly svelte actress Dona Papalardo, becomes the target of a very determined killer who is desperate for fifteen minutes of fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKSupplee, Suzanne.
Summary: When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SupBunting, Eve
Summary: Carson does his best to help his dog, Jack, lose weight, with unexpected results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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Summary: After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron's unexpected return dredges up memories that cause both social and emotional turmoil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002