“A wickedly funny comedy of erotic manners” (The Atlantic), with a foreword by Phyllis RoseOutrageous and outrageously funny, The Girl That He Marries is a swift satiric jab at love and romance, a novel that gets right to the heart of the modern man/woman relationship. It is the story of Stephanie―nearly thirty and still single, a bright and attractive young woman with an unerring instinct for unmarriageable men and a nagging fear she’s going to grow old alone.Enter Richard: urbane, ambitious, and eminently marriageable. The adored son of an adoring mother, Richard has been adroitly manipulating people all his life. He’s especially adroit at the game of love. Before she knows it, Stephanie is hooked on Richard’s games. But before Richard knows it, Stephanie has figured out the rules―and very soon is beating him at his own artful game. In the process, she twists herself into the girl he would marry―and becomes a very different woman. The trouble is, as Stephanie finds out too late, when you play the mating game, you risk getting stuck with the prize.Beneath its comic absurdities, The Girl That He Marries unpacks the deceptions of romance and tells a cautionary tale―for Stephanie is every woman who has reached that dangerous age where uncertainty and fear fuse with pop romantic notions, submerging integrity, and a sense of self. 

The Girl That He Marries

Rhoda Lerman

Pocket

<p>Some dogs don't want to be just dogs. They want more. They want to be human. In Rhoda Lerman's newest book about her dogs, we get to know Elsa, a very large, black and white Newfoundland, as she struggles to be human, to speak, act and think as we do. Because of her profound and intense relationship with her humans, Elsa has become a person-dog, happily living her life on the interface between human and dog. Lerman, who is always trying to understand her dogs and join their universe, has struggled to become a dog-person. Elsa and Lerman understand each other. When Elsa has puppies, seventeen of them all at once, it is important that the 150 pound Newfoundland is able to remember her dog instincts. But Elsa is a reluctant mom, overwhelmed and terrified, and she needs Lerman to take over the task of caring for her enormous litter. As Elsa (person-dog) and Lerman (dog-person) live through the fragile, joyful, terror-filled days of birth and growth, we watch as the two of them discover more of what they need to know about each other and ultimately about the universe. Rhoda Lerman is a much praised fiction writer and playwright. Her first book about dogs, IN THE COMPANY OF NEWFIES, now a classic, which is still in print after seventeen years, has become a bible for dog owners of all breeds for its depth of understanding and vision. This book takes the reader to new and visionary levels about the relationship between dogs and people and what is possible.</p>

Elsa Was Born a Dog, I Was Born a Human...Things Have Changed

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Blue Heaven Publishing

Eleanor: Her Secret Journey by Rhoda Lerman, is a commanding one-woman show starring Jean Stapleton as Eleanor Roosevelt and examines her early years, as a restless young wife and mother of five. Unfulfilled by her duties at home and fueled with the knowledge that her husband, Franklin, is having an affair, Eleanor searches for meaning in her life and is determined to carve out her own identity. This play, though historically accurate, is largely an imagined trip through the mind of Eleanor Roosevelt and traces her personal journey from well-bred, passive observer to active, spirited participant in the causes she took up later in life. This glowing portrait captures perfectly the woman who became known as the "First Lady of the World" and allows us to know the real woman behind this icon of American history.

Eleanor: Her Secret Journey (Library Edition Audio CDs)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

L.A. Theatre Works

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