American Girls About Town (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Anna Martinelli: A famous American novel writer. (A Day in the Life of My Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani)
• Jim: He is the husband of Anna. (A Day in the Life of My Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani)
• Esme: The newborn daughter of Jim and Anna (A Day in the Life of My Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani)
• Miss Havisham: A British nanny. (A Day in the Life of My Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani)
• Nigel Waxman: Anna's publicist in Britain. (A Day in the Life of My Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani)
• Charlotte: The tall, blond make-up artist. (A Day in the Life of My Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani)
• Jenny Barnett: The TV host. She is an alabaster brunette beauty. (A Day in the Life of My Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani)
• Jeff: The chef that owns Winston's. He looks like a model more than a chef. (A Day in the Life of My Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani)
• Dino: The chef at the four star Brigadoon restaurant. He looks like a model more than a chef. (A Day in the Life of My Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani)
• Tilly: She's a woman who easily gets bored and can't settle down to one man. (Five by Julianna Baggott)
• Elysius: She is Tilly's sister. She lives in California in a tres modern house with her husband. (Five by Julianna Baggott)
• Bobby: He is Tilly's fourth husband. He is an environmental scientist. (Five by Julianna Baggott)
• Chip: He is Tilly's first husband. He was a deli clerk back then. (Five by Julianna Baggott)
• Pat: He is Tilly's second husband. (Five by Julianna Baggott)
• Joe: He is Tilly's third husband. (Five by Julianna Baggott)
• Alex: He is Elysius's husband. He is a successful artist. (Five by Julianna Baggott)
• Kathy: The protagonist of the third story. She is mysterious and sultry. (Leaving a Light On by Claire LaZebnik)
• Brad: He is the handsome bartender. (Leaving a Light On by Claire LaZebnik)
• Larry: The guy who said he doesn't kill spiders. (Leaving a Light On by Claire LaZebnik)
• Melissa: The babysitter of Kathy's children. (Leaving a Light On by Claire LaZebnik)
• Caroline: She is Kathy's daughter. (Leaving a Light On by Claire LaZebnik)
• Henry: He is Kathy's son. (Leaving a Light On by Claire LaZebnik)
• Madeline: She is the protagonist of the fourth story. Her work is to type closed captions on TV shows for the hearing impaired. She is having trouble with her soon-to-be husband's gender. (Moving Day by Cindy Chupack)
• Matt: Madeline's soon-to-be husband who's not sure of his sexuality. (Moving Day by Cindy Chupack)
• Mr. Rothman: The owner of Madeline's apartment. (Moving Day by Cindy Chupack)
• Mrs. Rothman: The owner of Madeline's apartment. (Moving Day by Cindy Chupack)
• Patrick: He is a clerk at the B. Dalton Books and he is from Calabasas. (Moving Day by Cindy Chupack)
• Hannah: She is Madeline's friend. (Moving Day by Cindy Chupack)
• Dr. Joan Weissman: One of the Silver Group therapists. (Moving Day by Cindy Chupack)
• Ivan: The yoga teacher. (Yoga Babe by Lauren Henderson)
• Brian: The boyfriend. (Yoga Babe by Lauren Henderson)
• Sarah Compton: She works at the First Bank of London. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Nigel Jones: He's a new co-employee of Sarah in the First bank of London. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Charlotte: She is Sarah's sister and she is a mother of twins. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Siobhan: She is Sarah's roommate. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Edward: Sarah's previous crush and Siobhan's boyfriend. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Nancy Rooney: The department secretary at the First Bank of London. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Adrian Stadt: He is a famous Hollywood actor. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Andrew: He is Charlotte's husband. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Henry: One of Charlotte's twins. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Ella: One of Charlotte's twins. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Christopher: He is a single father and an artist. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Sebastien: He is Christopher's son. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer Weiner)
• Rebecca Simon: She is an assistant editor at Brazen Books and she was recently engaged to his boyfriend of six months. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Madison: She is Rebecca's teenage half sister. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Michael: He is Rebecca's boyfriend of six months and her fiance. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Barbara Simon: She is Rebecca's mother. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Amy: A good friend of Rebecca from work. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Roxy: She is a close friend of Rebecca from Forest Hills, Queens. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Deb: She is a close friend of Rebecca from Forest Hills, Queens. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Aunt Janet: The sister of Rebecca's mom. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Cousin Joan: Aunt Janet's grumpy twenty-two-year-old daughter. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Elizabeth-Jane Guberman: She is the best friend of Rebecca's mom and the mother of her first boyfriend. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Stephen Guberman: He is the son of Elizabeth-Jane and Rebecca's first boyfriend. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Bob Simon: He is Rebecca's father. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Gareth: He is Madison's crush. (Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate)
• Katie: A woman who wants to do something on her own for a change by traveling alone. (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
• Claire: She is the group leader of the Vietnam trip. (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
• Matthew: He is Katie's boyfriend. (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
• Stephen: He is part of the Vietnam group trip. He is Canadian. (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
• Shannon: She is part of the Vietnam group trip. She is Irish (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
• Marge: She is part of the Vietnam group trip. She is Irish. (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
• Linda: She often dates foreign men making her siblings think her relationships were bizarre. (Amore by Laura Wolf)
• Johnny: He is a skinny sophomore from Kenya and Linda dated him once. (Amore by Laura Wolf)
• Raffaele Vutto: He is an Italian guy. He also dated Linda. (Amore by Laura Wolf)
• Andi Harriman: She works at Holskins & Holthaus Advertising. She is also the account manager of the Watkins Enterprises. She had a six months affair with his boss. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Beth-Ann Kennerlieber: She is Andy's best friend. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Evan Watkins: He is Andy's boyfriend. He is a finance major, soccer jock, corporate whiz kid and a trivial pursuit addict making him a perfect package for a boyfriend. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Chris: He is Andy's married boss. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Pauline LeCamp: She is a slim, elegant British who married a French professional tennis player. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Claude Massot: One of the French friends of Pauline and the brother of Marie-Claire. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Marie-Claire Massot: One of the French friends of Pauline and the sister of Claude. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Christine: The protagonist of the eleventh story. (Bad Manners by Chris Manby)
• Marc: He works at Ed's Diner. (Bad Manners by Chris Manby)
• Moon: She is the roommate. (The Two-Month Itch by Sarah Mlnowski)
• Dr. Clark: The shrink. (The Two-Month Itch by Sarah Mlnowski)
• Bobby: The blue-eyed guy who looks like a Calvin Klein model. (The Two-Month Itch by Sarah Mlnowski)
• Gavin: The boyfriend of the protagonist. (The Two-Month Itch by Sarah Mlnowski)
• Judy: She works for a janitorial company, not doing the jobs, but sales, corporate contracts. (I Know a Woman by Quinn Dalton)
• Jose: He works with Judy in the company. (I Know a Woman by Quinn Dalton)
• Dennis: Judy's boss and the husband of 'ex-wife.' (I Know a Woman by Quinn Dalton)
• Ex-wife: The narrator and the protagonist of the story. (I Know a Woman by Quinn Dalton)
• John: He owns Poseidon, a national business-to-business supplier of tropical fish, tanks, pumps and maintenance service. (I Know a Woman by Quinn Dalton)
• Karen: CEO of the Center for Business and Behavioral Research. (I Know a Woman by Quinn Dalton)
• Neil: He works for the brokerage firm that is sponsoring this dinner for High Net Worth clients. (I Know a Woman by Quinn Dalton)
• Sasha: Ex-wife's sister. She is a traveling saleswoman. (I Know a Woman by Quinn Dalton)
• Danni: The supposed to be bride but her fiance left her for another woman. (Just Visiting by Nancy Sparling)
• Michelle: A blond girl but not quite as pretty as Kim. (Just Visiting by Nancy Sparling)
• Kim: She is Tom's sister. (Just Visiting by Nancy Sparling)
• Tom: He is Danni's ex-fiance. (Just Visiting by Nancy Sparling)
• Julian: One of the museum's corporate sponsors. (Just Visiting by Nancy Sparling)
• Christopher: The blue-eyed guy at the museum. (Just Visiting by Nancy Sparling)
• Donna Dawson: She is a forty-year-old divorcee who has a thirteen-year-old daughter. She needs a new excitement in her life. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Ellen: She is Donna's best friend. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Jeannie: She is the thirteen-year-old daughter of Donna. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Brenda: She is the speed-dating facilitator. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Martin: He is a work buddy of Donna. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Jean Pierre: The French Calvin Klein model look-alike. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Bill: He is the guy who is interested with Donna's paintings. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Madam Love: She is the therapist. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Celia: She is Jeannie's best friend. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Frank: He is Donna's ex-husband. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Lisa: She is Frank's new girlfriend. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Tracy Spencer: She is an aspiring freelance writer. (The Uncertainty Principle by Lynda Curnyn)
• Jess: He is Tracy's boyfriend. (The Uncertainty Principle by Lynda Curnyn)
• Shauna: She is Tracy's best friend. (The Uncertainty Principle by Lynda Curnyn)
• Marnie Haselton: The girl who plans to go to Florida to have an affair with a man she met on the internet. (Small Worlds by Gretchen Laskas)
• Lois: She is the minister's wife. (Small Worlds by Gretchen Laskas)
• Janice: She is one of the Methodist women. (Small Worlds by Gretchen Laskas
• Glenna: She is the oldest among the three Methodist women. (Small Worlds by Gretchen Laskas)
• Chad Winters: He is the guy who owns a computer shop and the chat mate of Marnie. (Small Worlds by Gretchen Laskas)
• Guy Haselton: He is Marnie's husband. (Small Worlds by Gretchen Laskas)
• Mrs. Meyerson: Add a description of this character.
• Andy

Quotes edit see section history

• “I love Great Britain because it is the setting of some of my favorite books. Imagine Jane Eyre in France or Cathy and Heathcliff in Portugal. Impossible! There's no place like England for hard rain, forbidden love, hot gossip and nannies running off with the man of the house while his wife dies slowly on a morphine drip.”

  Anna Martinelli

• “Menopausal eye candy ♥”

• “Let go of the perfect picture and embrace the moment because the moment is extraordinary.”

  Anna Martinelli

• “You could believe in something and not believe in it at the same time.”

  Kathy

• “Sometimes, when you close your eyes in bed at night, an old, forgotten dream will suddenly flash around you, startlingly real for one brief moment before it's gone again.”

  Kathy

• “Perhaps this was why waterproof mascara was invented. It's not for swimming. It's for break-ups.”

• “My heart is breaking, she thought. She felt as if she were in a spaceship, orbiting the earth, and the earth was her heart, and she could look down and almost see it crack and start to fall apart.”

  Sarah Compton

• “I fancied you. liked you, and I thought you liked me, too. And I'm an idiot, and I should have known better. I should have known that hope is not my friend.”

  Sarah Compton

• “I love you. You love me. Why wait? I know what I need to know now, which is that I want to spend the rest of my life with you. ♥”

  Michael

• “She was going to be all right. More than all right. As the cliche went, she was too smart for her own good; she thought too much, too thoughtfully. She was also too young to live.”

  Rebecca Simon

• “I'd give up anything for you, Rebecca. ♥”

  Michael

• “Mornings are always the hardest. Just before you open your eyes. That's when the memories come for you, and you're too groggy to outrun them.”

  Andi Harriman

• “I find myself telling her all about Evan. Well, except for the star thing. I don't know why. Maybe it's just too intimate, too quintessentially Evan. To share it with anyone else--anyone at all--might diminish it. It might make the picture of him in my mind seem a bit faded and trivial, like an old photograph of someone wearing amusingly out-of-style clothes.”

  Andi Harriman

• “I tell her how he made me feel, how some nights I lie awake wondering if I could feel anything like it again.”

  Andi Harriman

• “And then one day my Prince did come along. . .”

  Christine

• “There is art in the way the bed came to be unmade. . . ♥”

  Christine

• “Never a more true word than spoken in jest. You don't have to look too closely to realize that those little things he jokes about at the start of your passionate romance are going to be the big things that tear you apart later on. Your funny laugh is going to become a witch's cackle. That cute mole on your neck is the beginnings of a wart.”

  Christine

• “I'd like to go somewhere quiet and get really rude with you.”

  Christine

• “Two-Month Itch: It means you always dump the guy you're dating for two months into the real relationship. You're afraid of it turning into anything real.”

  Moon

• “Carpe Diem! You're young! You have to take advantage! Live, love and learn!”

• “Some things are inevitable.”

• “No secret is sacred. Gossip is the kryptonite that brings down even the most independent. Whispers turn out to be crucifying when they go on long enough.”

  Danni

• “She has to let someone sweep her off her feet. ♥”

  Christopher

• “I needed to discover my inner bitch.”

  Donna Dawson

• “Perhaps, I'd grown more in touch with my inner bitch than I'd realized.”

  Donna Dawson

• “I clicked on to my instant message service and saw his screen name on my buddy list, indicating he was online and available to receive messages. Not that we message one another anymore. It was as if some silent agreement not to communicate in any way, shape or form had sprung up between us. Yet neither one of us has removed the other from our buddy lists. I'm not sure why he hasn't. I hope it was because he found my comings and goings just as soothing as I did his. Somehow the fact that we could message one another meant we were there for one another on some level, that there was something still connecting us.”

  Tracy Spencer

• “We were so good together. Now that we're apart, I don't know what we are.”

  Tracy Spencer

• “<I> will still have to believe "this is it" the next time someone says "I love you." ♥”

  Tracy Spencer

• “I think: I want to be the one whose body you seek out in the darkness. ♥”

  Tracy Spencer

• “I'll feel a little foolish for not understanding that we're still friends, and a little sad to realize that's all we'll ever be.”

  Tracy Spencer

• “No one likes to be the last to know.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Great Britain: The setting in A Day in the Life of My Great Brit Book Tour by Adriana Trigiani
• Memphis, TN
• Memphis: The setting in Five by Julianna Baggott
• Elysius's House: It is located at Palisades, California. (Five by Julianna Baggott)
• The Wettseins' House: This is where the party was held. (Five by Julianna Baggott)
• Bar at Los Angeles: One of the top ten spots to hangout at night. (Leaving a Light On by Claire LaZebnik)
• Kathy's House: It is located in Brentwood. (Leaving a Light On by Claire LaZebnik)
• Madeline's Apartment: It is a Spanish art deco duplex apartment. (Moving Day by Cindy Chupack)
• B. Dalton Books: It is a bookstore. (Moving Day by Cindy Chupack)
• The Silver Group Office Suite: The place shared by a trio of therapists. It is located in the valley. (Moving Day by Cindy Chupack)
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The setting in Moving Day by Cindy Chupack.
• Federico's: It is a restaurant at Sixth where a lot of celebrities hang out. (Yoga Babe by Lauren Henderson)
• First Bank of London: It is a bank at London. (The Truth About Nigel by Jennifer)
• New York City: The setting in Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate.
• Central Park: The setting in Voodoo Dolls, C-Cups and Eminem by Melissa Senate.
• Viet-Tang Hotel: It is a hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam. (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
• Halong Bay: It is a World Heritage Site. It is located a couple of hours outside of Hanoi. (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
• Hue: It is a historic city with a massive citadel and beautiful pagodas. (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
• Hoi An: It is a city but it looks more like a village. (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
• Mr. Tam's: It is a bar that Lonely Planet described as "more Western than New York." (The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger)
• Saigon: The setting in The Bamboo Confessions by Lauren Weisberger.
• Boulevard St.: The setting in Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks.
• St. Germain des Pres: This is the setting in Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks.
• Bureaux d'accuiel: It is located at Gare du Nord where they find a person a place to stay when he or she come to Paris without a hotel reservation. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Chez Pauline on Rue des Canettes: The place where Andy stayed in Paris. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Drugstore St. Germain: It is a drugstore. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Louvre: It is a very popular museum in France. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Eiffel Tower: The very iconic and popular landmark of France. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Au Printemps: It is a major department store in Paris. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Galeries Lafayette: It is a major department store in Paris. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Fauchon Conciergie: The forbidding prison of the French Revolution. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Cour des Femmes: This is where the prisoners bound for the guillotine were allowed to say their final farewells. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Musee d'Orsay: The setting in Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks.
• Versailles: The setting in Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks.
• The Hall or Mirrors: This is a setting in the Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks.
• The Parc: The setting in Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks.
• Marche aux Puces de St. Ouen: The worlds largest flea market. (Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings by Judi Hendricks)
• Ed's Diner: The setting in the Bad Manners by Chris Manby
• Dockside Dolls: It is a strippers' bar. (I Know a Woman by Quinn Dalton)
• Los Angeles: The setting in Forty Days by Jill Smolinski.
• Nate's: It is a restaurant up the street from Donna's house. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Kulb Kat: One of those cavernous clubs with a dancefloor so dark, packed and offset by strobes that you're nearly blinded. (Forty Days by Jill Smolinski)
• Paris
• Florida
• California
• Orlando
• Vietnam
• Ohio
• Hanoi
• Manhattan
• England
• City Club
• Chicago
• Caribou

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• Two-Month Itch: It means you always dump the guy you're dating for two months into the real relationship. You're afraid of it turning into anything real.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

Other Contributors:

1. Cindy Chupack (Contributor) - Moving day
2. Lauren Henderson (Contributor) - Yoga babe
3. Jennifer Weiner (Contributor) - The truth about Nigel
4. Adriana Trigiani (Contributor) - My great Brit book tour
5. Julianna Baggott (Contributor) - Five
6. Claire Scovell LaZebnik (Contributor) - Leaving a light on
7. Melissa Senate (Contributor) - Voodoo dolls, C-cups and Eminem
8. Downtown Press (Publisher)
9. Lauren Weisberger (Contributor) - The bamboo confessions
10. Laura Wolf (Contributor) - Amore
11. Judi Hendricks (Contributor) - Andromeda on the street of ducklings
12. Chris Manby (Contributor) - Bad manners
13. Sarah Mlynowski (Contributor) - The two-month itch
14. Quinn Dalton (Contributor) - I know a woman
15. Nancy Sparling (Contributor) - Just visiting
16. Jill Smolinski (Contributor) - Forty days
17. Lynda Curnyn (Contributor) - The uncertainty principle
18. Gretchen Moran Laskas (Contributor) - Small worlds

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS648.L6 A464 2004
• Dewey: 813.08508

Notes for Parents edit see section history

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories › United States
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories › Anthologies
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Anthologies
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary