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FROM: Jen Henderson <curvynovels@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 3:19 PM

Hi,

I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
the largely abundant.

Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
have read any stories which might qualify?

Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)

Sincerely,

~Jennifer Henderson

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FROM: Robin Bradford <RBradford@imcpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 3:19 PM

Wow, I just read one. It was a romance book and it was. . . . . Too Much
Temptation by Lori Foster. It is definitely the newer, more erotic kind of
romance, though. Just as a point of info.

robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Jen Henderson [mailto:curvynovels@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:12 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Larger heroines?

Hi,

I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
the largely abundant.

Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
have read any stories which might qualify?

Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)

Sincerely,

~Jennifer Henderson

=====

DangerouslyCurvy Novels ( http://curvynovels.tripod.com/)

Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines.

__________________________________________________
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FROM: "Beth Albertini" <balbertini@mclinc.org>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 3:29 PM

-Good in bed- by Jennifer Weiner.

--------------------------
Beth Albertini
Head of Reference Services
Upper Dublin Public Library
balbertini@mclinc.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jen Henderson" <curvynovels@yahoo.com>
To: "Fiction_L" <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 4:11 PM
Subject: Larger heroines?

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
> an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
> extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
> heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
> the largely abundant.
>
> Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
> have read any stories which might qualify?
>
> Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> ~Jennifer Henderson
>
>
> =====
>
> DangerouslyCurvy Novels ( http://curvynovels.tripod.com/)
>
> Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines.

FROM: "Karen Traynor" <traynor@midyork.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 3:29 PM

"Good in Bed" by Jennifer Weiner would probably work.

Karen Traynor
Sullivan Free Library
519 McDonnell Street
Chittenango, NY 13037

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jen Henderson" <curvynovels@yahoo.com>
To: "Fiction_L" <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 4:11 PM
Subject: Larger heroines?

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
> an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
> extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
> heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
> the largely abundant.
>
> Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
> have read any stories which might qualify?
>
> Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> ~Jennifer Henderson
>
>
> =====
>
> DangerouslyCurvy Novels ( http://curvynovels.tripod.com/)
>
> Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines.
>
>
>
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FROM: "Mitchell, Melissa" <mdmitchell@mail.ppld.org>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 3:40 PM

The Savannah Reid mystery series by G.A. Mckevett. In the first one, Just
Desserts, Savannah is a police woman who is fired from her job for being
overweight.

Melissa Mitchell
Reference Librarian
East Library & Information Center
5550 N. Union Blvd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
(719) 531-6333, ext. 1314


-----Original Message-----
From: Jen Henderson [mailto:curvynovels@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:12 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Larger heroines?

Hi,

I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
the largely abundant.

Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
have read any stories which might qualify?

Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)

Sincerely,

~Jennifer Henderson

=====

DangerouslyCurvy Novels ( http://curvynovels.tripod.com/)

Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines.

__________________________________________________
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FROM: "Mitchell, Melissa" <mdmitchell@mail.ppld.org>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 3:40 PM

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

-----Original Message-----
From: Jen Henderson [mailto:curvynovels@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:12 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Larger heroines?

Hi,

I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
the largely abundant.

Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
have read any stories which might qualify?

Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)

Sincerely,

~Jennifer Henderson

=====

DangerouslyCurvy Novels ( http://curvynovels.tripod.com/)

Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines.

__________________________________________________
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FROM: "Marsha Valance" <Mvalan@mpl.org>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 3:40 PM

Ellie Haskell, in Dorothy Cannell's THE THIN WOMAN.

Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<mvalan@mpl.org>

>>> curvynovels@yahoo.com 05/30/02 03:11PM >>>
Hi,

I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
the largely abundant.

Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
have read any stories which might qualify?

Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)

Sincerely,

~Jennifer Henderson

=====

DangerouslyCurvy Novels ( http://curvynovels.tripod.com/)

Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines.

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
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FROM: Katie Dunneback <dunnebac@students.uiuc.edu>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 4:01 PM

Rubenesque Romances publishes only stories with plus-size heroines, though I'm
not sure if they're still publishing as they are currently not accepting
manuscripts. But their website was last updated this past March:
http://www.rubenesqueromances.com/

Katie Dunneback
UIUC GSLIS - MLIS '03

FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 4:12 PM

At 01:11 PM 5/30/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
>an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
>extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
>heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
>the largely abundant.
>
> Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
>have read any stories which might qualify?
>
> Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)
>
>Sincerely,
>
>~Jennifer Henderson

Bertha Cool, head of the Cool and Lam Detective Agency featured in
the old "A. A. Fair" detective stories, is a very large woman. (And
Donald Lam is a pretty small man. And A.A. Fair was really Erle
Stanley Gardner.)

You say "novels," but there's a very recent sf anthology of stories
on this theme, SUCH A PRETTY FACE:

http://www.rambles.net/martindale_prettyface.html

Such a Pretty Face ed. Lee Martindale (Meisha Merlin 1-892065-28-2, May
2000, $16.00, 304pp, tp, cover by Doug Beekman);
Original anthology of 24 stories about fat people. Authors include Gene
Wolfe, Jane Yolen, and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. A
hardcover edition (-27-4, $30.00) was announced but not seen. Order from
Meisha Merlin Publishing, PO Box 7, Decatur GA
30031; www.MeishaMerlin.com
11 • Foreword • Judy Sullivan • fw
15 • Introduction • Lee Martindale • in
19 • Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale • Jane Yolen • pm *
21 • Worse Than the Curse • Elizabeth Ann Scarborough • nv *
45 • A Hero, Plain and Simple • Ralph Gamelli • ss The Leading Edge
#31 ’95
53 • Seliki • Cynthia McQuillin • ss *
59 • The Blood Orange Tree • Marian Crane • ss *
73 • Eater • Jon Hansen • ss *
85 • Demon Bone • Teresa Noelle Roberts • ss *
99 • The Fat Cats’ Tale • Martha A. Compton • ss *
109 • Vadija • Catherine Lundoff • ss *
119 • Lady Emerdirael’s Rescue • Lisa Deason • ss *
135 • The Wife of Ben-Y-Ghloe • Laura J. Underwood • ss *
151 • Chance Hospitality • Carol Y. Huber & Mike C. Baker • ss *
157 • The Fat Magician • Gene Wolfe • ss *
169 • The Search for a Sipping House • Joette M. Rozanski • ss *
183 • A Taste of Song • K. D. Wentworth • ss *
199 • Casting Against Type • Jody Lynn Nye • ss *
215 • Meluse’s Counsel • Connie Wilkins • ss *
225 • Polyformus Perfectus • Paula L. Fleming • ss *
241 • Eleven to Seven • Bradley H. Sinor • ss *
249 • Last Chance Gravity Fill Station • Celeste Allen • ss *
261 • Nuclear Winter • Selina Rosen • ss *
265 • The Djinn Game • Patrice E. Sarath • ss *
279 • Stoop Ladies • Barbara Krasnoff • ss *
289 • Naratha’s Shadow • Sharon Lee & Steve Miller • ss *
307 • About the Editor • Misc. Material • bg
309 • About the Authors • Misc. Material • bg

*********

http://patballard.homestead.com/Patsplace.html

is linked with the comment "Pat Ballard writes Romance novels with
'Big Beautiful Heroines" from the "Fat-friendly resources" links
page of the WOMEN EN LARGE homepage

http://www.candydarling.com/lte/aboutwel.htm

Some of the other links here may also lead to books--I didn't
check them out.

(WOMEN EN LARGE is a photography book and not fiction at all, but I
highly recommend it--the fact that the editors are friends of us
and that my wife is a contributor to and model in the book may
have biased my judgement, of course.)

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Karen Eis <eis.karen@blind.state.ia.us>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 4:12 PM

Just started reading the Kathleen Taylor South Dakota mysteries. WARNING:
First book in series is nearly impossible to get! Tory Bauer is "widowed,
over forty, and somewhat exceeding the surgeon general's weight guidelines"
(from the back cover of "Funeral Food"). Excellent portrayal of small town
life (and I mean real small towns with fewer than a thousand people -- not
fake small towns of tens of thousands).

Karen E. (who grew up in towns of about 500 in Iowa)

FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 4:12 PM

At 01:11 PM 5/30/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
>an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
>extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
>heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
>the largely abundant.
>
> Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
>have read any stories which might qualify?
>
> Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)
>
>Sincerely,
>
>~Jennifer Henderson

Another thought: Agnes Nitt, the latest addition to the three-person
Lancre witchs' coven in Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD series, is a
very large young woman. She's appeared in several recent Pratchett
books, but the one focusing on her is MASQUERADE, where in her
pre-witch career she's attempting a career in opera.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Suzanne Booker <sbooker@monroe.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 4:44 PM

All American Dream Dolls by David Haynes
Jemima J. by Jane Green
All of Me by Venise Berry

FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 5:05 PM

At 04:03 PM 5/30/02 -0500, you wrote:

>Another thought: Agnes Nitt, the latest addition to the three-person
>Lancre witchs' coven in Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD series, is a
>very large young woman. She's appeared in several recent Pratchett
>books, but the one focusing on her is MASQUERADE, where in her
>pre-witch career she's attempting a career in opera.
<snip>

That should be MASKERADE, with a K. Not sure if it's my eyes or
my fingers that keep making these misteaks tooday...

Dennis Lien (or possibly Deniss Leen)
/ U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Lesa Holstine <lholstine@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 5:25 PM

Cordelia Thorn is the sidekick in Ellen Hart's mystery
series featuring Jane Lawless. She's artistic director
of a St. Paul theatre.

Lesa Holstine
lholstine@yahoo.com
Ft. Myers, FL

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FROM: "Sharon Weinberg" <weins@skokie.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 5:36 PM

Legend by Jude Deveraux

-----Original Message-----
From: Jen Henderson [mailto:curvynovels@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:12 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Larger heroines?

Hi,

I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
the largely abundant.

Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
have read any stories which might qualify?

Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)

Sincerely,

~Jennifer Henderson

=====

DangerouslyCurvy Novels ( http://curvynovels.tripod.com/)

Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines.

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup
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FROM: Laura Pearle <lpearle@pcs-nyc.org>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 5:36 PM

Honest Doubt by Amanda Cross (I think thisheroine, Woody, might take over
the series from Kate Fansler).

Laura Pearle
Head Librarian
Gladys Brooks Library
Professional Children's School
lpearle@pcs-nyc.org

FROM: Diana Tixier Herald <dherald@sff.net>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 6:08 PM

ChandlerΉs Daughter
Donovan, Truly
Write Way 1885173628
Lexy Connor, a software consultant living in Boulder, Colorado hits the road
for both coasts when Tally, a young friend calls terrified in the night with
a story that sets Lexy on the trail of TallyΉs birth parents. When Tally
arrives at a hotel to meet a woman who had contacted her about information
on her birth parents she finds a murder scene and turns to Lexy. Lexy does
some of her research in Westchester high school libraries and some in a high
tech newspaper morgue and comes up with some good clues.
ItΉs about time we had an old fat female sleuth with sex appeal. Lexy is a
force to be reckoned with. While this first mystery is a little predictable
it offers an enjoyable ride and hopes for future adventures featuring this
likable sleuth.

The Bride and the Beast
Medeiros, Teresa
My review of this one was in the June 2000 Booklist. The debauched villagers
try to placate what they think is a dragon with a virgin sacrifice.
Gwendolyn is the only one fitting the criteria. "Her sharp wit and tongue as
well as her insecurity over her ample proportions have left her happily an
old maid." Fortunately the dragon turns out to be a gorgeous man who is
smitten by Gwendolyn and "he locks Gwendolyn in a tower room and pampers her
with lovely clothes, lots of books, and palate-pleasing delicacies."

--
Happy reading,
Diana Tixier Herald
Books of the Week Page http://www.genrefluent.com
dherald@sff.net

FROM: Nancy Maltby Henkel <nancym@kcls.org>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 7:32 PM

Hi. I have not seen THE STERKARM HANDSHAKE by Susan Price mentioned yet.
My system catalogs in YA, but since it is so OUTLANDERish, it has lots of
adult appeal.

Nancy Maltby Henkel
Maple Valley Library; Maple Valley, WA
King County Library System "After 3 days without
e-mail: nancym@kcls.org reading, talk becomes
phone: (425) 432-4620 flavorless."
--Chinese Proverb

FROM: "Bessie Makris" <bmakris@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 7:43 PM

Books with Larger heroines to add to the list:

AN ABUNDANT WOMAN
Elizabeth Neff Walker

LARGE TARGET
LARGER THAN DEATH
Lynne Murray

LOVING MOLLIE
Jeane Renick

Bessie Makris
Allen County Public Library
P.O. Box 2270
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

"The view, opinions, and judgments expressed in this message
are solely those of the author. The message contents have not
been reviewed or approved by the Allen County Public Library."

FROM: mboyden@carmel.lib.in.us (Mary Boyden)
REC'D: 5/30/02, 8:04 PM

Re: Larger heroines?

D.R. Schanker has a mystery series (two so far) featuring Nora Lumsey: farm-bred, big-boned woman, recovering bigot, and compulsive meddler. Nora is an attorney first clerking in the Indiana Court of Appeals, later as a Deputy Public Defender.

A Criminal Appeal is the first
Natural Law - an Edgar Nominee - was published in 2001

Mary Boyden
Readers' Advisory Librarian
Carmel Clay Public Library

FROM: "Gordon Tahtinen" <GTAHTINEN@wi.rr.com>
REC'D: 5/30/02, 10:33 PM

another one is mystery series featuring Desiree Shapiro by Selma Eichler

FROM: "Linda Lundquist" <LDLUND@prodigy.net>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 8:37 AM

The Sterkarm Handshake, by Susan Price. From Booklist:
A rapacious twenty-first-century British company
builds a Time Tube to the sixteenth-century Scottish-
English border, where a handshake supposedly seals a
deal that the Sterkarm clan will not attack the survey
teams. Since most Sterkarms are left-handed, a right-
handshake means Old Toorkild has no intention of
keeping his word and the teams are considered fair
game. Linguist Andrea Mitchell [a "larger woman"],
sent to live with and study the Sterkarms, gets caught
in the middle. She likes the Sterkarms, who have
welcomed her as a guest, and she has even fallen in
love with Toorkild's handsome son. But she still feels
a responsibility for the safety of her colleagues when
they are captured. When the Sterkarms realize that
their way of life is threatened, the battle becomes
brutal and spreads into the twenty-first century.
Humor leavens some of the violence and
characterizations help highlight differences between
modern and early cultures in a gripping story, filled
with realistic details of sixteenth-century life in
all its harshness. Time-slip elements notwithstanding,
this is more for action-adventure buffs than sf fans.

Squashed, by Joan Bauer. From Ingram:
While Ellie tries to get her potentially prize-winning
pumpkin to put on two hundred more pounds, she
struggles with her own weight, using her sense of
humor to get through the struggles of life.

Both are YA novels, but might appeal nonetheless. (I
can't be the *only* adult who enjoys reading YA lit!)

Linda Lundquist
Bartlett Public Library
ldlund@prodigy.net

FROM: "Rosemary Lewis" <rlewis@ocl.net>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 8:47 AM

Re: Larger heroines --
Josephine Fuller mysteries by Lynne Murray
Blanche series (Blanche on the Lam is the first, I believe) by Barbara Neely
M. Rosemary Lewis, Librarian
Ingersoll Public Library
A branch of Oxford County Library
130 Oxford Street
Ingersoll Ontario
N5C 2V5

Phone 519 485-2505
Fax 519 485-4028

FROM: welmail19@mln.lib.ma.us
REC'D: 5/31/02, 10:07 AM

The Number One Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith has a
heroine who is a size 22.

Megan Flynn
Wellesley Free Library

FROM: "Karen McGrath" <karenmh@lori.state.ri.us>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 10:07 AM

A Gypsy at Almacks by Chloe Cheshire is a delightful Regency whose heroine
is "a trifle stout."

Karen McGrath
Cranston Public Library
Auburn Branch Librarian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jen Henderson [mailto:curvynovels@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:12 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Larger heroines?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
> an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
> extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
> heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
> the largely abundant.
>
> Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
> have read any stories which might qualify?
>
> Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> ~Jennifer Henderson
>
>
> =====
>
> DangerouslyCurvy Novels ( http://curvynovels.tripod.com/)
>
> Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines.

FROM: "Robbins, Christie" <CRobbins@QueensLibrary.org>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 10:15 AM

The Blanche Series by Barbara Neely, starting with Blanche on the Lam.

Christie Robbins
Queens Borough Public Library
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FROM: gconrath@geneva.lib.il.us
REC'D: 5/31/02, 10:25 AM

Deborah Knott of the Margaret Maron series struggles with her weight.

Gail Conrath
Geneva Public Library
Geneva Illinois
gconrath@geneva.lib.il.us

---- Original Message ----
From: curvynovels@yahoo.com
To: fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org
Subject: RE: Larger heroines?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:11:38 -0700 (PDT)

>Hi,
>
> I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
>an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
>extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
>heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
>the largely abundant.
>
> Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
>have read any stories which might qualify?
>
> Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)
>
>Sincerely,
>
>~Jennifer Henderson
>
>
>=====
>
>DangerouslyCurvy Novels ( http://curvynovels.tripod.com/)
>
>Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines.
>
>
>
>__________________________________________________
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FROM: "Michaela Haberkern" <mhaberkern@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 11:18 AM

White Palace, by Glenn Savan.

--
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Manager, Readers' Service
St. Louis County Library Headquarters
1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
St. Louis MO 63131
314.994.3300
mhaberkern@slcl.lib.mo.us

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FROM: Thelma Stone <tstone@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 12:24 PM

Katy Munger's Casey Jones series.

FROM: "Evansdale Public Library" <eplib@forbin.net>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 12:35 PM

Some other books you might take a look at include:

TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE and MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS -- Alexander
McCall Smith (next in series after The #1 ladies' detective agency)

ALL OF ME -- Venise Berry

BODY OF KNOWLEDGE -- Carol Dawson

SUCH A PRETTY FACE -- Edited by Lee Martindale (Collection of short
stories regarding women of size)

TOO BIG TO MISS -- Sue Ann Jaffarian

Shannon Surly
Library Director
Evansdale Public Library
Evansdale, Iowa 50707
(319) 232-5367

http://cv.commonline.net/evansdalepubliclibrary
eplib@forbin.net


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Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:14 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: Larger heroines?

Deborah Knott of the Margaret Maron series struggles with her weight.

Gail Conrath
Geneva Public Library
Geneva Illinois
gconrath@geneva.lib.il.us

---- Original Message ----
From: curvynovels@yahoo.com
To: fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org
Subject: RE: Larger heroines?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:11:38 -0700 (PDT)

>Hi,
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> I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
>an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
>extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
>heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
>the largely abundant.
>
> Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
>have read any stories which might qualify?
>
> Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)
>
>Sincerely,
>
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FROM: "Jamie Anderson" <jamie@ericandjamie.com>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 1:40 PM

Haven't seen "The Fairest Among Women" by Shifra Horne mentioned yet. This
one would apply as well.

Jamie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jen Henderson [mailto:curvynovels@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:12 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Larger heroines?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
> an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
> extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
> heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
> the largely abundant.
>
> Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
> have read any stories which might qualify?
>
> Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> ~Jennifer Henderson
>
>
> =====
>
> DangerouslyCurvy Novels ( http://curvynovels.tripod.com/)
>
> Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines.

FROM: "Sheri Stevens" <salex@nioga.org>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 3:35 PM

Josephine Fuller mysteries by Lynne Murray, about a "plus-sized sleuth":
Larger Than Death
Large Target
At Large
Ton of Trouble (due out this summer)

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jen Henderson [mailto:curvynovels@yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:12 PM
>> To: Fiction_L
>> Subject: Larger heroines?
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if you might be able to help me with
>> an ongoing project I am working on. I'm compiling an
>> extensive list of novels which feature noteworthy
>> heroines of size, ranging from the slightly plump to
>> the largely abundant.
>>
>> Would you by any chance recall whether or not you
>> have read any stories which might qualify?
>>
>> Thank you for any help you can offer me. :^)
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> ~Jennifer Henderson
>>
>>
>> =====
>>
>> DangerouslyCurvy Novels ( http://curvynovels.tripod.com/)
>>
>> Reviewsof books featuring realistically-proportioned heroines.
>
>
>
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FROM: "Susan T. Byra" <sbyra@emrl.lib.ms.us>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 3:46 PM

Lulu (I think that's her name) in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet
Evanovitch is a large black woman. While not the heroine, she
contributes her share of humor and mayhem in each book.

Susan

--
Susan T. Byra, MLS
Director, East Miss. Regional Library

Now I believe that there are unicorns - William Shakespeare

FROM: Meg Justus <mjustus@pcl.lib.wa.us>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 4:19 PM

A Whole Lot of Love by Justine Davis -- a Silhouette Desire from, I think,
last year some time.

It's also a very sympathetic novel about Alzheimers (no, the larger heroine
isn't the victim).

Meg Justus
Pierce County Library, WA

FROM: "Denese Young" <dyoung@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 5/31/02, 6:06 PM

I don't think that anyone has mentioned Mary Alice, Patricia Anne's sister in Anne George's "Southern Sisters" series. The series started with MURDER ON A BAD HAIR DAY and ended recently with MURDER BOOGIES WITH ELVIS. Someone did mention Agnes Nitt of the Witches series on the Discworld, but there's also the wife of Commander Vimes, Lady Sybil Ramkin, who is quite large and of very good breeding. There's also Lulu, Stephanie Plum's inept sidekick (and former ho) in the series by Janet Evanovich.

Denese Young
St. Louis County Library
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FROM: "Joyce M. Simowski" <simowskij@cantonpl.org>
REC'D: 6/1/02, 8:34 AM

How about the mysteries by Ann George and/or Lynne Murray? Both feature
large women detectives.

Joyce M. Simowski
Adult Reference Librarian
Canton Public Library
Canton, MI 48188

FROM: "Kelly Benson" <kdbenson@three-rivers-library.org>
REC'D: 6/1/02, 1:00 PM

I don't know if this one has been mentioned but Wishes by Jude Deveraux
features a larger woman as the heroine who thinks she's not beautiful
because of her weight (and because her family including her father who
doesn't want to lose his housekeepr and her vain sister who wants to marry
well and knows that her sister is actually better looking tell her this.)
but the hero of the story (whose mother is an opera singer) thinks she's the
far more attractive sister. There's also a "fairy godmother" involved who
thinks that all life's problems will be solved by making the heroine lose
weight. But in the end, the hero prefers her exactly the way she is. (I
really like that part!!)

Kelly Benson
Adult Services Librarian
Three Rivers Public Library District
Channahon-Minooka, Illinois

FROM: cdalphy@geneva.lib.il.us
REC'D: 6/1/02, 10:32 AM

Devil's Food by Anthony Bruno features "chubby" heroine Loretta
Kovacs. There are three titles so far in the series.

Christine Dalphy
Geneva Public Library
cdalphy@geneva.lib.il.us

FROM: "Jeanne Etling" <jetling@nsls.info>
REC'D: 6/1/02, 3:30 PM

Sorry, Gail,

Deborah Knott may struggle with her weight, but I don't see her as a "larger
woman". I would have to recommend NOT including her.

Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District

----- Original Message -----
From: <gconrath@geneva.lib.il.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: RE: Larger heroines?

> Deborah Knott of the Margaret Maron series struggles with her weight.
>
> Gail Conrath

FROM: "Susan T. Byra" <sbyra@emrl.lib.ms.us>
REC'D: 6/3/02, 9:14 AM

Jen -
I've read the Jane Austen books, and I never in my mind saw them as
being plus size women. The mother in P&P, maybe, but not the daughters,
and certainly not Elizabeth. Also there is no mention of them being
plump or any other euphemism. If it was me, I wouldn't include them in
the list.

Susan

--
Susan T. Byra, MLS
Director, East Miss. Regional Library

Now I believe that there are unicorns - William Shakespeare

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