Looking for Mr. Goodbar is the story of the life and death of Terry Dunn--an attractive young schoolteacher, educated in parochial school, from a respectable family--the kind of girl you don't notice very much, the kind of girl who seems to have everything under control ... until one New Year's Eve when she is murdered.

In New Mexico, a daughter kills her abusive mother in self-defense during a quarrel. It is the climax to a childhood of violence and neglect, in the course of which the mother often left the girl alone at night, or made love in her presence.

Not interested by college, influenced by her Italian maid, Caroline heads for Italy, where she gets pregnant by a restauranteur, gives birth to Olivia and learns cooking. She leaves him, returns to New York and makes a bomb as a gourmet cook. By the author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

Explores the lives of two women: Dawn Henley, a beautiful and talented Barnard freshmen, and Dr. Lulu Shinefeld, her analyst, twice divorced and in her forties.

Emmeline is a book by Judith Rossner. Published in 1980, Emmeline details the local legend of a woman who becomes ostracized by everyone in her hometown in Maine after a shocking, long-held secret becomes public. The story is a fictionalized account of the life of Emeline Bachelder Gurney.