Bella Shaughnessy is addicted to lipstick with names like My Chihuahua Bites and Kiss My Lips-an occupational hazard, since she works at Salon de Paolo, her family-run beauty salon, along with her four half-brothers and sisters. The owner is her father, Lucky Shaughnessy, a gregarious, three-times-divorced charmer with Donald Trump hair who is obsessed with all things Italian. After Bella's own marriage flames out spectacularly when her half-sister...

An angry girl and a depressed boy, both sixteen, are sent to a therapeutic boarding school.

Presents a history of Caribbean cooking and recipes for daily menus.

A recently separated woman faces her highway driving phobia and takes a road trip with her best friend to their high school reunion.