Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Humiliated to discover that her ex-boyfriend has been chronicling their sex life in a series of articles called "Loving a Larger Woman" in a popular women's magazine, journalist Cannie Shapiro embarks on an adventure-filled odyssey as she confronts her losses, makes peace with the past, and comes to terms with herself.

The fattest kid in the fifth grade wants to lose weight, but not badly enough to starve.

Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.

For too many years, quiet, overweight Charlotte Clapp has played it safe. But the day her doctor tells her she's not long for this world, she discovers her will to live. First she walks into the bank where she has worked for fifteen years and quits. Then she does the unthinkable and robs the place.

When Mama Elephant puts her family on a diet, their will power remains strong until Granny sends a cake.

After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron's unexpected return dredges up memories that cause both social and emotional turmoil.

When Bretta Solomon agrees to run a design competition at the annual florists convention in Branson, Missouri, she has no idea she will soon be embroiled in another mystery. When the McDuffys slip a note under her door asking for help in finding out if their daughter's death was murder, and tragedy strikes one of Bretta's friends at the convention, Bretta decides to put her sleuthing abilities to work. Her investigation is complicated by an intriguing...

When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.

Kylie Chase shed seventy-five pounds and reinvented herself as a savvy trendsetter. However, she's still uncomfortable in her new skin and would sooner die than let anyone know of her overweight, nerdy past. Then events force the twenty-nine-year-old to move in with her parents and the weight creeps back on. It takes the confidence of her plus-size model friend Ruby to make Kylie realize that appearances aren't everthing.