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.

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.

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

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.

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...

Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she's got her addictive personality under control. Then her psychoanalyst moves away, her husband takes off to L.A. and her best friend moves to Ohio. Feeling lonely and left out, Julia fills in the void with food. This is a huge problem--especially since she's about to go on national television to plug her hot new self-help book about how she conquered her sugar addiction. Julia desperately sees eight...

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.

A comic fantasy set in heaven on the subject of obesity. The protagonist is Milton Cramer, an obese editor who is murdered for rejecting an author's manuscript. The novel is a satire on weight-conscious America by a Jewish humorist.

After undergoing gastric-bypass surgery, a self-loathing, obese teenaged girl loses weight and makes the brave decision to start participating in high school life, including pursuing her dream of becoming a singer and finding love.