female friendship

When an enigmatic stranger shows up out of the blue, the folks of sleepy Southport become suspicious of her past. Katie tries to keep herself from becoming involved with anybody in town, but as time goes on, she slowly falls in love with Alex, a widowed store owner and father of two. However, when her dark past finally catches up with her Katie must make the painful choice between either fleeing or facing her fears and fighting for her newfound life.

"Marie and Nathalie are the queens of make-believe. They've run through every scenario that is possible, somewhat plausible, or frankly unbelievable: secret-agent ninjas launching a surprise-attack on an ice-cream stand, super-heroes hell-bent on making country music disappear, even lost astronauts condemned to spend millions of light-years in another dimension. The name of the game? "What If We Were..." But all of this was a mere prelude to "What If We Were... For Real!" This new version is just like the classic game, minus the mental gymnastics of thinking up fantasy scenarios. Because now Marie and Nathalie's wildest fantasies are coming true... for real!" -- page 4 of cover.

The daughter of a famous samurai, sixteen-year-old Chihiro Ito is obsessed with her idol, Tatsuo Nakano, the first female samurai to be accepted into Kesi Academy. When Chihiro gets the opportunity to prove she's worthy of joining Kesi Academy by dispelling a demon from a local village, she jumps at the chance. Beset by challenges as soon as she enters the village, Chihiro is saved by none other than Tatsuo herself. Though she manages to convince Tatsuo to join her in defeating the demon, Chihiro soon learns that Tatsuo hardly the hero she idolized. Traumatized from her past, Tatsuo has abandoned the samurai way and lives the life of a drunken ronin. Together, they undertake a quest to defeat the demon, while Chihiro proves her worthiness as a fighter and helps Tatsuo find the part of herself she'd lost.

In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiance in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle.

Discusses psychology and interpersonal conflict with regard to teenage girls, covering how to deal with having one's feelings hurt by friends and become a stronger, better person while learning about oneself.

During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes toward their different summer experiences.

Kurokawa continues her makeover when she and Fujishiro head to the pool. Then the two girls struggle with problems in school, and they are forced to spend time apart that shows them how much the friendship means to them.

An unlikely friendship develops between cute and popular Fujishiro Nanaki and her plain classmate Kurokawa Kanade after Fujishiro's boyfriend cheats on her and Kurokawa consoles her. Fujishiro decides to show her thanks by giving Kurokawa a makeover. But what if she becomes cuter than Fujishiro?.

Four Chinese women, drawn together by the shadow of their past, meet in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and to "say" stories to each other. Nearly 40 years later, one of the women has died, and her daughter arrives to take her place. However, the daughter never expected to learn of her mother's secret lifelong wish - and the tragic way in which it has come true.