friendship

Wolfgang Amadeus Mouse ("Wolf," for short) has a big name to make up for his small size. But the name fits. While his siblings like to race each other across the black and white piano keys, he would rather listen to Mrs. Honeybee the lady of the house, play music on them. Then one day, in a moment of musical passion, Wolf throws his head back, and to his total surprise, out of his mouth comes a beautiful voice!.

Terry McMillan's funny story of four African-Americanwomen tells how it is to live in the world, and in black female-male relationships. All four women lean on each other while "waiting to exhale". This is a wise and compelling account of modern female friendships.

Evelyn Couch, a woman caught in the slump of middle age, gains a new outlook on life when she befriends eighty-year-old Ninny Threadgood who tells her the story of the Whistle Stop Cafe and the two women who ran it in the 1930s, best friends Idgie and Ruth.

Evelyn Couch hears 80 year old Ninny Threadgoode's life story which centers on a cafe in the railroad town of Whistle Stop, Ala., and on Idgie and Ruth, the two women who own the cafe.