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In the park, the coffee shops, and the playgrounds of Park Slope, four women's lives collide one long, hot Brooklyn summer. From the perennially hot author and columnist Amy Sohn comes a smart, sexy, satirical peek into the bedrooms and hearts of Prospect Park West.

Anthony Comstock was one of the most important men in the lives of 19th-century women. His eponymous law, passed in 1873, penalized the mailing of contraception and obscenity with long prison sentences and steep fines. Between 1873 and Comstock’s death in 1915, eight remarkable women were charged with violating state and federal Comstock laws. These “sex radicals” supported contraception, sexual education, gender equality, and women’s right to pleasure. Amy Sohn tells the overlooked story of their valiant attempts to fight Comstock in court and in the press.

In her acclaimed novels, Amy Sohn has beguiled us with her pinpoint observations of how we live and love, giving voice to our innermost thoughts and everyday anxieties. Now, in Motherland, her most diverting book to date, she introduces us to five mothers and fathers in Cape Cod, Park Slope, and Greenwich Village who find themselves adrift professionally and personally.

All Maddy Freed has ever wanted is to act. When the indie film she made wins her a special acting prize, she's thrilled but doesn't yet understand how much it will change her life. Then she catches the eye of Bridget Ostrow, a legendary talent manager whose biggest client is Hollywood heartthrob Steven Weller. Before Maddy knows it, her career has shifted onto the express track.

When Laura Vikmanis, a single mom in Ohio, told friends that she wanted to be an NFL cheerleader, they said it would never happen. But she proved them all wrong. When she finally got the courage to leave her husband and to ask herself something she had never asked before: What do I want to do? When the woman in her dance classsuggested that Laura audition to be a "Ben-Gal", Laura laughed her off but soon realized that the audition process could be a way of healing herself - and regaining her confidence.

Der gefährlichste Kriminalfall des faulen Palastkaters. Ra, der faule und verfressene Kater des Pharao, begleitet den Kronprinzen Dedi und seine kleine Schwester Kija auf einer Reise den Nil hinauf. Ihr Ziel ist ein furchterregender Palast, um den es von Krokodilen nur so wimmelt. Die dortige Herrscherin Satiah verhält sich sehr seltsam und auch andere merkwürdige Gestalten treiben ihr Unwesen. Als der Sohn des Pharao plötzlich verschwindet, wittert Ra ein Komplott. Zum Glück ist sein treuer Gefährte Kepri, der Mistkäfer, bei ihm. Gemeinsam versuchen sie, den Prinzen zu retten.