title: The Twisted Sisterhood: Unraveling the Dark Legacy of Female Friendships
author:  Kelly Valen 
description: <span id="span_contact_Unresolved_A1SZJAWVZVFRUV" style="display: inline;">Moving chapters on the power of mothers, forgiveness and female friendships. Valens tone is appropriately friendly, and her message  that women have everything to gain from being less judgmental and more supportive of each other  certainly has value.<br /> <strong>The Washington Post</strong><br /><br />Valen maintains a tone of measured affability throughout her book . . . [and] has an incisive chapter on the maternal role in schoolyard meanness.<br /> <strong>The New York Times Book Review</strong><br /><br />A thorough, well-researched, earnest look at how women might stop turning away from one another.<br /> <strong>The Associated Press</strong><br /><br />A smart, insightful, knock-out read.<br /> <strong>More magazine</strong></span><br /><br />"<em>The Twisted Sisterhood </em>is a smart, savvy breakthrough look at the compelling, complex bonds that divide  and can ultimately unite  women of all ages and every culture."<strong><br /></strong><strong>Leslie Morgan Steiner</strong>, editor of the anthology <em>Mommy Wars</em> and author of the bestselling memoir <em>Crazy Love<br /><br />If you think you are alone in nursing a clique-inspired emotional wound, are wary of certain types of women, or are worried about your own daughters peer-group, you need to read this validating and important book. Kelly Valens research shows that many of us have been hurt deeply by a girlfriend and we often carry the lingering pain throughout our lives. In sharing the poignant voices of women from her study, Valen shows us that we are certainly<em> not</em> alone and she points a way toward civility, kindness and<em> true</em> sisterhood. <br /><strong>Rosalind Wiseman</strong>, author of the bestselling<em> Queen Bees and Wannabees</em><br /><br />"Kelly Valen has written a smart, sweeping book about at the ways women relate and given us all something to think about."<br /><strong>Kelly Corrigan,</strong> <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>The Middle Place </em>and <em>Lift<br /><br />This is a brave and deep book. Kelly Valen shares her own painful experience of exclusion and humiliation at the hands of friends as well as the details of incidents shes gathered in her research  the looks, gestures, gossip, and confrontations  that have wounded other hearts. Yet she shows us that it is the caring side of sisterhood that gives our relationships the power to hurt. She rightfully suggests that we understand and monitor our own behavior as much as we scrutinize how we are treated. <br /><strong>Cheryl Dellasega,</strong> author of <em>Surviving Ophelia </em>and <em>Mean Girls Grown Up</em><br /></em></em>
zlib_text: Slick Rock 8
  Accepting Eva
  Evana Woodridge has had to deal with disparaging comments from ignorant people her whole life. Because she walks with a limp and wears a supportive brace on one leg,
  she feels like men never look at her twice—not until the Badon brothers come along.
  Quin, Gray, and Pierson, Slick Rock’s sexy new mechanics, are determined to overcome Eva’s self-doubt and show her the kind of love her new hometown has to offer.
  She’s convinced that what they feel for her is pity, not love, but no matter how hard she tries to keep the Badon brothers at arm’s length, her desire for them gets the
  better of her.
  But just when the Badons think they’re getting through to Eva, her past catches up with her. Can the brothers get to her in time?
  Note: There is no sexual relationship or touching for titillation between or among siblings.
  Genre: Contemporary, Western/Cowboys, Ménage a Trois/Quatre
  Length: 39,937 words 
  
  ACCEPTING EVA
   
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  MENAGE EV