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Christian businesses were once easy to spot only if they belonged to the $4.2 billion industry of producing and marketing Bibles, CDs and other explicitly Christian products. Large corporations with Christian foundations--the Curves fitness chain, Chick-fil-A, Servicemaster--have quietly tucked religious principles in mission statements or employee guidelines. But the new breed of Christian entrepreneurs advertises its faith loud and clear, often in its names and logos. There are Christian banks, car dealerships, gyms, plumbers, financial planners, mortgage lenders, moving companies, building contractors and Internet-service providers. As more Christians hang their beliefs on their shingles, secular...
...widowed Laura, a sunny blonde who lives with her adolescent daughter, the aptly named Lolita (Alexis Dziena). Underneath her optimistic facade, Stone adds a sense of vulnerability and loneliness that lends unexpected depth to her character. Tilda Swinton plays Laura’s polar opposite: Penny, the motorcycle chick who lives in a run-down house in the middle of nowhere. Penny’s venomous feelings for Don are nearly palpable, but in spite of her hard exterior, she seems fragile in a way that leaves you wondering exactly what happened between them...
Then there are love interests Gannon and Wade. A chance trip to Thailand allows them to glisten and gleam as the water slides off their bodies, but the longish, supposedly sultry stares leave you anticipating a “bam-chick-a-bam-bam” background sound...
...author Sophie Kinsella is one of the reigning stars in chick-lit, the popular wish-fulfillment novels now being written and marketed for young women. Her witty new book, The Undomestic Goddess (Dial), is the story of Samantha Sweeting, a BlackBerry-toting workaholic London lawyer on the verge of making partner in her prestigious firm. Fate intervenes, and Samantha suddenly finds herself a housekeeper with not a lick of domestic talent, hurtling into a new romance. We spoke with the author by phone in London, just before a second set of bombings hit the city Thursday...
...call your own books chick...