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Carrie Kabak
Author, essayist, professional editor, copywriter, & publishing-related designer

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May 4, 2011 7:00 pm - May 4, 2011 9:00 pm
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Brookline, MA
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PUBLISHED: Apr.21.2011

COVER THE BUTTER

Product Description Get ready to cheer for Kate Cadogan, a forty-something woman who has spent her life trying to please her husband, her son, her mother, and her father without a moment's thought to her own needs. Until one day when a series of events causes her to slip back in time...For the first time Kate sees her life clearly: her dreams of becoming a caterer; the...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.23.2007

FOR KEEPS

Nearly every aging woman has a complicated relationship with her body. For Keeps, an inspirational collection of personal essays from writers on their ever-changing bodies, will resonate with every maturing woman. Editor Victoria Zackheim brings together women with unique voices who have all struggled, at one time or another, to make peace with the bodies that at times they...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.26.2011

HE SAID WHAT?

HE SAID WHAT? Women Write About Moments When Everything Changed I love you. The meeting ran late. I want a divorce. One little word, one casual lie, one devastating announcement—and our lives are turned upside down forever. In He Said What?, twenty-six gifted women writers share profoundly personal moments in which a man in their life said something—good or bad—that changed them...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2010

TYRONE

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION This book will appeal to children because it is a light, yet realistic story which deals with emotions and situations that children can identify with, such as: rejection from friends, frustrations in attempting a solution to a problem and acceptance, finally, with friends.The story is about a turtle, Tyrone, who cannot play with his turtle friends at Hide...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2008

COVER DESIGN: The Misadventures of Oliver Booth: Life in the Lap of Luxury, by David Desmond

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Oliver Booth wants nothing more than to join the ranks of Palm Beach's high society. But with his arrogant personality, garish wardrobe, and incompetent stewardship of an antique shop filled with gaudy reproductions, he doesn't have a chance. Oliver's luck takes a turnabout when the society doyenne Margaret Van Buren sends him and his assistant, Bernard,...

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May.03.2011 - 10:43 am

I'm Desperate for My Mother's Approval

Today, I only brought one dress. I usually throw two in the car, in case my mother says the first choice rides up my backside. And I rarely wear pants. Pants make me look...

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Published by Kirkus, Booklist, Author Reviews

A brilliant debut novel with a depth and warmth reminiscent of Maeve Binchy. -- Trisha Ashley, author of Singled Out and Every Woman for Herself It is poignant, sensitive, funny,...

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About Carrie

Carrie Kabak is the author of Cover the Butter (Penguin Putnam,) a 2005 BookSense bestseller, and her novel Deviled Egg is currently in progress. She is a professional copywriter and editor, has received Commendation as a publishing-related graphic...

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