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Feb.16.2011
The two-time Pulitzer Prize and three-time National Book Award-nominated author of Le Divorce returns with a mesmerizing novel of double standards and double agents.
In Lulu in Marrakech, Diane Johnson brilliantly exposes the manners and morals of the cultural collision between Islam and the...
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Jun.08.2010
At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The “casting director” told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian found herself on a...
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Feb.24.2010
A hilarious memoir about the ending of a marriage that should have lasted forever-or at least for five years.
It's an age-old story. Girl meets boy. Girl marries boy. Girl decides she is way too young to be stuck in nuptial mediocrity.
When Sascha realized that the one person she didn't want...
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Jan.22.2010
On paper, Arabella Hicks is more than qualified to teach a weekly fiction class on New York's Upper West Side. She's an author herself; she's passionate abut books; she's even named after the heroine in a Georgette Heyer novel.
So why do her students seem so difficult? And why can't she...
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May.02.2009
The smart, sassy guide to embracing your inner Angry Black Woman.
Rosa Parks, Claire Huxtable, Serena Williams. What do these women have in common? They are all Angry Black Women, whether they know it or not.
Throughout history, women's attempts to stand up for themselves have been dismissed as...
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Feb.04.2009
To Carley Wells, words are the enemy: the countless SAT lists from her tutor, the “fifty-seven pounds overweight” assessment from her personal trainer, and most of all, the “confidential” Getting To Know You assignment from her insane English teacher (whose literary terminology lessons include “...
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Jun.22.2008
The endless conflict between sameness and difference is at the heart of Michael Lowenthal's novel The Same Embrace, in which identical twins Jacob and Jonathan battle themselves and one another to become individuals even as they are inextricably linked through genes, family, and history....
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May.27.2008
A Scotsman tries to fit into his new suburban American personality. The result. Total Failure.
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May.16.2008
“…a virtuoso collection of essays by writers on writing non-fiction; these remarkable insights into the craft were collected at Harvard University and include selections from such notable veteran scribes as Tom Wolfe, Tracy Kidder, Susan Orlean, David Halberstam, Nora Ephron and Macolm Gladwell...
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Feb.23.2008
"A treat for any fiction lover...a poignant, lovely read."--Library Journal
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