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Animal Husbandryby Laura ZigmanISBN 0385319037 (0-385-31903-7)
Softcover, Delta
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Ask Me Anythingby Francesca DelbancoISBN 0393326462 (0-393-32646-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Ballroom on Magnolia Streetby Sharon OwensISBN 0399152865 (0-399-15286-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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A Bend in the Roadby Nicholas SparksISBN 0375728198 (0-375-72819-8)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Bend in the Road'Book summary:A Bend in the Road is a first-rate novel and Nicholas Sparks' finest book yet. Such well-turned books as The Rescue, and Message in a Bottle established him as a writer of skill and persuasiveness, with a particular knack for wry, well-rounded characterisations--qualities well in evidence in this book.
Miles Ryan leads a relatively uneventful life in the small town in which he is sheriff--except for an incident two years previously that changed him irrevocably: the killing (by a hit-and-run driver) of his adored wife. Miles' obsession with uncovering the identity of the driver has led to problems with his nine-year-old son Jonah, who is having difficulties at school. And when Miles finds himself brought together with Jonah's teacher, the attractive Sarah, both of them are soon caught up in a relationship that will force them to re-examine what their lives mean--particularly as Sarah has a secret of her own.
The secret of Sparks' success (here, as in his other books) is to carefully establish the problems of his main protagonists so that we come to be involved in their lives and care about them--before involving them with someone else, who we similarly come to know intimately. It's not an easy task, and many a novelist has come adrift by concentrating too much on the hero or heroine at the expense of those around them. Sparks is much too sure-footed for that, and we are utterly involved with the problems of both Miles and Sarah (not to mention the nine-year-old Jonah, who is handled without a trace of sentimentality, which is a refreshing touch). As the central characters' destinies intertwine, we are as keen for them to recognise each other's virtues as we are that they'll solve the problems that have been ruining their lives. Barry Forshaw [via]
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Black and Blueby Anna QuindlenISBN 0385333137 (0-385-33313-7)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black and Blue'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her fascination soon solidified into a marital prison sentence of incessant abuse and the destruction of her own identity. After an especially horrific beating and rape, Fran realizes that the next attack could be the last. Fearing her son would be left alone with Bobby, she escapes one morning with her child. Fran's salvation comes in the form of Patty Bancroft and Co., a relocation agency for abused women that touts better service than the witness protection program. Armed only with a phone number, a few hundred dollars, and the help of several anonymous volunteers, Fran begins a new life. The agency relocates her to Florida, where she becomes Beth Crenshaw, a recently divorced home-care assistant from Delaware. Fran and her son adapt, meeting challenges with unexpected resilience and resolve until their past returns to haunt them. Quindlen renders the intricacies of spousal abuse with eerie accuracy, taking the reader deep within the realm of dysfunctional human ties. However, her vivid descriptions of abuse, emotional disintegration, and acute loneliness at times numb the reader with their realism. [via]
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Charms for the Easy Lifeby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0380722704 (0-380-72270-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charms for the Easy Life'Book summary:In the verdant backwoods of North Carolina, in a sad and singular era, the Birches are unique among women of their time-living gloriously rich it decidedly offbeat lives in a private world ahandoned by men. And though misery often heats a path to their door, headstrong Sophia and her y, brilliant daughter Margaret possess charms to ward off loneliness and despair-thanks to the uncompromising strength, uncommon wisdom, and muscular love of a remarkable matriarch and self-taught healer who calls herself Charlie Kate.
In Charms for the Easy Life, Kaye Gibbons has created a luminous, truthtelling novel that gives life to her most passionate and toughminded women yet.
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Chick Lit: The New Women's Fictionby Suzanne Ferriss, Mallory YoungISBN 0415975034 (0-415-97503-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chick Lit: The New Women's Fiction'Book summary:From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the City that captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the same life challenges, publishers have earned millions and even created separate imprints dedicated to the genre. Not surprisingly, some highbrow critics have dismissed chick lit as trashy fiction, but fans have argued that it is as empowering as it is entertaining.
This is the first volume of its kind to examine the chick lit phenomenon from a variety of angles, accounting for both its popularity and the intense reactions-positive and negative-it has provoked. The contributors explore the characteristics that cause readers to attach the moniker "chick" to a particular book and what, if anything, distinguishes the category of chick lit from the works of Jane Austen on one end and Harlequin romance novels on the other. They critique the genre from a range of critical perspectives, considering its conflicted relationship with feminism and postfeminism, heterosexual romance, body image, and consumerism. The fourteen original essays gathered here also explore such trends and subgenres as "Sistah Lit," "Mommy Lit," and "Chick Lit Jr.," as well as regional variations.
As the first book to consider the genre seriously, Chick Lit offers real insight into a new generation of women's fiction. [via]More editions of Chick Lit: The New Women's Fiction:
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Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolateby Laura EsquivelISBN 0385721234 (0-385-72123-4)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate'Book summary:Esta novela, relata las tradiciones y las vivencias de una familia latinoamericana, en la que se viven muchos desengaños y desobediencias. La hija menor, Tita, está condenada a cuidar a su madre hasta que esta muera, olvidándose así de conocer lo que es el amor y el matrimonio. Su novio, Pedro , no contento con tener que resignarse a estar sin su querida, se casa con la hermana de esta para así poder vivir junto a ella, y verla siempre, sin pensar que su madre, Mamá Elena no lo permitirá. A parte de este gran problema surgirán otros, así como también historias divertidas y buenos ratos. En Como agua para chocolate las relaciones son complejas y desarrolladas bajo signos opuestos, en ocasiones irreconciliables. Aparece una fuerte rivalidad entre hermanas, el choque fraternal queda signado en la relación entre Rosaura y Tita, metaforizada en el contacto «del agua en aceite hirviendo». Desde niñas muestran naturalezas diferentes: Tita hace de la cocina su universo propio, su lugar de juegos y su modo de vida, mientras que Rosaura no tiene sazón, es torpe para cocinar y melindrosa para comer. Pero será en su juventud cuando estas diferencias se acentúen y culminen con la traición de Rosaura al casarse con el novio de su hermana. De ahí nació la aversión de Nacha para con Rosaura y la rivalidad entre las dos hermanas, que culmina con esa boda en la que Rosaura se casa con el hombre que Tita ama. [via]
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The Copenhagen Connectionby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0380733382 (0-380-73338-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Crow Lakeby Mary LawsonISBN 0385337639 (0-385-33763-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crow Lake'Book summary:Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thinga literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent.
Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural badlands of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occuroffstage.
Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matts protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks shes outgrown her siblingsLuke, Matt, and Bowho were once her entire world.
In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning ones expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today. [via] 
The Dareby Elda MingerISBN 0425192768 (0-425-19276-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Dating Dead Menby Harley Jane KozakISBN 0385510187 (0-385-51018-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Dating Is Murder : A Novelby Harley Jane KozakISBN 0385510349 (0-385-51034-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Dead Until Darkby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0441008534 (0-441-00853-4)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Until Dark'Book summary:Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much - not because she's not pretty - she's a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is ...but Sookie's got a bit of a disability. She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he's tall, he's dark and he's handsome - and Sookie can't 'hear' a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting all her life for. But Bill has a disability of his own: he's fussy about his food, he doesn't like suntans and he's never around during the day ...Yep, Bill's a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind. And then one of Sookie's colleagues at the bar is killed, and it's beginning to look like Sookie might be the next victim ... [via]
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Derik's Baneby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 0425199975 (0-425-19997-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Derik's Bane'Book summary:Derik's a werewolf with alpha issues--and a body to die for.[via]Sara is the personification of unspeakable evil--and smells like roses.
Now if they could just stop drooling over each other long enough to save the world.
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Disturbing the Peaceby Nancy NewmanISBN 0380798395 (0-380-79839-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Ellen Fosterby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0394757572 (0-394-75757-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ellen Foster'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Kaye Gibbons is a writer who brings a short story sensibility to her novels. Rather than take advantage of the novel's longer form to paint her visions in broad, sweeping strokes, Gibbons prefers to concentrate on just one corner of the canvas and only a few colors to produce her small masterpieces. In Gibbons's case, her canvas is the American South and her colors are all the shades of gray.
In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong. There is something almost Dickensian about Ellen's tribulations; like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield or a host of other literary child heroes, Ellen is at the mercy of predatory adults, with only her own wit and courage--and the occasional kindness of others--to help her through. That she does, in fact, survive her childhood and even rise above it is the book's bittersweet victory. [via]
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Fair Playby Deirdre MartinISBN 0425194574 (0-425-19457-4)
Softcover, Berkley Sensation
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The Friday Night Knitting Clubby Kathleen JacobsISBN 0399154094 (0-399-15409-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 039456152X (0-394-56152-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe'Book summary:A folksy, funny and endearing story of life in a small town in Alabama in the Depression and in the 1980s. However, the novel's laughter and tears are interrupted by a strange murder and a still stranger trial. [via]
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Girl, 15, Charming but Insaneby Sue LimbISBN 0385732155 (0-385-73215-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl, 15, Charming but Insane'Book summary:Life was tragic enough before this spring started. With a distinct lack of boobage and an arse so big that birds of prey could nest within its shadows, Jess Jordan is saddled with the Goddess Flora for a best friend, a Britney Spears look-alike so gorgeous that one grain of her divine dandruff could make the blind see again. Jess knows that her soul mate is Ben Jones, a divine mixture of Leonardo diCaprio, Prince William, and Brad Pitt who oozes mystery and charisma. But the campaign to get Ben to notice her brings on a cavalcade of mortification and disaster, including, but not limited to, a minestrone soup explosion that takes place in her bra and a schoolwide viewing of a videotape that features a topless Jess referring to her breasts as Bonnie and Clyde.
Meanwhile, Jesss death-obsessed Granny moves into her bedroom, along with her grandfathers remains; her hypochondriac dad, who sends her daily horrorscopes like You will fall asleep with your mouth open, and a family of earwigs will move in, acts strange about Jess staying with him this summer; and her longtime friend Fred, a television violence addict and closet thumbsucker, has decided that he cant stand being around her. Jess is determined to make things right . . . but with her offbeat sense of humor and her wildly active imagination, things get complicated along the way. [via]More editions of Girl, 15, Charming but Insane:
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Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Girl, 15, Charming but Insane: ISBN 0385732155 (0-385-73215-5)
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The Glass Lakeby Maeve BinchyISBN 0440221595 (0-440-22159-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Glass Lake'Book summary:An incandescent novel of love, obsession, and the secrets that take root in the human heart, by the author of The Copper Beech and Circle Of Friends. Lough Glass is at the heart and soul of the namesake town clinging to its shore. They say that if you go out on St. Agnes' Eve and look into the lake at sunset you can see your future. But beneath its serene surface, the lake harbors secrets as dark and unfathomable as the beautiful woman who night after night walks beside its waters. Lough Glass is home to Kit McMahon, in a way it will never be to her lovely mother, Helen, who does not fit in with the ways of the people of Lough Glass, and who found an unlikely mate in the genial pharmacist Martin McMahon. Kit adores her mother, but can't escape the picture of her, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face... or walking alone by the glass lake. Then one terrible night Martin's boat is found drifting upside down in the lake. The night Helen is lost. The night Kit discovers a letter on Martin's pillow and burns it, unopened, in the grate. The night everything changes forever. [via]
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Gone With the Windby Margaret MitchellISBN 0380001098 (0-380-00109-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone With the Wind'Book summary:Set in Georgia at the time of the American Civil War, this is the story of headstrong Scarlett O'Hara, her three marriages and her determination to keep her father's property of Tara, despite the vicissitudes of war and passion. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize. [via]
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Handbags And Gladragsby MAGGIE ALDERSONISBN 042520278X (0-425-20278-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Hanging Upby Delia EphronISBN 0399140522 (0-399-14052-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Here Comes the Brideby Whitney LylesISBN 0425211304 (0-425-21130-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Here on Earthby Alice HoffmanISBN 0425167313 (0-425-16731-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya AngelouISBN 0394429869 (0-394-42986-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
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Inconceivableby Ben EltonISBN 0385334656 (0-385-33465-6)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inconceivable'Book summary:Whenever Sam thinks about babies, he envisages rivers of vomit and sleepless nights. But wife Lucy can't walk past Mothercare without crying. What's more, she can't seem to conceive--not by traditional methods, anyway. Hippy confidante Drusilla suggests an array of New Age remedies, including the intimate use of nutmeg oil and al fresco lovemaking. As Lucy faces a possible verdict of infertility, her love for Sam enters tailspin, accelerated by the advent of arrogant actor Carl Phipps. Meanwhile Sam, desperate to escape his tedious BBC job, conceives the inconceivable--turning the intimacies of their battle for babies into an acclaimed movie script.
Inconceivable tells a poignant and heart-rending story with Elton's trademark wit, creating a novel that is entertaining and emotionally satisfying; as explosive as Popcorn and with the incendiary humour of Blast From the Past. It courageously tackles its central theme from both the male and the female points of view, and while delivering laughs on every page, it steers clear of laddish clichés. Lucy's tale, though pregnant with unfulfilled emotion, never stints on humour. "There seem," she fumes, "to be more urban myths attached to infertility than there are to ... film stars filling their bottoms with small animals."
Aside from the rich vein of gags about DIY conception (Sam has to leave a power lunch with the excuse: "Sorry, my wife is ovulating ..."), Elton also subjects the TV industry to relentless stand-up-style bombardment, giving birth to some brilliant asides which enrich the main story but never overpower it. Funny, tragic, true and ultimately heartwarming, this book should be available on the National Health Service. --Matthew Baylis [via]
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The Kitchen God's Wifeby Amy TanISBN 0399135782 (0-399-13578-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Ladies With Prospectsby Cynthia HartwickISBN 0425194213 (0-425-19421-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Light a Penny Candleby Maeve BinchyISBN 0440147956 (0-440-14795-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Like Water for Chocolateby Thomas Christensen, Laura Esquivel, Carol ChristensenISBN 038542017X (0-385-42017-X)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Like Water for Chocolate'Book summary:Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother. Reprint. Movie tie-in. [via]
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Like Water for Chocolateby Laura Esquivel, Carol ChristensenISBN 0385420161 (0-385-42016-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Like Water for Chocolate'Book summary:Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story. [via]
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Little Menby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0440401526 (0-440-40152-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Love and a Bad Hair Dayby Annie FlanniganISBN 0380819368 (0-380-81936-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Marriedby Marian KeyesISBN 0380796104 (0-380-79610-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married'Book summary:Lucy Sullivan is getting married -- or is she? Lucy doesn't even have a boyfriend. (To be honest, she isn't that lucky in love.) But Mrs. Nolan -- a local psychic -- has read her tarot cards and predicted that Lucy will be walking down the aisle within the year.
Lucy's roommates, Karen and Charlotte, are appalled at the news. If Lucy leaves it could disrupt their wonderful lifestyle of eating take-out, drinking too much wine, bringing men home and never vacuumming. They might even have to -- God forbid-clean up the apartment to lure in a new roommate. Lucy reassures them that she's far too busy arguing with her mother and taking care of her irresponsible father to get married.
And there's the small matter of no boyfriend. But then Lucy meets Gus, gorgeous, unreliable Gus. And she starts to wonder if he could be the future Mr. Lucy Sullivan. Or could it be handsome Chuck? Or Daniel, the world's biggest flirt? Or even cute Jed, the new boy at work?
Maybe the idea of Lucy Sullivan getting married isn't so unlikely, after all.
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, Carol ShieldsISBN 0375757813 (0-375-75781-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
May the Best Man Dieby Deborah DonnellyISBN 0440241294 (0-440-24129-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Mercyby Jodi PicoultISBN 039914160X (0-399-14160-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Never On A Sundaeby Lynn Messina, Daniella Brodsky, Wendy MarkhamISBN 0425198960 (0-425-19896-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never On A Sundae'Book summary:An irresistible look at three women on the verge of happily ever after--from three hot new voices in fiction.
It's the best spot in Manhattan for a sinfully delicious ice cream sundae. And it's where three young women come to soothe their troubles and treat themselves to a little taste of heaven. Lucky in friendship, not always so lucky in love, these women know that just a few spoonfuls of ice cream can sweeten everything from a date gone sour to a workday from hell. But before they can say "extra whipped cream," they're going to discover that there's more to life than hot fudge-and that making their dreams come true is the real cherry on top. [via]More editions of Never On A Sundae:
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North and Southby Alan Shelston, Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN 0393979083 (0-393-97908-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskells place in the company of Victorian Englands finest novelists.
This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North and South, along with the full text of Gaskells 1850 short story "Lizzie Leigh," which, like North and South, is set in industrial Manchester and deals with strong working women. This topic is further addressed in Bessie Rayner Parkess essay on Victorian working women. "Criticism" collects eleven assessments of the novel, among them Louis Cazamians 1904 study of industrial fiction and Hilary Schors recent study of North and South in the context of discourse analysis. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of North and South:
Original Cynby Sue MargolisISBN 0385337345 (0-385-33734-5)
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The Parker Grey Showby Kristen BuckleyISBN 0425191095 (0-425-19109-5)
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The Princess Diariesby Meg CabotISBN 0380814021 (0-380-81402-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess Diaries'Book summary:Mia Thermopolis is your average urban ninth grader. Even though she lives in Greenwich Village with a single mom who is a semifamous painter, Mia still puts on her Doc Martens one at a time, and the most exciting things she ever dreams about are smacking lips with sexy senior Josh Richter, "six feet of unadulterated hotness," and passing Algebra I. Then Mia's dad comes to town, and drops a major bomb. Turns out he's not just a European politician as he's always lead her to believe, but actually the prince of a small country! And Mia, his only heir, is now considered the crown princess of Genovia! She doesn't even know how to begin to cope: "I am so NOT a princess.... You never saw anyone who looked less like a princess than I do. I mean, I have really bad hair... and... a really big mouth and no breasts and feet that look like skis." And if this news wasn't bad enough, Mia's mom has started dating her algebra teacher, the paparazzi is showing up at school, and she's in a huge fight with her best friend, Lilly. How much more can this reluctant Cinderella handle?
Offbeat Mia will automatically win the heart of every teenage girl who's ever just wanted to fit in with as little fuss as possible. Debut author Meg Cabot's writing is silly and entertaining, with tons of pop culture references that will make teens feel right at home within her pages. This is a wonderfully wacky read. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climateby Nancy MitfordISBN 0394708172 (0-394-70817-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate'Book summary:Few aristocratic English families of the 20th century have enjoyed quite the delicious notoriety that the Mitford sisters courted in the years bracketed by two world wars. For a start, two of the girls, Unity and Diana, were Fascists (the former was a friend of Hitler and Goebbels, and the latter married Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists). Two others took the writing route: Jessica ran away from home and became a famous muckraking journalist, and Nancy composed maliciously witty--and transparently autobiographical--novels as well as several biographies. The Pursuit of Love (1945), her greatest fictional success, and its companion, Love in a Cold Climate (1949), keep closely to the spirit (and details) of their youthful amusements and more grown-up adventures.
Seen through the adoring eyes of Fanny Logan, the self-effacing cousin who records their shenanigans with a wicked sincerity, the Radletts of Alconleigh shine with Gloucestershire glamour: apoplectic Uncle Matthew; Lord Alconleigh (modeled to a fine nuance after Mitford's father, Lord Redesdale, who like Uncle Matthew used to hunt his children with bloodhounds); his kind, rather vague wife, Aunt Sadie; as well as Fanny's favorite cousin Linda and the other six Radlett children. The Radlett daughters and Fanny wait impatiently for life to become interesting. Because of their station, however, nothing but marriage is expected of them, so they hurl themselves at love like crusaders, with varied and always fascinating results. At one point Fanny recounts:
A few minutes only after Linda had left me to go back to London, Christian and the comrades, I had another caller. This time it was Lord Merlin...."This is a bad business," he said, abruptly, and without preamble, though I had not seen him for several years. "I'm just back from Rome, and what do I find--Linda and Christian Talbot. It's an extraordinary thing that I can't ever leave England without Linda getting herself mixed up with some thoroughly undesirable character. This is a disaster--how far has it gone? Can nothing be done?"
The Pursuit of Love follows the romantic fortunes of Linda Radlett, while Love in a Cold Climate ventures further afield with the story of Polly Hampton's shocking love affair and its unexpectedly funny aftermath. Fanny's inexhaustible narration is a pleasant buffer for Mitford's deft teasing, which dances along just this side of mockery. The author of U and Non-U, a famous tongue-in-cheek treatise on the shibboleths of upper-class mores, Mitford often leaves the reader wondering just where she stands in the class wars, and much of her humor arises in the fine distinctions of aristocratic manners and speech. Still, there's an inimitable tart sweetness to these stories of true love and its pallid imitators, making them perfect snapshots of a vanished world. --Barrie Trinkle [via]More editions of Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate:
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Rachel's Holidayby Marian KeyesISBN 0380817683 (0-380-81768-3)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rachel's Holiday'Book summary:The fast lane is much too slow for twenty-seven-year-old Rachel Walsh, who is always the last one still standing whenever there's a party. And New York City is the perfect place for a young female to over-do...everything! But her love of a good time is about to land her in the emergency room and alienate her best friend and her boyfriend.Soon the Walsh clan has come to hustle their daughter home to check her into the local version of the Betty Ford Clinic. And just when another million hours of group therapy are about to drive her crazy, Rachel meets a new man and resolves to ride this wild dream to love -- or wherever else her heart may lead her. [via]
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Range of Motionby Elizabeth BergISBN 042516876X (0-425-16876-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Ready Or Notby Chris ManbyISBN 0425213536 (0-425-21353-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Robber Brideby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491034 (0-385-49103-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Romantic Fictionby Melanie La'BrooyISBN 042520264X (0-425-20264-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Shaking Her Assetsby Robin Epstein, Renee KaplanISBN 0425202402 (0-425-20240-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shaking Her Assets'Book summary:It was a day like any other in Gotham, until...
In the interest of cost-cutting, editorial work at the high-end housewares tome The Byzantium Catalog has been "redistributed," thereby relieving Rachel Chambers of her duties. Meanwhile, the evil "other woman" relieves Rachel of her boyfriend of two years.
But all is not lost. A business idea that starts off as a joke between Rachel and her friend starts to take off. And suddenly her misadventures take on a life of their own when the art director at her temp job turns her into a comic-book superhero. Suddenly Rachel is taking the New York social scene by storm-remorselessly tossing aside losers and nay-sayers in her never-ending quest for Success. And her man-eating alter-ego has got her believing that she just might be able to pull this off in real life...though maybe without the cone-shaped bra. [via]More editions of Shaking Her Assets:
Small Town Girlby Lavyrle SpencerISBN 0425195775 (0-425-19577-5)
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Smart Womenby Judy BlumeISBN 0425206556 (0-425-20655-6)
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That Camden Summerby Lavyrle SpencerISBN 0399141200 (0-399-14120-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Theodora Twistby Melissa SenateISBN 0385733011 (0-385-73301-1)
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Truly Madly Yoursby Rachel GibsonISBN 0380801213 (0-380-80121-3)
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace Thackery, Joanna TrollopeISBN 0375757260 (0-375-75726-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:The text of this Norton Critical Edition of Thackeray's acclaimed 1848 novel is based on the Garland edition, the text approved by the Modern Language Association. The text is fully annotated and is accompanied by all of the author's original illustrations as well as a textual appendix.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" is arranged under three headings. "Composition and Publication History" combines modern scholarship with contemporary materials to elucidate the novel's composition and publication history and present different aspects of Thackeray's life and work. "Reception" reprints ten contemporary reviews, both published and unpublished, that suggest the tone of Vanity Fair's initial reception. "Contexts" includes materials relating to governesses, historical novels, the Battle of Waterloo and the military, bankruptcy, regency fashions, and the London landscape, all of which figure prominently in the novel.
"Criticism" is a collection of nine essays written between 1900 and 1990 that reveal the developing response to Vanity Fair. William C. Brownell, David Cecil, G. Armour Craig, John Loofbourow, Peter K. Garrett, Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, Myra Stark, Ina Ferris, Catherine Peters, and James Phelan provide varied perspectives.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Wifeyby Judy BlumeISBN 0425206548 (0-425-20654-8)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0375756442 (0-375-75644-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847.For the Fourth Edition, the editor collated the 1847 text with the two modern texts (Norton's William J. Sale collation and the Clarendon), and found a great number of variants, including accidentals. This discovery led to changes in the body of the Norton Critical Edition text that are explained in the preface. New to "Backgrounds and Contexts" are additional letters, a compositional chronology, related prose, and reviews of the 1847 text. "Criticism" collects five important assessments of Wuthering Heights, three of them new to the Fourth Edition, including Lin Haire-Sargeant's essay on film adaptations of the novel. [via]
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Year of Secret Assignmentsby Jaclyn MoriartyISBN 0439498821 (0-439-49882-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Year of Secret Assignments'Book summary:Popular Aussie writer Jaclyn Moriarty, author of the smash debut, Feeling Sorry for Celia avoids the notorious sophomore slump with this bouncy epistolary follow-up that is brimming with self-confidence and charm. In The Year of Secret Assignments, a tenth grade English teacher attempts to unite feuding schools by launching a pen-pal project. Best friends Cassie, Emily and Lydia initiate the correspondence, and are answered by Matthew, Charlie and Seb. Emily and Lydia are more than pleased with their matches, but quiet Cassie has a frightening experience with Matthew. When Lydia and Emily discover that Matthew has threatened their fragile friend, the Ashbury girls close ranks, declaring an all-out war on the Brookfield boys. Soon, the couples are caught up in everything from car-jacking and lock-picking, to undercover spying and identity theft.
Moriartys captivating comedy of manners reads like a breezy 21st century version of Jane Austen--with no end of ridiculous misunderstandings, angst-ridden speeches, and heartfelt make-ups. Female teen fans of Ann Brasheres' The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Megan McCafferty's Sloppy Firsts will waste no time swapping copies of The Year of Secret Assignments, with all their best buds. (Ages 12 and up) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Como Agua para Chocolateby Laura EsquivelISBN 0385471378 (0-385-47137-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolateby Laura EsquivelISBN 0385471483 (0-385-47148-3)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate'Book summary:Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.
The Spanish language edition of the best-selling Like Water For Chocolate is a remarkable success in its own right. Now, in this mass market edition, thousands of new readers will be able to partake in the sumptuous, romantic, and hilarious tale of Tita, the terrific cook with an extra special something in her sauce. [via]More editions of Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate:
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