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At Home in Mitfordby Jan KaronISBN 1589190629 (1-58919-062-9)
Softcover, David C Cook
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Home in Mitford'Book summary:A Light in the Window is the second installment in this enormously popular series about a small-town rector, Father Tim, and the heartwarming cast of characters surrounding him. This time Father Tim, a lifelong bachelor, finds his heart distracted by his free-spirited neighbor Cynthia, but his stomach and the rectory cash box are distracted by Edith, a wealthy widow who is wooing the rector with love potion casseroles. At every turn, including when a brooding Irish cousin decides to move in, Father Tim must decide whether he will practice what he preaches.
Fans of the series say they long to buy real estate in Mitford, just so they can live next door to these funny and endearing characters and feel the embrace of such a loving community. But what author Jan Karon probably knows, and many readers are starting to figure out, is that the integrity and solid Christian values that these characters possess can be found in just about every neighborhood, and with inspiration like this book, anyone can build their own Mitford community. --Gail Hudson [via]
The Awakeningby Kate Chopin, Pamela KnightsISBN 0192823000 (0-19-282300-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1969 Seyersted text of Kate Chopin's novel along with critical essays that introduce students to The Awakening from the perspectives of feminism, gender (new essay), new historical, deconstructionist, and reader response criticism. An additional new essay demonstrates how various approaches can be combined. The text and essays are complemented by introductions to The Awakening and to the criticism, a glossary of critical terms, and (for the first time) contextual documents. [via]
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- The Awakening: ISBN 0312195753 (0-312-19575-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Awakening: ISBN 0380002450 (0-380-00245-0)
Softcover, Avon Books - The Awakening: ISBN 0312062354 (0-312-06235-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Awakening: ISBN 0393941833 (0-393-94183-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Awakening: ISBN 0312089848 (0-312-08984-8)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Awakening: ISBN 0393044343 (0-393-04434-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Awakening: ISBN 0192823000 (0-19-282300-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Awakening: ISBN 0312195753 (0-312-19575-3)
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The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate Chopin, Sandra M. GilbertISBN 0142437328 (0-14-243732-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories'Book summary:The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are the themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar, " "unhealthily introspective, " and "morbid, " the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer. This edition also includes selected stories from Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie, and an introduction and notes by Nina Baym. [via]
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Back When We Were Grownupsby Anne TylerISBN 0345446860 (0-345-44686-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Back When We Were Grownups'Book summary:"A WONDERFUL NOVEL . . . Tyler's eye and ear for familial give and take is unerring, her humanity irresistible. You'll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last."
-People (Page-Turner of the Week)
"STUNNING . . . 'Once upon a time,' the story begins, 'there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.' . . . With Rebecca Davitch, Tyler has created a character who is brave enough to look back on her life and to imagine herself making different kinds of choices. Brave enough to wonder what honesty looks like, whether there is ever really a single distillation of self that is unshakable and true. . . . Anne Tyler has a talent for spinning out characters . . . who go on living long after their stories end."
-The Baltimore Sun
"Her characters endear themselves to the reader with their candor and their wit and their simple decency. . . . The charm of an Anne Tyler novel lies in the clarity of her prose and the wisdom of her observations."
-The Washington Post Book World
"RESEMBLES JANE AUSTEN'S PERSUASION IN THAT IT'S A NOVEL ABOUT SECOND CHANCES . . . The tension that keeps the narrative alive is our desire for Rebecca to get the recognition and respect that we know she deserves from her family, and from herself. It's always good to have a character to root for."
-San Jose Mercury News
"Maybe there's something glorious to be said, after all, for companionship, common cause, and sanctuary. And what there is to say, Anne Tyler has been saying for decades, with gravity and grace."
-The New York Times Book Review
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Cat's Eyeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 1853811262 (1-85381-126-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Eye'Book summary:Cat's Eye is one of Margaret Atwood's most intriguing novels, a ruminative, symbol-laced, and deceptively loose book that encompasses many of the concerns of her earlier works, compounding them with a new awareness of aging and the curious vagaries of memory. Its premise is simple enough: Elaine Risley, a successful painter living on the West Coast, returns to Toronto, the scene of her childhood and artistic development, for a retrospective of her work at an independent feminist gallery. As Risley arrives in Toronto, she begins to examine her past in that city, from her early girlhood through to the final days of her first marriage. Risley's memories dominate the book; her exhibition is a light but important counterpoint to all that has gone before it.
In a sense, Cat's Eye is a feminist deconstruction of the artist's coming-of-age novel, but Risley's feminism is skeptical and detached. Her painful girlhood friendships haunt her through her middle age, and she has far more sympathy for men than she does for the women who have supported her career. As a result, Cat's Eye transcends orthodox feminism and rigorously examines troubling questions of gender, sexuality, and art from a wryly nonpartisan perspective. Fans of Atwood's more recent novels will love Cat's Eye, but it is a book that deserves the attention of her numerous detractors; perhaps it will encourage them to give her a second look. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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The Center of Thingsby Jenny McPheeISBN 0345447654 (0-345-44765-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Circle of Friendsby Maeve BinchyISBN 0385301499 (0-385-30149-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Circle of Friends'Book summary:It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains...except their own.
It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor's handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a... Circle Of Friends. [via]More editions of Circle of Friends:
Coastlinersby Joanne HarrisISBN 0060958014 (0-06-095801-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coastliners'Book summary:After three novels which centered around gastronomic pleasures, Joanne Harris's Coastliners focuses on more astringent joys. Sea, gritty sand, and adverse weather conditions replace Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, and Five Quarters of the Orange. Set on a small, blustery fishing island off the coast of France, it tells the story of Mado, a young woman who returns to her childhood home to find the local community torn apart by family feuds, bad tides, and murky political machinations.
Passionate, stubborn Mado, whose "head is full of rocks," tries to save the livelihoods of the villagers of Les Salants by urging them to work together to save the beach from erosion, both natural and man-made. The villagers, written with endearing panache by Harris, are an eccentric, curmudgeonly bunch, who eventually cooperate with the help of Flynn, a charismatic stranger with a shady past. He's not the only man of mystery in Mado's life; her father, taciturn Grosjean, has a secretive heart that's as "prickly and tightly layered as an artichoke," and local, wealthy businessman Brismand also seems to be hiding something. Mado does her best to unravel these mysteries, while attempting to keep a hold on her own sense of self in the claustrophobic, close community. It's not only the shore line that takes a buffeting. The villagers and the island are so vividly described that it's impossible not to become engrossed in Mado's story. Coastliners is a book about longing to belong, and Joanne Harris charts that emotional voyage compellingly. --Eithne Farry, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Coming Homeby Rosamunde PilcherISBN 0312958129 (0-312-95812-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming Home'Book summary:Fictioanl Novel, Literary Fiction [via]
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A Common Lifeby Jan KaronISBN 0142000345 (0-14-200034-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Common Life'Book summary:A Common Life is a celebration of faith and love [via]
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A Common Life : The Wedding Storyby Jan KaronISBN 0375431047 (0-375-43104-7)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Confessions of a Shopaholicby Sophie KinsellaISBN 0385335482 (0-385-33548-2)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of a Shopaholic'Book summary:If you've ever paid off one credit card with another, thrown out a bill before opening it, or convinced yourself that buying at a two-for-one sale is like making money, then this silly, appealing novel is for you. In the opening pages of Confessions of a Shopaholic, recent college graduate Rebecca Bloomwood is offered a hefty line of credit by a London bank. Within a few months, Sophie Kinsella's heroine has exceeded the limits of this generous offer, and begins furtively to scan her credit-card bills at work, certain that she couldn't have spent the reported sums.
In theory anyway, the world of finance shouldn't be a mystery to Rebecca, since she writes for a magazine called Successful Saving. Struggling with her spendthrift impulses, she tries to heed the advice of an expert and appreciate life's cheaper pleasures: parks, museums, and so forth. Yet her first Saturday at the Victoria and Albert Museum strikes her as a waste. Why? There's not a price tag in sight.
It kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn't it? You wander round, just looking at things, and it all gets a bit boring after a while. Whereas if they put price tags on, you'd be far more interested. In fact, I think all museums should put prices on their exhibits. You'd look at a silver chalice or a marble statue or the Mona Lisa or whatever, and admire it for its beauty and historical importance and everything--and then you'd reach for the price tag and gasp, "Hey, look how much this one is!" It would really liven things up.
Eventually, Rebecca's uncontrollable shopping and her "imaginative" solutions to her debt attract the attention not only of her bank manager but of handsome Luke Brandon--a multimillionaire PR representative for a finance group frequently covered in Successful Saving. Unlike her opposite number in Bridget Jones's Diary, however, Rebecca actually seems too scattered and spacey to reel in such a successful man. Maybe it's her Denny and George scarf. In any case, Kinsella's debut makes excellent fantasy reading for the long stretches between white sales and appliance specials. --Regina Marler [via]More editions of Confessions of a Shopaholic:
The Copper Beechby Maeve BinchyISBN 0385307756 (0-385-30775-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Crazy Ladiesby Michael Lee WestISBN 0060977744 (0-06-097774-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Deep End of the Oceanby Jacquelyn MitchardISBN 0140286276 (0-14-028627-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deep End of the Ocean'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1996: The horror of losing a child is somehow made worse when the case goes unsolved for nearly a decade, reports Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Jacquelyn Mitchard in this searing first novel. In it, 3-year-old Ben Cappadora is kidnapped from a hotel lobby where his mother is checking into her 15th high school reunion. His disappearance tears the family apart and invokes separate experiences of anguish, denial, and self-blame. Marital problems and delinquency in Ben's older brother (in charge of him the day of his kidnapping) ensue. Mitchard depicts the family's friction and torment--along with many gritty realities of family life--with the candor of a journalist and compassion of someone who has seemingly been there. International publishing and movie rights sold fast on this one: It's a blockbuster. [via]
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El Club De LA Buena Estrellaby Amy TanISBN 8472231631 (84-7223-163-1)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club De LA Buena Estrella'Book summary:En 1949, cuatro mujeres chinas emigradas a San Francisco se reunen regularmente para comer dim sum,jugar al mah-jong y hablar. Unidas por sentimientos de perdida y esperanza, se hacen llamar El Club de laBuena Estrella. Amy Tan explora la conexion entre las protagonistas y sus hijas, ya nacidas en Estados Unidos, un mundo totalmente distinto al suyo. [via]
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The Goddesses of Kitchen Avenueby Barbara SamuelISBN 0345477758 (0-345-47775-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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I Capture the Castleby Dodie SmithISBN 1860491022 (1-86049-102-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Capture the Castle'Book summary:Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain wants to become a writer. Trouble is, she's the daughter of a once-famous author with a severe case of writer's block. Her family--beautiful sister Rose, brooding father James, ethereal stepmother Topaz--is barely scraping by in a crumbling English castle they leased when times were good. Now there's very little furniture, hardly any food, and just a few pages of notebook paper left to write on. Bravely making the best of things, Cassandra gets hold of a journal and begins her literary apprenticeship by refusing to face the facts. She writes, "I have just remarked to Rose that our situation is really rather romantic, two girls in this strange and lonely house. She replied that she saw nothing romantic about being shut up in a crumbling ruin surrounded by a sea of mud."
Rose longs for suitors and new tea dresses while Cassandra scorns romance: "I know all about the facts of life. And I don't think much of them." But romantic isolation comes to an end both for the family and for Cassandra's heart when the wealthy, adventurous Cotton family takes over the nearby estate. Cassandra is a witty, pensive, observant heroine, just the right voice for chronicling the perilous cusp of adulthood. Some people have compared I Capture the Castle to the novels of Jane Austen, and it's just as well-plotted and witty. But the Mortmains are more bohemian--as much like the Addams Family as like any of Austen's characters. Dodie Smith, author of 101 Dalmations, wrote this novel in 1948. And though the story is set in the 1930s, it still feels fresh, and well deserves its reputation as a modern classic. --Maria Dolan [via]
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Into Temptationby Penny VincenziISBN 1585678422 (1-58567-842-2)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into Temptation'Book summary:Into Temptation, the third book of the Lytton family trilogy, shifts the focus to New York City and Barty Miller. Rescued from the slums as a baby by Celia Lytton and now living in New York, Barty heads more than half of the Lytton publishing house. Falling on bad times, the family is worried that Barty will make a business decision that would be devastating to them. But will she? As events unfold, long-buried secrets concerning the whole family are revealed, shaking the very foundations of the Lyttons world.
An enthralling epic of the glamorous life in the mid-20th century with scenery that extends from New York to London, Into Temptation gives apt and telling insights into the world of the British aristocracy and their literary legacy. Readers have come to depend on Vincenzi for her enchanting prose style and the epic scope of her dramas: like the Lytton family sagas that precede it, Into Temptation does not disappoint. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 1593080077 (1-59308-007-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:[via]Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Immediately recognized as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1847, Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre is an extraordinary coming-of-age story featuring one of the most independent and strong-willed female protagonists in all of literature. Poor and plain, Jane Eyre begins life as a lonely orphan in the household of her hateful aunt. Despite the oppression she endures at home, and the later torture of boarding school, Jane manages to emerge with her spirit and integrity unbroken. She becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she finds herself falling in love with her employerthe dark, impassioned Mr. Rochester. But an explosive secret tears apart their relationship, forcing Jane to face poverty and isolation once again.One of the worlds most beloved novels, Jane Eyre is a startlingly modern blend of passion, romance, mystery, and suspense.
Susan Ostrov Weisser is a Professor of English at Adelphi University, where she specializes in nineteenth-century literature and womens studies. Her research centers on women and romantic love in nineteenth-century literature, as well as on contemporary popular culture. Weisser also wrote the introduction to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Persuasion.
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- Jane Eyre: ISBN 1593081170 (1-59308-117-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble - Jane Eyre: ISBN 1853260207 (1-85326-020-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Jane Eyre: ISBN 1582790744 (1-58279-074-4)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub - Jane Eyre: ISBN 1593081634 (1-59308-163-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Jane Eyre: ISBN 158279068X (1-58279-068-X)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub - Jane Eyre: ISBN 1596792434 (1-59679-243-4)
Hardcover, Spotlight - Jane Eyre: ISBN 8429449116 (84-294-4911-6)
Softcover, Alfaguara Infantil - Jane Eyre: ISBN 3895082597 (3-89508-259-7)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft - Jane Eyre: ISBN 840801725X (84-08-01725-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp - Jane Eyre: ISBN 8408047922 (84-08-04792-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp - Jane Eyre: ISBN 1593080077 (1-59308-007-7)
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- Jane Eyre: ISBN 1593081170 (1-59308-117-0)
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The Joy Luck Clubby Amy TanISBN 1587248832 (1-58724-883-2)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy Luck Club'Book summary:Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. [via]
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LA Senora Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 8420655287 (84-206-5528-7)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Ladies of Covington Send Their Loveby Joan MedlicottISBN 0312979452 (0-312-97945-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Last Time They Metby Anita ShreveISBN 0316713732 (0-316-71373-2)
Softcover, Lb Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Time They Met'Book summary:The Last Time They Met opens with two old lovers, both poets, running into each other at a writer's conference. Well, Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes aren't old, actually--just middle-aged, with a lifetime's worth of history between them. In the first section, Anita Shreve only suggests what that history contains: there was adultery, we gather, and a car accident, plus some illicit encounters under a pitiless Kenyan sun. Presumably the rest of the book will lead back to the beginnings of this grand passion, right? We think we know where this is going--but that's the tricky part, because we don't.
The novel does get off to a slow start, with an unnecessarily drawn-out description of a luxury hotel. But it picks up speed as it moves backward in time, from the lovers' vividly evoked interlude in Africa, to their adolescent years in the Massachusetts village of Hull, and finally to Linda's deepest, darkest secret. Only then does the author unveil her final revelation, which should leave most readers somewhat out of breath, and possibly even obliged to turn back to the first page and read the book over again. Shreve is a canny storyteller, and she knows her characters inside and out. (As well she might: Thomas is the husband of Jean, the photographer in The Weight of Water.) And The Last Time They Met is yet another example of the kind of book she does best--one that's as skillfully plotted as a thriller, but with writing that lingers long after the last plot twist is unfurled. No matter whether people actually have affairs like these. Reading this book only makes you wish that they did. --Mary Park [via]
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- The Last Time They Met: ISBN 0316781266 (0-316-78126-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co - The Last Time They Met: ISBN 0316781142 (0-316-78114-2)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp - The Last Time They Met: ISBN 0316781177 (0-316-78117-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - The Last Time They Met: ISBN 0316713732 (0-316-71373-2)
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- The Last Time They Met: ISBN 0316781266 (0-316-78126-6)
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The Lovely Bonesby Alice SeboldISBN 0316166685 (0-316-16668-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lovely Bones'Book summary:On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.
As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue".
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow".
Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com [via]
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- The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316168815 (0-316-16881-5)
Softcover, Back Bay Books - The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316666343 (0-316-66634-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316170720 (0-316-17072-0)
Softcover, Hachette Book Group USA - The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316166685 (0-316-16668-5)
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- The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316168815 (0-316-16881-5)
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The Mermaid Chairby Sue Monk KiddISBN 0143036696 (0-14-303669-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mermaid Chair'Book summary:Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint, who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. When Jessie is summoned home to the island to cope with her eccentric mother's seemingly inexplicable act of violence, she is living a conventional life with her husband, Hugh, a life "molded to the smallest space possible." Jessie loves Hugh, but once on the island, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is soon to take his final vows. Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, with a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right and the immutable force of home and marriage. Is the power of the mermaid chair only a myth? Or will it alter the course of Jessie's life? What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, allow Jessie to make a marriage unto herself. Where does the yearning for soul-mated love come from? When it comes to love, what are the pulls inside a woman between the ordinary and the sublime? The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about mermaids and saints, about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body, brilliantly illuminating the awakening of a woman to her own deepest self. [via]
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 1853261912 (1-85326-191-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs Dalloway'Book summary:Zwar bemerkte sie in ihren Notizen über Ulysses, den ihr T.S.Eliot kurz nach dessen Erscheinen empfohlen hatte, lakonisch: "Ein primitives ungebildetes Buch, scheint mir", nichtsdestotrotz schien James Joyce' Meisterwerk nachhaltigen Eindruck bei ihr hinterlassen zu haben. Virginia Woolf, gerade an der Arbeit zu ihrem neuen Roman Mrs. Dalloway, übernahm seine Idee, die Geschichte an einem einzigen Tag spielen zu lassen. Nach der Zeit ihrer ersten eher traditionell-impressionistischen Romane Die Fahrt hinaus von 1915 und Nacht und Tag aus dem Jahr 1919, begann nun ihre experimentelle Phase.
Ein Junitag im Jahre 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, (sie hatte schon einen Auftritt in Die Fahrt hinaus), Gattin eines Parlamentsabgeordneten, trifft die Vorbereitungen für eine große Abendgesellschaft. Während dieser Verrichtungen ergeht sie sich in Erinnerungen, lotet ihr Leben aus und wird sich der Enge und Leere ihres Daseins schmerzlich bewußt. Mrs. Dalloways Reflexionen, wie überhaupt die inneren Monologe des Romans, bilden den eigentlichen Kern der Handlung, während die Darsteller puppengleich auf dem gesellschaftlichen Parkett agieren. Dieses fast filmisch anmutende Übereinanderschichten gleichzeitiger Ereignisse griff die Autorin in ihrem späteren Roman Die Wellen erneut auf.
Die Filmfassung von Regisseurin Marleen Gorris (Antonias Welt), mit der großartigen Vanessa Redgrave in der Titelrolle, kam im September 1997 auf den Markt. --Ravi Unger [via]
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Claudia L. Johnson, John N. DavieISBN 0192840827 (0-19-284082-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon'Book summary:This volume contains an epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and two unfinished works, The Watsons and Sanditon, along with the well-known Northanger Abbey. [via]
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Claude Rawson, Jane Austen, John DavieISBN 0192833685 (0-19-283368-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon'Book summary:Northanger Abbey is the earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies of female enlightenment and combines literary burlesque - making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel - with larger moral, philosophical, and social issues: the folly of letting literature get in the way of life, the inexcusability of not thinking for oneself, and the painful difficulties (especially for women) involved in growing up. Lady Susan and The Watsons are early compositions that reflect many of the qualities of Northanger Abbey. The first is an epistolary novel centring on the intrigues of the villainous Lady Susan; the second is an unfinished example of Jane Austen's most characteristic form - a story where the heroine is outstanding for her sense and goodness, virtues notably lacking in the other characters, who are here part of an altogether bleaker vision. Sanditon, too, is tragically incomplete, and it signals the achievement of a new depth and breadth of comic insight on the part of its author. [via]
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Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Jose Luis CaramesISBN 8437606780 (84-376-0678-0)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.[via]Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo.More editions of Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudice:
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The Other Side of the Storyby Marian KeyesISBN 1842231499 (1-84223-149-9)
Hardcover, Poolbeg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Side of the Story'Book summary:Laced with sparkling wit and compassionate insight - nobody does it quite like Marian Keyes. Jojo Harvey is a literary agent whose star is on the rise. In love with both her married boss and her burgeoning career, not much distracts her. Until she finds herself representing two women who used to be best friends. Used to be. One of them, Gemma, has suddenly found herself from a broken home - at the age of thirty-two. Meanwhile, Lily - the woman Gemma has always blamed for stealing her one chance of happiness - is enjoying the overnight success of her debut novel. Set in the world of publishing, "The Other Side of the Story" is about love, loyalty, glass ceilings and survival tactics - and what to do when you get your chance for revenge. [via]
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The Pilot's Wifeby Anita ShreveISBN 0316601950 (0-316-60195-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilot's Wife'Book summary:With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness: "Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form." The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realize that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve's complex and highly convincing treatment of Kathryn's dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes The Pilot's Wife really take off. [via]
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Carol HowardISBN 1593080204 (1-59308-020-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Queen Bee of Mimosa Branchby Haywood SmithISBN 0312989393 (0-312-98939-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch'Book summary:Southern housewife Linwood Breedlove Scott was happily content in her comfortable, complacent thirty-year marriage, but when her husband cleans out their bank accounts and runs off with a stripper, her life takes a hilarious, yet touching, right turn into reality. With no place to go but home, she's forced back to her insular hometown and the "eccentric" family she escaped by marrying at nineteen: her senile father, her loving-yet-controlling mother, her long-suffering aunt, her crazy uncle, and her good-for-nothing brother. But despite her newly dependent situation and her family's genteel insanity, Lin begins to stand on her own two feet and wake up to the joys-and perils-of life as a single woman. And she also learns surprising lessons about her family: that things aren't always what they seem, and that the power of love governs even the most dysfunctional of relationships. This joy-filled, moving, and wise-cracking novel delivers a portrait of Southern life, Southern families, and self-discovery that readers will never forget.[via]More editions of Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch:
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Queen Of Dreamsby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 158724859X (1-58724-859-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen Of Dreams'Book summary:Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to keep her footing with her family and with a world in alarming transition. Her mother is a dream teller, born with the ability to share and interpret the dreams of others. This gift fascinates Rakhi but also isolates her from her mother's past. Rakhi's solace comes in the discovery, after her mother's death, of her dream journals, which open the long-closed door to her past.
Available only in Wheeler Hardcover 6. [via]
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The Red Tent: Reader's Companionby Anita Diamant'SISBN 1586638602 (1-58663-860-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Tent: Reader's Companion'Book summary:The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter, Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter Dinah (who only received a glimpse of recognition in the Book of Genesis), we are privy to the fascinating feminine characters who bled within the red tent. In a confiding and poetic voice, Dinah whispers stories of her four mothers, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah--all wives to Jacob, and each one embodying unique feminine traits. As she reveals these sensual and emotionally charged stories we learn of birthing miracles, slaves, artisans, household gods, and sisterhood secrets. Eventually Dinah delves into her own saga of betrayals, grief, and a call to midwifery.
"Like any sisters who live together and share a husband, my mother and aunties spun a sticky web of loyalties and grudges," Anita Diamant writes in the voice of Dinah. "They traded secrets like bracelets, and these were handed down to me the only surviving girl. They told me things I was too young to hear. They held my face between their hands and made me swear to remember." Remembering women's earthy stories and passionate history is indeed the theme of this magnificent book. In fact, it's been said that The Red Tent is what the Bible might have been had it been written by God's daughters, instead of her sons. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholasby James PattersonISBN 0316969443 (0-316-96944-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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These High, Green Hillsby Jan KaronISBN 1589190645 (1-58919-064-5)
Softcover, David C Cook
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› Find signed collectible books: 'These High, Green Hills'Book summary:The village of Mitford is soothing tonic for a readership that feels starved for community and yearns for clear morals. The recently married Father Tim and his plain-folk neighbors live the best of Christianity in everyday life. Even the rampant gossip in Mitford is the good kind: folks worrying about other folks and everyone minding one another's business out of concern rather than malice. As a result, no one faces a crisis alone. Often the crises are cause for a belly laugh, such as the rectory's new computer system that seems programmed to torment. But just as often the crises have the bite of real-life problems, such as the bloody young girl in shredded clothes, whom Father Tim finds after she was beaten by her drunken father, and the soul-wrenching despair Father Tim feels when he loses a surrogate mother. The heavily quoted scripture gives a day-to-day context for biblical teachings as well as spiritual solace during the sadder days at Mitford. --Gail Hudson [via]
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LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara Kingsolver, Damian AlouISBN 8484530256 (84-8453-025-6)
Softcover, Ediciones Del Bronce
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:La autora des suroeste de Estados Unidos nos trae una novela de pasión, y de tragedia con un paisaje bello e inesperado. Una selección de Oprah para su club de lectores. Un bestseller de toda clase. [via]
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Desde Mi Cielo / The Lovely Bonesby Aurora Echevarria, Alice SeboldISBN 0307209431 (0-307-20943-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desde Mi Cielo / The Lovely Bones'Book summary:From her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by a murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously,we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished. Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive and then some.
But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. [via]More editions of Desde Mi Cielo / The Lovely Bones:
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El Diablo Viste de Prada / The Devil Wears Pradaby Lauren WeisbergerISBN 8497936760 (84-9793-676-0)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Loca Por Las Compras En Manhattan / Shopaholic Takes Manhattanby Sophie KinsellaISBN 8478887849 (84-7888-784-9)
Softcover, Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions
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LA Senora Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 8481301477 (84-8130-147-7)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Senora Dalloway'Book summary:Nuestra editorial se especializa en publicar libros en español. Para encontrar otros títulos busque Editorial Medí .
Contamos con mas volúmenes en español que cualquier otra editorial para el kindle y continuamos creciendo. [via]More editions of LA Senora Dalloway:
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La Vida Frenetica De Kateby Allison PearsonISBN 8401315778 (84-01-31577-8)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Vida Frenetica De Kate'Book summary:Te presento a Kate Reddy, brillante gestora de fondos y madre de dos hijos. Sabe trabajar con nueve divisas diferentes en cinco husos horarios a la vez. Se levanta y se ducha, viste a los niños y les prepara el desayuno, y todo en media hora. Siempre tiene una apretada agenda de reuniones y viajes pero no deja de pensar en la lista para el súper, la fiesta de cumpleaños de los niños, el disfraz para el colegio... Y encima pretende tener una vida propia: comer con amigas, ir de tiendas, hablar con su marido y... ¡¡¡sexo!!! Para colmo de males, Kate necesita hacerlo todo muy bien; no, más que bien. Ha de ser la mejor, y la mejor en todo. Ah, y tampoco quiero olvidarme de aquella niñera mandona e impertinente que tiene, ni del jefe obsesionado con sus tetas, los suegros criticones, carcas... En fin, una locura total. De verdad, no sé cómo se lo monta. Léetelo. Te enganchará. (¿No eres tú un poco como Kate?). [via]
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Laurier Blancby Janet FitchISBN 2253152897 (2-253-15289-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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