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Dianne Blacklock, ALMOST PERFECT (Berkley Books)
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Georgie Reading has
terrible fashion sense. Her hair is usually out of control and she
has less than stellar luck in love, but she's happy (usually), and
fulfilled (mostly). But when sweet and easy-going Liam walks into
the bookshop, things change for her forever... Mac MacMullen seems
to have it all: a lucrative career, a posh new home, a stunningly
beautiful wife. But beneath the façade, Mac's happy world is caving
in on him. As Georgie looks for love and Mac looks for happiness,
their lives aren't quite as different as one might think...
Compared to Maeve Binchy and Marion Keyes, Dianne Blacklock is a
bestselling author in her native Australia.
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Liane
Bonin, CELEBRITY SKIN series (NAL JAM)
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story of fame from the outside in, the CELEBRITY
SKIN series is told through Erin’s perspective
– quiet, shy Erin whose life is irrevocably
altered when she meets Taylor. When Taylor
shows up as a transfer student at Erin’s
middle school, it looks like she’s destined
for the slow track to popularity. Head-gear
and a sweater with an honest-to-god duck on
it were bad enough, but then she had to puke
in earth science class and voila, the nickname
Malibu Barfie was born. Feeling sorry for
Taylor, Erin invites her to spend time together
and the two become best friends. Soon enough,
the head-gear comes off, the poor fashion
choices are replaced with more acceptable
clothes and Taylor’s star begins to
rise, literally. By the time high school rolls
around, she finds herself starring in a hit
television show and a bona fide Hollywood
star, and Erin is still along for the ride,
the ride of her life.
Liane Bonin writes for Entertainment
Weekly, The Los Angeles Times,
Flaunt, Variety, and Maxim,
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Kristin Cashore, GRACELING (Harcourt)
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In a world where people born with an extreme
skill, called a Grace, are feared and exploited,
Graceling Katsa carries the burden of a skill
even she despises: the Grace of killing. She
lives under the command of her Uncle Randa,
King of the Middluns, and is expected to execute
his dirty work of torture and punishment for
those who displease him. Along the way, Katsa
meets Po, also a Graced fighter – the
first fighting opponent who has ever challenged
Katsa’s skills. The two quickly form
a bond and each discovers truths they never
imagined about themselves, about each other,
and about the unimaginable danger that is
spreading slowly throughout the seven kingdoms. |
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Bennett
Davlin, MEMORY
(Berkley Books)
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MEMORY tells the story of Taylor Briggs, a
scientist who unlocks genetically stored memories
that are not his own from within his brain
- memories of a killer who has been abducting
victims for the past three decades. Terrified
and mystified by the nature of these "visions,"
Taylor begins to fear that the acts he's witnessing
are committed by someone genetically linked
to him...
Bennett is a screenwiter, producer and director
in addition to being a novelist, and the film
version of MEMORE, starring Dennis Hopper,
Ann Margaret and Billy Zane was released in
early 2007. The web site can be found at www.memorethemovie.com.
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| Deborah
Davis, NOT LIKE YOU (Houghton Mifflin/Clarion)
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Kayla is tremendously resourceful. Despite
her mother’s personal problems, which
have them packing up and moving out of town
after town in the middle of the night, despite
not knowing a single thing about her father,
despite having a rat for a pet instead of
the dog she dreams about, Kayla thinks she’s
got it together. But it’s not until
she and her mom move to New Mexico, where
her mom for the first time seems to put down
roots, that Kayla begins to open her eyes
to the possibilities, the heartache, the love,
the disappointment and the joy before her.
It’s not until living in New Mexico
that Kayla begins to give weight to what Kayla
wants.
Deborah's web site can be found at www.deborahdavisauthor.com.
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| Kathryn Fox, WITHOUT CONSENT (HarperCollins)
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Forensic pathologist and physician, Dr. Anya
Crichton does not just examine the dead. She
also treats survivors of sexual assault, and
the women she now sees compel her to follow
the trail of a violent serial rapist who is
becoming more brutal with each attack. When
two new victims are stabbed to death, suspicion
falls on Geoffrey Willard, recently released
from prison for the rape and murder of a teenage
girl. As Anya focuses her attention on Willard,
only the killer knows that a mistake has been
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and breathtaking”
--Linda Fairstein
“Kathryn Fox has created a
forensic physician who readers of Patricia
Cornwell will adore.”
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Kathryn
Fox, MALICIOUS INTENT (HarperCollins)
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Dr. Anya Crichton is asked to investigate the apparent drug overdose
of a young Lebanese woman. The deeper Anya delves, the less
open-and-shut things seem - the details just don't add up, and other
cases of young women dying begin to reveal some puzzling connections.
At first, all the deaths appear to be suicides, but pathological and
circumstantial findings tie them all together and Anya starts piecing
together a frightening truth.
Kathryn Fox is a general practitioner with a special interest in forensic medicine,
and her web site can be found at www.kathrynfox.com.
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--Jeffery Deaver
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Emily
Franklin, CHALET GIRLS series (Penguin/NAL)
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follows three girls from different walks of
life who, during their school breaks, work
at an exclusive ski resort as “chalet
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Emily
Franklin, THE GIRLS' ALMANAC (William Morrow)
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GIRLS’ ALMANAC explores the tender connections
between women – the fascinating closeness
and distance that female friendships encompass.
Coiled and committed to each other, curious
about where they come from and whom to befriend,
the women in this novel come to understand
themselves through their friendships, their
parental relationships, and romantic entanglements
– through loss and humor – and
in the end, find some sort of peace together.
Early praise has come in from authors including
Lily King, Laura Zigman, Lewis Robinson
and Heidi Jon Schmidt. |
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Emily
Franklin, THE OTHER HALF OF ME (Random House
Books for Young Readers)
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THE OTHER HALF OF ME is the story of sixteen-year-old
Jenny who, tired of not quite fitting in with
her family and having known for years that
her mother used a sperm donor to have her,
does a search of the Sibling Donor Registry
and discovers that she has a half-sister,
Alexa. Hoping Alexa will fill the hole Jenny
has always felt, she soon discovers that while
her new sister can certainly make life more
exciting, the sense of peace and belonging
Jenny has long yearned for comes from a source
much closer by than she expected… |
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Emily
Franklin, PRINCIPLES
OF LOVE series (Penguin/NAL)
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THE PRINCIPLES OF LOVE tells the story of
fifteen year old Love Bukowski, who moves
with her father to Hadley Hall, a prestigious
Northeastern boarding school where Love will
start her sophomore year and where her father
just happens to be the new principal and follows
Love throughout the rest of her high school
years.
Emily Franklin is a staff writer for NPR's "Car Talk" and is the author of LINER NOTES (Simon & Schuster/ Downtown Press, 2003). Her web site is www.emilyfranklin.com.
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Emily
Franklin and Heather Swain, BEFORE and AFTER
(Overlook Press)
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With stories written by the hottest literary
talent today, the anthologies BEFORE (stories
about pregnancy) and AFTER (stories about
parenthood) explore the issues of pregnancy
and parenthood, which, when treated in fiction,
hold such emotional weight for a vast audience.
Contributors of stories include Steve Almond,
Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Heidi Julavits, Haven
Kimmel, Amy Bloom, Melissa Banks Lily King,
Ann Packer, Jodi Picoult, Leslie Schnur, Dani
Shapiro, Kyle Smith, and Laura Zigman. |
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Danielle Gelfand, ROCK THE BURBS (Random House Books for Young Readers)
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At first glance, Violet Drake has a very normal
life – adoring parents, a nice house
in a quiet suburb, and a sweet best friend
named Henry. But on closer inspection, it
becomes apparent that the family dog, a pug
named Vampire, has deep purple highlights,
that Violet’s mom has the moves of an
ex-backup dancer, and that Violet’s
dad Mack has a collection of pleather hotpants
and spandex that fills their basement. Violet’s
dad is that Mack Drake – lead singer
of now-defunct, used-to-be-world-famous heavy
metal band Primal Passion and his time in
obscurity is about to come to a crashing halt
when a hip young British band does a cover
of Primal Passion’s most famous song
and Mack’s videos are suddenly back
in heavy rotation on all the music channels.
Violet gets an unwanted crash course in the
surreal life of celebrity…
Danielle Gelfand is an executive producer
at a major music corporation, and has also
worked at The Discovery Channel, Saturday
Night Live, “Kids in the Hall,”
and ABC.
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Ariel
Gore, THE TRAVELING DEATH & RESURRECTION
SHOW (HarperCollins San Francisco)
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The Death & Resurrection Show is fantastical and wholly unique novel.
It
tells the story of a traveling Catholic-themed road show starring the
28-year-old lapsed-Catholic stigmatic orphan, Frankka (a.k.a Saint
Cat onstage). What begins as a fast-paced road show drama becomes a
journey of enlightenment as Frankka discovers the true meaning of
friendship and love, betrayal and forgiveness-and the enduring power
of the death and resurrection metaphor. Interspersed with ten
stories about the lives of the saints, The Death & Resurrection Show
follows Frankka's struggle to reconcile her strict Catholic
upbringing with her own eclectic and questioning faith, and explores
the larger cultural divide between religious literalists and mystics.
Ariel Gore is the founding editor of the Hip Mama zine and the author
of five nonfiction books. She has been a featured guest on CNN, NPR,
ABC, CBS, and NBC national news, and writes for The Sun, Ms.,
salon.com, Utne, the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, among
other publications.
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Nicole Lea Helget, THE TURTLE CATCHER, (Houghton Mifflin)
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Set in Minnesota between WWI and WWII, THE
TURTLE CATCHER explores a community that identified
more with being German than being American
at a time when they were expected to turn
their backs on their ancestors. The Berkner
family, five brothers and one sister, have
been adrift since the death of their mother,
and this remarkable novel captures their struggle
for identity, freedom, love, family and honor.
The opening chapter of THE TURTLE CATCHER
was awarded Minnesota Monthly magazine’s
prestigious Tamarack Award, and Nicole’s
memoir, THE SUMMER OF ORDINARY WAYS, received
MSU’s Robert Wright Award and The
Loft Speakeasy Prize for Prose in 2004 in
addition to being selected by Barnes &
Noble for their Discover Great New Writers
program.
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Patricia Henley, IN THE RIVER SWEET (Pantheon)
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IN THE RIVER SWEET, Patricia Henley’s
second novel after her first, HUMMINGBIRD
HOUSE, was a finalist for the 1999 National
Book Award and New Yorker Best Fiction Award,
tells the story of the Bond family, contemporary
mid-western Catholics who reach an emotional
critical mass when secrets long suppressed
can no longer be concealed.
IN THE RIVER SWEET was a BookSense 76 pick, and was published to rave reviews.
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Michelle
Kehm, SUZI CLUE, BITCHIN' TEEN DETECTIVE (Dutton
Books for Young Readers)
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Suzi is a drum-playing, sushi-craving, Dickies-wearing,
mystery novel-obsessed high school freshman
and as the school year draws to a close, something
smells fishy at Mountain High. As the A-list
senior girls line up in their Sevens to run
for prom queen, Suzi starts to hear whispers
of the Prom Queen Curse, which has laid up
every Mountain High prom queen with chicken
pox, luscious blonde hair gone brilliantly
blue, keyed cars, and before long, the girls
are all running scared…leaving only
brave Suzi Clue to run for prom queen and
solve the mystery! The danger escalates, the
drama builds, and the girls are lurking in
the wings, manicured nails tapping…
Campy, funny, and totally over the top,
SUZI CLUE is a hilarious new take on mystery
novels. Michelle’s work has appeared
in BUST, Bitch, Girlyhead,
WIG, The New York Times Magazine,
SELF and Teen Vogue. |
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Melanie La'Brooy, ROMANTIC FICTION (Berkley Books)
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Lucy, Meg and Chloe are the best of friends. Lucy's head is full of romantic ideals (images of the perfect man, the perfect bouquet of flowers, the perfect getaway weekend), while Meg is much more practical (verging dangerously close to cynical), and Chloe is the easiest of the three (tends to let herself be walked over). Throw their way a case of mistaken identity and unrequited love, and ROMANTIC FICTION has all the classic elements of a traditional fairytale romance...
Melanie La'Brooy lives in Melbourne and works as a curator at the Savill Galleries.
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Louise
Limerick, FRIENDS & MOTHERS (Tom Dunne
Books)
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DYING FOR CAKE is
an exploration of the sticky, constant, exasperating and loving realm
of small children and their mothers. The story is about five
thirtysomething women whose friendship is forged when they meet at
their children's preschool and form a coffee group, and into this
cozy, chaotic world of coffee, children, wavering self-esteem and
juggling acts comes a cataclysmic event - the new baby of one of the
group simply disappears, pushing her mother's postnatal depression
into full-blown psychosis.
With
one of their own in the psychiatric hospital, the remaining four are
left to cope with the mystifying event and their concern becomes a
spur to their realization that for all its joys, motherhood is also a
constraint, and all of their deep, hidden longings begin to manifest
and surface in different ways.
Louise was chosen as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists,
and her web site can be found at www.louiselimerick.com.
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Liane
Moriarty, THE SPACE BRIGADE series
(Penguin / Grosset & Dunlap)
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The first book in the series opens when an
incredibly tall man interrupts Nicola Berry's
incredibly boring geography lesson, and she's
sure that something fantastic and unexpected
and unusual is about to happen. She's right.
The king and queen of the planet Globagaskar
have gone on holiday leaving their spoiled
daughter, Princess Petronella, in charge.
The bored princess decides to turn Earth,
the holiday destination of choice for the
discerning Globagaskarian, into a rubbish
dump. Nicola is selected as Earthling Ambassador,
the only person in the galaxy who can change
Princess Petronella’s mind, and this
begins Nicola’s intergalactic adventures.
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Liane Moriarty, THREE WISHES (HarperCollins)
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Lyn, Cat and Gemma are sisters. Triplets, actually. Lyn and Cat are identical (tall, thin, blond) and Gemma is fraternal (unruly red hair) and THREE WISHES takes us through their thirty-third year of life - their experiences with love, sex, work, marriage, infidelity, pregnancy and the reunion of their long divorced parents (it's a busy year).
Liane Moriarty is a freelance advertising copywriter based in Sydney, Australia, where she lives by the sea. Her web site can be found at www.lianemoriarty.com.
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Liane
Moriarty, THE LAST ANNIVERSARY (HarperCollins)
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Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Tom Gordon
was the one she let get away. He was the perfect
boyfriend, but she felt they were missing
the thunderbolt of passion so, on the day
he was to propose, she broke his heart—and
he soon married someone else. But when Tom’s
Aunt Connie unexpectedly leaves her home on
Scribbly Gum Island to Sophie, everyone’s
lives are turned upside down. But Connie’s
odd choice for an heir helps uncover a long-held
mystery, bind a family, create friendships,
and most importantly, foster true love. Her
web site can be found at www.lianemoriarty.com.
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Jennie Nash, THE LAST BEACH BUNGALOW (Berkley Books)
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A moving debut novel about the search for
Home, THE LAST BEACH BUNGALOW tells the story
of April Newton, a woman who has just passed
her five-year cancer-free anniversary and
the move-in date to the spectacular Los Angeles
house her contractor husband has built in
reaction to her illness is rapidly approaching.
In the midst of her conflicting emotions over
both events, April develops a sudden and fierce
attraction to an old beach bungalow that is
being sold in a contest. The seller is a recent
widow who is looking for owners who will continue
the legacy of love she built within its walls.
April's efforts to compete against throngs
of frenetic buyers, who all have compelling
reasons for wanting the house, teach her how
to feel at peace, finally, in her own skin.
A breast cancer survivor herself and a
nationally recognized breast cancer keynote
speaker, Jennie Nash is the author of three
books of narrative nonfiction, including
The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops
Coming and Other Lessons I Learned From
Breast Cancer, and contributes regularly
to publications including Real Simple,
Self, Shape, and House
& Garden.
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JT
Petty, THE SQUAMPKIN PATCH: A NASSELROGT ADVENTURE
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Milton is 11 years old and his sister, Chloe, is 8. When they discover that their parents have disappeared, they fear the worst and embark on a series of misadventures that take them from a harsh orphanage reminiscent of Oliver Twist to a deserted house beside a squampkin patch (the nefarious hybrid of a pumpkin and a squash). They soon discover that a missing boy from the neighborhood has more to do with the squampkins than they'd first thought...
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JT Petty,
CLEMENCY
POGUE series (Simon & Schuster Young Readers)
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Clever, resourceful, strong-willed, and clad
in burlap pants of her own making, Clemency
Pogue has a penchant for adventure. On an
afternoon walk in the forest outside her home,
Clem embarks on travels from Salt Lake City
to Siberia to save fairies who died when she
declared she didn't believe in them. In the
process, Clemency learns about the power of
believing and the reserves of her own strength.
The CLEMENCY POGUE series follows Clemency
on her adventures to save the world of Make
Believe from changelings, goblins and other
sorts of imminent evil.
CLEMENCY POGUE comes from the imagination of JT Petty, a screenwriter and director. JT's film Soft for Digging was an Official Selection for the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, Nantucket Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, and Munich Film Festival.
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Sophie Powell, THE MUSHROOM MAN (Putnam)
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Laced with whimsy and fairy tale, THE MUSHROOM MAN is the story of two sisters, Charlotte and Beth. Charlotte, snobbish, discontent and fastidious, lives in London with her husband, Richard, and their daughter, Lily. And Beth, a widow of two years, lives on a small farm in Wales with her three triplet daughters and teenage son. After years of pleading, Beth finally convinces Charlotte to bring Lily for a visit. But when Lily mysteriously disappears into the forest that borders the farm, relationships are strained and facades so carefully constructed come crumbling down.
Sophie Powell is from London, and received her MFA in creative writing at NYU. Her web site is www.meetsophiepowell.com.
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Leigh Purtill, ALL ABOUT VEE (Penguin/Razorbill)
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Meet the Vees: a group of three plus-sized
eighteen year old best friends (and irrepressible
heroines) from Chester, Arizona. Veronica
is beautiful and ambitious, a talented actress
with jet black hair and violet eyes. Valeria
is daddy’s little girl, naïve,
with tendencies toward laziness but big dreams
of becoming a model, and Virginia is the bookworm,
always with a spiral-bound notebook and pen
in her pocket, thoughtful, curious and kind.
When life hints at dead-end for all three,
together they move to LA to pursue their dreams:
Veronica as Actress, Valeria as Model and
Virginia as Screenwriter.
Leigh Purtill’s web site is
www.leighpurtill.com.
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Leigh
Purtill, LOVE, MEG (Penguin/Razorbill)
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Meg Shanley and her older sister, Lucie, have just moved to Hollywood.
Meg's about to start classes at Hollywood High (anxious to meet the
movie stars' kids and infiltrate their circle) while Lucie will work
as a secretary (until she gets fired or sleeps with the boss). Meg
and Lucie have been on their own for as long as Meg can remember and
they've never had it easy, but as Lucie loves to say, it's just part
of the Shanley Girls' Great Adventures. But as the glittery sunshine
of LA filters through thick smog, Meg soon learns that the movie
stars' kids don't go to the public high school, and her sister isn't
who she says she is.
Through
it all, Meg holds to the string of hope provided by Jennifer Aniston,
Friend to many but best friend to Meg, who has been writing letters
to Jen for years, receiving letters back full of the advice and
support that leave Meg safe in the knowledge that Jennifer Aniston is
her best friend.
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Shamim Sarif,
DESPITE THE FALLING SNOW (St. Martin's Press)
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Elegantly written and sweeping in scope, DESPITE THE FALLING SNOW is set in present day Boston and in post-Stalin Russia. It tells the story of Alexander Ivanov, a wealthy businessman in Boston whose life is a world away from his childhood and youth in Russia. But when his beloved niece comes to stay with him, she asks questions that force Alexander to confront memories long suppressed - memories of his murdered wife, Katya, of his work for the Russian government and the idealism and paranoia that had driven him apart from those he loved, and of his eventual defection to the country which symbolized everything he had worked against.
Shamim Sarif's first novel, The World Unseen, was published in May 2001 in the UK by The Women's Press to excellent reviews, and went on to win the Betty Trask Award.
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Rebecca
Stead, FIRST LIGHT (Wendy Lamb Books)
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First Light is a coming-of-age story told
from two points of view: Thea, fourteen, is
a prominent daughter of a frozen world buried
deep inside Greenland's icecap. In the eyes
of her elders, Thea's greatest accomplishment
will be her own future daughters, but she
contemplates a different, more dangerous legacy:
a pathway to sunlight. Peter, a sheltered
seventh-grader from New York City, is spending
a season in Greenland's uninhabited far north,
where his father, a glaciologist, does fieldwork.
Isolated and lonely, Peter witnesses his mother's
alarming withdrawal into silence and struggles
to understand a series of visions that both
frighten and entice him. As Peter's search
for answers inexorably brings him closer to
Thea's hidden home, Thea begins to uncover
truths about her family's past that have been
concealed by those she trusts most. In a test
of courage for both, Peter and Thea discover
each other, and learn that each holds a crucial
piece of the other's puzzle. |
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Francisco Stork, IXTEL (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
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Marcelo Sandoval is a handsome seventeen-year
old, normal in speech and appearance, but
with a developmental impairment that eludes
precise medical diagnosis. He has a consuming
interest in religion and expressions of religious
experience. Marcelo has always attended a
special school but now, in the summer of his
junior year, his father, a successful attorney
and founder of his own Boston law firm, wants
Marcelo to experience the “real world”
for a change and demands that he work in the
law firm’s mailroom. IXTEL is the story
of Marcelo’s summer; the account of
his jarring encounter with the noisy and self-centered
world of competition, jealousy, pettiness
and sexual desire. Marcelo sets out on a life-transforming
journey that results, not without pain, in
a deepening reconstruction of his religious
interest and the discovery of purpose and
love.
Francisco Stork is also the author of The
Way of the Jaguar (Bilingual Press, 1999),
which won the 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary
Contest. Publishers Weekly raved that The
Way of the Jaguar was "...a splendidly
intense debut-a blend of magical realism
and gritty realism, as if Updike had re-written
'Innocent Erendira'...” Francisco’s
web site is www.franciscostork.com.
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Francisco Stork, BEHIND THE EYES (Dutton Young Readers)
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Hector Robles is a sixteen year old boy who lives in the projects of El Paso with his mother, brother and sister - all of whom are struggling to piece their lives together after the death of Hector's father. But when Hector suddenly loses his brother in a gang-related death, Hector's self-imposed anonymity comes crashing down as he becomes consumed with fury and thoughts of revenge.
BEHIND THE EYES was an Américas Award
Commended Title for the 2007 Children’s
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Kate Veitch, LISTEN (Plume)
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On Christmas Eve 1967, desperately unhappy
Rosemarie tells her four young children she’s
leaving to buy more lights for the tree, and
walks out on them for good. Forty years later,
Deborah, James, Robert and Meredith have all
mastered the art of concealing their pain,
which has manifested in unusual and surprising
ways in each of them. But when their beloved
father, Alex, descends into dementia, their
cobbled together family fractures from the
weight of mending the broken circle of family
life. And their past is about to reach into
the present in ways that will challenge them
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Irene Zabytko, WHEN LUBA LEAVES HOME (Algonquin)
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As a follow up to her stunning debut novel, The Sky Unwashed, Irene Zabytko has written a story collection that explores the core of emotion that links Ukrainian immigrants in 1950s Chicago. Narrated by Luba, the college age daughter of two Ukrainian scientists, the people who live on Wheat Street struggle with the values and pressures of a new world, but cannot break the common tie that binds them.
Irene received her MFA from Vermont College and The Sky Unwashed was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program, and was chosen by the New England Booksellers Association as one of the best books of 2000. Information about Irene's work can be found at www.rebeccasreads.com/interviews/authors_pr/pr_03zabi0001.html.
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Sandra Bark and Alexis Kanfer,
CHEAP AND EASY: A COOKBOOK FOR GIRLS ON THE GO (Touchstone/Fireside)
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Finally, a cookbook for the girl who knows and loves good food but may not yet have found her tried and true recipes; the girl who's never seen the inside of her kitchen but is a little curious what it looks like; and the girl who is looking for the ultimate guide to delicious and simple meals that she'll actually want to make.
First serial rights in Glamour, tv spots including Fox 5 News.
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Ben
Barry, FASHIONING REALITY: NEW GENERATION
ENTREPRENEURSHIP (Key Porter Books)
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At the age of 14, Ben Barry began to make
a difference. He started booking friends with
modeling gigs, and before long, the Ben Barry
Agency was up on its feet, focusing on promoting
beauty from an entire range of body shape
and size, skin color, and age. With a foreword
by Queen Latifah, FASHIONING REALITY is a
book for young entrepreneurs, it’s a
guide to help them harness their strength,
focus their vision, channel their ambition
and take off with business of their own, using
valuable tips from Ben’s hard-won lessons.
The Ben Barry Agency represents 200 models
active in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Japan
with clients including MTV, Max Factor,
Nike, Levis, L’Oréal, McDonald’s,
Coca Cola, Dove, and Nordstrom. Ben’s
models have appeared on the covers of Vogue,
Elle and Seventeen.
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Dana
Buchman with Sari Botton, A SPECIAL EDUCATION
(DaCapo Press)
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Dana Buchman is a fashion designer, and her eponymous line is one of the most widely distributed designer labels in the country, appearing in every major department store. While most women will know Dana's name and her creations, not many people know that she is the mother of a seventeen year old daughter, Charlotte, who suffers from severe learning disabilities (LD). As Charlotte is nearing the end of high school (having earned high grades and excelled at many extracurricular activities), Dana realizes that she wishes she had the knowledge she has now when Charlotte was diagnosed all those years ago. In co-writing A SPECIAL EDUCATION, Dana and Charlotte tell a story that's both intensely personal and widely identifiable for the families of the millions of kids struggling with learning disabilities. Part memoir, part practical information for families in the same situation, A SPECIAL EDUCATION is all heart and inspiration.
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David
Chan, BREAST CANCER: REAL QUESTIONS, REAL
ANSWERS (Marlowe & Co.)
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A much-needed resource for patients and their
families, David Chan’s book provides
complex information in clear language, and
covers the entire range of treatment options.
Poised to become the new must-read for breast
cancer patients, BREAST CANCER: REAL QUESTIONS,
REAL ANSWERS provides easily-digestible information
by reviewing and exploring the causes of breast
cancer, how breast cancer survival can be
influenced by lifestyle, and the core basics
of breast cancer therapy: surgery, radiation
therapy, hormonal therapy, and chemotherapy.
David Chan has been an oncologist for twenty
years, is an instructor at the UCLA/Revlon
Breast Cancer Center and is the President
of Cancer Care Associates. |
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Bryce
Corbett, SEX AND THE CITY OF LIGHT: FALLING
IN LOVE WITH PARIS (Broadway Books)
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Bryce Corbett, a late twenty-something former
Sydney gossip columnist, lands in Paris on
a wing and a prayer. He’s a single man
living the high life in Paris, bent on sucking
the marrow out of French life. He’s
a would-be Casanova who strikes with the speed
of a sloth. A modern day gourmand with his
elbows on the table at the moveable feast.
His plan is to spend a brief year in Paris
and have as much fun as possible; and his
destiny is to stay for six years, happily
seduced by the old harlot that is Paris, and
to discover, after meeting a Parisian showgirl
from Brisbane, that sometimes what you are
looking for is closer to home than you think. |
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Kate Darling, TINY BUBBLES (Chronicle Books)
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Sparkling-wine cocktails are a great example
of a classic drink that never goes out of
style. When a bottle of sparkling wine is
popped at a party, something
magical happens -- it becomes a celebration.
And when that champagne is mixed ceremoniously
with other ingredients-from orange juice to
epicurean
ginger-walnut syrup-well, now we know we're
really partying. TINY BUBBLES is a recipe
book of sparkling wine cocktails and snacks
ranging from the classic mimosa to Cava ginger
chocolate truffles.
Kata Darling is a Senior Editor at IMBIBE,
a national consumer magazine about drinks.
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Patricia Duffy,
BLUE CATS AND CHARTREUSE KITTENS: HOW SYNESTHETES COLOR THEIR WORLDS (Henry Holt)
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For most people, sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are experienced singularly and are not often experienced at the same time in the same context: Chicken doesn't taste pointy, the letter R is not orange, and the month of January isn't garnet red. One in 2,000 people, however, has reported having synesthetic experiences - where the customary boundaries between the senses seem to break down and sight and sound, or taste and touch, become interwoven.
Patricia Duffy has synesthesia, and BLUE CATS is an exploration of a condition that modern science has largely ignored. The web site can be found at www.bluecats.info.
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Liza Featherstone,
SELLING WOMEN SHORT: THE LANDMARK BATTLE OVER SEX AND WORKERS' RIGHTS AT WAL-MART (Basic Books)
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SELLING WOMEN SHORT explores the groundbreaking lawsuit brought against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., with as many as 700,000 current and former female employees seeking class-action status -- making it the biggest employment discrimination lawsuit ever. The battle will be public and it will be brutal, and it could potentially change the way women everywhere are treated in the workplace. Liza Featherstone uses the case less as a narrative and more as a springboard from which to look at Wal-Mart, sexism, low-wage work, and poverty.
Liza Featherstone writes on both feminism and labor issues, and is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post, The Nation, and Newsday. Her work has also been published in The New York Times Book Review, Rolling Stone, Ms., Nerve, Salon, The Village Voice, The Boston Phoenix, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, among many other publications.
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Emily
Franklin, HOW TO SPELL CHANUKAH (Algonquin)
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Eighteen Jewish writers – Adam Langer,
Tova Mirvis, Steve Almond, Jennifer Gilmore,
Peter Orner and others – extol, excoriate,
and expand our understanding of this most
merry of Jewish holidays as they offer up
nervy, irreverent, and even nostalgic takes
on those eight days that hold a special place
in Jewish hearts…and stomachs. From
the hilarious to the snarky, the poignant
to the poetic, this collection proves there
are as many ways to celebrate Chanukah as
there are ways to spell it. |
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Emily
Franklin, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIE: 26 TRUTHS
ABOUT LIFE IN YOUR TWENTIES (Warner Books/5
Spot)
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An anthology of essays looking at life as
a female twentysomething and the disillusionment
of that first post-college decade, with essays
by authors including Jill Kargman, Megan McCafferty,
Anna Maxted, Melissa Senate, Leah Stewart
and Julianna Baggott, and a foreword by Quarterlife
Crisis author Alexandra Robbins. |
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Steve Friedman, THE AGONY OF VICTORY: WHEN WINNING ISN'T ENOUGH (Arcade)
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THE AGONY OF VICTORY is the story of thirteen
athletes, ravaged champions in solitary crafts
like cycling and running, bowling and boxing,
hiking and golf. These men work at and master
their sports driven neither by the will to
win nor by the love of competition, but by
an existential terror most can’t even
acknowledge, a burning need to prove themselves.
It is the story of a certain kind of champion,
his painful journey to grace, and eventual
realization that no amount of victory or athletic
achievement brings lasting happiness and their
only moments of real peace occur at those
instants when they realize the futility of
their struggles. The human experience, told
in seconds and miles, scorecards and records.
Steve Friedman was senior editor at GQ,
a contributing editor for Esquire and a
writer for Mens Journal, Details
and other magazines, and along the way he
originated and wrote the Single Guy column
for GQ, launched the Modern
Love column for The New York Times
and contributed an essay, A Bachelor’s
Terror, for The Bastard on the Couch.
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Kip
Fulbeck, HAPA: PORTRAITS OF THE FUTURE (Chronicle
Books)
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A culmination of 15 years of research by Kip,
HAPA will be the first book of its kind to
document the faces and attitudes of part-Asian
people in the U.S. with 100 black and white
photographs and personal essays about what
it means to be 100% HAPA. Sean Lennon, son
of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, wrote the foreword.
Kip Fulbeck is Professor and Chair of Art
at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
His photography has exhibited throughout the
U.S. and in 20 countries abroad, including
in the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial.
His web site is www.redsushi.com.
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Ariel Gore, BLUEBIRD: ON WOMEN AND HAPPINESS (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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The study and science of happiness has become
big business and in BLUEBIRD, a combination
of psychology and social history, Ariel will
use her unique combination of humor, irreverence
and honesty venture into the feminine history,
science, and experience of happiness, intent
on discovering the secret of joy.
Ariel Gore is the founding editor of the
Hip Mama zine, and the author of
the novel, The Traveling Death &
Resurrection Show (HarperCollins San
Francisco, 2005), and the memoir, Atlas
of the Human Heart (Seal Press, 2003),
which was a finalist for the 2004 Oregon
Book Award. She’s also the author
of The Hip Mama Survival Guide (Hyperion,
1998), and The Mother Trip (Seal
Press, 2000), and How to Become a Famous
Writer Before You’re Dead (Three
Rivers, 2007). Ariel has been a featured
guest on CNN, NPR, ABC, CBS, and NBC national
news, and writes for The Sun, Ms., salon.com,
Utne, the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner,
among other publications. Ariel’s
web site receives 1.5 million hits per month. |
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Ariel Gore, THE ESSENTIAL HIP MAMA: WRITING FROM THE CUTTING EDGE OF PARENTING (Seal Press)
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When Ariel Gore became pregnant as a teenager, she hadn't gotten through much living. She still had to go to college, she still had to gain footing as her own person with her own identity. While in college, exhausted from sleepless nights of childcare and too wiped out to think of a final project for one of her classes, she decided to start a 'zine about motherhood. But not the soccer mom kind of motherhood, not the kind that's always portrayed, but the tattooed, pierced, liberated and outspoken kind. Thus Hip Mama was born, and to the surprise of a tired Ariel, it won rave reviews from everyone ranging from The New Yorker to the local newspaper and won over a loyal readership. It's been ten years that Hip Mama has been on the scene, and over the years there has been a wide variety of articles published - from heartbreaking to hilarious and this collection of the best of them will find its way to every hip mama's heart.
Ariel's web site address is www.arielgore.com.
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Ariel
Gore, HOW TO BECOME A FAMOUS WRITER BEFORE
YOU'RE DEAD: YOUR WORDS IN PRINT AND YOUR
NAME IN LIGHTS (Three Rivers Press)
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Funny and irreverent, but also unerringly
honest and enormously supportive, Ariel writes
with her unique combination of humor and sassiness,
realism and idealism. HOW TO BECOME A FAMOUS
WRITER BEFORE YOU’RE DEAD provides aspiring
writers with great practical advice but also
gives them the room to dream. Ariel has honed
her approach to teaching aspiring writers
through her workshops, and though there are
other writing guides on the market, none has
the humor and capacity to entertain as it
teaches like Ariel’s.
Ariel's web site address is www.arielgore.com.
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Katie Allison Granju, LET THEM RUN WITH SCISSORS (Soft Skull)
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Despite being the best loved, most generously
provided for generation ever, children and
teens today are also verifiably unskilled,
sickly, fragile, fearful, anxious, overweight
and depressed. The reason? “Overparenting,”
which is a type of parenting-gone-berserk
that has become a cultural epidemic. Today’s
parenting seeks to create an artificially
risk-free, bubble-wrapped childhood that paradoxically,
is hurting kids rather than helping them,
and leaving parents stressed and underconfident.
LET THEM RUN WITH SCISSORS provides specific
guidance for identifying and avoiding overparenting
pitfalls, and offers strong words and equally
strong research that will have parents, teachers,
policymakers and pundits across the nation
talking about the book.
Katie Allison Granju is the author of Attachment
Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby
and Young Child (Pocket Books, 1999),
and her essays on parenting and culture
are published in: Salon; The Chicago
Tribune; Pregnancy; Brain, Child; Hip Mama
among others.
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Amy Irvine, TRESPASS: A MEMOIR OF REDROCK COUNTRY (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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A seventh generation Utahan but fallen Mormon, Amy lives her life on uneven terrain. She lives in southern Utah, a vast and raw landscape, and works for the preservation of the land. But she lives among ranchers and farmers who fight against her by all means necessary, aided in their anger by her abandonment of the Mormon Church. TRESPASS is a memoir about fences: who puts them up, who can cross them, who can take them down - it's the story of Amy's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory.
Amy Irvine is the Development Director at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and her writing has appeared in Climbing magazine, on NPR, and in several anthologies.
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Marni Jameson, THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS (Marlowe & Co)
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THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS is a home design book
that hits readers where they live. It’s
a unique home design book that guides readers
from the moment they move into a new home
through all the design and decorating decisions
they need to make the house their own. Readers
will take away solid information about how
to tackle their own home improvement/maintenance/repair
while at the same time having bruised egos
assuaged by reading about Marni’s own
anecdotes. The antidote to the unattainable
perfection liberally featured in home design
books and fancy shelter magazines, this book
taps what these publications ignore: relationships
and realities.
Marni’s nationally syndicated newspaper
column, “At Home With Marni Jameson,”
reaches over seven million readers every
week and she has become a beloved guide
to those readers through their difficult
and sometimes disastrous attempts at home
improvement.
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Nigel Marsh, FAT, FORTY & FIRED (Andrews McMeel)
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Meet Nigel Marsh, a middle-aged Englishman
living in Sydney, slave to his big cheese
advertising job and stranger to his wife and
four small children. At age forty, when he
loses his job, Nigel decides to have a productive
(as opposed to destructive) midlife crisis
and sets out to reintroduce his children to
the strange man known as Daddy, rekindle the
romance with his wife, lose 45 pounds, enter
an ocean swimming race and do something about
his drinking.
While Nigel’s efforts don’t
always lead to the result he expects and
life is far from perfect at the end of his
year away from work, his candid reflections
on the adjustment to family life and responsibilities
are funny, engaging, touching and truly
moving.
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Scott Mactavish, THE NEW DAD'S SURVIVAL GUIDE (Little, Brown)
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THE NEW DAD'S SURVIVAL GUIDE is a hilarious, informed, compassionate and witty blow-by-blow for dads-to-be. Scott Mactavish has survived the process twice as a proud father of two, and provides easily-digestible information in guy-speak, assuming from his readers only minimal previous knowledge and maximum confusion and fear.
Scott's web site can be found at www.scottmactavish.com.
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Elizabeth
Motyka, Tom Motyka and Mark Nathaniel Mead,
THE RAPID RECOVERY HANDBOOK: YOUR COMPLETE
GUIDE TO FASTER HEALING AFTER SURGERY (HarperCollins)
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THE RAPID REPAIR HANDBOOK details a new and effective three-pronged approach to recovery from surgery: a combination of repair-enhancing nutrition and botanical support, physical support, and mind/body support. With over 50 million surgeries performed per year in the U.S., the invaluable information in this book will provide readers with the practical tools to go through surgery with greater ease and comfort and to recover faster.
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Inga Muscio, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BLUE-EYED DEVIL (Seal Press)
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An exploration of the genesis and evolution of the Civil Rights Movement, which to Inga's generation, instead of Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, consists of the Young Lords, the American Indian Movement, the Gay Liberation Movement, the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, etc. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BLUE-EYED DEVIL is Inga's exploration of the fallacy that the Civil Rights Movement was an isolated period in history, and is in truth in an ongoing movement represented by almost every segment of the population that is not elite white men.
Inga Muscio is the author of the wildly successful book, CUNT: A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, with more than 75,000 copies sold. Inga's web site is www.ingalagringa.com.
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Vickie Nam, YELL-OH GIRLS!: WRITINGS ABOUT CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND GROWING UP ASIAN AMERICAN (HarperCollins)
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If there is a place where self-help meets pop culture, then it is here -- YELL-OH GIRLS! is a collection of stories, essays, and poems by young Asian American women between the ages of 13 and 21. It offers the uncut, untempered voices of a burgeoning demographic.
#3 on Los Angeles Times paperback bestseller list
Finalist for the American Library Association's 2001 Best Books for Young Adults
Vickie Nam worked at Teen People and at AsianAvenue.
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Lynn
Peril, COLLEGE GIRLS: BLUESTOCKINGS, SEX KITTENS,
AND CO-EDS, THEN AND NOW (W.W. Norton)
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When the dust settled in favor of the affirmative on the centuries-old argument of whether or not women should be educated, a new American archetype was born: the college girl. From the '40s through the '70s, college girls were often perceived in one of two ways, a bluestocking who studied far too hard and was a drag to date, or as a lusty co-ed, a sex kitten. COLLEGE GIRLS is a smart and funny look at the college girl as a 20th century icon. |
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Lynn Peril, PINK THINK: BECOMING A WOMAN IN MANY UNEASY LESSONS (W.W. Norton)
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From the moment she's wrapped in a pink blanket, long past the traumatic birthday when she realizes that her age is greater than her bust measurement, the human female is bombarded with advice on how to be a woman, how to attain the ideal of Femininity. A pop culture history peppered with personal anecdotes, PINK THINK presents the material in an amusing fashion that nevertheless causes readers to think as they laugh.
Lynn Peril is the founder and editor of the zine, Mystery Date, and her column, "The Museum of Femorabilia" appears in Bust magazine. Her essays have appeared in The Guardian, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Book of Zines (Henry Holt), and ThriftSCORE (HarperCollins). Lynn's web site for the book can be found at www.pinkthink.com.
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Lois Pryce, LOIS ON THE LOOSE (Thomas Dunne Books)
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Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was working at the BBC in London, firmly planted on the accelerated professional track. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois had a parallel life as well, that of a biker babe with an overwhelming case of wanderlust. Lois did what so many of us dream of doing - she packed it in and left everything familiar to her to ride her motorcycle from the northernmost tip of Alaska to the southernmost tip of South America, on her motorcycle. Alone and armed only with the Spanish words for "caution" and "cheese", Lois was perhaps underprepared. But she wanted adventure, and she sure got it - an amazing adventure complete with bribing her way through Central American borders, spending the night in a Mexican brothel, and crashing her bike in the wilds of Patagonia.
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Joe Robinson, WORK TO LIVE! THE GUIDE TO GETTING A LIFE (Perigee)
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There is no arguing that most people are in need of a vacation. At some point in recent history, the work ethic changed into an overwork ethic, and our grasp on the importance of Life has begun to slip away. WORK TO LIVE! provides practical information that gives readers the realistic tools to relieve burnout and create a balanced life.
Joe Robinson's views on our changing workplace have appeared on the pages of Redbook, Vogue, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronbicle, The LA Times, and he has appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio, and many more media outlets for his views on our changing workplace. His web site for the book can be found at www.worktolive.info.
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Karen Romano Young, THE RAINBOW TIMELINE (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
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A history of the gay rights movement for young adults, THE RAINBOW
TIMELINE will give young readers a sense of history, of diversity, of
struggle, setbacks and triumphs.
Karen is the author of fifteen books, including The Beetle and Me: A
Love Story (Greenwillow, 1999), which was a YALSA Notable/ Best Books
for Young Adults 1999, Junior Library Guild selection, and Children's
Literature Choice 2000. She is also the author of Small Worlds: A
Book About Maps and Mapmakers (Scholastic, 2002), which won the
Oppenheimer Toy Portfolio Gold Medal and was a Smithsonian Magazine
Notable Children's Books, 2002, The Ice's Edge: The Story of a Harp
Seal Pup, (Soundprints/Smithsonian, 1996), and Cobwebs (Greenwillow,
2004).
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Henry Schuster and Charles Stone,
HUNTING ERIC RUDOLPH (Berkley Books)
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The first and only definitive book to focus on the case, this is the inside story of the bombings, the victims, the manhunt and the man behind it all. Accused of detonating a bomb at the Atlanta Olympics, two abortion clinics and a gay nightclub, Eric Rudolph went on the run. But after more than five years, he was captured and now awaits trial.
Henry Schuster is senior producer for CNN's Investigative Unit, has been covering the case since the beginning, and broke the story of Rudolph's capture. As the head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) Anti-Terrorist Task Force, Charles Stone was the lead investigator of the case. The web site for the book can be found at www.huntingericrudolph.com, and Henry's site is www.henryschuster.net.
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Shanti Sosienski, WOMEN WHO RUN (Seal Press)
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Women run for all kind of reasons. They run
for health, to ease the tension of daily life,
for strength, to be social with friends, to
turn their minds on, or to turn their minds
off. In this inspirational and exhilarating
book, a broad range of women, including Olympians,
marathoners, ultrarunners, and recreational
runners, talk about the ways running has become
as necessary to them as food and water and
why they keep at it – despite daily
obligations, packed schedules and busy lives.
WOMEN WHO RUN will inspire and motivate every
reader to get off the couch, out of the gym,
and into the street – finding her inner
runner.
Shanri Sosienski is a freelance writer
who grew up running around her homes in
Oregon and British Columbia. She writes
about women in sport for magazines including
Men's Journal, FHM, Stuff, Outside, Sports
Illustrated Kids, Marie Claire, Self, ESPN,
Elle Girl, National Geographic Adventure,
and Shape. |
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Dave Strege,
CELEBRITY FISH TALK: A COLLECTION OF FISHING STORIES FROM AN ALL-STAR CAST (Sports Publishing)
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Alice Cooper writes about his day deep sea fishing; Deion Sanders has a close call with the law, Matt Lauer's trip floating down the river with his fly rod gets dangerous, and Jay Leno reels in a smelly catch. The stories in CELEBRITY FISH TALK capture the heart of fishing while providing a glimpse into the lives of the people in our public eye. A small sampling of the celebrities whose stories fill these pages: Evel Kenievel, Kevin Costner, Vince Gill, Samuel L. Jackson, Ken Griffey Jr., Ted Williams, Michael Chiklis, Cheech Marin, Oscar de la Hoya, Bill Murray, Dan Rather, and the list goes on.
Dave Strege has been a sports writer for 28 years, and is currently a columnist at the Orange County Register.
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Stacy Whitman and Wynne Whitman,
SHACKING UP: THE SMART GIRL'S GUIDE TO LIVING IN SIN WITHOUT GETTING BURNED (Broadway Books)
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More and more Americans are choosing to live together before tying the knot. So while she's wondering where to hang his late 20th century garage sale monsterpiece, and he's shying away from the box of tampons under the sink, SHACKING UP can help couples maneuver gracefully as they join hearts and households.
Stacy Whitman writes for magazines including Glamour, Shape, Cosmopolitan, and Parenting. Her sister, Wynne Whitman, is a lawyer and MBA, giving her expertise in both the legal and the financial aspects to moving in with a significant other. Their web site can be found at www.shackingupguide.com.
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Susan Zimmermann,
KEEPING KATHERINE: A MOTHER'S JOURNEY TO ACCEPTANCE (Three Rivers Press)
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Susan Zimmermann's first-born child, Katherine, was the embodiment of her hopes and dreams. She was born healthy but after turning a year began to slowly deteriorate. Her eyes began to cross, she would wring her hands, her feet turned blue, and any sign of communication or comprehension tapered off. She suffers from Rett Syndrome, a rare neurological disease that affects only girls, and although now past her 21st birthday, she functions at the level of an infant. KEEPING KATHERINE is the story of Susan's journey with Katherine, and was a Finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Susan's web site is www.susanzimmermann.com.
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Susan Zimmermann,
WRITING TO HEAL THE SOUL: TRANSFORMING GRIEF AND LOSS THROUGH WRITING (Three Rivers Press)
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Faced with the fact that her daughter, Katherine, suffered from a rare neurological disease, Susan disappeared under layers of fear, denial, guilt, hate, and love. She resurfaced years and years later only after beginning to write, working through her conflicting emotions by writing. WRITING TO HEAL THE SOUL is Susan's gift to others who are suffering any kind of grief or loss and need to work through it. She offers exercises to focus the writing process and illustrates them with her own experiences.
Winner, 2002 Colorado Book Award
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