Fire and Ice
A Novel
Written by Julie Garwood
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $26.00
Fresh from her incredible smash-hit historical romance
Shadow Music,
New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood returns to contemporary romantic suspense with this wonderfully sexy, exhilarating blockbuster. Filled with sizzling passion and breathless adventure, Fire and Ice features a feisty heroine whom Garwood’s devoted readers already know and love from her...
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Light of the Moon
Written by Luanne Rice
Format: Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $7.99
Against a backdrop of stunning natural beauty, and in the shadow of a mysterious family legend, one woman is about to discover that to find your way home, sometimes you must travel far away.…
An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah Connolly suddenly finds herself adrift in the wake of a failed love affair and...
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A Mercy
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $23.95
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of
Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were...
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Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Written by Sophie Kinsella
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2003
Price: $14.00
The irresistible heroine of
Confessions of a Shopaholic and
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan is back!-in a hilarious tale of mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, and one blushing bride who just can't say no to saying "I do."
Life has been good for Becky Bloomwood: She's become the best personal shopper at Barneys...
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I See You Everywhere
Written by Julia Glass
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $24.95
From the author of the best-selling
Three Junes comes an intimate new work of fiction: a tale of two sisters, together and apart, told in their alternating voices over twenty-five years.
Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who years for a good marriage...
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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume One
Written by Gordon Dahlquist
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $12.00
Here begins an extraordinary alliance—and a brutal and tender, shocking, and electrifying adventure to end all adventures.
It starts with a simple note.
Roger Bascombe regretfully wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith terminated. Determined to find out why, Miss Temple takes the first step in a journey that...
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The Widows of Eastwick
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $24.95
More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcées—Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie—have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and...
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Lima Nights
Written by Marie Arana
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $25.00
From a National Book Award finalist—for her memoir
American Chica—and the author of the acclaimed novel
Cellophane comes this spare, powerful story of sexual obsession and its consequences.
Carlos Bluhm leads the good life in upper-class Lima: he attends social functions with his elegant wife, goes out drinking with his three best...
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The Commoner
A Novel
Written by John Burnham Schwartz
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $14.95
In 1959, a young woman, Haruko, marries the Crown Prince of Japan. She is the first nonaristocratic woman to enter the mysterious, hermetic monarchy. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress, Haruko is controlled at every turn, suffering a nervous breakdown after finally giving birth to a son.
Thirty years...
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The Senator's Wife
Written by Sue Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $14.95
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia—wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton—is Meri's new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Tom's chronic infidelity has been...
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