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The Smart One and the Pretty One מאת Claire LaZebnik "This sparkling novel about two sisters is both witty and stylish. Even if you don't have a sister of your own, you won't be able to resist LaZebnik's charming take on modern relationships. Read it!"- Holly Peterson, bestselling author of The MannyWhen Ava Nickerson was a child, her mother jo...

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Italian for Beginners מאת Kristin Harmel Thirty-four-year-old Manhattan accountant Cat Connelly has always lived life on the safe side. But after her little sister gets married, Cat wonders if she has condemned herself to a life of boredom by playing by the rules. She decides ...

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Conversations with the Fat Girl מאת Liza Palmer Everyone seems to be getting on with their lives-except Maggie. At 27, she+s still working at the local coffee house, while her friends are getting married, having babies, and building careers. Even Olivia, Maggie+s best friend from childhood, is getting married to her doctor boyfriend. Maggie, on t...

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The Blonde Theory מאת Kristin Harmel Harper Roberts is a corporate attorney in Manhattan.She’s smart, attractive, and funny. So whycan’t she find a date? Men flock to her at parties whenthey think she’s a dumb blonde. But, as soon as theyrealise she’s a Harvard-educated lawyer, they flee.Harper’s best friend is a magazine edi...

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Flirting with Forty מאת Jane Porter DESCRIPTION: I'm Jacqueline Laurens--Jack to all my friends--and eighteen months ago if you looked at my life on paper you'd think it was fabulous: gorgeous husband Daniel, venture capitalist, eleven years married, two kids, big house. The not so good part? I discovered Daniel's affair at the worst ...

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A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents מאת Liza Palmer Grace Hawkes has not spoken to her previously tight-knit family since her mother's sudden death five years ago. Well, most of the family was tight-knit-- her father walked out on them when she was 13 and she and her two brothers and sister bonded together even closer with their mother as a result.Sh...

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Knitting Under the Influence מאת Claire LaZebnik When you're in your late twenties and nothing in your life seems to be falling into place, knitting is an awfully seductive way to spend your free time. After all, as long as you're following the instructions, you can knit row after row with the knowledge that the pattern will emerge and you'll end ...

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The Makedown מאת Gitty Daneshvari Anna Norton used to be fat. Correction: Anna Norton used to be a fat, nerdy, overeater with low self esteem. When she moves from suburban Ohio to Manhattan at age 23, her life does a total 180. With guidance from her boss, an unlikely Fairy Godmother in the form of a chic caterer and excellent cook,...

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Forget About It מאת Caprice Crane Jordan Landau is having a bad life. At twenty-five, she is attractive, smart, funny and talented. But all that doesn't keep her mother from calling her fat, her boss from stealing her ideas, and her boyfriend from cheating on her. Day in and day out, she sits back and watches as everyone walks all o...

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Frenemies מאת Megan Crane Just a few months shy of her 30th birthday, Gus Curtis finally feels like she has it all: a strong career, great friends, and a wonderful boyfriend. But all of this comes crashing down when Gus discovers Nate, her "Mr. Right," hooking up behind her back with her so-called "friend" Helen. Soon it see...

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Names My Sisters Call Me מאת Megan Crane Courtney, Norah, and Raine Cassel are as different as three sisters can be. Norah, the oldest, is a type A obsessive who hasn't forgiven Raine, the middle sister, for ruining her wedding day six years ago. Raine is Norah's opposite, a wild child/performance artist/follow-your-bliss hippie chick who ...

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Live a Little מאת Kim Green -What do you do if you have two bratty teenage kids who don't give you the time of day?-What do you do if your husband is more interested in his remote than you?-What do you do if you're forever being compared to your perfect sister--who just happened to marry your perfect boyfriend?-And what do you...

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Mating Rituals of the North American WASP מאת Lauren Lipton After arguing with her live-in boyfriend about his inability to commit, Peggy Adams flies to a friend's bachelorette party in Las Vegas, and wakes up next to a man she can't remember. Hung-over and miserable, she sneaks out of the sleeping man's hotel room and returns home to New York, where her boy...

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Five Things I Can't Live Without מאת Holly Shumas On paper, Nora's life looks perfect. She's moving in with her boyfriend Dan, she has a stable job and a great group of friends. But she's stuck in what she refers to as "meta-life," the plight of overthinking and secondguessing to the point of self-sabotage. One day at work, Nora decides to thwart h...

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Busy Woman Seeks Wife מאת Annie Sanders To a casual observer, Londoner Alex Hill is every inch the calm and collected executive of a global sportswear company. In reality, she's constantly frantic, with barely enough time to take out the trash. When her demanding mother, a 1960s style icon, has a bad fall and has to move in with her indef...

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Ms. Taken Identity מאת Dan Begley PhD candidate Mitch Samuel's life isn't going exactly according to plan: his girlfriend just dumped him (to be fair, he did forget to pick her up at the airport), his estranged father has landed in the hospital, and his literary masterpiece-one part Shakespeare, one part Steinbeck, and all pa...

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How the Other Half Hamptons מאת Jasmin Rosemberg One house. Forty strangers. Add vodka and stir . . .Every summer, scores of Manhattan twentysomethings take part in an annual ritual with a camp-like culture distinctly its own: the Hamptons sharehouse. When Rachel and her two best friends buy their shares for twenty times each of their bank balance...

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Live Alone and Like It: The Classic Guide for the Single Woman מאת Marjorie Hillis "Whether you view your one-woman ménage as Doom or Adventure, you need a plan, if you are going to make the best of it."Thus begins Marjorie Hillis' archly funny, gently prescriptive manifesto for single women. Though it was 1936 when the Vogue editor first shared her wisdom with her fellow singlet...

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Love and Other Natural Disasters מאת Holly Shumas Eve is eight months pregnant and in the middle of a Thanksgiving celebration when she discovers that her husband Jonathan has developed an intimate relationship with a woman over the past year. Jonathon asserts his innocence (an affair involves physical intimacy, and he didn'...

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I'm with Stupid מאת Elaine Szewczyk A hilarious tale of girl meets boy, girl falls in lust, girl discovers boy is not playing with a full deck...When Kas meets William while on safari in South Africa he seems perfect-a gorgeous park ranger, both kind and brave (he saved the tour from certain death by water buffalo). Her two best frien...