BOOK: Landing by Emma Donoghue

Landing by Emma Donoghue          

A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships–the kind millions of us now maintain mostly by plane, phone, and Internet.Sile is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin, a veteran flight attendant who’s traveled the world. Jude is a twenty-five-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to the tiny town of Ireland, Ontario, in which she was born and raised. On her first plane trip, Jude’s and Sile’s worlds touch and snag at Heathrow Airport. In the course of the next year, their lives, and those of their friends and families, will be drawn into a new, shaky orbit.This sparkling, lively story explores age-old questions: Does where you live matter more than who you live with? What would you give up for love, and would you be a fool to do so?

CATEGORY: NOVEL, FICTION

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BOOK: Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund      

From the opening line—”Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last”—you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling and compellingly readable saga, spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. At once a family drama, a romantic adventure, and a portrait of a real and loving marriage,Ahab’s Wife gives new perspective on the American experience.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

CATEGORY: NOVEL, FICTION

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BOOK: Candace Trading Up Bushnell by Candace Bushnell

Candace Trading Up Bushnell by Candace Bushnell   

Janey Wilcox is a beautiful yet struggling social climber determined to survive New York. Janey’s back with a major modeling contract, a Porsche Boxster & big plans. As Janey attends the hottest party in the Hamptons, the reader is drawn into a seemingly glamarous world of $100,000 cars, hunky polo players, media moguls & relationships whose hidden agendas are detectable only by socially astute. But look out! As Janey is pulled into this whirlwind, unseen forces conspire to bring her down.

CATEGORY: NOVEL, FICTION

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BOOK: The Smart One and The Pretty One by Claire

The Smart One and The Pretty One by Claire Lazebnik    

When Ava Nickerson was a child, her mother jokingly betrothed her to a friend’s son, and the contract the parents made has stayed safely buried for years. Now that still-single Ava is closing in on thirty, no one even remembers she was once “engaged” to the Markowitz boy. But when their mother is diagnosed with cancer, Ava’s prodigal little sister Lauren comes home to Los Angeles where she stumbles across the decades-old document.
Frustrated and embarrassed by Ava’s constant lectures about financial responsibility (all because she’s in a little debt. Okay, a lot of debt), Lauren decides to do some sisterly interfering of her own and tracks down her sister’s childhood fiancé. When she finds him, the highly inappropriate, twice-divorced, but incredibly charming Russell Markowitz is all too happy to re-enter the Nickerson sisters’ lives, and always-accountable Ava is forced to consider just how binding a contract really is . . .

CATEGORY: NOVEL, FICTION

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BOOK: Secrets of a Shoe Addict by Beth Harbison

Secrets of a Shoe Addict by Beth Harbison   

Tiffany Vanderslice Dreyer never dreamed that she’d find herself up to her eyeballs in credit card debt from one mad moment of a shopping spree. She’s an upstanding wife and mother with the perfect marriage…right? Abbey Walsh never intended anyone to find out about the fact that she’s being blackmailed. As a minister’s wife, her sordid past was supposed to be a secret. Loreen Murphy hadn’t meant to hire a male prostitute in Las Vegas. It was all just a big, stupid, expensive misunderstanding. Secrets of a Shoe Addict is the story of three women who bond together when they find themselves in more than one kind of trouble. It’s the story of how sometimes, you hide a secret side that can get you in–and out of–dire straits. It’s about romance, friendship, kids, revenge, affairs, and most of all a love of all the well-heeled things in life.

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BOOK: Burned by P.C and Kristin Cast

Its not you, Its me by Kerry Cohen Hoffmann        

Funny and touching–this is a heartfelt breakup story. Zoe loves Henry. Henry dumps Zoe. Zoe wants Henry back–at any cost. Zoe’s two best friends come up with a plan to help Zoe get what she thinks she wants. The plan: make Henry jealous. But the plan takes a surprising turn. . . . Spanning thirty-one days in the cycle of a breakup, Kerry Cohen Hoffmann’s humorous and poignant novel depicts a girl whose single-minded focus on her ex-boyfriend has pulled her far from the person she most needs to win back–herself.

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BOOK: P.S I Love You by Cecelia Ahern

P.S I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
       

Everyone needs a guardian angel! Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other’s sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other. Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry’s death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He’s left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed ‘PS, I Love You’. As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing — and being braver than ever before. Life is for living, she realises — but it always helps if there’s an angel watching over you.

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BOOK: Brand New Friend by Mike Gayle

Brand New Friend by Mike Gayle

When Rob’s girlfriend asks him to leave London and live with her in Manchester not only will it mean moving cities, it’ll also mean leaving behind his best mate in the entire world. Believing that love conquers all and convinced of his ability to make new friends, Rob takes the plunge. Six months in, and yet to find so much as a regular drinking buddy, Rob realises that sometimes making friends in your thirties can be the hardest thing to do. With drastic action needed, his girlfriend puts an ad in the classifieds for him. Three excruciatingly embarrassing “bloke dates” later, Rob begins to truly despair. Until his luck changes…

There’s just one problem. Apart from knowing less than nothing about music trivia, football, and the vital statistics of supermodels, Rob’s new friend has one huge flaw… She’s a girl.

CATEGORY: NOVEL, FICTION

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BOOK: The Charming Man by Mariam Keyes

The Charming Man by Mariam Keyes

The lives of four very different women have been shaped—and battered—by one charming man. . . .

Ireland’s debonair politician Paddy de Courcy—the “John F. Kennedy Jr. of Dublin”—has captured tabloid headlines and the imagination of his country with his charm and charisma. But the crushed hearts he’s left behind him reveal more about his character than his winning, votegetting smile. Lola, Grace, Marnie, and Alicia have all suffered from his selfishness and cruelty. But with Paddy’s political star ascending, the time is finally ripe for redemption . . . and perhaps a bit of revenge.

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BOOK: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code : Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been found murdered inside the museum, his body surrounded by a series of bizarre ciphers scribbled in invisible ink. As Langdon and a gifted young French crvptologist, Sophie Neveu, attempt to make sense of the chilling clues left around the body, they are stunned to realize the riddles are connected to the works of Da Vinci and may be linked to a mystery that stretches deep into the history of the Catholic Church.

                                                

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BOOK: Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie

Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie

Fourteen years ago, Samina, blazing beauty and fearless activist, walked out of her house and was never seen again. Aasmaani, frequently abandoned by her mother, still dreams of her glorious return. Fifteen years ago, Samina’s closest freind Shehnaz Saeed, darling of the theatre and the small screen, gave up her career for her son Ed. Now he is helping her make a triumphant comeback. Sixteen years ago, the Poet, subversive and brilliant, love of Samina’s life, was found mysteriously murdered. In present-day Karachi, Aasmaani receives what could be the longed-for proof that her mother is still alive. As she draws closer to the truth she is irresistibly drawn, too, to Ed, her ally and sparring partner, and the only person who can understand the profound hurt – and the profound love – which drives her.

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BOOK: Beautiful People by Wendy Holden

Beautiful People by Wendy Holden

Darcy comes from a line of British acting royalty. She’s doing badly paid Shakespeare when The Call comes. A hot-shotHollywood director. A blockbuster movie. Fame and wealth beyond her wildest dreams. It seems an impossible piece of luck. Is it? Belle is blond, size zero and was hotter than the earth’s core a year ago. But now her film career’s in freefall. Yet Belle’s prepared to do anything — anything — to get back into the Tinseltown big time. And woe betide anyone in her way. Nanny Emma has landed the job from heaven — looking after a superstar’s baby. Cue glamour, luxury and the inside track on fame. And a hell of a lot else besides. Celebrity. Some have it. Some want it. Some work for it.

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BOOK: Diva – A Novel by Alex Flinn

Diva – A Novel by Alex Flinn

Caitlin, who was abused by her 16-year-old boyfriend, Nick, in Flinn’s Breathing Underwater (HarperCollins, 2001), wants to put that relationship behind her. A talented opera singer, she gets into Miami High School forthe Performing Arts despite her own nervousness and her mother’s objections. Even there she feels like an outcast as she can’t dance or sing pop and is obsesses about her weight. Her mother on the other hand, dresses like a teenager, is dating a married man, and seems to live off her ex-husband.

At auditions, she meets another talented opera singer, Sean, but just as Caitlin’s starting to fall for him, she realizes he’s gay. While she’s struggling to put all this into perspective, her singing instructor suggests that she try out for a summer opera program in New York.

After she gains new confidence in herself, she decides to pursue her dream and is accepted to the program in New York.
Caitlin tells her story partly through online journal entries. Although her understanding of her mother comes too rapidly, this is a solid story, full of self-deprecating humor, snappy dialogue, and well-developed characters and situations.

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BOOK: The Two Lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather by Alexandra Potter

The Two Lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather by Alexandra Potter

At age thirty-one, American Charlotte Merryweather has spent ten years in London pursuing personal and professional perfection. Yet her present-day success- heading her own PR company, owning a gorgeous apartment, planning a future with her devoted boyfriend- only heightens the shock of a visit from the past.

“Lottie,” Charlotte’s twenty-one-year-old self, drives onto the scene at the wheel of a rusty, orange Volkswagen Beetle identical to Charlotte’s first UK ride. Charlotte pursues a friendship aimed to bestow upon Lottie a decade of wisdom. Yet Charlotte’s prosperous polish proves a pale substitute for Lottie’s innate, youthful graces- openness, passion, and kindness. Will the student become the teacher in this witty turnabout?

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BOOK: I Heart Paris by Lindsey Kelk

I Heart Paris by Lindsey Kelk

A hilarious and romantic standalone novel from the bestselling author of the I Heart series Rachel Summers loves a to-do list: * Boyfriend * Flat * Great job NOT on the list: * Being dumped Best friends Emelie and Matthew ride to her rescue with an entirely new kind of list — The Single Girl’s To-Do List. Rachel doesn’t know it, but it will take her on all kinds of wild adventures — and get her in some romantic pickles too. And then it won’t be a case of what but who she decides to tick off! * Mr. bendy yoga instructor * Mr. teenage sweetheart * Mr. persistent ex * Mr. deeply unsuitable The Single Girl’s To-Do List gives Rachel the perfect heartbreak cure — and proves love is out there if you’re willing to take a chance.

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BOOK: Withering Thights – The misadventures of Tallulah Casey by Louise Rennison

Withering Thights – The misadventures of Tallulah Casey by Louise Rennison

The misadventures of Tallulah Casey! Hilarious new series from Queen of Teen — laugh your tights off at the (VERY) amateur dramatic antics of Talullah and her bonkers mates. Boys, snogging and bad acting guaranteed! Picture the scene: Dother Hall performing arts college somewhere Up North, surrounded by rolling dales, bearded cheesemaking villagers (male and female) and wildlife of the squirrely-type. On the whole, it’s not quite the showbiz experience Tallulah was expecting! but once her mates turn up and they start their ‘FAME! I’m gonna liiiiive foreeeeeever, I’m gonna fill my tiiiiights’ summer course things are bound to perk up. Especially when the boys arrive. (When DO the boys arrive?) Six weeks of parent-free freedom. BOY freedom. Freedom of expression! cos it’s the THEATRE dahling, theatre!!

CATEGORY: NOVEL, FICTION

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