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THE BEACH HOUSE
James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
Warner Books
Thriller
ISBN: 0446612545
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Jack Mullen is in a law school in New York City when he learns the shocking news that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack knows his brother and is positive that this was no accident. Someone must have wanted his brother dead. But the powers that be say otherwise. Readers will see the Hamptons in a whole new light!
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THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER
Ann Packer
Vintage Books
Fiction
ISBN: 0375727132
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23-year-old Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Wisconsin with the same best friend and the same dependable and easygoing high school sweetheart. Now to her dismay, she has started to find this life suffocating and is considering leaving it --- and Mike --- behind. But when Mike is paralyzed in a diving accident, leaving seems unforgivable yet more necessary than ever.
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FLESH TONES
M.J. Rose
Ballantine
Fiction
ISBN: 0345451058
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Genny Haviland, daughter of a wealthy, prominent New York art dealer, is accused of drugging and strangling famous artist Slade Gabriel, one of her father's clients. Testimony at the trial reveals a complex web of relationships. Readers who enjoy erotic psychological thrillers in the Ruth Rendell vein will find Rose's tale absorbing, especially the multi-textured account of Genny's complex relationships with men and the glimpse of cutthroat dealings among gallery owners.
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IF LOOKS COULD KILL
Kate White
Warner Books
Mystery
ISBN: 044661257X
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Kate White --- who in her "day job" is editor-in-chief at Cosmopolitan --- captures all the hype and cattiness of the magazine world while offering an intriguing mystery as well. Bailey Weggins, a writer for a leading women's magazine, Gloss, is dragged into a murder investigation by her editor-in-chief and boss from hell, Cat Jones. Cat is a woman who gets what she wants from her employees, so when she discovers that her nanny has been murdered, she insists Bailey find the killer before the police do.
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THE LOBSTER CHRONICLES: Life on a Very Small Island
Linda Greenlaw
Hyperion
Memoir
ISBN: 0786885912
Coming in June
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The New York Times bestselling author of THE HUNGRY OCEAN returns to her roots in this delightful and moving story of her adventures as a lobsterman. Linda Greenlaw returns to Isle au Haut --- a tiny Maine island with a population of 70 year-round residents, 30 of who are Greenlaw's relatives. Greenlaw offers her take on everything from rediscovering home, love, and family to island characters --- and the best way to cook and serve a lobster.
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THE NANNY DIARIES
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Griffin Trade Paperback
Fiction
ISBN: 0312291639
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Based on real-life experiences, THE NANNY DIARIES is the inside story on the real lives of the rich and privileged from the women who know all the secrets --- the nannies. This book deftly skewers the manner in which America's over-privileged raise their children --- as if grooming them for a Best of Show competition. A poignant satire, it punctures the glamour of Manhattan's upper class to tackle head-on the truer state of backstairs Park Avenue.
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THE PUZZLE BARK TREE
Stephanie Gertler
Signet
Fiction
ISBN: 0451208846
Coming June 3
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Grace Hammond Barnett grew up in the emotionally desolate company of her mother and father. Now a mother herself, Grace feels trapped in a sterile marriage to a prominent surgeon and haunted by recurrent dreams of drowning. Her only anchor is her cherished daughter, Kate. In the aftermath of her parents' sudden double suicides ---- a tragedy that leaves her and her sister reeling --- Grace is bequeathed a house she never knew existed.
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SAVANNAH BLUES
Mary Kay Andrews
Perennial Press
Fiction
ISBN: 0060519134
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For fans of Susan Isaacs and Jennifer Crusie comes a witty, wisecracking tale of divorce, revenge and great antiques, set in sultry Savannah. Landing a man like Talmadge Evans III got Eloise "Weezie" Foley a jewel of a town house in Savannah's historic district. But divorcing him got her exiled into the backyard carriage house, where she has launched a spite fest against Tal's new fiancée.
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SEA GLASS
Anita Shreve
Back Bay
Fiction
ISBN: 0316089699
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Honora doesn't mind renting a house on the beach. Despite its age and flaws, the old house is the perfect place for a new marriage. She and Sexton are determined to fix it up. Sexton eventually finds a way to buy the house, but his timing couldn't be worse. The economy takes a sickening crash and, as financial pressures mount, Honora begins to see how little she really knows Sexton --- and realizes just how threatening the world outside her front door can be.
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THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES
Sue Monk Kidd
Penguin USA
Fiction
ISBN: 0142001740
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Sue Monk Kidd tells the story of Lily Owens, who is haunted by the tragic death of her mother ten years earlier. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina, a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There, they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters who introduce Lily to a mesmerizing world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna who presides over their household.
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