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	"Adams, Kylie - Ex-Girlfriends - PMN" Code:0758210736PMN Price: $5.24 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. New. List $ 6.99. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 304 pages. From the Publisher He was the one who got away . . . Thank God. Stop the presses -- Dean Paul Lockhart, America's favorite bachelor, is getting married! It's sending shock waves through the tabloids, and rocking the worlds of the three former friends who were once all his . . . Ex-Girlfriends. For Lara Ward, it's a reason to go wild. The class act has her own party planning firm, a devoted maid, and a fabulous Manhattan apartment. What she doesn't have is a man. But when she spies Joaquin Cruz, the fireball Latin polo player with a rep for burning up the sheets, she sees her chance to really let go -- and how . . . For society shutterbug Babe Mancini, it means revenge. Snapping candids of the rich, famous, and glamorous for glossy mag 212 has taught her the power of the right picture. And she's got some very personal photos of Dean Paul that her new beau, cable news hell raiser Jake James, would love to take public . . . For Gabrielle Foster, it's time to panic. She's buried her privileged past and reinvented herself as Brown Sugar, a take-no-prisoners rap priestess who lives by the laws of the streets. Now, with thug impresario AKA Bomb Threat on her arm, she's completed her street cred look, unless rival rapper Queen B (and this wedding) blows her cover . . . Faster than you can say high-strung Japanese Olsen twins, gay walkers, thug posses, PDHs (personal diamond handlers), breathy psychics, media wars, and high-profile fistfights (don't ask), three friends are about to reunite for the wedding of the century -- and the ride of their lives -- only to discover that the one that got away just might be the friendship that could see them through. Kylie Adams is the author of four previous novels, Fly Me to the Moon, Baby, Baby, and the USA Today best-sellers The Only Thing Better Than Chocolate (with Janet Dailey and Sandra Steffen) and Santa Baby (with Lisa Jackson, Elaine Coffman, and Lisa Plumley). She is a contributing editor to The South, a regional bimonthly magazine that features her pop culture/humor column, ""Kylie Says. "" She lives with her Shih Tzu, Bichon Frise, and bitchy Persian in Brandon, Mississippi, where she is currently at work on Ex-Boyfriends, the follow-up to Ex-Girlfriends."
	"Adamson, Swan - My Three Husbands - PMN" Code:0758204485PMN Price: $5.24 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. New. List $ 6.99. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 320 pages. From the Publisher As wry and witty as a night of cosmopolitans with your best girlfriend, Swan Adamson's debut novel introduces an unforgettable heroine in Venus Gilroy -- a woman whose heart is in the right place even if her shoes, her past, and her taste in men are all wrong. For Venus Gilroy, Marriage Isn't A State... Twenty-five year old Venus Gilroy is hardly the traditional blushing bride. With two starter marriages behind her, several tattoos, hair the color of sherbert, and a job at an adult video store called Phantastic Phantasy, she's a wedding planner's nightmare. It doesn't help that her fiancé, Tremaynne, is a penniless ""alternative media star"" whose claim to fame is three months in a tree as an environmental activist...or that her eccentric mother is deep into clown therapy...or that her two fathers -- her dad and his lover, her ""faux pa"" -- have offered to pay for a luxurious honeymoon at the exclusive Pine Mountain Lodge. There's only one little catch: the dads want to come along. ...It's An Institution. Now, in the wilds of Idaho, where the country's hottest new spa is surrounded by disgruntled locals, wacky paramilitary troups, and eco-warriors, the honeymoon from hell is just beginning. Venus is mistaken for an erotic Icelandic rock star. Tremaynne is up to something mysterious and probably highly illegal. Her Armani-clad dads are determined to transform their punk princess little girl into a card-carrying, Jackie O Club woman. And a gorgeous Italian prince would give anything for one night alone with Venus. As her idyllic escape morphs into a retreat from anything resembling sanity, it's time for Venus to take a stand and confront her biggest fear of all...growing up..."
	"Alan, Theresa - Spur of the Moment - PTN" Code:0758204809PTN Price: $9.71 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 12.95. [Kensington Press] 360 pages.
	"Bailey, Roz - Retail Therapy - PTN" Code:075820566XPTN Price: $15.00 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 20. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 304 pages.
	"Blacklock, Dianne - Almost Perfect - PTN" Code:0425211622PTN Price: $10.50 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 14. [Penguin Group (USA)] 448 pages. FROM THE PUBLISHER Dianne Blacklock unravels the many layers of relationships in a novel of truth-and its consequences. In a beautiful house in an upscale Sydney suburb, Mac sees his picture-perfect marriage cracking under the strain of infertility. In another Sydney suburb, thirty-something Georgie, a bookstore owner, is trying to deal with a deadbeat roommate and no romantic prospects in sight. Then Liam walks into the bookstore and Georgie thinks she has found the perfect man-just as Mac and his wife reach the breaking point, putting Mac on a path that will have unforeseen consequences for them all. About the Author: Dianne Blacklock lives south of Sydney and has four sons. Formerly a teacher of communications, she now writes full-time."
	"Bostwick, Marie - Fields of Gold - PTN" Code:0758209908PTN Price: $10.50 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 14. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 314 pages. From the Publisher RT Bookclub Magazine Reviewer's Choice Awards - Finalist ""Best Historical Saga 2005"" ""This would be easier if I were writing about someone else. Then I could change it, fatten up the thin parts and leave out the dull ones, turning them twice like frayed collars and cuffs, making them over into something more romantic than they really were, but then the remembering would be neither so painful, nor so sweet. I suppose you can't have one without the other . . ."" Marie Bostwick's debut novel FIELDS OF GOLD tells the story of Evangeline Glennon, a young woman who is certain her future in Dillon Oklahoma will be as predictable and flat as the prairie that stretches from her front door to the edge of the horizon. She is wrong. Out of a clear blue sky, a dashing young pilot makes an impossibly gentle landing in her Papa's field. After taking her up in his plane, Slim leaves Eva with an exhilarating new perspective and an even more precious gift that changes her world forever. But that's only the beginning. The world is changing too -- and only the strongest will weather what is to come. Now, while tracing from afar the progress of the brave young aviator she knew so briefly, Eva stitches her heart and soul into intricate quilts whose images take extraordinary form from the heartbreak and joy of parallel lives. . . "
	"Bourgoin, Adriana - Nine Months in August - PTN" Code:0758217315PTN Price: $10.50 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 14. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 352 pages.
	"Bradford, Barbara Taylor - Unexpected Blessings PBN" Code:0312985746PBN Price: $5.99 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 7.99. Womens Fiction. Saga. The Harte family controls a billion dollar merchandising empire. Three generations of Hartes, four remarkable women: Linnet, Tessa, India and Evan. As the family comes under attack sisters pull together. "
	"Brown, Monique R. - It's a Sistah Thing: A Guide to Understanding and Dealing with Fibroids for Afr Code:075820065XPTN Price: $11.25 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 15. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 336 pages.
	"Campbell, Drusilla - Blood Orange - PTN" Code:0758209215PTN Price: $10.50 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 14. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 344 pages.
	"Campbell, Drusilla - The Edge of the Sky - PTN" Code:075820535XPTN Price: $11.25 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 15. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 346 pages. From the Publisher Lana Porter had it all-a happy marriage and two wonderful daughters-until the rainy night a tragic accident took her husband and left her near-perfect life in ruins... Now, nearly a year later, Lana is still picking up the pieces when she is blindsided by the appearance of her adopted daughter Micki's birth father. He comes bearing startling news: that Micki's birth mother was a rock and roll star who lived fast and died young. His glamorous life leaves Micki starstruck by its possibilities. But life's unexpected twists and turns are taking their toll. Still reeling from her father's death and envious of her sister's newfound celebrity, good girl Beth spirals out of control. Her grades drop and she starts running with a dangerous crowd. Just when Lana feels that she can no longer handle her fractured family, she finds support from an unexpected source. And discovers that opening her heart helps it to heal...that the bonds between mothers and daughters can bend, but won't ever break...and that families are never perfect-but their love for each other can be..."
	"Campbell, Drusilla - Wildwood - PTN" Code:0758202938PTN Price: $11.25 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 15. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 276 pages. From the Publisher Hannah is the mother of two teenagers, yet she longs for the feel of a baby in her arms - against her husband's wishes... Jeanne is the head of a prestigious boarding school for boys, though nothing can make her forget the son she gave away... Liz runs a bed-and-breakfast in the tropical paradise of Belize. Now, a heart-wrenching decision brings her back to Rinconada, California?and back to Hannah and Jeanne. They Have Been Friends Since Childhood. And They Have A Secret. It has been over thirty years since the words ""Bluegang Creek"" passed their lips. Because something that happened near that shady stream has shaped their lives - and haunted their darkest hours. Now, Liz can no longer bear the silence. What she is about to bring out into the light will test the very limits of friendship - and take all three women back to that fateful summer day when their innocence was shattered forever. A novel of friendship and forgiveness, Wildwood brings to life the lengths to which women will go to protect themselves - and each other - in the name of loyalty...and in the name of love."
	"Chiaverini, Jennifer - Circle of Quilters: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel HCN" Code:0743260201HCN Price: $16.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Hardcover. New. List $ 23. FrogPicks Price: $ 16.1. Womens Fiction. Another Elm Creek Quilts novel
	"Coburn, Jennifer - The Queen Gene - PTN" Code:0758209843PTN Price: $9.71 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 12.95. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 320 pages. From the Publisher If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother. ""You are so lucky to have a mother like Anjoli."" -- That's what all my friends say. But really, my friends weren't there when I was eight and my theatre-savvy, drama queen of a mother said she didn't want to take me to the Central Park Zoo because the animals didn't put on a good show. My mother is like a vapor: when she enters a room, she occupies every bit of space. Don't get me wrong -- I adore my mom...from a distance. It's just, well, what can you say about a woman who takes her teacup Chihuahua to every new age healer in Manhattan, who has a living-beauty will so her eyebrows will still look great if she's in a coma, and who tells my cousin Kimmy that the sperm bank has too many rules and suggests a new lipstick and a train ride to Princeton instead? To top it off, she calls me ten times a day to say, ""Darling, I'm in crisis!"" What, like I'm not? In addition to mothering my mother, I'm also trying to keep my marriage hot with a two-year-old under foot -- babysitting the artists in residence at my Berkshires artists' colony, which seems to be the Bermuda Triangle of creativity but a breeding ground for seriously insane -- resisting an attraction to a man so sexy he could give your eyeballs an orgasm -- and trying to rid my 100-year-old home of mischievous ghosts. Yeah, sort of got my hands full. The way I see it, I've got two choices: go completely mad, or start living my own life on my own terms, starting with my mother. I'm just not sure which option is crazier..."
	"Coburn, Jennifer - The Wife of Reilly - PMN" Code:0758210892PMN Price: $5.24 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. New. List $ 6.99. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 304 pages. From the Publisher When Prudence Malone attends her college reunion, she expects to catch up with her girlfriends and visit the campus she left in the eighties. Over the homecoming weekend, she runs into her college flame -- the one who got (okay, ran) away. The one she’s never forgotten. As they spend time together, both Prudence and Matt realize that their post-graduation break-up was a mistake. On Sunday afternoon, Matt impulsively proposes and the two plan to wed that summer. But before marrying Matt, Prudence has a problem to deal with -- her husband Reilly. Prudence could divorce Reilly like a normal person, but she’s far too wacky for that. Her solution is to secretly find a new wife for Reilly to replace herself after she and Matt marry. This shouldn’t be too difficult, she decides. After all, she lives in Manhattan where there are plenty of single women. And she can enlist the help of her three best friends: a costume-wearing advertising executive, a saucy single mother and a level-headed gay artist. Though the newly engaged couple lives on opposite coasts, Prudence still finds herself in as series of near-misses trying to keep Matt and Reilly unaware of the other’s existence. Ever-fumbling Prudence gave her new boyfriend the idea that she is a widow. Her husband has no idea that his wife has a fiancé in California. Through singles ads and a “Wife of Reilly” gallery exhibit, the gang of four meets New York’s nuttiest single women looking for love. Among the pack, Prudence crosses paths with a recovering lesbian who has just graduated from Straight Expectations rehabilitation center, a horrifying mirror image of herself, and an aspiring writer who lost interest in her own memoirs mid-draft. Along the way, Prudence is rejected by an insipid kindergarten teacher, pumped for investment tips by a demanding attorney, and swarmed by wannabe wives of Reilly. And she finds herself intensely jealous of a creative young playwright who declared Reilly “damaged goods” after learning that he is not actually Prudence’s brother (as she originally claimed). Through her eight-month search, Prudence ultimately helps find the next wife of Reilly, though not at all in the way she had originally planned. Somewhere along the journey, she discovers something far more important – herself"