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In her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman’s fantasies of family and love with the challenges and realities of adult life.
Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In...
Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In...
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“[Thomas Perry is] a master of nail-biting suspense.”
—Los Angeles Times
In this explosive new novel from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Butcher’s Boy, Blood Money, and other novels of “dazzling ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review), Thomas Perry gives us a thriller even more startling than his most recent bestseller, Pursuit. In Dead Aim, an unsuspecting...
—Los Angeles Times
In this explosive new novel from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Butcher’s Boy, Blood Money, and other novels of “dazzling ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review), Thomas Perry gives us a thriller even more startling than his most recent bestseller, Pursuit. In Dead Aim, an unsuspecting...
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Young Manhattanite Sylvia Mortimer can't help noticing that her friends "put almost as much effort into losing husbands as they once did into finding them." Lauren, the most recent to discard hers, has just had a champagne-fueled divorce party. Although Sylvia is the blissful newlywed of the pack, her husband has started spending weeks away in Paris without her, and has hired a sleek temptress as his assistant. While Lauren happily changes boyfriends...