Shapiro, Alan

Summary: "As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a musical. Get married, have a family--sure, maybe she'd do those things, too, but first and foremost there was her career. As a woman, she is both tormented and consoled by those dreams in her day-to-day existence with her family, including a short-tempered husband, a cranky mother,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012

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Prose, Francine

Summary: While working for an idealistic college professor, twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian "brothers" return, in a novel set in the aftermath of 9/11.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

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Pascal, Francine.

Summary: First published as a digital, serial, The Sweet Life contains six serialized episodes for fans of Sweet Valley's favorite twins, Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield. The stories p ick up three years after the events of Sweet Valley Confidential.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012

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Shapiro, Deborah

Summary: "A witty and winning new voice comes alive in this infectious road trip adventure with a rock-and-roll twist. Shapiro's debut blends the emotional nuance of Elena Ferrante with the potent nostalgia of High Fidelity, in a story of two women--one rich and alluring, the other just another planet in her dazzling orbit--and their fervid and troubled friendship. From the distance of a few yards,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016

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Shapiro, Barbara A.

Summary: Young artist Clair Roth, who reproduces famous works of art for an online retailer, is drawn in to the world of art forgery when she is persuaded to forge a Degas masterpiece for the Gardner Museum to replace a stolen painting.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012

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Francis, June

Summary: "It's 1959.Her modelling career in tatters and her long-term relationship with her sailor boyfriend at an end, nineteen-year-old Maggie Gregory returns to her family in Liverpool to lick her wounds and decide what to do with the rest of her life. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger offers the possibility of new romance. But is the man who gives his name as Tim Murphy really all he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2016

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Cottam, Francis

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2009

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Summary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Lee, Linda Francis.

Summary: "Portia Cuthcart and her two sisters find their way from Texas to Manhattan over the years, the heiresses to a dilapidated brownstone on the Upper West Side. Portia is running from a bad divorce and the knowledge that she has always been a little bit different, a little bit strange: the talented cook who knew exactly what to serve on what occasion, even to the point of predicting events that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Dumas, Alexandre

Summary: In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016

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Wilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Infrapress 2001

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