Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: truth, plain
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-08-07
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1416547819
ISBN-13: 9781416547815

From the bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm.The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn’s mother, took the child’s life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-cit

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: novel, circle, tenth
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-10-24
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 074349671X
ISBN-13: 9780743496711

Bestselling author Jodi Picoult’s The Tenth Circle is a metaphorical journey through Dante’s Inferno, told through the eyes of a small Maine family whose hidden demons haunt every aspect of their seemingly peaceful existence. Woven throughout the novel are a series of dramatic illustrations that pay homage to the family’s patriarch (comic book artist Daniel Stone), and add a unique twist to this gripping, yet somewhat rhetorical tale. Trixie Stone is an imaginative, perceptive 14 year old whose life begins to unravel when Jason Underhill, Bethel High’s star hockey play

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: minutes, nineteen
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-02-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743496736
ISBN-13: 9780743496735

Best known for tackling controversial issues through richly told fictional accounts, Jodi Picoult’s 14th novel, Nineteen Minutes, deals with the truth and consequences of a smalltown high-school shooting. Set in Sterling, New Hampshire, Picoult offers reads a glimpse of what would cause a 17-year-old to wake up one day, load his backpack with four guns, and kill nine students and one teacher in the span of nineteen minutes. As with any Picoult novel, the answers are never black and white, and it is her exceptional ability to blur the lines between right and wrong that make this author su

Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: novel, girls, certain
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-04-07
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743294262
ISBN-13: 9780743294263

Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine.Now Cannie’s back. After her debut novel -- a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life -- became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym. She’s happily married to the tall, charming diet doctor Pete

Authors:Mukhtar Mai,  Linda Coverdale, Nicholas D. Kri
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: memoir, honor, name
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-10-16
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 1416532293
ISBN-13: 9781416532293

In June 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala, was gang raped by a local clan known as the Mastoi -- punishment for indiscretions allegedly committed by the woman’s brother. While certainly not the first account of a female body being negotiated for honor in a family, this time the survivor had bravely chosen to fight back. In doing so, Mai single-handedly changed the feminist movement in Pakistan, one of the world’s most adverse climates for women. By July 2002, the Pakistani government awarded her the equivalent of 8,500 U.S. dollars in co

Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: novel, shoes
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-07-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743418204
ISBN-13: 9780743418201

The Feller sisters are equal but opposite. Maggie is the good-looking, dyslexic little sister who knows how to get anything she wants--but not how to keep it. She "felt as if somewhere between the ages of fourteen and sixteen she’d walked off the edge of a cliff and had been falling ever since." Rose is the plump, practical, responsible older sister who knows about law but not much about her own happiness: "What did she like, besides shoes, and Jim, and foods that were bad for her?" When Maggie’s latest eviction lands her in Rose’s apartment, and Maggie insults Rose by seduci

Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: square, press, washington, novel, earthquakes, little
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-06-28
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743470109
ISBN-13: 9780743470100

Jennifer Weiner, whose novels Good in Bed and In Her Shoes earned her a place among women’s book club aficionados everywhere, proves she still has the touch with Little Earthquakes, a tale of love, heartbreak, redemption, and friendship. Weiner’s novel centers around four new mothers, all of whom must learn to adjust their lives and their marriages to deal with the challenges of raising children. Ayinde is a beautiful, biracial newscaster who moves to Philadelphia after her husband, a star player for the NBA, is traded to the 76ers. She meets Becky, an overweight chef who plays the