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Spectacular Happiness
by Peter D. Kramer
Hardcover: Jul 2001
Paperback: 1 Jun 2002
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Darkly intelligent, provocative, compelling and stunning in its execution. This is the masterful first novel that Kramer's nonfiction has led his readers and reviewers to expect.

How To Be Good
by Nick Hornby
Hardcover: Jul 2001
Paperback: 1 Apr 2002
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It's a story about how to wreck your marriage, how to help the homeless, how not to raise your kids, how to find religion . . . and how to be good. 'Hornby's quick eye and nimble observational style nail everyone's vanity'.

Paradise Park
by Allegra Goodman
Hardcover: Mar 2001
Paperback: 1 Apr 2002
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With an open heart, a soul on fire, and her meager possessions (a guitar, two Indian gauze skirts, a macrame bikini, and her grandfather's silver watch)Sharon begins her spiritual quest to find herself. Possibly the happiest book of the year.

Feeling Sorry For Celia
by Jaclyn Moriarty
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: 1 Jan 2002
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A funny, touching, revealing story written entirely in the form of letters, messages, postcards - and bizarre missives. Hilariously candid, shows that the roller coaster ride of being a teenager is every bit as fun as we remember--and every bit as harrowing.

The Girl's Guide To Hunting & Fishing
by Melissa Bank
Hardcover: Jun 1999
Paperback: 1 May 2000
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One of the most eagerly anticipated books of the season - funny, sexy, wise fiction from the freshest new voice in women's writing.

Bridget Jones's Diary : A Novel
by Helen Fielding
Hardcover: May 1998
Paperback: 1 May 1999
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This laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement.

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The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud

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The riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own.
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Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment.
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A wise and affirming meditation on living fully and preparing for death, written by a highly regarded spiritual teacher.
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