[bookshare-discuss] Fw: Fiction A to Z September 2010

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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:31:23 -0700
New and Recently Released!
The good psychologist : a novel - Noam Shpancer
Publisher: Henry Holt
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Pub Date: 08/03/2010
ISBN-13: 9780805092592
ISBN-10: 0805092595
Debut novel by Shpancer, a professor of psychology at Otterbein College in 
Westerville, Ohio.  During the day, a psychologist works with his troubled 
clients
at the Center for Anxiety Disorders. In the evening, he teaches an introductory 
course on therapy to a small group of students at a local college. Content
with his day-to-day routine, the psychologist is at first hesitant when he is 
approached by a new patient, an exotic dancer who is so crippled with anxiety
that she is unable to work. Despite his misgivings, he adjusts his schedule to 
begin treatment with the fragile woman. As he learns more about her emotional
struggles and history, he finds himself forced to address past events in his 
own life. In particular, a complicated romantic relationship with a married
former co-worker, Nina, and the complexity involved in fathering a child he has 
never met. Alternating between episodes with his young client, engaging
with and learning about his students, and various interactions with Nina, the 
psychologist's solid boundaries between doctor and patient, teacher and student,
threaten to blur. Kirkus calls this "an intense and engrossing read."
First Chapter
City of Veils: A Novel - by Zoë Ferraris
Publisher: Little, Brown
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Pub Date: 08/09/2010
ISBN-13: 9780316074278
ISBN-10: 0316074276
Mixing elements of literary fiction and mystery with an astute portrait of 
contemporary life in Saudi Arabia, City of Veils begins with the discovery of
the body of a brutally beaten woman on a beach in Jeddah. The search for 
answers is very much tied up in the roles that Saudi society deems appropriate
for women, and the consequences for women (like the victim) who chafe under 
their restrictions. Readers interested in learning about a woman's place in
modern Saudi Arabia will be interested in this "searing portrait of the 
religious and cultural veils" separating Muslim women from the modern world 
(Publishers
Weekly).
Safe haven - Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central Pub.
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Pub Date: 09/14/2010
ISBN-13: 9780446547598
ISBN-10: 044654759X
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina 
town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful
yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until 
a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with
Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and 
another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, 
Katie
slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit 
community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family. But even
as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still 
haunts and terrifies her . . .
The Thieves of Manhattan: A Novel - by Adam Langer
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks
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Pub Date: 07/13/2010
ISBN-13: 9781400068913
ISBN-10: 1400068916
Ian Minot--a frustrated writer who pays his bills by pouring coffee--is enraged 
by the literary success of one Blade Markham, whose bestselling memoir,
Ian is convinced, is as real as James Frey's. So when his gorgeous girlfriend 
scores a publishing deal and leaves him for Markham, he's ready to enact
some vengeance on the industry that's rejected him. Which is where former 
editor Jed Roth comes in; together, they plan a scheme sure to embarrass the
publishing world. "Dizzyingly clever," says Kirkus Reviews; for another take on 
literary "success," try Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist.
First Chapter
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel - by Gary Shteyngart
Publisher: Random House
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Pub Date: 07/27/2010
ISBN-13: 9781400066407
ISBN-10: 1400066409
In a near future in which American society is failing, the Chinese yuan is the 
world currency, and instant everything is the norm (including ratings for
sex appeal, personality, and financial worth), Lenny Abramov is over the hill 
at 39--and considered odd for still reading books. He's fallen for the reluctant
Eunice Park, who texts and emails, while Lenny writes lengthy diary entries; 
these two styles of narration alternate throughout this bleak, funny, satirical
book. The future that award-winning author Gary Shteyngart envisions here is 
"devilishly hilarious, soul-shriveling, and all-too plausible," says Booklist.
First Chapter
My Hollywood: A Novel - by Mona Simpson
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Pub Date: 08/03/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307273529
ISBN-10: 0307273520
When composer Claire despairs of her television-writer husband's long hours and 
her own lack of childcare experience, she hires Lola, a Filipino mother
of five who is in the U.S. to finance her children's educations back home. 
Claire has really lucked out with Lola, who soon becomes devoted to Claire's
challenging son. Sharing time between the perspectives of both women, My 
Hollywood depicts life in Hollywood through the eyes of those who work "in the
business" and the domestic workers hired to keep their households--and 
families--on track.
First Chapter
Fruit Salad (with a Twist of Lemon)
Little Lady, Big Apple - by Hester Browne
Publisher: Pocket Books
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Pub Date: 10/02/2007
ISBN-13: 9781416541547
ISBN-10: 1416541543
In this 2nd appearance by Londoner Melissa Romney-Jones (aka Honey 
Blennerhesket) and the now-quite-successful Little Lady Agency (providing 
"every girlfriend
service a man could need, except sex and laundry"), Melissa has taken a 
one-month vacation to New York to be with her American boyfriend, Jonathan. 
Bored
while he's at work and intimidated by his ex-wife, Melissa takes on some 
freelance work, providing a girlfriend's point of view to Manhattan's needy 
bachelors.
This does not sit well with Jonathan and so Melissa returns, alone, to her 
business in London. Can they overcome their problems? You'll have to read Little
Lady, Big Apple to find out!
The Land of Mango Sunsets - by Dorothea Benton Frank
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Pub Date: 06/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061715709
ISBN-10: 0061715700
Miriam Elizabeth Swanson is having a hard time coming to terms with the facts 
of her new life as a divorcée: her society friends have more or less deserted
her, her fancy home now has rent-paying tenants, and her grown sons avoid her. 
But a friendship with one of her tenants, an accident, and an act of violence
jolt her out of her doldrums and provide the opportunity she needs to take full 
stock of her life. Breezy and optimistic, this book will appeal to those
who enjoy reading about women who find their way to self-empowerment. Brightly 
portrayed locations include Manhattan's high-strung high society and South
Carolina's laid-back Sullivan's Island.
Watermelon : a novel - Marian Keyes
Publisher: Avon Books
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Pub Date: 07/01/1998
ISBN-13: 9780380976171
ISBN-10: 038097617X

A first novel.  Claire Webster, heroine of this breezy Irish bestseller, thinks 
hubby James is the man of her dreams until he ditches her for an older woman
(Claire herself is 29) two hours after their daughter is born. Mother and child 
repair to Dublin, where there's hope of solace and sustenance in the bosom
of an eccentric family, while Claire downsizes from watermelon to wisp and 
struggles over the hurdles of blues and booze. When she attracts a handsome
young lover and considers dumping the suddenly repentant James, it's clear a 
happy ending's in sight. Or is it? There are a few surprises and plenty of
sassy girltalk in this slick (and sometimes silly) novel.
Five Quarters of the Orange - by Joanne Harris
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Pub Date: 01/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780061214608
ISBN-10: 0061214604
As a child, Framboise Dartigen was forced to flee the French village where she 
lived during the German occupation. Now, more than 50 years later, she's
returning to it under an assumed name to run a crêperie (using family recipes) 
and to learn why her family name is still so despised by the townspeople.
With vivid descriptions of food, evocative portrayals of post-war France, and a 
complex mother-daughter relationship at the heart of the novel, Five Quarters
of the Orange may remind some readers of Joanne Harris' bestselling Chocolat, 
but this novel is of "a far more complex vintage" (Booklist).
First Chapter
Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange: A Novel - by Amanda Smyth
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Pub Date: 06/30/2009
ISBN-13: 9780307460646
ISBN-10: 0307460649
Raised by her aunt in Black Rock, Tobago, Celia D'Abadie grows up knowing 
nothing about her father except that he was a white man who long ago returned
to England. When her lecherous uncle rapes her, Celia runs away to Trinidad, 
where a gardener helps her find work as a housekeeper. But Celia is torn by
her feelings for two very different men who offer her two very different 
lifestyles. With its lush tropical setting and "lithe, lyrical prose" 
(Booklist),
Celia's search for a place to call home "sings with life, texture, and verve" 
(The Daily Mail).
First Chapter
The Toss of a Lemon - by Padma Viswanathan
Publisher: Harcourt
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Pub Date: 09/08/2008
ISBN-13: 9780151015337
ISBN-10: 0151015333
Based on the life of the author's own grandmother, The Toss of a Lemon tells 
the story of Sivakami, a Tamil Brahmin who in 1896 is married at the age of
ten. By 18 she is the mother of two--and widowed. Her husband Hanumarathnam, a 
healer and astrologer, had long foreseen his own death and sought to prepare
her for her widowhood, which she manages in a traditional manner, aided by a 
longtime family servant. Set in a period of social upheaval, this debut novel
spans a lifetime and will appeal to readers looking to lose themselves in 
another world.
First Chapter



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