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  Twenties Girl

  by Sophie Kinsella

  Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie–a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance–mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace... (more)
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  Dune Road: A Novel

  by Jane Green

  A sparkling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Jane Green’s last novel, The Beach House , was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured her largest audience yet. From the sunny green lawns of Connecticut to the cafés of London to the sandy beaches of Nantucket, Green draws from her own life to craft each delicious story and the resulting tales resonate with... (more)
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  Spoiled: Stories

  by Caitlin Macy

  Caitlin Macy’s debut novel The Fundamentals of Play was heralded as a Gatsbyesque examination of love and class in Manhattan. Now, in her sophisticated and provocative story collection Spoiled , Macy turns her unsparing eye on affluent and educated women who nevertheless struggle to keep their footing in their relationships and life. In “Annabel’s Mother,” a young woman does a good deed for her nanny, only to... (more)
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  The Accidental Billionaires

  The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

  by Ben Mezrich

  The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured... (more)
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  Certain Girls

  by Jennifer Weiner

  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... (more)