Iris Blasi
Content by Iris Blasi
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In How to Be Cool, former ugly duckling Kylie Chase uses her own transformation (including a 75-pound weight loss) as the basis for launching a career as a cool instructor, helping the t
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They're two girls. With two different, thinking brains. And two separate, beating hearts.
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Abby Randolph's life is forever altered by a chamber pot in Mameve Medwed's How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life.
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Someone is killing little girls in Wind Gap, Missouri.
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Lisa Lutz never anticipated writing a book. An aspiring screenwriter, she began the script for a mob farce in 1991 at age 21, and quit her day job the moment Hollywood producers came calling.
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Like many young adult authors these days including Zoey Dean and Ann Brashares Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries, has expanded her reach into adult fiction.
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Galt Niederhoffer's clever debut opens with an alliterative tidal wave as sisters Bell, Bridget, Beth, Belinda, Beryl and Benita converge at their father's Upper East Side apartment for Passover dinn
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Ex-model Robin Hazelwood conducts a guided tour down the runways of the late 1980s in her debut novel, Model Student.
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It is 1929 in New Orleans, and Raziela Nolan is in love. Smart, beautiful and fiercely determined, Raziela has found her match in Andrew O'Connell, a promising young law student.
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Eight-year-old Tessa Lee wakes to find her drug-addicted mother nowhere in sight in Firefly Cloak, a compelling multigenerational novel by Sheri Reynolds, whose previous works include the Opra
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Even though Ram Mohammad Thomas correctly answers all 12 questions on the new Indian game show Who Will Win a Billion? he doesn't get the jackpot. Instead, he gets arrested.
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As a newly minted med-school grad, Shelley Green finds herself installed at a pediatric practice on Manhattan's wealthy Upper East Side in the hilarious 24-Karat Kids.
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On one fateful night, 13-year-old Pearl becomes both a mother and a killer.
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Four children turn up murdered in 12th-century Cambridge, England, and the restless Catholic townspeople immediately pin the blame on local Jews.
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In their follow-up to last year's The Botox Diaries, co-authors Janice Kaplan and Lynn Schnurnberger turn again to a group of suburban 40-somethings coping with love and life.
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When 29-year-old Delilah Darling reads in The New York Post that the average person has 10.5 sexual partners in a lifetime, Delilah decides to do a little counting of her own.
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When Cassie Ellis graduates from Columbia University, her first task is to dig herself out from a mountain of student loans.
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The characters populating Timothy Schaffert's The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God may not be particularly likeable, yet somehow they're impossible not to love.
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The demise of a friendship can be just as traumatic as the end of a romantic relationship.
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How would you feel if your days were spent getting groceries, dropping off laundry and being called upon to whip up a gourmet dinner party on a moment's notice?
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A young, hungry assistant pays her dues while working for a near-impossible boss with a psychotic streak. Sound familiar?
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Pencils down
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It was not suicide. Of that, 17-year-old Jesse Matson is certain. He is positive his father wouldn't have killed himself while on their hunting trip in the wintry woods of Minnesota.
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College football isn't the only sport in Texas. Husband-hunting has its own fanatic devotees, as a group of women work ruthlessly to net themselves men with major bank accounts.
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