PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Waking Beauty: A Novel
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Elyse Friedman
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Chick Lit
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Commercial Fiction
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Three Rivers Press; 1st edition (June 22, 2004) |
Allison Penny, a self-described "troll," is an overweight, unattractive, depressed 22-year-old with a dead-end cleaning job; a disparaging, alcoholic mother; a father who won't acknowledge her; and a roommate who is just plain mean; her life is on the fast track to nowhere, until one morning, with no explanation, Allison wakes up stunningly beautiful--what's a girl to do but take her new body for a test drive before her luck runs out?
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Metropolis: A Novel
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Elizabeth Gaffney
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Commercial Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Random House (March 1, 2005) |
An atmospheric debut novel in which a bewildered immigrant loses his heart to a tough Irish lass in 1860s New York
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Arthur Golden
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Literary Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Knopf; 1st ed edition (September 23, 1997) |
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha, a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love, always elusive, is scorned as illusion
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The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me: A Novel
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Suzanne Kingsbury
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Commercial Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Deserted by her mother and raised by her whiskey-drinking, gun-shooting father, beautiful Haley has broken the heart of every boy in town; yet, she hides two intimate and explosive secrets that empower her just as they threaten to undermine everything she holds dear
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Calamity and Other Stories
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Daphne Kalotay
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Literary Fiction
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Short Stories
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Doubleday (January 18, 2005) |
Twelve stories that follow a small coterie of suburban residents through key passages in their lives
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