Books by Ann Brashares and Complete Book Reviews
Ann Brashares. Random, $25 (356p) ISBN 978-0-385-52122-2
Brashares revives the Traveling Pants sisterhood for a bittersweet victory lap that finds the sisters grown up and pretty much out of contact until Tibby, who now lives in Australia, proposes a reunion in Greece, where Lena has a family home and a...
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Ann Brashares. Delacorte, $18.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-73680-0
Best known for her Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books, Brashares forays into science fiction in this fast-paced, gripping, and romantic novel about a girl from a future that seems eerily possible. Seventeen-year-old Prenna James is from the...
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Ann Brashares. Delacorte, $18.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-73689-3
Brashares (the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series) traces the tangled threads that connect two households in this moving novel set in and around New York City. Before Ray’s parents met, his mother was married to a man named Robert. That...
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Ann Brashares, Author . Delacorte $8.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-73058-7
"This first novelist successfully creates four distinct characters, each with her own story line, and ties them together with a creative device: a pair of pants purchased in a thrift shop," said PW
in a starred review. "An...
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Ann Brashares, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-385-72934-5
Brashares returns to the beloved characters she brought to life in her first novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, for a new installment that's equally authentic and engaging. The story again rotates through the perspectives of lifelong...
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Ann Brashares, Author . Delacorte $16.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-90919-8
Fans of the Traveling Pants series will be delighted to welcome back the four lifelong friends as they face their last summer together before separating for college. Though each girl has her own problems—and her own romance—to deal with,
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Ann Brashares, Author . Delacorte $8.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-385-73105-8
PW
starred the launch title in the Traveling Pants series, which introduced four friends who share a magical pair of pants that fits all of their different sizes and shapes. PW
called this second installment "equally authentic and engaging."
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Ann Brashares, Author . Delacorte $18.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-72936-9
Carmen, Lena, Bridget and Tibby may not be forever in blue jeans, but they do share the Traveling Pants for at least one more summer. Fans rejoin the foursome just after their freshman year in college. Carmen is attending a summer theater program in
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Ann Brashares, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59448-917-4
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
author delivers her first novel for adults, a treacly tale about the tribulations a trio of longtime friends encounter. For as long as she can remember, 21-year-old Alice has spent summers on Fire Island with...
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Ann Brashares, Author . Delacorte $18.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-73676-3
With the Traveling Pants series all wrapped up, Brashares introduces a new group of BFFs and addresses a slightly younger crowd. Living in the same town as the semilegendary Sisterhood girls, Ama, Polly and Jo have tried to share a pair of jeans and
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Ann Brashares, Author . Riverhead $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59448-758-3
A romance that stretches across centuries and past lives constitutes the core of Brashares's varied second adult novel, the first in a planned trilogy. The story is primarily that of Daniel, as, in the present, he pursues Lucy (whom he knows as
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Ann Brashares, Author . Delacorte $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-0590-7
First novelist Brashares successfully creates four distinct characters, each with her own story line, and ties them together with a creative device: a pair of pants purchased in a thrift shop. As four lifelong friends prepare to split up for the...
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Ann Brashares, Author, Angela Goethals, Read by , read by Angela Goethals. Listening Library $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-0589-1
A pair of jeans purchased at a thrift store is the unlikely bond that keeps four best friends emotionally connected during the first summer that they spend physically apart. This clever (if initially hokey-sounding) premise sets the course for four...
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