Books by Barbara Victor and Complete Book Reviews
Raoul Felder and Barbara Victor. St. Martin's, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-59296-7
Felder and Victor (Getting Away With Murder) bring something new to the self-help divorce stable: schadenfreude. The authors mull relentlessly over tales from Felder's history as a divorce attorney for the wealthy. "If marriage is bad, there's...
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Barbara Victor, Author . HarperCollins $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-019930-2
Even if it weren't competing head-to-head with two other Madonna biographies by titans in their fields (J. Randy Taraborrelli's Madonna: An Intimate Biography
and Andrew Morton's Madonna), this overstuffed and plodding chronicle of the...
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Barbara Victor, Author , foreword by Christopher Dickey. Rodale $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-57954-830-8
Victor, a journalist with over 20 years' experience in the Middle East, delivers a jarring and intimate indictment of Palestinian society. The two primary crimes she charges it with are the exploitation of women and the desperate acceptance of a
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Barbara Victor, Author HarperCollins Publishers $17.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-06-015844-6
Victor deftly blends humor, romance and tragedy in this memorable novel about the importance of finding love and security in a perilous, unstable world. Television news correspondent Maggie Sommers watches with horror when her soundman is gruesomely
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Barbara Victor, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-06-016373-0
The unexpected death of her overbearing ex-husband, district attorney Pete Molloy, brings Gabriella Carlucci-Molloy back to Long Island from Paris, where she has the conventional romance-novel glamour job of photojournalist. At Pete's gravesite,...
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Barbara Victor, Author Signet Book $4.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-16971-6
Photojournalist and Paris resident Gabriella Carlucci-Molloy, forced to visit Long Island for her overbearing ex-husband's funeral, falls in love with contractor Nick Tressa. ``Gabriella's warm, crusty, stifling family is appealingly drawn, but the...
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Barbara Victor, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (327p) ISBN 978-1-55611-252-2
Journalist Victor ( Absence of Pain ) here reveals terrorism's human faces--and those of its victims. American TV journalist Sasha Beale is vacationing in Rome and trying to recover from a wrenching divorce when she finds herself at the site of a...
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Barbara Victor, Author Dutton Books $22 (301p) ISBN 978-1-55611-353-6
Victor's fourth modern romance (after Friends, Lovers, Enemies ) is an entertaining tale of emotional betrayal and political intrigue. Beautiful Coriander Wyatt, a trauma surgeon in a Brooklyn hospital, is devastated when her husband, prestigious...
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Barbara Victor, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-15-103968-5
According to this vibrant biography, Palestinian spokesperson Hanan Ashrawi has done more ``to change the image of the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation than any war, uprising, or terrorist attack.'' Appointed shortly before the opening...
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