Caroline Leavitt, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-27122-0
A starred or boxed review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred or boxed review.GIRLS IN TROUBLECaroline Leavitt. St. Martin's
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Caroline Leavitt, Algonquin, $13.95 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-56512-631-2
Leavitt's ninth book (after Girls in Trouble), a touching story of loss and discovery, centers on photographer Isabelle Stein, whose stifled Cape Cod life and marriage crumbles when she discovers her husband has gotten his mistress pregnant. She...
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Caroline Leavitt, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-26937-1
When book designer Gary Breyer and third-grade teacher Molly Goldman meet at a New Jersey diner, it's love at first sight in Leavitt's (Living Other Lives) latest drama. Gary's parents were killed in a freak accident when he was a baby; Molly's only
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Caroline Leavitt, Author Arbor House Publishing $16.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-87795-904-5
The author of Jealousies has centered her new novel on a man's long struggle to feel part of a family unit. Orphaned at 12, Nick Austen spends his adolescence in a boys' home. The adult Nick easily falls into a career as a book salesman, but still...
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Caroline Leavitt, Author Warner Books $18.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-446-51704-1
Toting road maps marked with favored routes, Lee often wanders along highway shoulders, a habit she fell into after her mother died of cancer and her father and his new wife locked this surly, seductive woman-child out of their hearts. At 17, she...
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Caroline Leavitt, Author Warner Books $21.95 (327p) ISBN 978-0-446-51705-8
A reckless, anguished and adrenaline-charged road trip opens Leavitt's (Into Thin Air) latest novel: Lilly, distraught after her fiance Matt's accidental death two weeks before their marriage, is driving his uncooperative daughter, Dinah, 15, from...
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Caroline Leavitt. Algonquin, $14.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-61620-054-1
Few events are as tragic as the loss of a child, especially when the circumstances are unclear. In Leavitt's story of 1950's suburbia, discord strikes when divorced working mother Ava Lark moves in. Although the neighborhood closes ranks against Ava,
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Caroline Leavitt. Algonquin, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-61620-363-4
In this suspenseful novel by Leavitt (Pictures of You), impulsive 16-year-old Lucy runs away with her high school English teacher, William, "the coolest teacher on the planet." It's 1969, and Lucy is itching to get away from the working-class suburb
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Caroline Leavitt. Algonquin, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61620-779-3
Leavitt’s illuminating exploration of a 40-something couple’s failed relationship (after Cruel Beautiful World) revolves around three people. Stella is a nurse with dwindling hopes for starting a family after dating washed-up rocker Simon for 20...
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Caroline Leavitt. Algonquin, $29 (320p) ISBN 978-1-64375-128-3
The haphazard latest from Leavitt (With or Without You) begins with 22-year-old Ella receiving an early release from a New York state prison after her conviction at 15 for the attempted murder of her boyfriend’s father. Her mother, Helen, hopes to...
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