Fern Michaels, Author . Kensington $24 (336p) ISBN 978-1-57566-761-4
Continuing the saga of the Colemans and the Thorntons as recounted in Texas
and Vegas, this latest novel puts the next generation center stage and is the first in a projected new trilogy. Thirty years after escaping her father's repressive...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Severn $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5721-7
After more than 50 books, crowd-pleaser Michaels (Dear Emily, etc.) dishes up a romantic thriller that begins with the history of a Nostradamus-like manuscript. In A.D. 1200, a messenger from God entrusts God's predictions for the future of...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Kensington $24 (330p) ISBN 978-1-57566-762-1
Building on the success of her Vegas
and Texas
series, Michaels (Kentucky Rich) enlarges the Coleman and Thornton family legacies in her second novel set in bluegrass country. The indomitable Nealy Coleman Diamond Clay has her hands full: the foal...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Kensington $24 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57566-763-8
Prolific novelist Michaels completes the saga of the Coleman and Thornton families with this follow-up to Kentucky Rich
and Kentucky Heat.
She focuses on the relationship between Nealy Coleman, a one-time runaway unwed mother who became the...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Pocket Star $6.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5795-8
High-quality, homegrown story-telling has long been Michaels's stock-in-trade, and this story is a holiday treat for readers seeking classic country Christmas atmosphere and an extra helping of romance for all; by the end of the tale, even the...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Atria $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5778-1
The eponymous late bloomer in this new novel by the prolific Michaels (No Place Like Home) is Cady Jordan, a dowdy 30-year-old loner who moves back to her hometown of Indigo, Pa., to take care of her ailing grandmother. Lola Jor Dan is no cuddly,...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Zebra $7.99 (381p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7020-7
There's enough melodrama in Michaels's newest offering (after No Place Like Home) to quench the thirst of soap opera devotees during a daytime drama drought, and the author's fans will likely lap up every word. At 17, Casey Edwards has...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Pocket $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5794-1
Though the plot may bring to mind that familiar comic classic, The Parent Trap, the twins in this talky tale are motivated by justice, not love. Unfortunately, the scheme that Michaels's (About Face, etc.) bumbling protagonists cook up is so...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Atria $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5779-8
Perennial bestseller Michaels (The Future Scrolls
; Trading Places
; etc.) returns with another paint-by-numbers story of love and redemption, this one set in Hollywood and Antigua. "Hollywood's Platinum Boy," Ricky Lam, has kicked the...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Zebra $6.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7589-9
Readers beware: this book is not for the faint of heart or for fans of Michaels's more traditional romances (Kentucky Rich
, etc.). There is no happily ever after here; indeed, the primary emotion fueling this story is not love, but anger. Anger
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Fern Michaels, Author . Atria $18 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7747-5
Fanciful premises and implausible turns of events are the stuff Christmas fiction is made of, but Michaels takes matters too far in this contrived sequel to her 2002 Christmas novella, No Place Like Home,
basing her story on a misunderstanding that
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Fern Michaels, Author . Severn $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6166-5
Once the hallmark of macho fantasy, payback moves to the heart of modern romance in the spotty second installment of Michaels's Revenge of the Sisterhood series, as the heroines of Weekend Warriors
regroup for mission number 2. Revenge is a...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Pocket $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5781-1
Rotund Rosie Bliss, née Gardener, is miserable. She has known all along that her husband married her for her money—she runs a successful mail-order business, Nature's Decorations—but she has always lacked the courage to do...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Severn House $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6204-4
It isn't easy to root for the vindictive women in Michaels's Revenge of the Sisterhood series. Sure, they're loyal and fearless, and they look good in eveningwear ("We're stunning," lawyer Nikki says. "We sizzle and we...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Kensington $24 (309p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1630-4
Dog antics and a dead mother's strange legacy drive Michaels's latest (Hey, Good Looking
), a repetitive story peopled with caricatures. Thirty-four-year-old Olivia Lowell was reared by her father, Dennis, who told her that her mother,...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Severn $27.95 (203p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6428-4
Myra Rutledge and the fun-loving members of her vigilante group, which operates out of Myra's estate near Washington, D.C., deliver more creative punishment to miscreants who escape the traditional legal system in the sixth entry in bestseller...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Severn $27.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6429-1
Bestseller Michaels's Sisterhood series (Vendetta
, etc.) goes out with a bang and a wink as the Virginia vigilantes—Myra, Kathryn, Alexis, Isabelle, Nikki and Anna—seek justice for Yoko Akia, a young florist. Yoko wants to punish...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Kensington $19.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1271-9
In Michaels’s fable-like latest, wicked South Carolina heiress Sarabess Windsor must face the fallout of a decision she made 30 years ago: when her beloved daughter was diagnosed with a potentially fatal illness, doting Sarabess hatched a plan
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Fern Michaels, Author . Zebra $6.99 (315p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0185-0
Over eight previous delectable novels, the seven members of the Sisterhood have exacted multiple pounds of flesh from men who have wronged them. Michaels's latest revenge fantasy finds them living in exile in Barcelona, where they receive word...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Kensington $24 (293p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1272-6
Featuring love-at-second sight romance and a fast-moving plot, Michael’s fizzy latest about illegal experiments on humans is farfetched but entertaining. Peter Kelly and Lily Madison regret choices they made in 1986 as impoverished college...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Kensington $13.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2718-8
Michaels (Mr. & Miss Anonymous
) launches the Godmother series, pure recession-proof fun starring a multimillionaire diva and her three best friends. Teresa Amelia “Toots” Loudenberry, 65, has just buried her eighth husband in...
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Fern Michaels, Author . Kensington $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1273-3
Even if the plot of Michaels's latest (after The Scoop
) was meant to be a farce, it remains unbelievably ludicrous. Lin Townsend, raised by a religious zealot, had a rough childhood and got pregnant when she was 17. Thrown out of her home, she
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Fern Michaels, Kensington, $15 paper (246p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2720-1
The tedious sequel to The Scoop sends Charleston, S.C., grande dame Toots Loudenberry to L.A. to help her daughter, Abby, who is running a struggling tabloid. Toots brings along her best friends—Ida, Sophie, and Mavis—and though the ladies envision...
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Fern Michaels, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-345-36592-7
Michaels provides an ample serving of schmaltz in this romantic potboiler--a Literary Guild/Doubleday Book Club selection in cloth--linking a half-French, half-American army nurse and a wealthy idealist who volunteers for Vietnam. (Sept.)
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Fern Michaels, Author Pocket Books $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7742-0
Bestseller Michaels (Pretty Woman) turns out a fun, page-turning tale of familial feud and forgiveness in Louisiana. A funeral leads to a reunion that is anything but unifying, as characters struggle to resolve old injuries; a father trapped in his...
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Fern Michaels, Author Ivy Books $7.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-345-34120-4
In this modern-day melodrama of paradise lost, Reuben Tarz and Daniel Bishop are rescued from a French hospital at the close of WW I to share a luxurious chateau with Mickey, a sexy French marchioness. Their tranquil retreat is shaken up by the...
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Fern Michaels, Author Ballantine Books $6.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-34123-5
In this inane historical romance, Furana van der Rhys, daughter of the beautiful, infamous--and now retired--pirate called the Sea Siren, plans for a quiet life: she's going to become a nun. But when Luis Domingo appears at her parents' home in...
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Fern Michaels, Author Zebra $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8217-4952-4
Michaels (Serendipity) comes back to romance with a knockout story about a woman whom many readers will immediately recognize. Emily Thorn married her college sweetheart and temporarily shelved her education and career to support her husband's....
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Fern Michaels, Author Zebra $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8217-5228-9
When Ariel Hart, a middle-aged movie star, suddenly realizes she won't be offered any more roles, she sets out on a series of zany maneuvers to begin a new career, finally buying a San Diego trucking company (``Able Body Trucking''). Between lessons
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Fern Michaels, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $25 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57566-057-8
Playing off her bestselling Texas series (Texas Sunrise, 1992, etc.), Michaels ventures into a Vegas trilogy that introduces the Thornton dynasty but also revives the Coleman family of the Texas books. The new saga begins in 1923, when Sallie...
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Fern Michaels, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $25 (392p) ISBN 978-1-57566-138-4
Michaels's Vegas Rich saw millionaire ex-prostitute Sallie Coleman bequeath her fortune to her daughter-in-law, Fanny Thornton. In this second installment of an intended trilogy, it is 1980 and Fanny has divorced her misanthropic playboy husband,...
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Fern Michaels, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $25 (377p) ISBN 978-1-57566-214-5
Who will run the Babylon casino? That's the millions-of-dollars question in the thin final volume in Michaels's Vegas trilogy. Fanny Coleman Thornton Reed, clan matriarch and widow of Babylon-builder Ash Thornton, thinks she has the matter in hand....
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Fern Michaels, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-57566-573-3
Bestselling romantic suspense writer Michaels delivers another gripping plot, though it's easy to detect predictable dramatic devices in the story of Helen Ward, a physically abused wife who finally stands up for herself and sets off for a better...
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Fern Michaels, Author Zebra Books $6.99 (415p) ISBN 978-0-8217-5856-4
Dallas Lord, a 38-year-old rock star asks Sara Killian, M.D., 39, to marry him (perhaps for the wrong reasons), and as a gift, he writes her a song. Then, having supposedly died in a plane crash, Dallas chooses to drop out of sight in order to gain...
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Fern Michaels, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $24 (396p) ISBN 978-1-57566-323-4
Michaels (The Vegas Trilogy) packs her pages with the iconography of the rich and miserable. Empty Georgia manses, loveless Texas ranches, deeds to Greek Islands and death-by-sports-car in France all help form the backdrop for the Jessie Roland saga.
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Fern Michaels, Author Zebra Books $6.99 (381p) ISBN 978-0-8217-6173-1
Poor girl Annie Daisy Clark finds a bag containing half a million dollars. Even though she knows the money comes from a bank heist, she decides to use it, launching a successful coffee-shop franchise and getting her mother, who suffers from...
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Fern Michaels, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $24 (384p) ISBN 978-1-57566-467-5
Coming together for a wedding, four friends share memories of childhood in Michaels's (Vegas Sunrise) unevenly plotted latest romance novel, set in South Carolina. Blonde Southern belle Callie Parker is to wed arrogant Wynfield Archer, with her...
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Fern Michaels, Author Zebra Books $7.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8217-6657-6
The latest by Michaels (Celebration) is an eventful tale of sisterly love and simmering obsession. When their parents die suddenly under mysterious circumstances, five-year-old Abby Evans and her six-year-old sister, Mallory, are adopted by their...
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Fern Michaels, Author Ballantine Books $18 (387p) ISBN 978-0-345-36775-4
Michaels ( Vixen in Velvet ) provides an ample serving of schmaltz in this romantic potboiler linking a half-French, half-American army nurse and a wealthy idealist who volunteers for Vietnam to escape his power hungry father and icy wife. The...
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Fern Michaels, Author Ballantine Books $19 (351p) ISBN 978-0-345-36776-1
The final installment (after Texas Fury ) in Michaels's series about the Coleman clan and its aeronautics and fashion empires opens with family matriarch Billie Coleman Kingsley receiving bad medical news. Meanwhile, Billie's daughter Maggie is...
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Fern Michaels, Author Ballantine Books $21.95 (522p) ISBN 978-0-345-36774-7
In pleasant prose fortified by good plotting, prolific author Michaels ( Texas Sunrise ) tells the story of Ruby Connors, who bolts from her hometown of Barstow, Penn., as soon as she graduates from high school, happily leaving behind her abusive...
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Fern Michaels. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4201-1193-4
Michaels's 19th installment in her Sisterhood series (after Cross Roads) is slow-paced and underwhelming, choked with dialogue and saddled with a laughable villain. When the president of the United States gives the directors of the FBI, CIA, and...
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Fern Michaels, Zebra, $7.99 mass market (362p) ISBN 978-1-4201-1194-1
It's not a global terror ring, but the desire for a personal life that threatens the Sisters in Michaels's subdued 20th—and last—Sisterhood installment (after 2010's Déja Vu). Sisters leader Myra Rutledge Martin, her husband, Sir Charles, and Annie...
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Fern Michaels. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7954-5
Bestseller Michaels (Déjà Vu) mixes love and vengeance in this fast-paced but somewhat old-fashioned romantic thriller. Alex and Kate Rocket enjoy a rock-solid marriage and a simple life, with wealthy Alex raising golden retrievers and Kate throwing
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Fern Michaels. Kensington, $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2717-1
A smooth-sippin' blend of familiar plot elements, characters, and relationships, written with Michaels's trademark good-enough-on-the-first-draft facility, this contemporary thriller-romance is set primarily in Miami and the Florida Keys. Patrick "Ti
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Fern Michaels. Kensington, $15 trade paper (282p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2722-5
The Godmothers are back and Michaels picks up the perfunctory tale where she last left it. Toots and her friends have taken up séances and discover, between a pair of "bloodcurdling screams," that Ida's husband, Thomas, didn't die of food poisoning...
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Fern Michaels. Kensington, $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7582-7479-3
Michaels's newest (after Betrayal) is a simple summer read that should please fans looking for a quick escape. In 2000, defense attorney Mikala Aulani lost a case that resulted in her client, Sophie Lee, being convicted of a murder that Kala still...
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Fern Michaels. Kensington, $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61773-460-1
After 21 years, brutal injustice gets its due in this somewhat roughly written story of secrets, revenge, and personal redemption from bestseller Michaels. Maddy Carmichael is a poor but honest and hardworking Florida high school senior. Her no-accou
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Fern Michaels, Author, JoAnn Ross, Author, Mary Burton, Author . Zebra $7.99 (393p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0363-2
Seven well-known authors contribute to two holiday romance anthologies.
Silver Bells
Fern Michaels
, JoAnn Ross
, Mary Burton
and Judy Duarte
. Zebra
, $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0363-2
Bestseller Michaels (Hokus Pokus
) headlines a quartet of...
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Fern Michaels, Author, Beverly Barton, Author, Joanne Fluke, Author . Zebra $7.99 (431p) ISBN 978-0-8217-8047-3
Sweet is the word for this anthology from four top Kensington writers. Barton's contribution, about two strangers snowed in after a Tennessee storm, is the steamy standout. Michaels creates a paean to childhood disappointment, but the romance...
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Fern Michaels, Cathy Lamb, Mary Carter, and Terri DuLong, Zebra, $7.99 mass market (472p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0835-4
Four holiday (i.e., Christmas) romance novellas offer traditional (i.e., often predictable) heartwarming vibes. In Michaels's "Holiday Magic," single mom Stephanie, finally away from her abusive marriage, works at a Colorado ski lodge for handsome...
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Fern Michaels, Elizabeth Bass, Rosalind Noonan, and Nan Rossiter. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0836-1
This swoon-worthy collection of novellas hits the holiday sweet spot. In Michaels’s title story, singleton Melanie McLaughlin dreams of adopting far more than she frets about her empty love life, but everything comes together when she’s offered two...
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Fern Michaels. Kensington, $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1451-0
Michaels creatively combines suspense and romance as the chief of staff to a D.C. congressman learns that her boss has killed himself under suspicious circumstances. CJ Jansen has worked for Congressman Snapper Lewis ever since she graduated from...
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Fern Michaels. Kensington, $26 (262p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1456-5
A new relationship throws a woman’s family into danger in this soapy, melodramatic romance from Michaels (the Sisterhood series). Widow Anna Campbell, a popular 41-year-old lifestyle vlogger from Lubbock, Tex., goes on a singles cruise to find...
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