Gayle Forman, Author . Rodale $23.95 (325p) ISBN 978-1-59486-037-9
Despite a title that draws on an insult and a simplistic premise—that there are "pink" and "blue" styles of self-presentation—Lichtenberg's latest contribution to fem-biz lit offers an intellectually and emotionally...
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Gayle Forman, Author . HarperCollins $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-088747-6
Like a cross between Girl, Interrupted
and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
, journalist Forman's first book for teens tells the gritty tale of five girls trapped in a “residential treatment center” run by bogus shrinks or, as...
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Gayle Forman, Author . Dutton $16.99 (201p) ISBN 978-0-525-42103-0
The last normal moment that Mia, a talented cellist, can remember is being in the car with her family. Then she is standing outside her body beside their mangled Buick and her parents’ corpses, watching herself and her little brother being...
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Gayle Forman, Dutton, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-525-42294-5
"I know it's really cheesy—crass even—to compare my being dumped to the accident that killed Mia's family, but I can't help it. Because for me, at any rate, the aftermath felt exactly the same." Forman follows up her bestselling If I Stay with a...
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Gayle Forman. Dutton, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-42591-5
The love story in Forman’s If I Stay and Where She Went was wrapped in the finality of death. This story—about the romance between Allyson, a recent high school grad, and Willem, a handsome Dutch actor she meets during a whirlwind tour of Europe—is...
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Gayle Forman. Dutton, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-42592-2
Those who have read Forman’s Just One Day (published earlier this year) already know what happened to Allyson, the foreign exchange student whose whirlwind romance with a Dutch actor, Willem, was cut short. In this companion novel, Forman shares...
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Gayle Forman. Viking, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-451-47147-5
As she did in If I Stay, Forman offers an introspective examination of the line between life and death, and the courage it takes to persist. College freshman Meg’s suicide shocks no one more than her best friend Cody. To make Meg’s death even more...
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Gayle Forman. Algonquin, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61620-617-8
YA author Forman’s successful foray into adult fiction features a New York City magazine editor, Maribeth Klein, an über-organized mom who is juggling her stressful job, a self-involved husband, and a set of preschool twins that are a handful. She’s
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Gayle Forman. Viking, $18.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-425-29077-4
After being brought together by an accident in New York City’s Central Park, three struggling teenagers form a fast, powerful friendship in Forman’s elegant and understated novel, which alternates between their day together and flashback sections...
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Gayle Forman, read by Nicole Lewis, Sunil Malhotra, and Michael Crouch. Books on Tape, unabridged, 6 CDs, 7.5 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-525-63627-4
With varying degrees of success, three actors lend their voices to the audio edition of Forman’s YA novel. The story centers on three young adults, all hurting in unseen ways, who stumble upon one another in Central Park and become ad hoc family...
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Gayle Forman. Viking, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-29080-4
Embittered in the wake of his older brother’s overdose and death as well as his mother’s abandonment, 19-year-old Aaron Stein, who is white and Jewish, feels like one of the doomed dinosaurs he obsessively reads about. He’s been forced to run his...
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Gayle Forman. Aladdin, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5344-8253-1
It’s 1987 in Venice, Calif., and 10-year-old Beatrice “Bug” Contreras, who is of Salvadoran descent, is certain that her summer has been ruined when her older brother Danny suddenly insists on being called Daniel and needs space from Bug and their...
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Gayle Forman. Aladdin, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-665943-27-7
Twelve-year-old, white-cued Alex’s mother has been missing for almost a year. Now sleeping on a lumpy couch in the home of his indifferent aunt and uncle, Alex harbors a simmering anger that soon boils over into an act of violence. A sympathetic...
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Gayle Forman. Quill Tree, $19.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-334614-7
High school senior Amber Crane bikes home from school one spring day per usual—only to learn that she’s been dead for seven years. Stranger still, though Amber’s family can see, hear, and touch her, they aren’t as she remembers them. Complicated...
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