Jackie Collins. St. Martin's, $27.99 (544p) ISBN 978-1-250-04823-3
Lucky Santangelo, the plucky, devilish heroine of Collins's mega-selling series, returns to defend her Las Vegas hotel and casino empire, the Keys, against Middle Eastern royalty and a menacing Columbian drug lord. Lucky was last seen valiantly...
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Jackie Collins. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (544p) ISBN 9780312567477
In Collins’s latest, five couples are invited aboard Russian billionaire Aleksandr Kasianenko’s yacht to celebrate the birthday of his supermodel girlfriend, Bianca. During the week away from it all, Taye Sherwin, a famous, black British footballer...
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Jackie Collins. St. Martin's, $26.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-312-56746-0
The 73-year-old chick lit doyenne of raunchy romance presents No. 27 with a revival of her most popular character, Lucky Santangelo (whose debut in the 1981 blockbuster Chances made the prolific Brit author as popular as big-sister actress Joan)....
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Jackie Collins, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-52500-2
As in Hollywood Wives, Collins (Lucky colorfully depicts the brash hedonists of Tinseltown, most of whom are motivated by avarice, lust and conceit. The central trio in this lengthy saga consists of movie star Mannon Cable, studio executive Howard...
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Jackie Collins, Author Avon Books $7.99 (624p) ISBN 978-0-06-101235-8
Lucky's husband, Lennie, is kidnapped in what PW called an ""easy, nasty read."" (Aug.)
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Jackie Collins, Author Simon & Schuster $26 (480p) ISBN 978-0-684-85031-3
Destined for bestsellerdom, Collins's latest is a typically steamy, fast-paced tale that skips from the glitz and excitement of New York's fast lane to the high-stakes, celebrity-rich world of Las Vegas. Magazine journalist Madison Castelli, first...
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Jackie Collins, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (560p) ISBN 978-0-684-85030-6
Lucky's back--and the myriad fans of the Santangelo novels (most recently, Vendetta) will be glued to the page. Once again, Lucky has the weight of the world on her gorgeous shoulders. Again, she triumphs in love and business, with enough violence...
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Jackie Collins, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (528p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1634-0
In the star-studded publishing cosmos of gossipy fiction, Collins orbits securely between the likes of Dominick Dunne and Danielle Steel. Overlooking the pulpy prose, cardboard characters and soap opera melodrama, her legions of eager faithful will...
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Jackie Collins, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (528p) ISBN 978-0-06-039209-3
Straight-from-the-hip dialogue, designer clothing and gangsters are all reliably in place in Collins's fourth novel to feature the Santangelo family, particularly Lucky, who now heads a Hollywood studio. In previous exploits, this multitalented...
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Jackie Collins, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (525p) ISBN 978-0-671-66627-9
Collins (Hollywood Wives; Hollywood Husbands) grabs fans with a no-holds-barred (and no subtlety shown) surefire bestseller spun around the disaffected children of Hollywood moguls. Tired of club-hopping and sexual flings, 24-year-old Jordanna...
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Jackie Collins, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66625-5
The best thing about Collins's latest fictional foray (after Lady Boss ) is that despite its length, it doesn't take long to read: there's precious little in it. Two-dimensional characters, hilariously improbable situations, wooden dialogue and an...
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Jackie Collins, Author . St. Martin’s $26.99 (472p) ISBN 978-0-312-56745-3
At 72, with 26 bestsellers under her belt, Collins (Drop Dead Beautiful
) prowls familiar terrain with this overheated tale of the filthy rich, nasty poor, and cravenly ambitious. Collins picks up the saga of the Santangelos with spoiled-brat...
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Jackie Collins, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-34179-4
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t's not easy being rich, gorgeous, successful and a happily married mom, but Mafia princess turned Hollywood producer and real estate mogul Lucky Santangelo, last seen in 1999's Dangerous Kiss
, again proves up to the challenge. In...
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Jackie Collins, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (498p) ISBN 978-0-312-34177-0
Take one vindictive aging tycoon and three charismatic, ambitious sons; add one naïve heiress, one aspiring R&B diva, one British (titled, natch) lady of the house; throw in a dash of Russian mafia, kinky sex, a pinch of rap mogul, fabulous
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Jackie Collins, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1649-4
Faithful Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
(2001) fans will flock to Collins's latest Tinseltown soap opera, which isn't a sequel but a rehash—after all, who can tire of gorgeous, transposable, ambitious, sex-driven jet-setters...
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Jackie Collins, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (528p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1648-7
The godmother of glam/vamp fiction returns with a campy prequel/sequel to Lethal Seduction, digging down and dirty to find the roots of celebrity journalist Madison Castelli's twisted family tree. Madison, first introduced in Collins's L.A....
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Jackie Collins, read by Sydney Tamiia Poitier and Teddy Cañez. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-3930-3
Ambitious, cunning Lucky Santangelo, daughter of gangster Gino Santangelo, is one of Jackie Collins’s most popular heroines. In this prequel, Collins goes back in time to tell the tale of Lucky’s misspent youth as a wild 15-year-old: fooling around...
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Jackie Collins, read by Jackie Collins, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Holter Graham, Euan Morton, and January LaVoy. MacMillan Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-2926-7
This latest steamy tale from Collins centers on a luxurious cruise featuring an elite group of men and women from the realms of politics, business, entertainment, and sports who must face both their own scandals and the threat of an international...
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Jackie Collins, Author, Jackie Collins, Read by, Ilyana Kadushin, Read by , read by the author and others. Macmillan Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0406-6
The prolific Collins's latest book details the lives of three Southern California couples and throws all of their dirty laundry into the street. Filled with the traditional Collins clichés, the story is far from original; however, the...
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Jackie Collins, Author, Sydney Poitier, Read by, Jack Scalia, Read by , read by the author and others. Audio Renaissance $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59397-854-9
The use of four narrators adds energy, interest and spice to Collins's tale of the glamorous and tawdry lives of the rich and beautiful. Each narrator handles chapters told primarily from his or her assigned characters' point of view. Rather
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Jackie Collins, Author, Bill Grose, Editor Pocket Books $7.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74418-2
Lucky Santangelo hopes to surprise her husband by purchasing a film studio in this ``hilarious satire of Hollywood passion, porn and politics.'' Also featured is lusty singer Venus Maria, whose macho brother sells her out to the tabloids. According...
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