Jennifer Weiner, Author . S&S/Atria $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1819-5
Weiner, whose debut novel Good in Bed
was an instant bestseller, is back with another exuberantly confident offering. Twenty-eight-year-old Maggie Fuller relies on her looks and size zero body to flirt her way through life while working dozens of...
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Jennifer Weiner. Atria, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4767-2340-2
In this generous, entertaining memoir, novelist Weiner (Who Do You Love), known for her plus-size heroines, authentic voice, and hilarious one-liners, offers her fans and others a front-row seat to the drama of her life. Born to bookish Jewish...
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Jennifer Weiner. Atria, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1781-8
Weiner (All Fall Down) tugs at the heartstrings with her latest tale of angst and love. Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are eight years old when they meet in a Miami hospital's emergency room. Rachel has a congenital heart deformity that has required...
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Jennifer Weiner. Atria, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1778-8
Bestselling author Weiner (The Next Best Thing) takes us down the slippery slope of prescription drug addiction in this page-turning saga about a working mom, Allison Weiss, who uses pills to deal with recurrent pain, not to mention life’s...
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Jennifer Weiner. Atria, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1772-6
Weiner (Best Friends Forever) revisits girls-are-their-own-best-friends territory with this savvy tale of a profoundly unorthodox family, unspooling the impossibly complicated and hopeful tale of how baby Aurora was born. The players: beautiful,...
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Jennifer Weiner, Atria, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9427-0
Weiner (Best Friends Forever) weaves a forgettable family drama with three weakly connected storylines: mother Sylvie Woodruff long ago sacrificed herself to become the perfect politician's wife, but the revelation of her husband's infidelity sends...
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Jennifer Weiner, Author Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1816-4
It is temping at first—but unwise—to assume Candace Shapiro is yet another Bridget Jones. Feisty, funny and less self-hating than her predecessor, Cannie is a 28-year-old Philadelphia Examiner reporter preoccupied with her weight and men, but able...
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Jennifer Weiner, Author Atria $26 (376p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7011-7
Chick Lit star Weiner's fourth novel, following In Her Shoes (2002), which has been adapted as a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, follows bored, upper-middle class, suburbanite mother of three Kate Klein as she becomes entangled in a...
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Jennifer Weiner, Author . Atria $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7009-4
In her first and second bestsellers, Good in Bed
and In Her Shoes
, Weiner came up with female characters so smart, lovable and mordantly funny that they reminded readers that Bridget Jones wasn't the first single woman to light up a bestseller
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Jennifer Weiner, Author . Atria $26.95 (359p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9429-4
Chick lit doyenne Weiner offers airtight proof that the genre thrives with this clever, sad and sweet turn on Thelma and Louise
–style rage. Juggling the politics of broken families, heartbreaking betrayal and shaky self-esteem, two girlhood...
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Jennifer Weiner, Author , Atria $26.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9425-6
Following the story collection The Guy Not Taken
, Weiner turns in a hilarious sequel to her 2001 bestselling first novel, Good in Bed
, revisiting the memorable and feisty Candace “Cannie†Shapiro. Flashing forward 13 years, the novel follows...
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Jennifer Weiner, Author . Atria $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3520-1
This collection of 11 stories written over the past 15 years reads like a series of studies for Weiner's larger chick lit portraits. As in the novels (Goodnight Nobody
; Good in Bed
), smart, acerbic, 30-something women battle dating damage and...
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Jennifer Weiner, Author, Adriana Trigiani, Author, Lauren Weisberger, Author et al. Downtown Press $13 (369p) ISBN 978-0-7434-9695-7
Now that the Scottish girls and the Irish girls have had their chance (Irish Girls About Town; Scottish Girls About Town
), a delightful—if uneven—new collection of 17 stories from American women authors hits the scene. While many...
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Jennifer Weiner, read by Olivia Thirlby. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 12 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-48905
Weiner's novel follows the journey of Ruth Saunders, who sets off for Hollywood to become a television writer—with her 70-year-old grandmother along for the ride. Although ambitious and talented, Ruth is still disfigured from a car accident that...
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Jennifer Weiner, illus. by Sara Mulvanny. Aladdin, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4814-7074-2
Bestselling adult author Weiner (In Her Shoes) makes a winning children’s book debut with this witty story of outcasts coming together, first in a trilogy. With her outsize height and unruly mane of hair, 12-year-old Alice Mayfair doesn’t fit...
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Jennifer Weiner, Author, TBA, Read by, Jennifer Weiner, Read by , read by the author. Simon & Schuster Audio $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-3622-6
Novels that shift among multiple points of view, such as this one, are often read by multiple narrators, or at least one very skilled actor. Weiner is, unfortunately, no actor, and her reading, while serviceable, doesn't do the book justice....
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Jennifer Weiner, read by Emma Galvin, Keith Nobbs, and Jen Ponton. S&S Audio, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 7 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-5082-2261-3
This sweet and engaging middle school story about a budding friendship translates beautifully to audio. Twelve-year-old Alice Mayfair feels like a misfit: ignored by her rich socialite parents, shuttled from school to school, self-conscious about...
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Jennifer Weiner, Author, Kate Baldwin, Read by, Rick Holmes, Read by , read by Kate Baldwin and Rick Holmes. Audioworks $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-8231-5
Reclusive 33-year-old illustrator Addie Downs opens her front door late one night to reveal her childhood best friend, Valerie Adler, whom she hasn't seen since high school. Valerie is in trouble, and Addie drops everything to bail out her...
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Jennifer Weiner, Author, Mary Catherine Garrison, Read by, Jordan Bridges, Read by Simon & Schuster Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-6421-2
Garrison gives a fine reading of Weiner's collection of short stories about girls and women at various points in their lives (and one about a young man at a crossroads). As a narrator, Garrison's style is unobtrusive and understated; she reads with...
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Jennifer Weiner. Atria, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3348-0
Bestseller Weiner brilliantly crafts this heartwrenching multigenerational tale of love, loss, and family, which is partly inspired by Little Women. As sisters Jo and Bethie Kaufman move into a new home in Detroit in 1951, they are excited by all of
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Jennifer Weiner. Atria, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3351-0
Weiner’s story of female friendships (after Mrs. Everything) mixes a splash of romance, a dash of humor, and a pinch of mystery to create a deliciously bloody poolside cocktail. Daphne Berg, a young woman struggling with her weight and self-esteem,...
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Jennifer Weiner. Atria, $28 (418p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3354-1
Weiner follows up Big Summer with another emotionally charged drama, this one centered on a #MeToo reckoning. Diana Shoemaker has been known as Daisy ever since marrying her husband, Hal. But when she begins receiving emails intended for another “Dia
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Jennifer Weiner. Atria, $28 (438p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3357-2
A family’s secrets and entanglements flare up during a Cape Cod wedding in this first-rate page-turner from Weiner (Big Summer). Ruby Danhauser, 22, plans to marry her boyfriend, Gabe, at her step-grandmother Veronica’s beach house, and the choice...
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Jennifer Weiner. Atria, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-66803-342-5
Weiner’s charming latest (after The Summer Place) follows a cyclist as she contemplates her life during an Upstate New York bike tour. Abby Stern, 33, began cycling years ago to fight negative feelings about her weight, which had been exacerbated by
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