Renée Ahdieh et al., read by multiple narrators. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 14 CDs, 15 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-451-48621-9
A stylistically diverse group of authors commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original Stars Wars film with this anthology of short stories about minor characters from the film. The collection assembles big-name authors from the realms of comics (
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Meg Cabot, Author . Scholastic Point $16.99 (340p) ISBN 978-0-545-04052-5
Cabot (the Princess Diaries series) dishes up all the story ingredients her fans have come to know and love—romance, humor, believable teen dialogue and even a fantastical twist. This last bit requires a major suspension of disbelief, but...
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Meg Cabot. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-173478-6
Cabot (Big Boned) returns to her Heather Wells series with this fourth mystery. When Tania Trace, the new wife of Heather’s ex, Jordan, becomes involved in a murder during the first annual “Tania Trace Rock Camp,” New York College dorm Fischer Hall...
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperTrophy $5.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-380-81402-2
A teenager living in modern-day Greenwich Village in New York City discovers that she is now the heir apparent to the throne in a European country, in this novel, soon to be a motion picture starring Julie Andrews. Ages 12-up. (July)
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (383p) ISBN 978-0-06-123292-3
The Princess Diaries wraps up in a series finale certain to please the legions of Princess Mia fans. Cabot shows off her singular ability to retread her story lines while leaving audiences breathless to get to the last page: Mia will be certain that
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Meg Cabot, Author HarperCollins Children's Books $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-380-97848-9
""This is how NOT a princess I am. I am so NOT a princess that when my dad started telling me I was one, I totally started crying."" Raised in a Greenwich Village loft in New York City by her flaky-but-loving artist mother, ninth grader Mia...
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Meg Cabot, Author HarperCollins $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-029465-6
In a follow-up to The Princess Diaries soon to be a film starring Julie Andrews Meg Cabot chronicles Mia's crowning as princess of Genovia in Princess in the Spotlight. The new monarch quickly discovers the power of an interview, as she nearly...
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Meg Cabot, Author HarperCollins $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-009610-6
In the fifth book in Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series, Princess in Pink, high school drama centers on the prom for Mia Thermopolis and her friends. A citywide strike threatens the very existence of the prom (which, horrifically, Mia's...
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Meg Cabot, Morrow, $22.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-173506-6
Cabot (Princess Diaries) winningly applies her trademark likably fallible protagonists and breezy storytelling to a vampire war in New York City. TV writer Meena Harper creates fabulous plots for Insatiable, the second-highest–rated soap opera,...
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Meg Cabot, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-029467-0
Her Royal Highness Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo of Genovia, also known as Mia, prepares to meet the populace of her newfound kingdom all while trying to dump one boyfriend for another in Princess in Love, the third in ...
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Meg Cabot, Author HarperCollins Publishers $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-009607-6
The fourth in the Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting, finds Mia highly respected in Genovia for her fashion sense but criticized for her views on installing parking meters. Her heartthrob keeps canceling their dates, algebra looms,
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Meg Cabot. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-237908-5
Cabot charms in the latest installation of her Princess Diaries series (after Forever Princess), the 11th book and the first geared to adults. Lovably neurotic Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia has plenty on her plate—dodging the paparazzi and...
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Meg Cabot. Feiwel and Friends, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-250-06602-2
The nation of Genovia gains a new
resident in this amusing spin-off of Cabot’s Princess Diaries series: self-effacing, biracial Olivia, a 12-year-old aspiring wildlife artist who discovers
that she is the half-sister of Princess Mia Thermopolis....
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Meg Cabot, Author HarperCollins Publishers $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-054065-4
The fourth in the Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, Princess in Waiting, finds Mia highly respected in Genovia for her fashion sense but criticized for her views on installing parking meters. Her heartthrob keeps canceling their dates, algebra looms,
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Meg Cabot, Author HarperTempest $19.99 (126p) ISBN 978-0-06-058745-1
The highly popular saga of an ordinary-girl-turned-princess is dressed up in a hot pink boxed set of paperbacks, The Princess Diaries: Volumes I-III by Meg Cabot. In The Princess Diaries, Manhattan high-school student Mia Thermopolis finds out-to
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Meg Cabot, Author William Morrow & Company $21.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-06-085198-9
Cabot, author of the wildly popular Princess Diaries, delivers another charmer, this time taking on the misadventures of a college girl looking for Mr. Right in Europe. Fresh out of the Univ. of Michigan with a B.A. in history of fashion, Lizzie...
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Meg Cabot, Author HarperCollins Publishers $9.99 (85p) ISBN 978-0-06-075433-4
It's back to Genovia in The Princess Present: A Princess Diaries Book by Meg Cabot, the sixth title in the series. Meg's friend, Lilly, and beau, Michael, are coming to visit her in Genovia for Christmas, and Mia wants to make sure everything is...
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Meg Cabot, Author Avon Books $13.99 (434p) ISBN 978-0-06-057588-5
The royal Mia's legion fans can get two for the price of one with The Princess Diaries, Volumes I & II: Mia Tells It Like It Is by Meg Cabot, which includes the first pair of titles in the series, The Princess Diaries and Princess in the Spotlight....
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Meg Cabot, Author Harper Teen $13.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-059001-7
Two previously released titles from the series about the monarch of Genovia reappear in a paperback compilation in The Princess Diaries, Volumes III & IV: The Highs and Lows of Being Mia by Meg Cabot, which contains Princess in Love and Princess in...
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Meg Cabot. Scholastic/Point, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-545-28410-3
The wildly rich and beautiful Pierce Oliviera died and came back to life—"I was flatline for over an hour." Ever since, her life has been exceedingly complicated. Two years after Pierce's near-death experience, the 17-year-old has been expelled from
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Meg Cabot. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-0617-3479-3
Bestseller Cabot neatly blends crime, humor, and a touch of romance in her fifth Heather Wells whodunit (after 2012’s Size 12 and Ready to Rock). While handling the demands of freshmen orientation at Manhattan’s New York College, Heather also...
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Meg Cabot. Morrow, $22.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-173510-3
Meena Harper is a soap opera writer turned psychic demon hunter who still carries a torch for her vampire ex, Lucien Antonescu—Dracula's morally ambivalent son. Not only is Meena caught between her love for the elusive vampire and her attraction to...
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Meg Cabot, Author . Scholastic $15.99 (228p) ISBN 978-0-545-03947-5
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In Cabot's (the Princess Diaries) first foray into novels for kids who are still in single digits, her trademark frank humor makes for compulsive reading—as always. The first installment of a new series
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-447279-1
This follow-up to the Princess Diaries, the inspiration for the film starring Julie Andrews, chronicles Mai's crowning as princess of Geneva. The new monarch quickly discovers the power of an interview, as she nearly gets a teacher fired and...
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-029469-4
Cabot (The Princess Diaries) presents another teen-pleasing novel—and another likable heroine—in this story set in Washington, D.C. Feisty, red-haired Samantha, a self-described "urban rebel" who has dyed all of her clothes black,
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (, $5.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-06-052568-2
The third installment of this series finds Her Royal Highness (aka Mia) preparing to meet the populace of Genovia while trying to dump one boyfriend for another. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Meg Cabot, Author . Avon $13.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-009619-9
In her debut adult novel, Cabot (known for her extremely successful young adult fiction series the Princess Diaries, published under the name Meg Cabot) relies entirely on highly amusing e-mails to tell a fetching meet-cute story. New York City...
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperTrophy $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-447277-7
In another teen-pleasing novel from the author of the Princess Diaries books, a feisty 15-year-old self-described "urban rebel" finds that her life suddenly changes when she foils an attempt to assassinate the president. "A convincing...
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Meg Cabot, Author . Avon Trade $13.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-008545-2
This latest adult novel by the prolific Cabot (she's responsible for the über-popular Princess Diaries franchise) unfolds, like 2002's The Boy Next Doo
r, entirely through e-mails, journals, instant messages, phone mail, deposition...
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (291p) ISBN 978-0-06-009616-8
Cabot (Princess Diaries
) revisits her Hoosier roots, taking something of a break from the glitzy world of Genovia's royalty. But not too much of a break, since this brisk and bubbly tale explores what happens when teen heartthrob Luke Striker...
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Meg Cabot, Author . Avon $12.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-06-008546-9
A day-by-day travel journal intended as a first anniversary present for Jane Harris's best friend, Holly, turns into Jane's rollicking private diary account of the madcap events leading up to Holly and Mark's Italian countryside...
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Meg Cabot, Author . Harper-Trophy $6.99 (275p) ISBN 978-0-06-009612-0
In the fifth book in the Princess Diaries series, high school drama centers on the prom for Mia Thermopolis and her friends. A citywide strike threatens the very existence of the prom and various friendships are tested. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperTrophy $8.99 (291p) ISBN 978-0-06-009618-2
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "Cabot's brisk and bubbly tale explores what happens when teen heartthrob Luke Striker attempts to spend a week posing as an ordinary high school student in a small Indiana town." Ages 12-up. (Aug.)
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Meg Cabot, Author . Avon $12.95 (345p) ISBN 978-0-06-052511-8
Bag the tiara and get out the gun: Heather Wells, former teen idol, turns detective in the cute debut of a new mystery series from bestseller Cabot (The Princess Project
and other titles in her Princess Diaries series). After the 20-something...
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperCollins $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-075586-7
Cabot (the Princess Diaries) brings the Arthurian legend to modern times in this clever novel. Ellie's parents are medieval studies professors on sabbatical in Annapolis, where Avalon High's senior class president tells her he feels a...
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperTempest $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-088012-5
Steph Landry is tired of being unpopular ("If anyone in school does anything remotely crack-headed or dorky, people are all, 'Don't pull a Steph!' "). After she discovers an old guide to popularity, she resolves to improve her...
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Meg Cabot. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-237877-4
Bestseller Cabot’s novel, told entirely through documents such as emails and transcripts, concerns smalltown Indiana woman Becky Flowers, whose ex-boyfriend Reed Stewart returns to Bloomville after 10 years away as a famous pro golfer. Reed’s...
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Meg Cabot, Author . Avon $13.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-06-052512-5
In Cabot's entertaining, if flawed, second cozy (after 2006's Size 12 Is Not Fat
) to feature Heather Wells, a teen music idol turned student-life employee at NYU-like New York College, a cheerleader in Heather's dorm turns up dead—
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Meg Cabot, Author . Morrow $22.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-06-085200-9
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Midway though Cabot's latest novel, Chaz (the boyfriend of protagonist Lizzie Nichols's best friend) tells Lizzie, “Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail...
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (260p) ISBN 978-0-06-088015-6
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he summer before senior year, life looks good for Katie Ellison, girlfriend of football player Seth Turner (who has “the most sought-after tongue in all of Eastport”). She's waitressing at the Gull 'n Gulp and making out on...
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Meg Cabot, Author . Tokyopop $7.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-42780106-7
This manga adaptation of Cabot’s 2005 novel tells the story of a perfectly ordinary high school girl—who happens to be dating the reincarnation of King Arthur. Ellie Harrison moves to a new town and a new school, and soon finds herself...
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Meg Cabot, Author . HarperCollins $16.99 (262p) ISBN 978-0-06-083764-8
Jean, aka Jinx, has been a “bad luck magnet” since the moment she was born, when a freak thunderstorm caused a hospital blackout. Now, due to a vaguely described incident involving a stalker, she has moved from Iowa to stay with her aunt&
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Meg Cabot, Author . Avon $13.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-06-052513-2
Cabot's cute third crime fest featuring Heather Wells, teen pop sensation turned 20-something college student (last seen in 2006's Size 14 Is Not Fat Either
), tackles the recent graduate student union controversy at NYU-like New York...
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Meg Cabot, Author . Morrow $22.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-06-085202-3
When last seen, the irrepressible Lizzie Nichols was canoodling with Chaz after she and Luke, Chaz’s best friend, broke up (Queen of Babble in the Big City
, 2007). Now—shocker alert—Luke returns to New York and slips a three-carat
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Meg Cabot, Author, Tara Sands, Read by , read by Tara Sands. Scholastic Audiobooks $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-545-03948-2
Sands, known to audiobook aficionados as the teen gumshoe in Wendelin Van Draanen's Sammy Keyes series, brings all the angst of a powerless tween to bear in voicing this novel, first in a series. Nine-year-old Allie is unhappy that her parents...
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Meg Cabot, Author, Ilyana Kadushin, Read by , read by Ilyana Kadushin. HarperAudio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-112169-2
Kadushin is perfect and perfectly adorable in the role of Lizzie, the bubbly, idealistic "History of Fashion" major whose naïveté, cluelessness and inability to keep her mouth shut land her in one amusing scrape after another....
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Meg Cabot, Author, TBA, Read by, Anne Hathaway, Read by , read by Anne Hathaway. Listening Library $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8072-0431-3
Youthful actress Hathaway, who stars in the forthcoming (Aug. 3) Disney film version of Cabot's novel, reprises her role as the reluctant royal Mia Thermopolis on this perky audio adaptation. Hathaway convincingly voices every nuance of...
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Meg Cabot, Author, Chesley McLaren, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $12.99 (143p) ISBN 978-0-06-052679-5
Interactive concepts dress up a variety of new titles for girls. On the subject of royal dos and don'ts, Perfect Princess: A Princess Diaries Book by Meg Cabot, illus. by Chesley McLaren, provides witty history and how-to information regarding ...
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Meg Cabot, Author, Chesley McLaren, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $12.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-052677-1
Fans of the Princess Diaries will not want to miss Meg Cabot's Princess Lessons: A Princess Diaries Book, illus. by Chesley McLaren, delivered with the series' signature wicked humor (between the paper-over-board covers in a princessiest of pink
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Book Wish Foundation. Putnam, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-25454-3
Short stories that revolve around wishes form this volume created to raise money for Book Wish Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to build libraries for Darfur refugees living in Chad. Mixing poems, stories, and even a comic, the book...
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Jen Weiner, Author, Meg Cabot, Author, Sophie Kinsella, Author . Red Dress Ink $13.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-373-25074-5
The third installment (the first to be published in the U.S.) in a British-originated series, this uneven anthology of stories by chick lit's bright lights showcases some engaging voices. Many of the selections, however, lack focus and shape,...
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Meg Cabot. Morrow, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-291357-9
This lighthearted romance by Cabot (The Boy Is Back) has dark undertones as its characters grapple with a ferocious hurricane and the aftermath of sexual assault. Feeling betrayed by her mother and boyfriend, who failed to take her trauma seriously,
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Meg Cabot. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06289-007-8
Though Cabot’s prose is characteristically lively in her second Little Bridge Island novel (after No Judgements), the cookie-cutter characters and anticlimactic mystery make this a rare stumble. Molly Montgomery is all too aware that she’s been “turn
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Meg Cabot. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-289009-2
Bestseller Cabot’s third Little Bridge Island rom-com (after No Offense) tackles weightier issues than it can support but is nevertheless buoyed by its effervescent elements. Bestselling author Jo Wright thought she and fellow bestseller Will Price...
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Meg Cabot. Avon, $8.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-329193-5
Bestseller Cabot’s charming 12th foray into the world of the Princess Diaries (after Royal Wedding) injects levity and light into life in lockdown. The conceit is this: at the height of the Covid pandemic, Princess Mia Thermapolis of Genovia shared...
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Meg Cabot. Avon, $18.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-326837-1
With this adorable paranormal rom-com, bestseller Cabot (the Princess Diaries series) launches a fun and spooky series set on Connecticut’s Long Island Sound. A few incantation mistakes as a teenager resulted in Jessica Gold’s exclusion from the...
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Meg Cabot, illus. by Cara McGee. DC Zoom, $9.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-8620-0
In this fun romp, Cabot (Royal Crown) and McGee (Dodge City) give DC’s heroine, Black Canary, an origin story as a young teen. Dinah Lance and her band mates Vee and Kat are preparing for the Gotham City Junior High battle of the bands when her...
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