Nancy Thayer, Author Scribner Book Company $0 (262p) ISBN 978-0-684-18855-3
The one flaw in the marriage of blond, voluptuous Sara Kendall and her blond, virile husband Steve, the one ill wind ruffling the calm of their home on Nantucket, is Sara's inability to conceive a child. Thayer's plodding narrative focuses on Sara's
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Nancy Thayer. Ballantine, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-52871-1
Like its title suggests, Thayer's newest (after Heat Wave) is a light bit of chick-lit that's nice while it lasts, but ultimately unmemorable. Set in the Berkshires, this is the story of one tumultuous summer spent on the shores of Dragonfly Lake,...
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Nancy Thayer, Author Ballantine Books $21.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-345-48553-3
In their fourth outing (after Hot Flash Holidays), Thayer's menopausal quintet are in dire need of downtime. Marilyn wants to plan her wedding to Ian, but is too busy keeping together a hectic household. Faye's yearlong relationship with older...
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Nancy Thayer, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-312-20613-0
Two Massachusetts families live out a decade of births, deaths, secrets and infidelities in this moving 12th novel from Thayer (An Act of Love). Narrator Lucy West, 37, is a self-employed mother of two; her husband, Max, edits the local newspaper in
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Nancy Thayer, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-15471-4
Owen and Linda McFarland, both novelists, have been married for seven years and reside on a Massachusetts farm with Bruce and Emily, the children from each of their respective first marriages. Their uneventful existence is disrupted, however, when...
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Nancy Thayer, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-312-13026-8
Not since Murphy Brown has single motherhood looked as glitzy as it does in Thayer's (Family Secrets; Everlasting) lavish working-woman's fantasy. Devoted as she is to her work, Joanna Jones, hostess and creator of the wildly popular TV program...
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Nancy Thayer, Author Viking Books $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-84439-5
With quiet intensity, Thayer ( Everlasting ) tells an engrossing story of three generations of proud and rebellious women. As a girl, Jean Marshall had seemed the epitome of virtue and obedience, qualities demanded by her naval-officer father and...
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Nancy Thayer, Author Viking Books $19.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-83570-6
Thayer's ( Stepping ) eighth novel is a disappointment, a lightweight, predictable fairy tale of a young woman's success in business and in love. When 17-year-old Catherine Eliot decides not to attend college, her cruel, cold, socialite parents cut...
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Nancy Thayer, Author Scribner Book Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-18856-0
Though this timely romantic novel by bestselling author Thayer ( Stepping ; Three Women at the Water's Edge ) starts out slowly, it turns into a winner. Divorcee Daphne Miller is the mother of a 16-year-old daughter who takes off abruptly for...
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Nancy Thayer, Author Gale Cengage $0 (199p) ISBN 978-0-684-18950-5
Handsome, sensitive and talented, blessed with a good marriage and good friends, Willy Constable and her husband John seem to live a charmed existence. They know their move from an apartment in Boston to a Victorian house on Nantucket will require...
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Nancy Thayer, Author . St. Martin's $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-27734-5
Women who like to read about other women's troubles will enjoy Thayer's 14th novel (after Three Women at the Water's Edge; An Act of Love; etc.), which features a novice family court judge confronting a family melodrama of her own. Just...
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Nancy Thayer, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (388p) ISBN 978-0-312-95892-3
A successful TV personality must change her life when she accidentally becomes pregnant. (Oct.)
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Nancy Thayer, Author Signet Book $5.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-18032-2
An engrossing account of three generations of American women from the 1930s to the present. (May)
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Nancy Thayer, Author Signet Book $5.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-17250-1
A Literary Guild dual main selection in cloth, this is a predictable fairy tale of a young woman's success in love and the floral business. (June)
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Nancy Thayer, Author Ballantine 25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-51828-6
After her husband leaves her for one of her best friends, middle-aged Marina Warren takes a friend’s advice and retreats to Nantucket, the stomping grounds of her youth. She rents a cottage from handsome local widower Jim Fox, who has recently...
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Nancy Thayer, Author . Ballantine $24 (351p) ISBN 978-0-345-49820-5
Thayer (Shell Moon Beach
) explores the tarnished interior of a family of Boston bankers as well as the more polished exterior they display in public in this tepid melodrama. Charlotte Wheelwright has a guilty conscience, so she flees Boston for...
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Nancy Thayer, Author . Ballantine $24 (299p) ISBN 978-0-345-49818-2
Childhood friends Clare Hart and Lexi Laney work toward reconciliation in this bland novel by The Hot Flash Club
author. Lexi wants to leave stifling Nantucket, so when wealthy Ed Hardin proposes marriage, Lexi seizes the chance to live a life of...
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Nancy Thayer, Author . Ballantine $16.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-48551-9
Hot Flash buddies Faye, Alice, Marilyn, Shirley and newcomer Polly beat the postmenopausal blues by chattering, complaining, shopping, eating and laughing their way together through the series' third installment (after The
Hot Flash Club Strikes
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Nancy Thayer, Author . Ballantine $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-46917-5
Fans of The
Hot Flash Club
will be pleased that Shirley, Faye, Marilyn and Alice are doing fine—although Marilyn still needs nudging about her dowdy wardrobe and Alice's Thanksgiving was a headache. But in this sequel, the fab menopausal...
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Nancy Thayer, Author . Ballantine $21.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-46862-8
It's chick lit for the AARP crowd in Thayer's spirited but not very funny 14th novel. A chance meeting at a cocktail party brings four Boston-area women in their 50s and 60s together to found the titular club, in which they confess their...
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Nancy Thayer, Author, N. Thayer, Author Pinnacle Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55817-485-6
Divorcee Daphne Miller, whose 16-year-old daughter has left her abruptly for her ex-husband, adjusts to life alone, a lowly secretarial job at a college and the romantic overtures of married men. ``Despite Thayer's penchant for overly detailed and...
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Nancy Thayer. Ballantine, $27 (296p) ISBN 978-1-5247-9872-7
Childhood best friends who bond over their shared desire to be writers deal with the ups and downs of life, love, and family in the soapy latest from Thayer (A Nantucket Wedding). As girls on Nantucket, Keely Green and Isabelle Maxwell do...
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