Nicholas Sparks, Author . Warner $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-446-52778-1
Sweet, accessible, uplifting and predictable, the latest love story from Sparks (The Notebook) leaves the reader with just one burning question: Why is this consummate beach book being published in the fall? The nearly thwarted but eventually...
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Nicholas Sparks, Author . Warner $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-446-53133-7
Sparks (A Bend in the Road, etc.) logs more miles on the winding high road of romance with the story of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe. The impassioned but doomed romance seems to owe...
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Nicholas Sparks, Author . Warner $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-52779-8
On Christmas Eve, Julie Barenson, 25 years old and newly widowed, finds an unexpected present—a Great Dane pup that her late husband, Jim, had arranged for her to receive after he died from a brain tumor. On that melodramatic note, bestselling
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Nicholas Sparks, Author . Warner $23.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-446-53245-7
Sparks's 1996 debut novel, The Notebook, was a fast and easy read that sold millions upon millions of copies. Other bestselling love stories followed (Message in a Bottle; A Walk to Remember; The Guardian), but Sparks's fans have from the...
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Nicholas Sparks, Author . Warner $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-53243-3
Charming, divorced Jeremy Marsh is a rising star. As a dashing, successful 37-year-old Manhattan science journalist, his skeptical scrutiny of ineffective antidepressants, cults and television clairvoyants has caught the eye of North Carolina...
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Nicholas Sparks, Author . Warner $24.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-446-53242-6
When we last left 37-year-old Jeremy Marsh (a scant six months ago, in Sparks's April pub True Believer
), the science columnist had traveled from his New York base to Boone Creek, N.C., to get a story—and ended up falling in love with...
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Nicholas Sparks, Author . Warner $24.99 (276p) ISBN 978-0-446-52805-4
Hot on the heels of True Believer
and sequel At First Sight
, Sparks returns with the story of ne'er-do-well-turned-army-enlistee John Tyree, 23, and well-to-do University of North Carolina special education major Savannah Lynn Curtis. John,...
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Nicholas Sparks, Author Warner Books Inc $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-446-52080-5
In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love. Spending one idyllic summer together in the small town of New Bern, Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. Noah has returned from WWII to...
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Nicholas Sparks, Author Warner Books Inc $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-52356-1
Avoiding a sophomore slump, Sparks follows The Notebook with another sentimental candidate for the bestseller lists. Boston parenting columnist Theresa Osborne has lost faith in the dream of everlasting love. Three years after divorcing her cheating
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Nicholas Sparks, Author Warner Books Inc $35 (256p) ISBN 978-0-446-52553-4
Sure to wring yet more tears from willing readers' eyes, the latest novel by the bestselling Sparks is a forced coming-of-age story concerning a pair of unlikely young lovers. In a corny flashback device that mimics The Notebook, 57-year-old Landon...
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Nicholas Sparks, Author Warner Books Inc $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-446-52550-3
Secret traumas again haunt Sparks's characters, in the author's fourth novel (after The Notebook; Message in a Bottle; A Walk to Remember). Denise Holden, the 29-year-old heroine, is destitute and forced to live in her mother's old house in Edenton,
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Nicholas Sparks, Author Grand Central $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-446-57992-6
In his 13th book, bestselling Sparks (At First Sight, etc.) limns the far-reaching implications of several seemingly ordinary choices made by Beaufort, N.C. veterinarian Travis Parker and his next-door neighbor Gabrielle Holland, a physician's...
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Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $25.99 (292p) ISBN 978-0-446-54765-9
Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole are from opposite sides of the tracks: she's a well-to-do girl with the world at her fingertips; he's from the feared family of sleazy, violent neighborhood thugs. Cut from different cloth than his clan, Dawson breaks...
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Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5387-2852-9
Bestseller Sparks returns from a two-year hiatus with a heart-wrenching tale of fate and circumstance. Hope, a 36-year-old American trauma nurse, and Tru, a 42-year-old safari guide from Zimbabwe, meet while on a beach vacation in North Carolina....
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Nicholas Sparks. Random House, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-44955-4
Bestseller Sparks (The Wish) serves up a sentimental romance between a farmer with a tragic past and a musician with lofty ambitions. Overworked Colby Mills, 25, is on a brief vacation from his North Carolina farm and indulging in his true passion,...
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Nicholas Sparks, Author, Tom Wopat, Read by , read by Tom Wopat. Time Warner Audiobooks $29.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58621-562-0
The wistful, reflective tone of Sparks's newest love story shines through in Wopat's competent telling, but his characterizations, particularly of the book's Southern-bred females, are hampered by the deep tenor of his voice and his...
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Nicholas Sparks, Author, Micah Sparks, Author . Warner $22 (368p) ISBN 978-0-446-53244-0
When bestselling author Sparks (The Notebook
; Message in a Bottle
; etc.) receives a brochure offering a three-week trip around the world, it's not hard for him to persuade Micah, his older brother, to join him in touring Guatemala's Mayan...
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Nicholas Sparks, read by Rebecca Lowman. Hachette Audio, abridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $14.98 ISBN 978-1-60941-392-7
When Katie turns up in Southport, N.C., her presence in the small town and determination to keep to herself raises questions. But when events beyond her control force Katie to open up—and she begins to fall in love—she must come to grips with a dark
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Nicholas Sparks, Author, John Bedford Lloyd, Read by , read by John Bedford Lloyd. Hachette Audio $39.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-371-4
U.S. Marine Logan Thibault carries a picture of a woman he’s never met because it brings him good luck. But when he sets out to find the woman, he is met with unexpected circumstances surrounding his new love and his shrouded past. Though not...
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Nicholas Sparks. Random House, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-44959-2
Bestseller Sparks (The Longest Ride) brings all the emotion fans expect in his heart-tugging latest. Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents after his single mother’s death and has spent his adult life serving first as an Army Ranger, then in...
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