SCOT ON THE ROCKS

By Brenda Janowitz

Red Dress Ink

March 2007

When her ex-boyfriend gets engaged to Hollywood's latest It Girl, Manhattan attorney Brooke Miller plans to attend the wedding. Who says a modern girl can't stay friends with her ex? Besides, Brooke's got her sexy Scottish boyfriend, Douglas, to take as her date. But when a fight leaves her single just days before the wedding, Brooke faces the ultimate humiliation of attending her ex-boyfriend's nuptials alone. Desperate to find a replacement to fill Douglas's kilt, Brooke concocts an outrageous plan to survive the wedding and win the man of her dreams, all with her dignity ever-so-slightly intact.

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PRISONER OF TEHRAN: A Memoir

By Marina Nemat

Free Press

May 2007

At the age of sixteen, when most teenage girls are adjusting to high school, experimenting with makeup, and learning to drive, Marina Nemat was imprisoned for speaking out against the Ayatollah Khomeini’s brutal regime --  and sentenced to death.  Her prison interrogator threatened to harm her family if she didn’t agree to marry him. Through this union, she narrowly escaped her execution.  In this shocking and heartbreaking book, Marina Nemat speaks out for the first time about her astonishing experience during the Islamic Revolution and how she managed to survive her years of imprisonment.

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LADIES WHO LAUNCH: Embracing Entrepreneurship & Creativity as a Lifestyle

By Victoria Colligan and Beth Schoenfeldt with Amy Swift

St. Martin’s Press

May 2007

Women are networkers by nature. Get a bunch of inspired women in a room together, and they will feed off of each other’s creative energy: that’s the simple but powerful idea behind Ladies Who Launch, an online and community-based program that has provided the inspiration and connections to help thousands of women “launch” a business or fulfill a life goal.  Read this book to find out what women all over the country have already discovered, and turn your own dreams into reality!

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GENERATION LOSS
By Elizabeth Hand
Small Beer Press
April 2007

The publisher of this gem says it best: “Patricia Highsmith meets Patti Smith…” Cass Neary made her name in the ‘70s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and hangers-on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. But 30 years later, she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out. Then an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer on an island in Maine. When she arrives, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery -- and one final shot at her own redemption.

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LITTLE STALKER
By Jennifer Belle
Riverhead Books
May 2007

It’s been six years since Jennifer Belle published a novel (High Maintenance), but fans of the brilliant, acidly funny writer will be happy to know her new book was well-worth the wait: Little Stalker centers around a quirky, 30-something New York novelist whose writer’s block is cured when she crosses paths with the object of her lifelong obsession: a gifted, reclusive, and morally-flawed filmmaker. If you haven’t yet read Jennifer Belle, don’t wait another day…

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