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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Barbara Delinsky is nothing if not prolific. Since 1980, she has written well over 80 novels, and shows no sign of slowing down. More than 20 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into over a dozen foreign languages. From Romantic Times Magazine, she’s received the Special Achievement Award (twice), the Reviewer’s Choice Award and the Best Contemporary Romance Award. She’s also received the Romance Writers of America Golden Medallion and Golden Leaf awards.

A Woman’s Place RRP:RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
When Claire Raphael begins to earn more than her husband, he charges her with neglect of family and sues for divorce, requesting sole child custody and alimony. Although she supported him while he built his career and she cared for the children, she knows that the courts are unsympathetic to successful women. With the help of her business partner, Brody Parth, Claire finds the strength and love to face the biggest battle of her life.

Facets RRP:RM69.90 Price: RM19.90
Nothing can prepare writer Hillary Cox for seeing her lover of 20 years, mining magnate John St. George, announce on television that he’s marrying another woman. Seeking revenge, Hillary begins a tell-all book exposing John and his shady past. John’s sister, Pamela St. George, also wants revenge against her brother. Throughout her life, Pamela has suffered horrifying abuses at John’s hands. As Hillary attempts to end her obsession with John, Pamela searches for Cutter Reid, the one man she has always loved, and from whom John has always kept her. Now, a three-decade-old family drama of power, duplicity, and money comes hurtling to an explosive final confrontation with the one man who has so damaged their lives.

For My Daughters RRP:RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
Caroline, Annette, and Leah St. Clair have spent their lives trying to escape the legacy of their wealthy, social-climbing mother, Virginia. Then, on the eve of her seventieth birthday, Virginia gives something to her daughters after a lifetime of taking…

More Barbara Delinsky’s masterpieces: 

Flirting With Pete RRP:RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father — but that didn’t stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town house, complete with a maid and a handsome, enigmatic gardener. When she finds a manuscript that could be a novel, a journal, or a case study of one of her father’s patients in her new home, she becomes engrossed in the story of Jenny, a young woman trying to escape her troubled life. Convinced the story is true and that her father left it as a message for her, Casey digs deeper. As she pieces together the mysteries surrounding her father, Jenny, and the romantic new stranger in her life, she discovers startling links between past and present, and unexpected ties between what is real and what is imagined.

The Summer I Dared RRP:RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
To forty-year-old Julia Bechtel a New Yorker, life and what’s important in it are about to be forever altered when she survives a terrible boat accident en route to the island. Now, in the company of her aunt and daughter, Julia finds herself feeling strangely connected to the tragedy’s other survivors — Noah, a divorced lobsterman, and Kim, a young woman rendered mute since her rescue — and newly outraged at the state of her marriage to a domineering man. Seeing the world with new eyes, Julia vows to embrace life with all of its joys and uncertainties.

The Woman Next Door RRP:RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
On a charming cul-de-sac in suburban Connecticut, three close-knit couples find their long-cherished harmony undone when a lovely, younger neighbor, widowed a year ago and presumably still unattached, becomes pregnant. Who is the father? Could it be one of the husbands?
**Filled with suspense, surprises, and the kind of insights into the minds and hearts of her characters that have won Barbara Delinsky a huge and loyal following, The Woman Next Door is an ingenious portrait of suspicion and deception, faith and love.**

Suddenly RRP:RM34.90 Price: RM17.90
In the idyllic small town of Tucker, Vermont, life flows at a rhythmic pace for pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer. But when Mara O’Neill, her best friend and medical partner, inexplicably kills herself, Paige’s comfortable world is suddenly shattered. Temporarily caring for Mara’s newly adopted baby daughter while she comes to grips with her grief, Paige clings to the hope that, in time, her orderly life will return. Paige never expected to find the meaning of life in the death of a friend.

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