Zane Nervous Jonquinette Pierce gets nervous around men. Sexually repressed, she avoids men when she can. Jude, on the other hand, is a highly-sexed woman who can't get enough of men, often in steamy anonymous settings. The hook in bestselling author Zane's novel is that Jonquinette and Jude are the same person.
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Jennifer Traig Devil in the Details From age 12 until her freshman year in college, Jennifer Traig was afflicted with obsessive compulsive disorder, including a rare form of OCD called scrupulosity that actually rendered her hyper-religious. She relished Judaism's hundreds of commandments, and became obsessed with Jewish ritual. Now she recalls that time of her life, in an offbeat coming of age book.
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Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper A teenage girl who has survived a rare form of leukemia now needs a kidney transplant, in Jodi Picoult's novel. There's no trouble finding a perfect match, though, because the girl's parents conceived a little sister for their daughter specifically to provide a donor match. But there is a problem: the little sister, who's 13 now, has decided she would rather not be forced to donate a kidney. And she's hired a lawyer.
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Kat Von D High Voltage Tattoo If you thought tattoos -- elaborate, colorful body art -- were just for edgy young people, or those on the fringes, you haven't been paying attention. Tattoos have gone mainstream. One of the nation's premier tattoo artists is not even 30 yet, and already she's a major star in her profession. You've seen Kat Von D on The Learning Channel's "L.A. Ink" and you undoubtedly know many of her celebrity tattoo clients. Now you can read about her, see her work, and learn a lot about tattooing in her book "High Voltage Tattoo."
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Ted Leonsis The Business of Happiness If you become a success, happiness will follow. Right? No, you've got it exactly backward, says Ted Leonsis, the owner of one of the NHL's most successful franchises, the Washington Capitals. Some years back, he was hugely successful as a self-made multi-millionaire. But when he came through a brush with death and realized he was profoundly unhappy despite his success, he realized big changes were necessary. Now in his book "The Business of Happiness" Leonsis shows us what he did, and how we can do it.
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Seth Grahame-Smith Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter It was while browsing in a bookstore one day that Seth Grahame-Smith noticed the huge table filled with books about Abraham Lincoln. And on the other side, stacks of books featuring vampire stories. For the author who brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it was clear what he had to write next. The result: a carefully researched, cleverly crafted story of insurrection, slavery, and the undead, called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
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Christopher Paolini Eldest A young dragon rider named Eragon travels to the land of the elves to finish his training, so he can battle the forces of a mad and dangerous emperor, in this fantasy novel for young readers by Christopher Paolini. It's the second volume of a trilogy that began with Paolini's 2003 book Eragon.
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Wendy Williams Wendy's Got the Heat New York radio personality Wendy Williams doesn't have a "show" -- she calls her daily broadcast the Wendy Williams Experience. Her brash, gossipy style has made her a star, and now she reveals in a new book how she got where she is.
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Carl Weber So You Call Yourself a Man Three guys who have been best friends as long as they can remember have their love lives sorely tested, in Carl Weber's novel So You Call Yourself a Man. One is in a happy marriage, which evidence of a past indiscretion now threatens. Another's wife has just left him, and the third is a good Christian who nevertheless finds that temptation is too much for him.
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Leonard Nimoy Shekhina Across America recently, actor Leonard Nimoy has been attracting applause -- punctuated by a little controversy -- over his collection of fine-art black and white photographs. The photos are of women, some of whom are wearing nothing but ritual Jewish prayer items.
