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Harpercollins Canada. 12/01/1997. Ann Beattie's novel is about a fascinating, charming, manipulative pathological liar and the havoc she wreaks on a New England town--and particularly on the life of Jean Warner. The two women become (somewhat improbably) friends, and, under the influence of the predatory Dara, Jean--an ordinary, cheerful person doing her best to cope--finds her life changing in ways she may not have been ready for. Originally published at $29.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Trafalgar Square. 07/01/2000. This novel shifts between the early 1800s and the late 1900s as it tells the parallel stories of an Edinburgh scientist who has invented a machine that steals the souls of the dead and a performance artist at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival, who uses the device for his own purposes, with violent results. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 07/01/1992. Reprint. This novel is a humorous case study of a future in which Texans, having bioengineered themselves into a state full of literal giants, now rule the formerly united States, prompting a revolution led by an actor. Originally published at $9.00 You save 78% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/1992. This fictional biography tells the sad story of Marilyn Monroe. Originally published at $20.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/1997. 501 pgs. The story of a family haunted by the miseries and griefs of mothers, all of which are eventually (if unknowingly) visited upon the children. Emma, a young beauty growing up in New Mexico in the 1930s, dreams of going to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she falls in love with Hollis, a young screenwriter working on location nearby, and he brings her back to California with him, it seems that her dreams are about to be realized--until she becomes quickly pregnant and is unable to audition for any roles. She returns to New Mexico and gives birth to Lucy, then dies a few years later. Lucy grows up unhappy and malcontent, and can never understand the sadness that consumed her mother's last years. Unfaithful to her own husband Gordon and neglectful of her daughter Laurie, Lucy only discovers the roots of her family's discontent late in life, at which point she attempts to start living, as it were, for the first time. Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 11/01/2002. 704 pgs. Evil lives in Hollywood--a literal, tangible evil that resides (for the moment) in the basement room of a luxurious mansion owned by film star recovering from botched plastic surgery. Originally published at $7.99 You save 78% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/2001. 280 pgs. Jasmin and a couple of friends audition for a production of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, and get parts. Soon Jasmin, who plays Elizabeth Bennett, is caught up in a flirtation with William, who plays Wickham, but can't stand the man who's playing Darcy. These and other elements parallel Austen's novel while, at the same time, forcing Jasmine to confront the sad truth that--like Elizabeth--she is not always right about everything. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/2001. 389 pgs. Georgia Senator William Henry Lee IV must fight his way through blackmail, scandal, accusations, and attempted assassinations before beginning his greatest battle: running for the presidency. Originally published at $7.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/2002. Reprint. THE CATSITTERS is the debut novel of the celebrated (and often controversial) critic James Wolcott. It tells the story of Johnny, a failed actor whose girlfriend not only forgets to feed his aging, beloved cat when he's out of town, but dumps him when he returns. When Johnny's friend Darlene tries to reform him, so that he can find a woman and get married, things backfire. His only hope is that he can get a performance piece out of it. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/2002. 404 pgs. In Stratford, Ontario, an actor named Griffin Kincaid, is in town for the annual Shakespeare Festival. His director tries to seduce him, he argues with Jane, his wife, over how best to raise their young son, he begins to fear that Jane is being unfaithful--and suddenly he finds himself in a sexual situation he's never experienced before. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/2004. 341 pgs. Playwright Caleb Doyle's life is going spectacularly badly: his lover died of AIDS, and his last play was a disaster, thanks mainly to a devastating review by the New York Times critic, Kenneth Prager. Now Kenneth is doing a piece for the newspaper on Henry Lewse, the gay British actor managed by Caleb's sister, Jessie. And Jessie herself is a stagestruck young woman whose only beau is a man she thinks she can't love, a director named Frank Earp. All these characters--and more--turn up at Caleb's climactic birthday party, which also has more than a few surprise guests. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 01/01/2003. 320 pgs. Peter Lefcourt's first novel is a comic exploration of not only the glamor of Hollywood but its tawdry side as well. Originally published at $15.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/1996. On New Year's Eve, 1969, a novelist in his 40s meets a beautiful but third-rate actress--Diana Soren, of Iowa--and becomes obsessed with her. This passionate autobiographical novel is about not only their love affair but also the radical movements of the 1960s that had spread across Mexico as well as the U.S. Originally published at $12.50 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/1993. Reprint. Originally published at $5.50 You save 82% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/2003. 496 pgs. This historical thriller is set in early 19th-century London and involves a cluster of French spies, the kidnapping of the son of an aristocratic couple, and the search for a ring with mysterious powers. Originally published at $6.99 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Trafalgar Square. 01/01/2001. A Polish actress in America is the focus of Susan Sontag's fourth novel. Based on a true-life story, the novel traces the career of Maryna Dembowska who, gives up her career on the Polish stage to participate in the founding of a utopian community in California in 1876. When the experiment fails, Maryna carries on, making a new life for herself in America and returning to acting, finally teaming up with the famous actor Edwin Booth, who falls in love with her. The story is advanced by means of several unusual points of view, including a stage speech written by Maryna to Booth, and the diary kept by one of her husbands. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Originally published at $10.01 You save 84% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 04/01/1999. 398 pgs. A elderly actor known as Pickleherring, who as a youth played female roles in Shakespeare's plays, shares his reminiscences of the dramatist. He presents him as the son of Queen Elizabeth I and a vicar, and includes anecdotes about the Dark Lady, the Earl of Southampton, and the other usual suspects from Shakespeare's mysterious life. Originally published at $25.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 10/01/2000. 216 pgs. This companion volume to Nye's THE LATE MR. SHAKESPEARE is told from the point of view of Anne Hathaway, who writes, in many very short chapters, about her sometimes scandalous life with the Bard. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/2002. Reissue. When a white middle-aged attorney named Jake meets Nisa, a black actress, they fall in love--and so do Nisa's friend Peter, also an actor, and Simon, the Black Muslim son of a Baptist minister. In San Francisco in the 1960s, these two interracial couples must negotiate a brand new world of social activism, civil rights, and changing mores. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/1993. Trixie and Evangeline star in a new Dracula film, but all goes wrong when they are suspected of being real vampires. Originally published at $16.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1997. Dana Coakley, a New York City actress and a volunteer at an alternative school for disadvantaged children, learns from one of her students that the accidental fire that left his family homeless was actually arson. When Dana starts to investigate the fire, she is kidnapped and threatened, but her will to uncover the truth is undaunted. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/1997. 329 pgs. Will and Angelica--a civil engineer and an actress--meet and fall in love, and end up in a mining camp in the Australian desert, where a typhoid epidemic is in full force. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/1998. Reprint. 333 pgs. A novel of the Old West and Hollywood, which was awarded the Governor General's Award in Canada in 1997. It tells the story of Shorty McAdoo, a Canadian cowboy implicated in an 1873 Indian massacre, who goes on to become a movie star in the 1920s. Portrayed as an exemplar of the American frontier by studio publicists, McAdoo has to hide the most sinister elements of his early life on the range. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 04/01/1998. 277 pgs. This novel is narrated by 70-year-old Effa Commander, and tells the story of three brave women: Effa and her friends Whippy Bird and May Anna. Part of the tale is May Anna's movie career and her involvement in a notorious murder trial in which her lover, Buster, was convicted. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/1998. 248 pgs. A humorous novel about the making of a Christian inspirational film about Jesus. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Natl Book Network. 12/31/2004. 316 pgs. Plagued with doubts about his marriage, up-and-coming homicide detective Zhong Fong investigates a string of gruesome murders. His leads soon bring him into the intriguing world of Chinese theater, and back to his actress wife. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Chivers Audio Books. 07/01/1998. Unabridged. Originally published at $54.95 You save 98% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/1999. 279 pgs. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/1999. 311 pgs. Soap opera star Eileen Fulton pours some glitz and glamour from her days as the mischievous Lisa on "As the World Turns," stirs in some heartbreak, and throws in a dash of sex in her first romance novel SOAP OPERA. In it, young, dreamy Midwesterner Amanda Baker, recently jilted by her football-star sweetheart, moves to New York, where she soon lands a plum role on a successful television soap opera. Life takes a turn, however, when Amanda finds out she is pregnant with her ex-fiance's child and the scoundrel shows up in Manhattan with a bum knee and a craving for cash. What ever will Amanda do? Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1999. 219 pgs. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 04/01/2000. Illustrated. 498 pgs. This New York Times bestseller presents a sympathetic portrait of Katharine Hepburn, describing the distinct traits that formed Hepburn's persona, her relationships with Spencer Tracey and Howard Hughes, and other intimate aspects of her life. Originally published at $16.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 04/01/2000. 183 pgs. This mordant satire of Hollywood at the turn of the millennium tells the stories of five hopeful young people who find in Tinseltown more than they had bargained for. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/2001. Reprint. 504 pgs. An unlikely group of people come together during a winter season of peace, love, and warmth at a grand Scottish estate. Originally published at $7.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/2001. 264 pgs. Actor Marty Burns, who was a private investigator before landing a role in a TV series, looks into an old Hollywood mystery at the request of a friend (who is murdered shortly after making the request). The mystery concerns a classic film noir, during the making of which an actress was murdered. Originally published at $23.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/2002. 231 pgs. Elvis in Hollywood is the focus--and the sleuth--in this mystery in which a stuntman who is framed for murder claims he knew Elvis in the army. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 04/01/2001. Illustrated. 410 pgs. In Edwardian London, Rose Tremayne, a housemaid-turned-actress, searches for romance as she makes a name for herself in both London and New York. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 04/01/2003. 288 pgs. Told in a series of imaginary letters between Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy, this novel's subject matter includes fictional insights into the affair between Jack Kennedy and Marilyn, Jackie's ambiguous relationship with her father, and the tensions of the Kennedy marriage. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/2001. 228 pgs. The survivor of a railway tragedy in which his parents died, Sam McWilliams is driven to provide for his orphaned siblings. When he runs afoul of the law doing so, he ends up in a juvenile detention center, where he begins to write a series of comedy sketches and becomes a media sensation. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 04/01/1997. 253 pgs. Originally published at $22.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/1999. 224 pgs. Prolific historical novelist Cecelia Holland continues her story of Lily Viner, a smart, independent, and beautiful woman whose dreams of acting on the stage and finding her long-lost mother take her to the golden streets of San Francisco in 1877. During the day, Lily plays Hamlet's tortured mother, Gertrude. At night, she searches for the mother she never knew. Just when Lily begins to find her place in this bustling frontier city, a railroad workers' protest brings it down in flames. Worst of all, an old enemy has just reentered Lily's life, threatening to destroy everything she has worked so hard to achieve. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1999. 316 pgs. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 12/01/2000. 302 pgs. When a random act of kindness saves a reporter from death, she winds up in the midst of a werewolf community living in downtown Denver, Colorado. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/2000. 251 pgs. An ex-cop, private detective Jace Levy has a couple of problems--he suffers from a rare disease of the nervous system and his girlfriend is a vampire. His latest case involves a movie producer who is being blackmailed with a series of "casting couch" films. Levy must deal with both his increasingly debilitating illness and his girlfriend's nocturnal habits, while trying to solve the case and maintain his rather sexually active lifestyle. What IS an honest p.i. to do? Originally published at $22.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 04/01/1991. An old flame enters Kit Masters life when she returns home to settle affairs after her father's death, forcing the successful actress to choose between the work she loves and the man she loves. Originally published at $19.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 09/01/2000. Reissue. 396 pgs. After solving a case that involved a hated female professor in THE CLINIC, Dr. Alex Delaware is once again asked by LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to find the killer of a despised woman in this grisly thriller. Dr. Claire Argent, a reclusive and harsh staff psychologist at the Starkweather State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, was recently found miles from the asylum with her throat slit and her eyes cut out. While any one of her patients might be seen as mentally capable of committing such a horrific crime, their steel-tight incarceration provides them with ironclad alibis. But that doesn't stop Alex from suspecting Ardis Peake, a psychotic who almost never leaves his room and, aside from the occasional mumble concerning an upcoming murder, rarely speaks. Aggressive probing leads Alex to details about Dr. Argent's past, which surprisingly include connections to Ardis. Could this nonfunctional madman be the monster Alex is looking for? Originally published at $7.99 You save 82% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 02/01/1998. 275 pgs. Five actresses, with all the usual vices and hangups of Hollywood stars, are nominated for Best Actress; one resolves that, if she doesn't win, she will murder the winner in revenge. Originally published at $10.95 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 08/01/2000. 420 pgs. The third book in Sarah Smith's neo-Victorian trilogy features blind concert pianist Perdita Halley, her husband, the renowned physician Alexander von Reisden, and necrophilic aristocrat, theater owner, and film producer, Andre du Monde. Alexander is hired by Andre's stepfather to cure the disturbed count from his obsession and thus must travel with him to the lush Flanders countryside, where Andre is filming a silent version of MACBETH. It is within the labyrinthine walls of Andre's castle, however, that Alexander finds the real drama. Between blackmail, murder, the occult, and orgies, Alexander has a lot to write home to Perdita about. Throw in the fact that Alexander himself is known as a child murderer, and readers have got a thrilling Gothic tale on their hands. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 01/01/2002. Reprint. When her sister goes on vacation, Geneva Jordan--a successful actress--returns home to small-town Minnesota to care for her sister's 13-year-old Down syndrome son. She arrives with a bad attitude, but by the time her stay is over, Geneva has learned a lot about herself and her family. Originally published at $13.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 07/01/2001. Maud Maxwell, 40-ish and worn out, is disillusioned with her single life in Hollywood and her failed acting career. Lizzie, her younger sister, is fed up with trying to support her three kids in a little New Mexican town by means of a sell-out job as a commercial artist. When Maud arrives in New Mexico for an extended visit, the two sisters begin by envying each other's lives, but things become even more complicated with the return to town of Jake Arboles, Lizzie's old flame and, possibly, Maud's new one. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 10/01/2002. Reprint. 245 pgs. When fabled film star Nora Mars goes into a coma, journalist Marie Brown, Nora's biggest fan, begins to research her obituary. In the process, she falls for Nora's third husband, Rex Mars--but she's also drawn to an eccentric intellectual named Marco Trentadue who shares her interest in physics. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 01/01/2003. 475 pgs. This book contains two complete romance novels, both of which are set in New York City. LOCAL HERO tells of the romance that blossoms between a comic book artist and a shy single mother, while DUAL IMAGE explores the romance between a man and the actress who is playing his cruel ex-wife in a drama about their relationship. Originally published at $7.50 You save 74% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 05/01/2000. The fifth Stella the Stargazer mystery finds the quirky astrologer sleuth taking on a job as an assistant director at the Magic Circle Theater to make some extra cash. When an overzealous stage mother's body is found hanging from one of the stage props, Stella takes it upon herself to find the killer. Originally published at $5.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 07/01/2003. 256 pgs. Originally published at $4.75 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Farrar Straus & Giroux. 02/01/2000. 565 pgs. Flip wants to be an actor, his boyfriend Warren is a psychic, and his sister Rosie is a union rabble-rouser in this novel of Manhattan life at the end of the century. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 01/01/2003. Reprint. 304 pgs. A man named Will Bartlett, who is directing a performance of OF MICE AND MEN, invites the cast to his farm, where they will spend a month getting into their roles. Things do not, to say the least, go smoothly, beginning with the no-show on the part of one of the only woman in the play, and ending with an unexpected rivalry between Will's wife and daughter. Originally published at $14.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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