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Univ of Wisconsin Pr. 11/01/1980. 259 pgs. Unlike the movie, the Cain novel features no murder. Spanning the Depression era, it is the story of a suburban California wife and mother. At the beginning of the book, Mildred turns out her husband Bert, who is jobless and philandering. In order to support her two children and herself, she begins working as a waitress, which she finds abhorrent. Eventually, after different profitable liaisons, she starts a restaurant chain. She is subsumed in her work, obsessed by it, defined by it--as she is by her relationship to her daughter Veda. She draws Veda's heightened resentment, because the girl loves her father deeply, and Veda ultimately betrays Mildred. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 10/01/2002. 291 pgs. New York City at the end of the 20th century alternates with London in the 1690s in this novel about high finance. Only the setting changes, as the same story is told in two time periods, illustrating the uncanny similarities between the 17th and 20th centuries, and the truth of the idea that greed is a universal human quality. Originally published at $24.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 11/01/2004. Reprint. 369 pgs. Frances Trollope, mother of the novelist Anthony Trollope, was a writer herself--a hack who wrote strictly for money, and whose most famous book was DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS, which was not exactly a rave review of the country where she spent four years in the 1830s trying to make her fortune. In this novel, Frances (nicknamed Fanny) is writing a biography of a friend of hers--another Fanny, a wealthy woman with a radical utopian social agenda and a tendency toward affairs with famous men, Lafayette and Jefferson among them. As Fanny T. writes about the increasingly destructive and oblivious Fanny W., her narrative turns more and more inward, until in the end her "biography" becomes the self-revealing story of an original and determined character--herself. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 02/01/2004. 278 pgs. The "firecracker" of the title is Reece Germaine, a high-powered P.R. executive whose football player boyfriend, Ray Price, has made her pregnant but is too broke to help her support the child. His agent can get him more money, but the catch is that Ray has to stay out of trouble--and before long, he's being blackmailed and is in danger of taking a murder rap. The only hope is a bet on the Super Bowl that will net over a million dollars. As the day approaches, all characters, shady and otherwise, head for Las Vegas, where everyone hopes to win big. Originally published at $24.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/2005. Reprint. 375 pgs. The inhabitants of a quaintly upscale Connecticut town are facing more than their share of sticky situations. Carrie Manning feels guilty about being rich. Drew Hegel is in the process of losing all his money in an unwise investment--and his wife is unexpectedly pregnant. Shannon has broken up with Jamie Manning because he drinks too much--a victim of the pressures of his ambitious father--and now Shannon and an out-of-the-loop boy named Ian Warfield have fallen in love. Ian's uncle David is battling a drug problem and wants only to escape the place to open a bar down south. When Ian accidentally runs down a bicyclist, these plot lines converge in a powerful novel that is dominated by money, people's attitudes toward money, the way money rules their lives, and the ways they cope with its effects. Originally published at $14.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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