A Wide Range

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Amy Sohn

Prospect Park West

Simon & Schuster

Prominent magazine journalist Amy Sohn’s third novel follows a complicated summer in the lives of four dissatisfied mothers in the new frontier of yuppiedom—Park Slope, Brooklyn. Prospect Park West has received advanced praise from Lauren Weisberger and A. J. Jacobs and has been optioned by HBO and Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company Pretty Matches, with the pilot to be written by Sohn.

Carol Snow

Here Today, Gone to Maui

Berkley Trade/Penguin

Uptight Jane Shea is sure that everything will go wrong when her boyfriend Jimmy suggests a spur-of-the-moment trip to Hawaii, and when he goes diving and disappears, Here Today, Gone to Maui has only just begun.  Jill Smolinski calls this novel “smart, funny, and as breezy as a Hawaiian night.”

Wendy Wax

10 Beach Road

Berkley/Penguin Group

Wendy Wax, author of The Accidental Bestseller, brings us a wry, big-hearted novel about three complete strangers who wake up to find that their life savings have vanished, along with their trusted financial manager—leaving them with nothing but co-ownership of a ramshackle beachfront house.  Determined to salvage something, they decide to roll up their sleeves and renovate the house, but just as they begin to reinvent themselves and discover the power of friendship, their secrets threaten to destroy their lives a second time.  “A definite ‘must’ for any beach bag this summer,” writes the Sacramento Book Review.

Lucy March

A Little Night Magic

St. Martin's Griffin

Olivia Kiskey needs a change. She’s been working at the same waffle house since she was a teenager; not a lot of upward mobility there. She’s been in love with  the cook for the last four years; he’s never made a move. Then she meets Davina Granville, a mystical Southern woman who shows her that there is more to life than she ever dreamed. As Liv’s latent magical powers come to the surface, she learns that having an interesting life is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Susan Schneider

The Wedding Writer

St. Martin's Press

The Wedding Writer, by bridal magazine editor Susan Schneider, is the delectable story of lowly wedding writer, Leigh “Lucky” Quinn, who finds herself promoted to Editor-in-Chief of Your Wedding magazine, only to discover just how lonely it can be on top.  This juicy tale about work, love, loss, and the world of weddings brings us, in the words of Karen Bussen, “behind the scenes of two exclusive worlds—the bridal industry and magazine publishing—and shows us the glamour and the grind of making dreams come true.”

Laura Fitzgerald

Dreaming In English

New American Library/Penguin Group

The follow-up novel to Fitzgerald's best-selling debut Veil of Roses, Dreaming in English is the enchanting love story of Iranian immigrant Tamila's spur-of-the-moment marriage and her struggle to find and accept happiness so far from home.  Fitzgerald offers an enlightening look at the American dream in what Carol Snow calls "a beautiful, heartfelt tale about love, family, and freedom.”  Dreaming in English is a poignantly honest exploration of the sometimes difficult endeavor of embracing a new life, even when it’s just the one we wished for.