Why can't a woman be more like a man? Be careful what you ask for, as Lynn Wyman learns in Heller's (Sis Boom Bah; Name Dropping) rollicking new comedy, a sendup of female-centric pop therapy and alpha male behavior. Lynn is the linguist...
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Jane Heller, Author . Morrow $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-059925-6
Nowadays, a woman might bring home more bacon than the lazy pig she married does—an idea Heller (Best Enemies
, etc.) runs with in her latest breezy, easy read. Melanie Banks, wedded to her job as a financial planner and freshly divorced from...
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Jane Heller, Author . Morrow $24.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-06-059927-0
Ann Roth, 30, is living it up as an entertainment reporter for an L.A. celeb-gossip rag, hobnobbing with stars as she chases down the latest "big get" in Heller's latest entertaining romp (after An Ex to Grind
). But trouble looms when...
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Jane Heller, Author Zebra $18.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-8217-4615-8
This debut novel by a publishing insider reads like a pallid imitation of Susan Isaacs, complete with a pampered Jewish housewife as sleuth. Alison Waxman Koff and her affluent husband live by the credo of Wall Street 's Gordon Gecko--``greed is...
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Jane Heller, Author Zebra $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8217-4988-3
Heller entered Susan Isaacs's suburbia in her lively first novel, Cha Cha Cha. She's there again, taking well-aimed shots at affluent yuppiedom in this witty, well-plotted second effort. Judy Mills, Jewish princess and New York cookbook editor, is...
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Jane Heller, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57566-021-9
Move over, Faust: Heller (The Club) adds a witty, feminist slant to a strictly 20th-century story of the tug-of-war between good and evil. The devil in disguise makes his appearance to frumpy real estate agent Barbara Chessner in Banyan Beach, Fla.,
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Jane Heller, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $23 (297p) ISBN 978-1-57566-257-2
Third eyes, divining rods, vortex sites and aura cleansings all figure prominently in Heller's (Princess Charming) latest romantic comedy, a lackluster travelogue through the foibles and desires of the New Age. With her reluctant fiance, Steven,...
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Jane Heller, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-312-20312-2
With the snappy style her readers have come to expect, Heller (Princess Charming; Crystal Clear) presents another breezy tale of modern women; this one explores the bitterly antagonistic relationship between two sisters, and the murder mystery they...
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Jane Heller, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (327p) ISBN 978-0-312-25234-2
Heller proves once again that she has breeziness down to an artful science. In her latest romantic suspense novel (after Sis Boom Bah), there's another powerful premise as well as a quirkily humorous heroine to hang it on. Nancy Stern, self-described
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Jane Heller. Chronicle, $18.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-4521-0753-0
Novelist Heller (The Secret Ingredient) is no stranger to illness; her father had brain cancer, her stepfather had complications from epilepsy, and she married a man with severe Crohn's disease. So readers might assume, Heller acknowledges, this is...
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Jane Heller. Diversion, $13.99 trade paper (268p) ISBN 978-1-68230-285-9
Somebody wants to kill famed farm-to-table chef Jason Hill, but the titular blonds—40-something Elaine Zimmerman and her two best friends, Pat and Jackie, all on a "haycation" at a Cultivate Our Bounty week in Connecticut—are on the case in this...
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Jane Heller, Author, Rachael F. Heller, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-26172-6
Frothy as a double latte with extra foam, Heller's latest romantic satire (after Female Intelligence) playfully follows the misadventures of Elizabeth Baskin, a dissatisfied wife searching for a magic potion to revitalize her husband, Roger,...
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Jane Heller, Author, Rachael F. Heller, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-28848-8
This frolic by Heller (Female Intelligence) may be the spiritual descendant of Freaky Friday, but she delivers her story in fresh language, with singular energy. Stacey Reiser comes to Hollywood to become an actress. It also doesn't hurt that L.A
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Jane Heller, Author, Rachael F. Heller, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-28849-5
Amy Sherman is pretty; Tara Messer is a beauty. Amy has a nice Manhattan apartment; Tara's suburban Tudor castle boasts an actual turret. Amy was engaged to Stuart Lasher, who took maid of honor Tara to bed and then to the altar. Now Tara has...
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