Lorna Landvik, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-43882-9
Five friends live through three decades of marriages, child raising, neighborhood parties, bad husbands and good brownies—and Landvik (Patty Jane's House of Curl) doesn't miss a single cliché as she chronicles their lives in this
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Lorna Landvik, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-47231-1
The author of Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
cooks up a novel of hard-won luck and the wonder of reaping blessing from calamity. It's 1937, and shy, homely, 18-year-old Violet Mathers—battered by a mother's desertion, a father's
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Lorna Landvik, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-345-46837-6
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andvik's latest light drama opens as Joe Andreson transfers into a Minneapolis high school as a class of '72 senior. Like everyone else, Joe has a major thing for head cheerleader Kristi Casey—a version of Reese Witherspoon's...
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Lorna Landvik, Author . Ballantine $22 (226p) ISBN 978-0-345-49975-2
Just in time for Christmas, Landvik gets into the head of a Paris Hilton–like celebuditz in this lively “novel” propelled by e-mails, tabloid gossip and letters primarily written by, about or to young celebrity bad girl Caroline
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Lorna Landvik, Author Ballantine Books $13.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-449-91100-6
""Homespun wisdom peppers every page"" of this first novel that centers on the neighborhood beauty shop, according to PW. (Sept.)
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Lorna Landvik, Author Bridge Works Publishing Company $19.95 (292p) ISBN 978-1-882593-12-5
This debut novel's campy title promises good-natured gossip, women baring their souls and their gray roots to understanding hairdressers. Yet although Landvik builds her plot around two close-knit Minnesota sisters, Patty Jane and Harriet, she doesn'
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Lorna Landvik, Author Fawcett Books $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-449-91278-2
Everyone needs a refuge, and for the lucky residents of White Falls, Minn., respite can be found in Dick and Devera Lindstrom's suburban basement, a BYOB nightcub called Your Oasis on Flame Lake. Car salesman Dick is an extrovert who loves the idea...
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Lorna Landvik, Author Ballantine Books $23 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-43317-6
Having previously created beguiling characters in Patty Jane's House of Curl and Your Oasis on Flame Lake, Landvik invites readers to belly up to the counter and join the regulars sipping coffee at Cup O'Delight Caf in Tall Pine, Minn. In this...
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Lorna Landvik, Author Ballantine Books $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-43881-2
From the popular author of Patty Jane's House of Curl and The Tall Pine Polka comes a funny, heartwarming novel in which the voice of the self-absorbed Broadway diva Geneva Jordan holds ingratiating charm. It's not Geneva's singing voice that's the...
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Lorna Landvik, Author, Robertson Dean, Read by , read by Robertson Dean. Random House Audio $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-1593-4
Narrator Robertson Dean strikes the perfect note in the first-person role of Joe, a high school hockey star whose life throws him several unexpected curveballs that land him in a very different place from where he'd always imagined. While his...
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