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"Everyone Worth Knowing" by Lauren Weisberger Length: 4 hours and 58 min. ISBN: 0-7435-4427-7 New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

On paper, Bette Robinson’s life is good. At 26, she’s got a great deal on an apartment in Manhattan, and she’s on target to become an associate at the prestigious investment bank where she works with her best friend. Her 80-hour workweeks might keep her from socializing or dating outside her office walls, but she’s paying her dues on the well-trod path to wealth and happiness. So when Bette quits her job like the impulsive girl she’s never been, she not only shocks her friends and family, she has no idea what to do next.

For months, Bette gets out and about by walking her four-pound dog around her decidedly unglamorous Murray Hill neighborhood. Then she meets Kelly, head of Manhattan’s hottest PR and events planning firm, and suddenly Bette has a brand-new job where the primary requirement is to see and be seen.

The work at Kelly & Company takes Bette inside the VIP rooms of the city’s most exclusive nightclubs, to parties crowded with celebrities and socialites. Bette learns not to blink at the famous faces, the black Amex cards, the magnums of Cristal, or the ruthless paparazzi. Soon she’s dating an infamous playboy who’s great for her career but bad for her sanity, and scaring off the one decent guy she meets. Still, as her coworkers repeatedly point out, how can you complain about a job that pays you to party? Bette has to agree, until she begins appearing in a vicious new gossip column. That’s when Bette’s life on paper takes on a whole new meaning, and she learns the line between her personal and professional lives is invisible.

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• The Devil Wears Prada
• The Devil Wears Prada

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"Pants on Fire" by Maggie Alderson Length: 9 hours and 48 min. ISBN: 1-74030-953-7 New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

When London editor Georgia Abbott comes to Sydney to work on Glow, a glossy woman’s magazine, she has high hopes for a bright new start. Leaving behind a broken heart (her own) and a philandering ex-fiance, she’s looking forward to immersing herself in the Tim Tam-eating sisterhood of woman’s mags. Not to mention being whisked off into the dusty Australian sunset by a suntanned, Akubra-hatted fantasy man.

At first, things seem promising, as Georgia is swept up in a whirl of A-list parties, dancing, dinners, and debauchery. But while Australian water may go down the plughole the other way, Australian men are starting to look all too familiar. And then there’s the chaotic bunch of women Georgia works with on Glow, to whom every relationship disaster is a potential article, not least of all Georgia’s, whose quest for love is fast becoming headline material. What to do when all the blokes you’ve found are either gay, married, unfaithful, unable, or just plain unworthy?

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"Shopaholic & Baby" by Sophie Kinsella Length: 11 hours and 56 min. ISBN: 1-4159-3585-8 New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is pregnant! She couldn’t be more overjoyed, especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby, from the designer nursery, to the latest, coolest pram, to the celebrity, must-have obstetrician.

But when the celebrity obstetrician turns out to be her husband Luke’s glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky’s perfect world starts to crumble. She’s shopping for two, but are there three in her marriage?

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• The Undomestic Goddess
• The Undomestic Goddess

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"Manhunt" by Janet Evanovich Length: 5 hours and 9 min. ISBN: 0-06-073700-X New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

Alexandra Scott, Alaskan Wilderness Woman. It had a terrific ring to it, but Alex felt a sudden twinge of uncertainty. She’d traded in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a rundown cabin in the woods and a bait and tackle store. She’d wanted to escape the rat race and to go husband-hunting where men outnumbered women four to one, but was she ready for the challenge?

Then she spotted Michael Casey, a sexy pilot who was undaunted by disaster, had hero written all over him, and was a confirmed bachelor. Michael Casey was the man she had come to Alaska to hunt, and Alexandra Scott had him in her sights.

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• Eleven on Top
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"First Impressions" by Jude Deveraux Length: 3 hours and 56 min. ISBN: 0-7435-3837-4 New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

Eden Palmer knows how to make it on her own. The forty-something single mother has worked hard to raise her beloved daughter, now twenty-seven and recently married. The offspring of a terrible event, Eden’s daughter, Melissa, has long been the jewel of Eden’s life, the one for whom she would sacrifice anything and everything. But sooner or later a woman must come into her own, and that’s what Eden tries to do when she moves to Arundel, North Carolina, to take ownership of Farrington Manor, a beautiful old house filled with charm and memories that was willed to Eden by the person who cared for her when she needed it most. Torn between the desire to stay with her daughter and the need to build a separate life on her own, Eden opts for some distance and some much-needed perspective. But it’s not long before she realizes that sometimes you have to go back before you can start over.

Arriving in Arundel, the South’s prettiest small town, Eden quickly learns that looks can be deceiving when her move is met with delight in some quarters and jealousy in others. Pursued by two eligible bachelors, the rugged Jared McBride and Braddon Granville, local lawyer and town catch, Eden is flattered, and more than a little suspicious. Juggling the attentions of two men is hard enough, but soon Eden’s bid to start over plunges her in the middle of a mystery that threatens not just her plans and reputation, but her very life. Can she use one man to save her from the other?

Tags: first impressions, jude deveraux, romance, bachelors, dating