Barbara Delinsky
1) Escape
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Emily Aulenbach is thirty, a lawyer married to a lawyer, working in Manhattan. An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but she spends her days in a cubicle talking with victims of tainted bottled water--and she's on the bottler's side.
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Casey Ellis has spent her life longing for the father she never knew. Jenny Clyde has spent hers loathing the father she knew all too well. Hoping to solve the puzzling connection between Jenny and her enigmatic father, Casey follows a journal's tantalizing clues in search of not only Jenny's identity and whereabouts but also her own familial relationships.
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Devastated by her teenage daughter's pregnancy, single mother and high school principal Susan Tate is targeted by community criticism when the pregnancies of additional teens are rumored to be part of a pact. This pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in a story of love and forgiveness as well as putting Susan's job on the line.
4) Family tree
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Jamie's on top of the world. She's escaped her own complicated family, is married to a man she adores, and has just given birth to their first child. The happiest day of her life soon turns into the day her world starts to fall apart when the baby is born with noticeably African American traits in her appearance. Jamie, who knows very little about her father, wonders if these traits could have been passed down from him. Or, wonders if people think...
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Like all sisters, Molly and Robin Snow share a deep bond that sustains them through good times and bad. In the prime of their lives, their careers are flourishing when Molly receives the shocking news that Robin has suffered a massive heart attack, and the prognosis is grim. At the hospital, the Snow family is informed that Robin may never regain consciousness again. As the family struggles to cope, the complex nature of the sisters' relationship...
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While researching background on the lives of Maine lobster fishermen's families for her recent novel The Summer I Dared, best-selling novelist Barbara Delinsky was captivated by all the interesting, amusing, and surprising information she turned up. She collected much of it in this little book, arranged in an entertaining question and answer format. She will be donating her proceeds to the Barbara Delinsky Charitable Foundation for Breast Cancer Research....