Summer Heats Up with Stephanie Plum and the Return of the Sisterhood

It's the most wonderful time of the year--summer reading season! We're delighted to welcome Janet Evanovich to Random House with her newest, hottest Stephanie Plum novel, SMOKIN' SEVENTEEN. Readers who adored J. Courtney Sullivan's debut novel, COMMENCEMENT, won't be disappointed in her new wickedly funny and achingly sad novel, MAINE. If geo-political thrillers get your pulse racing, pick up a copy of Steven Pressfield's THE PROFESSION and find a comfortable, quiet spot so you can read it in one sitting.

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SMOKIN' SEVENTEEN Written by Janet Evanovich Read by Lorelei King $32.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOBA9xjnGHxKQsWKIPcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplzm

Where there's smoke there's fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanie's life looks like it's about to go up in smoke.

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SISTERHOOD EVERLASTING Written by Ann Brashares $25.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOBA9xjnGHxKQsWKIfcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplzn

Return to the SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS . . . ten years later

Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, and apart, starting their lives on their own. Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. And indeed, it will change their lives forever--but in ways that none of them could ever have expected.

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THE PROFESSION Written by Steven Pressfield $25.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOBA9xjnGHxKQsWKJvcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplzk

The "master storyteller" (Publishers Weekly) and bestselling author of GATES OF FIRE, THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN, and KILLING ROMMEL returns with a stunning, chillingly plausible near-future thriller about the rise of a privately financed and global military industrial complex.

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MAINE Written by J. Courtney Sullivan $25.95 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOBA9xjnGHxKQsWKJ_cStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplzl

In COMMENCEMENT, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common but the fact that, like it or not, they're family.

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AN ECHO IN THE BONE Written by Diana Gabaldon $8.99 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOBA9xjnGHxKQsWKJPcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplzq

Diana Gabaldon continues the riveting story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall, that began with OUTLANDER. With cameos of historical characters from Benedict Arnold to Benjamin Franklin, AN ECHO IN THE BONE is a soaring masterpiece of imagination, insight, character, and adventure.

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THE ASTRAL Written by Kate Christensen $25.95 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOBA9xjnGHxKQsWKJfcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplzr

From the acclaimed author of THE GREAT MAN, a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn.

"Engaging...wonderfully drawn....Christensen has somehow --again-- created a captivatingly believable male narrator, although she can't see 60 on the horizon, has not been married to a tempestuous Mexican woman for 30 years or published largely ignored poetry in academic journals."--Ron Charles, The Washington Post

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BREAK THE SKIN Written by Lee Martin $24.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOBA9xjnGHxKQsWKOvcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplzo

"South of Scandinavia, there are fewer icicles and serial killers, but no lack of sinister intrigue. Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin's latest, , is a Lucinda Williams ballad of a small-town love affair--a teenage dropout, a nameless stranger--gone horribly wrong."--Vogue.com

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THE DAY I ATE WHATEVER I WANTED Written by Elizabeth Berg $15.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOBA9xjnGHxKQsWKO_cStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplzp

Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman kicks up her heels and commits a small act of liberation. What would you do if you could shed the "shoulds" and do, say--and eat--whatever you really desired? In these beautiful, funny stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into the heart of the lives of women who do all these things and more--confronting their true feelings, desires, and joys along the way.

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CITY OF ASH Written by Megan Chance $15.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOBA9xjnGHxKQsWKOPcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplzu

When the great Seattle fire of 1889 leaves them with nothing to lose, two very different women discover a mutual passion for revenge. Socialite Ginny Langley and actress Bea Wilkes see an opportunity to change their lives: but it would mean banding together to enact a truly wicked plan. Their dark and perilous alliance will set them on the path to either redemption or damnation.

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THE LAKE SHORE LIMITED Written by Sue Miller $15.00 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOBA9xjnGHxKQsWKOfcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplzv

THE LAKE SHORE LIMITED is Sue Miller at her dazzling best: a moving love story; a tale of entanglements, connections, and inconsolable losses; a marvelous reflection on the meaning of grace and the uses of sorrow, in life and in art.

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BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

PAPER COVERS ROCK Written by Jenny Hubbard $16.99 http://information.randomhouse.com/HS?a=ENX7CkR1RUUm8SA9MOBA9xjnGHxKQsWKPvcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_HheFjplzs

"Following in the tradition of John Knowles's A SEPARATE PEACE, this eloquent first novel set in 1982 at an all-male boarding school explores circumstances surrounding the accidental death of a student....A powerful, ambitious debut." Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review) ======================================================================

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