Les vies privées de Pippa Lee

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Terence Alfred Aditon

"This is a most unconventional love story between Jimmie Owens, a Baptist boy living in the small southern town of Fauberg, and young Clare Banning, a quantum physics prodigy and socialite heiress. Through their hours and days together on the Banning estate in Fauberg and later in her family's New York City home, Jimmy's intellect is awakened as he is swept up into Clare's world. Though the youngsters' mothers are close friends, Jimmy's father fears Clare's magnetic pull on his soon. Conflicted by a deep love for his parents, a desire for popularity among his peers, and the challenges of Clare's liberal Episcopalian ways, Jimmy drifts apart from Clare. Only at the end does Jimmy finally understand what he had come to know about Clare." -- Amazon.com

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Anne Whitney Pierce

Ten stories on women. In Sans Homme, a girl falls in love with her mother's boyfriend, in Abeyance, a woman whose marriage is falling apart reflects on the loneliness ahead of her, while in Empty Beauty Salon, a woman moves her business from New York to Maine for a change of scenery.

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Rob Byrnes

Meet Brett Revere. A failed actor and recently fired temp, he's created a life centered on survival and hopefulness. Plucky doesn't pay the rent, but if you use your charm and good looks to convince other people that you're already wealthy--this of course connects you to other wealthy people who are happy to buy you things as long as you're one of them. When Brett meets Jamie Brock at a watering hole for rich, older gay men and the younger men who love their wallets, sparks fly--even after they discover they're both playing the same game. Soon the two are mixing it up with a "Velvet Mafia" of gay power-brokers, suspicious socialites, and social climbers, while running away from compromising Internet photos, creepy roommates, the threat of exposure, and their own nagging consciences.--From publisher description.

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Robert Fleming

While visiting a fellow pastor in Alabama, New York Pastor Clint Winwood witnesses a battle between poor black farmers and rich white planters and resolves to help prevent bloodshed and find a solution.