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NONFICTION Shiver, by Lisa Jackson. A serial killer is on
My Life in France, by Julia Child with the loose, and Detective Reuben “Diego”
Alex Prud’homme. Begun just months Montoya is back in New Orleans in a desper-
before her death and completed by her grand- ate race to find him. He needs all the determi-
nephew, this delightful memoir chronicles nation he can muster, because the killer is
Julia Child’s early years in France. When Child playing a sick game—killing pairs of people
and her husband, Paul, arrive in Le Havre, she who have no connection. His only lead is
can’t cook and speaks no French. The story Abby Chastain, the ex-wife of one of the vic-
ends with the launch of two Mastering the Art tims, who has secrets of her own: Her mother
of French Cooking cookbooks and with Child killed herself while she was a patient at a men- Diane Mott Davidson
bringing to the United States the French way tal hospital. Montoya may have to pay the
of cooking—and of life. price of finding out if the murders and the
asylum are connected. Dark Tort, by Diane Mott Davidson.
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FICTION Goldy Schulz has a great new gig: preparing
Debutante Divorcée, by Plum Sykes. In Two Little Girls in Blue,by Mary Higgins food for a local law firm. It’s time consuming
Sykes’ debut novel, Bergdorf Blondes, she Clark. Margaret and Steve Frawley come but lucrative, and Schulz is lovin’ it. That is,
introduced readers to Park Avenue princesses. home to find the police in their house, their until she walks in one night and finds that the
The girls are back—some married and some twin daughters, Kathy and Kelly, missing and firm’s paralegal, a friend of hers, is dead.
divorced. Lauren’s life is perfect: She is rich, an $8 million ransom note. They pay the ran- Schulz gets on the case immediately and
thin, pretty—and divorced. She befriends som, only to find that the abandoned car spendsasmuchtime—maybe more—poking
Sylvia, the group’s token newlywed. While they’re led to has only Kelly in it. During the around as she does catering. It isn’t long before
Lauren gets Sylvia to check out her marriage, funeral Mass for her sister, Kelly tells her she realizes that one of the many suspects is a
Lauren checks out Sylvia’s man. This is a motherthat Kathy“wantstocomehomeright very dangerous person, who realizes right
cheeky, satiric, funny look at the lives of peo- now.” It’s clear that Kelly and Kathy are com- away that Schulz just might figure it out.
ple who are too rich to be believed. municating, but how? —Valerie Ryan
We Are All Welcome Here Dark Tort
by Elizabeth Berg by Diane Mott Davidson
In this extraordinary novel about the Irrepressible caterer Goldy Schulz
resilience of the human spirit, three women returns in a brand-new, knockout
demonstrate the power of love and the treat of a mystery, written by the
importance of freedom. bestselling author of Double Shot.
Hardcover / Random House Hardcover
On sale April 4, 2006 William Morrow & Co.
On sale April 11, 2006
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Cesar's Way
by Cesar Millan
The Right Words at the
A fresh, commonsense guide to understanding
dog behavior, written by the star of TV’s
The Dog Whisperer, seen on the National
Geographic Channel.
Hardcover / Harmony Books
On sale April 4, 2006
Right Time
Volume 2: Your Turn
edited by Marlo Thomas
Mother-Daughter Wisdom
by Christiane Northrup, M.D.
This blueprint allows any woman to repair
the gaps in her own upbringing and create a
better adult relationship with her mother.
Paperback / Bantam Books
On sale March 28, 2006
The follow-up to the New York Times
bestseller The Right Words at the
Right Time. Proceeds benefit St. Jude’s
Children’s Research Hospital.
Hardcover / Atria Books
On Sale April 25, 2006
Also available:
The Right Words at the
Right Time
Hardcover / Atria Books
