false 63681 109999 037570485X 9780375704857 90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171630031m/109999.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/109999.The_Inn_at_Lake_Devine 3.79 791 In this beguiling novel, Elinor Lipman charts her heroine's fixation with a small bastion of genteel anti-Semitism, a fixation that will have wildly unexpected consequences on her romantic life. As Natalie tries to enter the world that has excluded her--and succeeds through the sheerest of accidents--The Inn at Lake Devine becomes a delightful and provocative romantic comedy full of sparkling social mischief. ]]> 63681 3.53 4538 777 483369 0671686151 9780671686154 145 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175130286m/483369.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/483369.Then_She_Found_Me 3.42 731 63681 3.53 4538 777 5768839 0618644660 9780618644667 205 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255570546m/5768839.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5768839.The_Family_Man 3.54 524 63681 3.53 4538 777 379345 0671015648 9780671015640 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174319883m/379345.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/379345.Isabel_s_Bed 3.53 489 When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based on the sexy blond's scandalous tabloid past. Unusually "talented" in the man department ("I give lessons"), Isabel revamps and inspires Harriet as they gear up to tell all, including the tangled history Isabel shares with her odd lodger, Costas. Life according to Isabel is a nonstop soap opera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed whole -- and the attitude is catching....

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“Almost nobody writes serious entertainment with more panache,” said the Chicago Tribune of Elinor Lipman. Now comes the novel Publishers Weekly is calling “surely her best to date...a triumph...a book you can’t put down.”

The Pursuit of Alice Thrift showcases a rare and generous talent at the top of her witty, irresistible form.]]> 63681 3.53 4538 777 459335 1841151394 9781841151397 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174942973m/459335.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/459335.The_Ladies_Man 3.43 255 Lipman writes with the wry authority of a latter-day Jane Austen or Henry James. Her work ripples with startling segues into the perversities of male-female relationships. Yet for all this insight, her characters are drawn with companionable warmth. This is not a book about the bold and the beautiful. Her cast inhabits a twilight of TV dinners, graying hair, and disastrous dates, yet they never lose their hope or their capacity for love. A gourmet casserole of a book--drama, humor, and understanding in equally generous portions. --Matthew Baylis

]]> 63681 3.53 4538 777 459338 0671748416 9780671748418 22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174942975m/459338.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/459338.The_Way_Men_Act_A_Novel 3.60 234 Then She Found Me and Into Love. Reprint.]]> 63681 3.53 4538 777 459337 0375724583 9780375724589 23 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174942975m/459337.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/459337.The_Dearly_Departed 3.59 226 The Ladies' Man and The Inn at Lake Devine explores going home again; about finding light in the dark corners of one's inhospitable past; about love, golf, and DNA.

Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. But accidents happen. The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fiancé, brings Sunny back to the scene of the unhappy adolescence she thought she’d left behind. Reentry is to be dreaded; there’s no hiding in a town with one diner, one doctor, one stop sign, one motel. Yet allies surface; even high school tormentors have grown up in unforeseen and gratifying ways. Just possibly, Sunny begins to think, she wasn’t as beleaguered as she felt she was. And maybe her mother’s life was richer than anyone suspected. Add to the mix a chief of police whose interest in Sunny exceeds his civic duty, and you have the makings of an irresistibly beguiling tale from an author who writes with all the wit and wry authority of a latter-day Jane Austen.]]> 63681 3.53 4538 777 459339 0671656767 9780671656768 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174942976m/459339.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/459339.Into_Love_and_Out_Again 3.80 93 63681 3.53 4538 777 7372486 158836013X 9781588360137 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7372486-the-dearly-departed 4.00 1 63681 3.53 4538 777 7339616 0753185326 9780753185322 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7339616-the-family-man 0.0 0 63681 3.53 4538 777 7197410 3423210877 9783423210874 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7197410-als-sie-mich-fand 0.0 0 63681 3.53 4538 777