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    <body><![CDATA[This was an amazing book; I could hardly put it down, and when I did, it was usually after reading it til 4 in the morning.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend gave me about ten Jackie Collins books last week. This is my third one.<br/>They are complete brain candy. Very quick reads.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this one wasn't too bad, but things seemed to work out just a little too well for everyone.  i know that that's the point, but still...things could have been a little less perfect....]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another love story ... sort of. This book was slow to take off, and parts felt out of place. Overall, it was a nice story; just a little long for what it was.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When you feel like just entertaining yourself and reading smut.  Not that smut is a bad thing....]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Most awesome book ever, featuring the line: &quot;Yet he had a hard-on that could crack ice.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Seriously one of the best &quot;smut&quot; books of all time!  Total page turner!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Brynn got me hooked.. who doesnt love some smut in their life?]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<strong>Jackie Collins'</strong> <strong><em>American Star</em></strong> is a love story for the nineties. At<p>its heart are two extraordinary lovers, separated by tragic circumstances,<p>yearning for each other, yet seemingly never able to be together again. <p><strong><em>Nick</em> and <em>Lauren </em></strong> can never<p>forget each other. Teenage small-town lovers -- he from the wrong side of the<p>tracks, she the prettiest girl in town -- their love was the town scandal,<p>forbidden, sizzling and unforgettable, ending abruptly in a tragedy that sent<p>them into separate orbits. <p><strong><em>Nick</em> pursues his dream</strong> of acting, and after a series of<p>wild adventures begins the slow rise that will make him one of Hollywood's<p>biggest stars. <p><strong><em>Lauren </em> goes to New York</strong> and enters the modeling world,<p>surprising everyone with a career that takes off in a direction she never<p>expected. <p><strong><em>American Star</em> follows them both</strong> on their trips to fame, as<p><strong><em>Nick</em></strong> and <strong><em>Lauren,</em></strong> haunted by the secret they<p>share, try to live without each other -- only to find they can't. <p><strong><em>American Star</em></strong> is a compelling story of love, sex and murder, set<p>against the glamorous backgrounds of New York and Hollywood, as only Jackie<p>Collins can tell it.<p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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  <published>1993</published>
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