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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Dorothea Benton Frank’s All the Single Ladies and NOT the original book. Preview: All the Single Ladies is a novel by Dorothea Benton Frank that centers on three women brought together by the death of a friend, Kathryn Harper. Lisa St....

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power and NOT the original book. Preview: The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene is a self-help book offering advice on how to gain and maintain power, using lessons drawn from parables and the experiences of historical...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to James Patterson’s & et al Private Vegas and NOT the original book. Preview: Private investigator, Jack Morgan, deals with serial rapists, car bombings, murderous gold-diggers, a frame-up against his friend, an evil twin, and the disintegration...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton and NOT the original book. Preview: My Name Is Lucy Barton tells the story of the title character and her relationship with her family, particularly her mother and first husband. It considers the perception...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Emily Bleeker’s Wreckage and NOT the original book. Preview: A plane crash shatters the lives of two families, raising complex issues of love, loyalty and loss, in Wreckage, the debut novel by Emily Bleeker. Lillian Linden takes a much-needed...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk and NOT the original book. Preview: H is for Hawk is a memoir by Helen Macdonald. Macdonald had a life-long fascination with birds of prey, especially falcons, and the goshawk, a large wild bird of prey, is well...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things and NOT the original book. Preview: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult is the story of Ruth Jefferson, an African American labor and delivery nurse who is charged with the murder of the newborn son of white supremacists....

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites and NOT the original book. Preview: The unusual family of French Impressionist master Jacob Abraham Camille Pizzarro takes center stage in The Marriage of Opposites. The book is set in the early to late...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to E. Hoffman’s The Billion Dollar Spy and NOT the original book. Preview: The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman chronicles the six year relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jenny Lawson’s Furiously Happy and NOT the original book. Preview: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things is a series of essays that are hysterically funny and poignant at the same time. The author, Jenny Lawson, suffers from clinical...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Holly Madison’s Down the Rabbit Hole and NOT the original book. Preview: Down the Rabbit Hole is the memoir of former Hugh Hefner girlfriend and former star of The Girls Next Door, Holly Madison. By 2002, Holly was Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend at...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and NOT the original book. Preview: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle is a nonfiction book about individual spiritual enlightenment and how this can positively affect humankind. To further...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Gretchen Rubin’s Better Than Before and NOT the original book. Preview: Gretchen Rubin is a successful self-help book writer, lifestyle blogger and bestselling author. In her latest book, Better than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Christiane Northrup’s MD Goddesses Never Age and NOT the original book. Preview: Christiane Northrup, M.D.’s Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being, is a self-help book directed at older women to whom...