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April 11, 2012

After almost two years of planning, it has been great to share 20SomethingReads.com with readers over the past six weeks. The site officially launched on Wednesday, February 29th, and we hope some of you already have taken a peek!

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April 10, 2012

The following are lists of books releasing the weeks of April 9th and April 16th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers.

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April 6, 2012

Greetings from the Outer Banks where we are vacationing this week. We have a lot going on at the office, so this trip had me working a lot more than I typically do when we are here. Luckily there is a great work space that I have taken over. The weather has been mercurial with a mix of temperatures in the 80s and the 50s. I managed to have to work most of the nice days, which of course was maddening, but I toted four cookbooks with me, and I have had a great time cooking dinners --- including Dr. Pepper Ribs --- and baking cakes. And we are here until Monday, so there is still some time to escape and just have some fun.

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April 6, 2012 - April 20, 2012

Here are reading recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the contest period of April 6 - April 20.

More Than You Know
by Penny Vincenzi - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Eliza has a dazzling career in the magazine world of the 1960s. But then she falls deeply in love with Matt, an edgy working-class boy, and gives up her ritzy, fast-paced lifestyle to get married. By the end of the decade, their marriage has suffered a harrowing breakdown, culminating in divorce and a dramatic courtroom custody battle over their little girl.

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In Penny Vincenzi's most recent book for Doubleday, she took a different approach from what her readers expect. THE BEST OF TIMES focused on the altered lives of a disparate group of people following a major traffic accident. In her new novel, MORE THAN YOU KNOW, she returns to more familiar territory: the lives and loves of a well-to-do family, as well as their friends and colleagues. Read More

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Eliza has a dazzling career in the magazine world of the 1960s. But then she falls deeply in love with Matt, an edgy working-class boy, and gives up her ritzy, fast-paced lifestyle to get married. By the end of the decade, their marriage has suffered a harrowing breakdown, culminating in divorce and a dramatic courtroom custody battle over their little girl.

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Eliza has a dazzling career in the magazine world of the 1960s. But then she falls deeply in love with Matt, an edgy working-class boy, and gives up her ritzy, fast-paced lifestyle to get married. By the end of the decade, their marriage has suffered a harrowing breakdown, culminating in divorce and a dramatic courtroom custody battle over their little girl.

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A privileged girl from a privileged class, Eliza has a dazzling career in the magazine world of the 1960s. But when she falls deeply in love with Matt, an edgy working-class boy, she gives up her ritzy, fast-paced lifestyle to get married.
    
By the end of the decade, however, their marriage has suffered a harrowing breakdown, culminating in divorce and a dramatic courtroom custody battle over their little girl. Also at risk is Eliza's gorgeous family home, a pawn in the game, which she can't bear to give up.
    
True to form, Penny Vincenzi introduces a devious cast of characters seemingly plucked from the pages of sixties- and seventies-era magazines, as she deftly maneuvers between the glamorous, moneyed worlds of fashion and advertising, and a heart-wrenching custody battle going on in the courtroom where the social mores of the time are on full display.

Week of April 23, 2012

ESCAPE by Barbara Delinsky introduces readers to a lawyer who is so fed up with her job and marriage that she runs away. Is there any hope of getting her previous life back on track? Or must she abandon the whole thing?

In Robert Dugoni's MURDER ONE, Barclay Reid is struggling to cope with the death of her teenage daughter from a drug overdose. When she’s accused of murdering a drug trafficker she blamed for the overdose, attorney David Sloane is her chosen defender in his first criminal case.

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Week of April 16, 2012

THE SNOWMAN by Jo Nesbø finds antihero police investigator Harry Hole suspecting a link between a menacing letter and the disappearance of a boy's mother --- and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall.

In Anne Perry's TREASON AT LISSON GROVE, Charlotte and Thomas Pitt are called out of London, to Ireland and France respectively, each chasing the person or group behind a sinister plot aimed directly at taking down the British government and Queen Victoria herself.

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Week of April 9, 2012

In ONE WAS A SOLDIER, Julia Spencer-Fleming's latest Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery, five veterans try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq. What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that bind them to one another and their small Adirondack town.

SAY HER NAME is a novel that recounts the story of Francisco Goldman's passionate, if improbable, love affair with a woman two decades his junior and of the nearly insurmountable grief that stalked him after its tragic conclusion.

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Week of April 2, 2012

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by Vanessa Diffenbaugh beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past.

Acting on behalf of a dead girl found in the suite of nasty Hollywood actor Jumbo Nelson, Spenser finds himself on the wrong side of some very powerful and unpleasant players in Robert B. Parker's SIXKILL.

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