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Kevin Wignall, author of People Die

Fast, efficient, and deadly… JJ is the best hit man money can buy. His clients are international. His targets never see it coming. His only rule: never get emotionally involved. But in the assassination game, everything can change with a single bullet.

Editorial content for Jennifer Johnson Is Sick of Being Single

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Everyone around Jennifer Johnson is getting married, while she's still single and stuck writing ad copy about men's dress socks. Launched on a humiliating and hilarious quest to find Prince Charming at any cost --- including agonizing online dates, diet-clinic cults, drag-queen fights, and a debilitating addiction to Cinnabon icing, JENNIFER JOHNSON is a cautionary tale about getting what you want - and how that may be the worst thing to happen to you.

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From the author of PRETTY LITTLE MISTAKES --- Everyone around Jennifer Johnson is getting married, while she's still single and stuck writing ad copy about men's dress socks. Launched on a humiliating and hilarious quest to find Prince Charming at any cost --- including agonizing online dates, diet-clinic cults, drag-queen fights, and a debilitating addiction to Cinnabon icing, JENNIFER JOHNSON is a cautionary tale about getting what you want - and how that may be the worst thing to happen to you.

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May 2009

MANY thanks to all of you who answered our 2009 ReadingGroupGuides.com Reader Survey. We received more than 7,500 responses in the time that the survey was open! As you will recall, the first 2,500 readers who completed the survey and provided complete address information will receive books as prizes. An additional 200 readers have been selected for additional prizes. For those who have won, it may take a few weeks for our friends at the publishers to get these books out to you, so please be patient. Devon, our terrific intern, will alert you by email if you are a winner. The names of the winners also will be posted online later this month by first and last name only.

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Sandra Dallas, author of Prayers for Sale

Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before it was Colorado. Nit Spindle is just seventeen and newly married. She and her husband have just moved to the high country in search of work.

Jilliane Hoffman, author of Plea of Insanity

The prosecutor --- Julia Vacanti. Young, ambitious, and facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant --- David Marquette. A successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The victims --- Marquette’s own wife and three small children.

Editorial content for Do Dead People Walk Their Dogs?

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Concetta Bertoldi has been communicating with the "Other Side" since childhood. In her previous book, the bestselling DO DEAD PEOPLE WATCH YOU SHOWER?, she addressed questions about the afterlife that ranged from the poignant to the provocative. Now she returns with DO DEAD PEOPLE WALK THEIR DOGS?, a second volume of intriguing observations about our beloved deceased.

About the Book

Concetta Bertoldi has been communicating with the "Other Side" since childhood. In her previous book, the bestselling DO DEAD PEOPLE WATCH YOU SHOWER?, she addressed questions about the afterlife that ranged from the poignant to the provocative. Now she returns with DO DEAD PEOPLE WALK THEIR DOGS?, a second volume of intriguing observations about our beloved deceased. Moving, funny, and fascinating, it will open your eyes to what really comes after life --- while offering intimate insights into Concetta’s own astonishing life and what her gift has meant to her marriage, her friendships, and the path she was destined to take.

John Manning, author of All the Pretty Dead Girls

Two decades ago, at a private women’s college in upstate New York, a student was brutally attacked in her dorm room, but her assailant was never found.