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<title><![CDATA[The Indie Romance (Fiction) Bestseller List]]></title>

<description><![CDATA[In recognition of Valentine’s Day, we present the Indie Love and Romance Bestseller Lists. Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending February 9, 2010.]]></description>

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<title><![CDATA[The Time Traveler's Wife]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156029438</link>
<description><![CDATA[A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.]]></description>
<ttl>360</ttl>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Time Traveler's Wife]]></dc:title>
<bsbl:rank><![CDATA[1]]></bsbl:rank>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Audrey Niffenegger]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harvest]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780156029438]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-07-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Knit Two]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780425229927</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The sequel to the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, The Friday Night Knitting Club. At the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker, the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club-including Georgia's daughter Dakota, now a college freshman-continue to rely on each other for help, even as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother; and for seventy something Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children. As the club's projects-an afghan, baby booties, a wedding coat-are pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Because it isn't the difficulty of the garment that makes you a great knitter: it's the care and attention you bring to the craft-as well as how you adapt to surprises.]]></description>
<ttl>360</ttl>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Knit Two]]></dc:title>
<bsbl:rank><![CDATA[2]]></bsbl:rank>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Jacobs]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Berkley]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780425229927]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ The sequel to the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, The Friday Night Knitting Club. At the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker, the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club-including Georgia's daughter Dakota, now a college freshman-continue to rely on each other for help, even as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother; and for seventy something Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children. As the club's projects-an afghan, baby booties, a wedding coat-are pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Because it isn't the difficulty of the garment that makes you a great knitter: it's the care and attention you bring to the craft-as well as how you adapt to surprises.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9781440654213]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Outlander]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780440212560</link>
<description><![CDATA[Claire Randall is leading a double life.  She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart.  For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.]]></description>
<ttl>360</ttl>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Outlander]]></dc:title>
<bsbl:rank><![CDATA[3]]></bsbl:rank>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Diana Gabaldon]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Dell]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780440212560]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Claire Randall is leading a double life.  She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart.  For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780440335160]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>1992-06-02T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Knit the Season]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399156380</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A new heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times- bestselling author.  Knit the Season is a loving, moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family. The story begins a year after the end of Knit Two, with Dakota Walker's trip to spend the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland-accompanied by her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine. Together, they share a trove of happy memories about Christmases past with Dakota's mom, Georgia Walker-from Georgia's childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mom. From Thanksgiving through Hanuk­kah and Christmas to New Year's, Knit the Season is a novel about the richness of family bonds and the joys of friendship.]]></description>
<ttl>360</ttl>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Knit the Season]]></dc:title>
<bsbl:rank><![CDATA[4]]></bsbl:rank>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Jacobs]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Putnam]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780399156380]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ A new heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times- bestselling author.  Knit the Season is a loving, moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family. The story begins a year after the end of Knit Two, with Dakota Walker's trip to spend the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland-accompanied by her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine. Together, they share a trove of happy memories about Christmases past with Dakota's mom, Georgia Walker-from Georgia's childhood to her blissful time as a doting new mom. From Thanksgiving through Hanuk­kah and Christmas to New Year's, Knit the Season is a novel about the richness of family bonds and the joys of friendship.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9781101149768]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The White Queen]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781416563686</link>
<description><![CDATA[Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction" (USA Today) Presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses.Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen.The White Queen tells the story of a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition who, catching the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose fate is still unknown. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores this most famous unsolved mystery of English history, informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills.With The White Queen, Philippa Gregory brings the artistry and intellect of a master writer and storyteller to a new era in history and begins what is sure to be another bestselling classic series from this beloved author. Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 CD of Philippa Gregory's The Virgin's Lover]]></description>
<ttl>360</ttl>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The White Queen]]></dc:title>
<bsbl:rank><![CDATA[5]]></bsbl:rank>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philippa Gregory]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Touchstone]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781416563686]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction" (USA Today) Presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses.Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen.The White Queen tells the story of a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition who, catching the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose fate is still unknown. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores this most famous unsolved mystery of English history, informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills.With The White Queen, Philippa Gregory brings the artistry and intellect of a master writer and storyteller to a new era in history and begins what is sure to be another bestselling classic series from this beloved author. Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 CD of Philippa Gregory's The Virgin's Lover]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9781416563914]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2009-08-18T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Friday Night Knitting Club]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780425219096</link>
<description><![CDATA[The New York Times bestselling sensation that's "Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan" (USA Today)-now in paperback.  Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered.  Luckily, Georgia's friends are there, sharing their own tales of intimacy, heartbreak, and miracle making. And when the unthinkable happens, these women will discover that what they've created isn't just a knitting club: it's a sisterhood.]]></description>
<ttl>360</ttl>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Friday Night Knitting Club]]></dc:title>
<bsbl:rank><![CDATA[6]]></bsbl:rank>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Jacobs]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Berkley]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780425219096]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The New York Times bestselling sensation that's "Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan" (USA Today)-now in paperback.  Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered.  Luckily, Georgia's friends are there, sharing their own tales of intimacy, heartbreak, and miracle making. And when the unthinkable happens, these women will discover that what they've created isn't just a knitting club: it's a sisterhood.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9781429597111]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2008-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Bed of Roses]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780425230077</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Love blooms in the second novel in Nora Roberts's celebrated Bride Quartet series. As little girls MacKensie, Emma, Laurel, and Parker spent hours acting out their perfect make believe "I do" moments. Years later their fantasies become reality when they start their own wedding planning company to make every woman's dream day come true. With perfect flowers, delicious desserts, and joyful moments captured on film, Nora Roberts's Bride Quartet shares each woman's emotionally magical journey to romance.  In Bed of Roses, florist Emma Grant is finding career success with her friends at Vows wedding planning company, and her love life appears to be thriving. Though men swarm around her, she still hasn't found Mr. Right. And the last place she's looking is right under her nose.  But that's just where Jack Cooke is. He's so close to the women of Vows that he's practically family, but the architect has begun to admit to himself that his feelings for Emma have developed into much more than friendship. When Emma returns his passion-kiss for blistering kiss-they must trust in their history...and in their hearts.]]></description>
<ttl>360</ttl>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Bed of Roses]]></dc:title>
<bsbl:rank><![CDATA[7]]></bsbl:rank>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nora Roberts]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Berkley]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780425230077]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ Love blooms in the second novel in Nora Roberts's celebrated Bride Quartet series. As little girls MacKensie, Emma, Laurel, and Parker spent hours acting out their perfect make believe "I do" moments. Years later their fantasies become reality when they start their own wedding planning company to make every woman's dream day come true. With perfect flowers, delicious desserts, and joyful moments captured on film, Nora Roberts's Bride Quartet shares each woman's emotionally magical journey to romance.  In Bed of Roses, florist Emma Grant is finding career success with her friends at Vows wedding planning company, and her love life appears to be thriving. Though men swarm around her, she still hasn't found Mr. Right. And the last place she's looking is right under her nose.  But that's just where Jack Cooke is. He's so close to the women of Vows that he's practically family, but the architect has begun to admit to himself that his feelings for Emma have developed into much more than friendship. When Emma returns his passion-kiss for blistering kiss-they must trust in their history...and in their hearts.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9781101148112]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2009-10-27T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Divine Misdemeanors]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780345495969</link>
<description><![CDATA[You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin’s treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heir—all for the right to claim the throne. But I turned my back on court and crown, choosing exile in the human world—and in the arms of my beloved Frost and Darkness. While I may have rejected the monarchy, I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. My kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. I must get to the bottom of these horrendous murders, even if that means going up against Gilda, the Fairy Godmother, my rival for fey loyalties in Los Angeles.But even stranger things are happening. Mortals I once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on human/faerie relations. Though I am innocent, dark suspicions of banned magical activities swirl around me.I thought I’d left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. I had dreamed of an idyllic life in sunny L.A. with my beloved ones beside me. But it becomes time to wake up and realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives forever—even if they’re magical.]]></description>
<ttl>360</ttl>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Divine Misdemeanors]]></dc:title>
<bsbl:rank><![CDATA[8]]></bsbl:rank>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laurell K. Hamilton]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Ballantine]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780345495969]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin’s treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heir—all for the right to claim the throne. But I turned my back on court and crown, choosing exile in the human world—and in the arms of my beloved Frost and Darkness. While I may have rejected the monarchy, I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. My kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. I must get to the bottom of these horrendous murders, even if that means going up against Gilda, the Fairy Godmother, my rival for fey loyalties in Los Angeles.But even stranger things are happening. Mortals I once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on human/faerie relations. Though I am innocent, dark suspicions of banned magical activities swirl around me.I thought I’d left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. I had dreamed of an idyllic life in sunny L.A. with my beloved ones beside me. But it becomes time to wake up and realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives forever—even if they’re magical.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-12-08T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Dragonfly in Amber]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780440215622</link>
<description><![CDATA[From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets.  But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills.  Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....]]></description>
<ttl>360</ttl>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Dragonfly in Amber]]></dc:title>
<bsbl:rank><![CDATA[9]]></bsbl:rank>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Diana Gabaldon]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Dell]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780440215622]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets.  But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills.  Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780440335184]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>1993-11-02T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Vision in White]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780425227510</link>
<description><![CDATA[#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts invites readers to the wedding event of the year! #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents her first trade original-a novel of love, friendship, and family-Book One in the Bride Quartet. Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars. A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac's type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turn into something more when you least expect it. And Mac will have to turn to her three best friends-and business partners-to see her way to her own happy ending.]]></description>
<ttl>360</ttl>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Vision in White]]></dc:title>
<bsbl:rank><![CDATA[10]]></bsbl:rank>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nora Roberts]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Berkley]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780425227510]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts invites readers to the wedding event of the year! #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents her first trade original-a novel of love, friendship, and family-Book One in the Bride Quartet. Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars. A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac's type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turn into something more when you least expect it. And Mac will have to turn to her three best friends-and business partners-to see her way to her own happy ending.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9781101031049]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2009-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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