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FIC CABOT Cabot, Meg. Boy Meets Girl. Every Boy's Got One. The Princess Diaries author writes some really funny chick lit novels. Her unique touch? The plots unfold through emails, voicemail, and other inventive means. FIC DUNN Dunn, Sarah. The Big Love: a Novel. Alison’s live-in boyfriend pops out to the store to buy mustard and doesn’t return. Instead, he calls from a pay phone to tell her he’s in love with someone else. Dunn moves beyond cliché in this funny and wise first novel about going for the big love or broke. FIC FIELDING Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason. Bridget Jones’s Diary. . . . it captures neatly the way modern women teeter between “I am woman” independence and a pathetic girlie desire to be all things to all men. —The New York Times Book Review. FIC GIFFIN Giffin, Emily. Something Borrowed. Mousy Rachel breaks out of the mold when she sleeps with her best friend’s fiancé on her 30th birthday. Trouble is, Rachel really is in love with him and her best friend’s a nasty person, so it is easy to betray her. FIC GREEN Green, Jane. Jemima J.: a Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans. Ugly duckling Jemina Jones decides to find love on the net, complete with a digitally altered photograph. When she hooks up with an American who wants to meet her, she needs to become the beauty she’s claimed to be—and in the process learns that being beautiful is no guarantee to happiness. |



