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It Sounded Better in My Head

By: Nina Kenwood

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William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist! From debut author Nina Kenwood comes a tender and funny love letter to coming of age, and first love and its confusions, perfect for fans of Booksmart and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. When her parents announce their impending divorce, Natalie can’t understand why no one is fighting, or at least mildly upset. Then Zach and Lucy, her two best friends, hook up, leaving her feeling slightly miffed and decidedly awkward. She’d always imagined she would end up with Zach one day—in the version of her life that played out like a TV show, with just the right amount of banter, pining, and meaningful looks. Now everything has changed, and nothing is quite making sense. And then, an unexpected romance with Zach’s older brother comes along and shakes things up even further...

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1250219272

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9781250219275

Unnecessary Drama

By: Nina Kenwood

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Unnecessary Drama

By: Nina Kenwood

From the author of the much-loved It Sounded Better In My Head comes a deliciously entertaining new rom-com, set in a run-down student share house in Melbourne. Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone’s birthdays, but also organises the group present, pays for it, and politely chases others for their share. She’s the helper, the doer, the guarder-of-drinks, the minder-of-bags, the maker-of-spreadsheets. She’s the responsible one who always follows the rules—and she plans to keep it that way during her first year of university. Her new share house is rules-lite. But 'no unnecessary drama' means no fights, tension, or romance between housemates. When one of her housemates turns out to be Jesse, her high-school nemesis, Brooke is nervously confident she can handle it. They’ll simply silently endure living together and stay out of each other’s way. But it turns out Jesse isn’t so easy to ignore... Channelling the screwball comedy of New Girl with an enemies-to-lovers twist, Unnecessary Drama is a joyful story about leaving home, dealing with the unexpected complications of life, and somehow finding exactly what you need. Nina Kenwood is an award-winning author living in Melbourne. Her debut YA novel, It Sounded Better in My Head, won the Text Prize and was a finalist for the American Library Association’s William C Morris Award, a CBCA notable book, as well as being shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Queensland Literary Awards, the Russell Prize for Humour Writing, the Indie Book Awards and the Australian Book Industry Awards. It Sounded Better in My Head has been published in six languages, and optioned for film.

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1922791032

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9781922791030

The Wedding Forecast

By: Nina Kenwood

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The Wedding Forecast

By: Nina Kenwood

The sparkling, relatable, hilarious and sexy adult romantic comedy from the author of the much-loved It Sounded Better in My Head and Unnecessary Drama

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1922790842

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Unnecessary Drama

By: Nina Kenwood

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Unnecessary Drama

By: Nina Kenwood

From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about two high school nemeses who end up sharing a house together their first year of college Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone’s birthdays, but also organizes the group present, pays for it, and politely chases others for their share. She’s the helper, the doer, the maker-of spreadsheets. She’s the responsible one who always follows the rules—and she plans to keep it that way during her first year of college. Her student housing only has one rule: "no unnecessary drama." Which means no fights, tension, or romance between roommates. When one of them turns out to be Jesse, her high-school nemesis, Brooke is determined she can handle it. They’ll simply silently endure living together and stay out of each other’s way. But it turns out Jesse isn’t so easy to ignore. With Unnecessary Drama, Nina Kenwood perfectly captures the experience of leaving home for the first time, dealing with the unexpected complications of life, and somehow finding exactly what you need.

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Flatiron Books

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1250894433

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9781250894434

It Sounded Better in My Head

By: Nina Kenwood

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How to Survive Puberty at 25

By: Nina Bhadreshwar

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How to Survive Puberty at 25

By: Nina Bhadreshwar

How to Survive Puberty at 25' or rather guns, gangs, family, bullies and puberty is the true story of Nina Bhadreshwar, a young journalist, and her journey through others' stories to her own sanity after 14 years of anorexia and suicidal depression. Puberty is always painful. It is particularly painful when you are 25 years old and then living, as a British mixed race broke ass lass in Watts, Los Angeles shortly after the L.A. riots. And it becomes undeniably explosive when the said overaged adolescent is recruited to work for, write for and be the voice for Death Row Records in Westwood, Los Angeles. How Nina navigates her way through her cultural confusion and anorexia also becomes the chronicle for the little-known real behind-the-scenes of the history-changing episode that was Death Row Records and Los Angeles 1994-1996.

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1434386317

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9781434386311

Black Cat Weekly #4

By: Edwin Balmer,Hal Charles,Meg Opperman,Todhunter Ballard,Frank Lovell Nelson,Paul Di Filippo,Nina Kiriki Hoffman,Lester del Rey,John Boyd

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Black Cat Weekly #4

By: Edwin Balmer,Hal Charles,Meg Opperman,Todhunter Ballard,Frank Lovell Nelson,Paul Di Filippo,Nina Kiriki Hoffman,Lester del Rey,John Boyd

Black Cat Weekly #4 presents more tales of the mysterious and fantastic—4 mystery short stories (including a Derringer Award-winner), a mystery novel, 2 science fiction short stories, a fantasy story, plus a science fiction novel. Here are: THE HAMMERING MAN by Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg [mystery short] [Luther Trant series] FLOORED, by Hal Charles [solve-it-yourself mystery short] TWILIGHT LADIES, by Meg Opperman [mystery short] [Derringer Award Winner] WEST OF QUARANTINE, by Todhunter Ballard [western/mystery novel] THE BROTHERS OF THE LEFT HAND PATH, by Frank Lovell Nelson [mystery short] [Carlton Clarke series] THE HERPLE IS A HAPPY BEAST, by Paul Di Filippo [science fiction short] THE POWER OF WAKING, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman [fantasy short] THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE, by Lester del Rey [science fiction short] ANDROMEDA GUN, by John Boyd [science fiction novel]

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479464422

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9781479464425

Man at the Helm

A Novel

By: Nina Stibbe

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Man at the Helm

A Novel

By: Nina Stibbe

A New York Times Notable Book of 2015: From the writer of the hugely acclaimed Love, Nina comes a sharply funny debut novel about a gloriously eccentric family. Soon after her parents' separation, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel moves with her siblings and newly single mother to a tiny village in the English countryside, where the new neighbors are horrified by their unorthodox ways and fatherless household. Lizzie's theatrical mother only invites more gossip by spending her days drinking whiskey, popping pills, and writing plays. The one way to fit in, the children decide, will be to find themselves a new man at the helm. The first novel from a remarkably gifted writer with a voice all her own, Man at the Helm is a hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking portrait of childhood in an unconventional family.

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Hachette+ORM

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0316286745

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9780316286749

The Rift

By: Nina Allan

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The Rift

By: Nina Allan

Selena and Julie are sisters. As children they were closest companions, but as they grow towards maturity, a rift develops between them. There are greater rifts, however. Julie goes missing at the age of seventeen. It will be twenty years before Selena sees her again. When Julie reappears, she tells Selena an incredible story about how she has spent time on another planet. Selena has an impossible choice to make: does she dismiss her sister as a damaged person, the victim of delusions, or believe her, and risk her own sanity in the process? Is Julie really who she says she is, and if she isn’t, what does she have to gain by claiming her sister’s identity?

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Titan Books (US, CA)

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1785650394

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9781785650390

Bettelheim

A Life And A Legacy

By: Nina Sutton

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Bettelheim

A Life And A Legacy

By: Nina Sutton

Who was Bruno Bettelheim? The brilliant discoverer of a unique method of treating psychotic children, justly acclaimed the world over? Or the brutal and despotic bully who was denounced after his death by former students and patients? In her quest to understand this puzzling and powerful man, Nina Sutton spent five years tracing Bettelheim's footsteps from Vienna to Los Angeles, via Chicago, Basel, and Jerusalem. She interviewed students and colleagues, friends and enemies, and uncovered rare documents, including Bettelheim's letters from Buchenwald and Dachau.Most significantly, he was a therapist driven by an almost magical idea: that from an absolute evil, Nazism, could be drawn the salvation of deeply disturbed children. Sutton shows how Bettelheim discovered his life force in the concentration camp and then tried to use his own aggression as a lightning rod for the self-destructive anger and violence seething within the children in his care. Probing deep into his past and into the scandal that broke out after his suicide, she reveals how care and brutality, commitment to truth, and a passion for fairy tales, could coexist in this exceptional man.

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Basic Books

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0813390990

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9780813390994

The Dickens Index

By: Nicolas Bentley,Michael Slater,Nina Burgis

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The Dickens Index

By: Nicolas Bentley,Michael Slater,Nina Burgis

An excellent guide not only to topical, historical, geographical and other references and allusions, but to plot, theme, characters, and publications. One can turn from a recipe for sherry-cobbler, to a full account of Dicken's use of Shakespeare, all in a lucid and graceful prose. It is not an index, but an encyclopaedia.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0192827812

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9780192827814

Zagat Survey

America's Best-Value Restaurants

By: Zagat Survey (Firm),Eugene H. Zagat, Jr.,Nina S. Zagat

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America's Best-Value Restaurants

By: Zagat Survey (Firm),Eugene H. Zagat, Jr.,Nina S. Zagat

Here's a road map to the top dining values in 21 major cities across the United States, from top hot dog in New York City to the best burrito in L.A.

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0943421667

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Book's by Nina Kenwood

It Sounded Better in My Head

It Sounded Better in My Head

Unnecessary Drama

Unnecessary Drama

The Wedding Forecast

The Wedding Forecast

Unnecessary Drama

Unnecessary Drama

It Sounded Better in My Head

It Sounded Better in My Head

How to Survive Puberty at 25

How to Survive Puberty at 25

Black Cat Weekly #4

Black Cat Weekly #4

Man at the Helm

Man at the Helm

The Rift

The Rift

Bettelheim

Bettelheim

The Dickens Index

The Dickens Index

Zagat Survey

Zagat Survey

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