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NEST Café “Read This Book” 1/26/15 I'll Have What She's Having / Rebecca Harrington 978-1-101-87243-7 $14.95 01-06-2015 A hilarious look at the eating habits of the skinny and famous--from Gwyneth's goji berry and quail egg concoctions to Jackie Kennedy's baked potato and Beluga caviar regimen--Rebecca Harrington leaves no cabbage soup unstirred in her wickedly funny, wildly absurd quest to diet like the stars. Empress Dowager Cixi / Jung Chang 978-0-307-45670-0 $17.95 09-09-2014 From the author of Mao and Wild Swans comes the epic biography of the woman who ruled China for fifty years, overcoming centuries of tradition to bring a medieval empire into the modern age. The Winter People / Jennifer McMahon 978-0-8041-6996-7 $14.95 01-06-2015 The New York Times bestselling author returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters . . . sometimes too unbreakable. Death Comes to Pemberley / P.D. James 978-0-307-95065-9 $15.00 01-01-2013 P. D. James combines her two lifelong loves, Jane Austen and murder mysteries, in this pitch-perfect sequel to Pride and Prejudice, which finds a guest shockingly murdered on the Darcys' estate. One of the biggest hardcover bestsellers of the 2011 holiday season. Longbourn / Jo Baker 978-0-345-80697-0 $15.95 06-17-2014 An irresistible below-stairs answer to Pride and Prejudice: a story of the romance, intrigue, and drama among the servants of the Bennet household. My Beloved World / Sonia Sotomayor 978-0-345-80483-9 $15.95 01-07-2014 An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the US Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. The Aftermath / Rhidian Brook 978-0-307-94857-1 $15.00 08-12-2014 From an award-winning author and screenwriter comes a searing new novel, soon to be made into a major motion picture: set in a ravaged Germany right after World War II, this is the profoundly moving story of two families--one British, one German--thrown into one house, and of love grown from hate. Plainsong / Kent Haruf 978-0-375-70585-4 $15.00 08-22-2000 Crazy Rich Asians / Kevin Kwan 978-0-345-80378-8 $15.00 05-20-2014 A funny, juicy debut novel about the devious scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend home to meet the family ... without telling her that they're loaded. Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro 978-1-4000-7877-6 $15.95 03-14-2006 A deeply moving and stunningly original love story with a startling twist from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2005 MAN BOOKER PRIZE Katie Mehan * kmehan@penguinrandomhouse.com * 206/923-1188