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On scholarship at a prestigious east coast college, ordinary mabel dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blueblooded genevra winslow. Cart hello select your address best sellers todays. My third, new york times bestseller bittersweet, is set at the home on lake champlain where i spent my summers as a little girl. Buy bittersweet by miranda beverly whittemore online at alibris. About the author 2014 miranda beverly whittemore is the author of three other novels. But if theres one thing book publishing has taught me is that there are many other feelings, good and bad, that come along with this whole big old process.
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Written by miranda beverlywhittemore, bittersweet is part thriller, part romance and part womens fiction, this book is the quintessential pageturner. Bittersweet 9780007536672 by beverly whittemore, miranda and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. May, 2014 as a young woman struggles to read paradise lost, she faces her own temptation. Bittersweet reprint paperback by miranda beverlywhittemore. May 22, 2014 bittersweet by miranda beverly whittemore f. Miranda beverly whittemores intriguing third novel, bittersweet, takes the reader inside the glamorous world of the superwealthy, where. About miranda beverly whittemore author of bittersweet miranda beverly whittemore is the author of three novels, including the effects of light and set me free, which won the janet heidinger kafka prize for the best book of fiction by an american woman published in 2007.
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