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Danielle Steel


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FICTION
Released: March 27, 2012

Eccentric movie director falls prey to a sociopath sidekick and a feckless producer/lover in Steel's methodical Hollywood morality tale. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011

"A novel that will appeal to the most dedicated of Steel's fans."
Can a jilted husband and abandoned daughter learn to trust again and even find true love? Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 5, 2011

After a breakup, a Manhattan gallery owner takes in tenants at her West Village brownstone. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 28, 2010

"The two women's stories are compelling--if only they weren't weighted down by clichés and artless exposition."
In Steel's latest romance (Family Ties, 2010, etc.), a restrained anthropologist discovers her wild side while researching the life of a beautiful 18th-century Sioux Indian. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: June 22, 2010

"A listless narrative not helped by Steel's plodding prose, but her legion of fans aren't in it for the surprise."
An aunt steps up to mother her orphaned nieces and nephew, in Steel's predictable latest (A Good Woman, 2008, etc.). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 28, 2008

"After a slow-moving start, the action accelerates during the war sections, but Steel's tin ear and simplistic prose, even more than the predictable plot, make for a leaden tale."
Manhattan heiress, wrongfully shunned as an adulteress, becomes a medic in the Great War, then a Paris physician, confounding all her detractors, in this cliché-riddled, exposition-bound umpteenth from Steel (Rogue, 2008, etc.). Read full book review >