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Danielle Steel


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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: 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 >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2007

"Similar to a fast-food meal, the book won't meet daily nutritional requirements and just might leave you with a bellyache."
A San Francisco earthquake shakes up the lives of three women in the latest from Steel (Bungalow 2, 2007, etc.). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 6, 1999

"Steel manages to make even some solid ideas sound treacly and dated."
For diehard Steel fans only. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: June 27, 2006

"A slight confection that spares no heartwarming family cliché, but one that acknowledges the unique challenges of today's mixed families."
Manhattan matron struggles to keep the family peace when her wildly divergent twin daughters are invited to a debutante ball. 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 >