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From Leslie Carroll, one of the freshest voices in contemporary women’s fiction, comes a new release, just in time to whet your appetite for Spring Training!
CHOOSING SOPHIE
goes on sale January 22, 2008!
$13.95 Avon A Paperback Original
ISBN 13: 978-0-06-087137-6
ISBN 10: 0060871377
In the game of life, sometimes you get a “do-over.”
Former Vegas dancer Venus deMarley has just been hit with a wild pitch. She’s forty years old and has finally found the perfect fiancé, when Sophie, the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years ago, suddenly reappears.
Venus has another crisis on her hands as well: her eccentric millionaire dad just died and willed her his pet project—a rag-tag minor league baseball team called the Bronx Cheers—if Venus and Sophie can “close the circle” by reconciling. Venus knows diddly about sports. Unlike her glamorous mom, Sophie’s a jock, a poster girl for Title IX. And after two decades apart, they know nothing about each other, and rarely agree on anything.
But maybe—just maybe—a colorful bunch of misfit, egotistic ball players can bring them together.
“Choosing Sophie” is a breath of fresh air. It is a Lifetime Movie waiting to happen. If you liked Nora Roberts’ “Montana Sky”, you will like “Choosing Sophie”. Go ahead and indulge yourself, and experience the importance of family.
~Stephanie Rollins for ReviewYourBook.com
Click here to read an excerpt from this heartwarming novel about second chances:
 On February 27, 2007, Avon Trade’s A-line released HERSELF, “a delightful novel full of New York wit and Irish charm.” In this book I tackle all the conventional conversational taboos—sex, politics, religion, and the merits of Star Trek.
ISBN: 0060859954 (order from Amazon.com)
$13.95
On sale: 2/27/07
Who says 40 isn’t fabulous?
Tessa Craig has a glamorous job as a political speechwriter, a glamorous Manhattan duplex, and a glamorous boyfriend, Congressman David Weyburn. But when scandal strikes, she decides to leave the country to clear her head, jetting off to Ireland on a search for self-discovery that leads her into unimagined directions. Tessa makes new friends, adopts a new family, discovers unanticipated love, and—most important—makes that uphill climb over the rainbow, only to find the ultimate pot of gold: herself.
Click here to read the first chapter of HERSELF.
SPIN DOCTOR
a January, 2006 release
BOOK AN APPOINTMENT WITH SPIN DOCTOR
Through her unconventional psychotherapy sessions, Susan Lederer is probably the only woman in New York who can put a positive spin on the concept of shrinking in a laundry room. Amid the washers and dryers, she counsels her fellow tenants through numerous emotional crises, successfully helping them take the steps toward realizing their greatest potential, and even finding romance.
Among her clients are the crusty but elegant widow Faith; the aloof ballerina Talia; Meriel, the West Indian housekeeper for the building’s most obnoxious yuppie couple; Amy, a totally frazzled new mom; chic club owners Claude and Naomi, who more than anything else want to get married and adopt a Chinese baby; Gia, the gypsy super’s tarot-reading wife; and spunky, loveable Alice Finnegan (the heroine of Carroll’s TEMPORARY INSANITY), who, thanks to Susan, is getting on with her life after a major emotional upheaval.
But like Austen’s Emma, Susan can’t seem to apply her do-gooder advice to herself. Beneath the upbeat veneer, her own life is a total mess. Her troublesome teenage daughter becomes even more so by the day; and her perfect husband may be far less fabulous than he appears. She could really use a good therapist!
When her comfortable world collapses and her own dirty linen is exposed, Susan’s loyal clients rally around to supply the sympathy and support she’s offered them for so long. By the final spin, when every one of the women is about to embark on a new life cycle, Susan learns that while it may not take a whole village, sometimes it does take a laundry room!
It's an US Weekly magazine "hot book pick" and
is featured in the February 2005 issue of Child magazine. Fans
of The Nanny Diaries and Le Divorce will want to make a play date
with PLAY DATES right away!
Sex and the single mother doesn’t exist…
PLAY DATES:
ISBN: 0-06-059606-6
$12.95
A 2/05 release from Avon Trade
On sale January 18, 2005
PLAY DATES is a fresh new look at motherhood and romance, New York style, and is a guaranteed winner for those cold nights in front of the fire, with this book and a nice glass of cabernet.
-- Diana Risso; Romance Reviews Today
What do you do when you discover that your six-year-old daughter
has a better social life than you do? That’s precisely the
predicament of Claire Marsh, twenty-something, newly-divorced,
and desperate to get out of the house. Lately, it’s been
feeling like she’s just the chef and chauffeur for her wildly
popular, peripatetic (and insanely over-scheduled) daughter Zoë,
shuttling her to ballet lessons, bikram yoga, birthday parties,
and-of course-numerous play dates, but she can’t find a minute
for a “play date” of her own!
Claire hasn’t been having much fun lately. First, her husband
left her for an older woman; and now she’s compelled to face
life’s little vicissitudes without a soft place to fall,
learning how to manage her own money, juggle a job, unclog the
toilet, and raise Zoë alone. The slings and arrows of Claire’s
outrageous fortune sting even more sharply when Zoë begins
to prefer the company of her wild Aunt Mia (“MiMi”),
Claire’s older sister, a bohemian makeup artist who is about
to turn thirty and thus far has managed to avoid needing to take
responsibility for anything. In an inventive narrative style that
tells the story through the first-person POVs of each of these
three female relatives, PLAY DATES unfolds over the course of a
single year in their lives, from Zoë’s entering the
second grade in September through her “graduation” the
following June. As the months progress, all three experience their
own kind of growing pains and, by the following summer, they’ve
each taken an unforgettable journey. Amid laughter and tears, Claire-terrified
of being a single parent-learns to lighten up and loosen up, and
finds the special kind of “happily ever after” that
comes from true self-fulfillment. She even has the opportunity
to grab a second chance at love.The free-spirited Mia discovers
that, contrary to Kander and Ebb, life is not, actually, a cabaret.
Turning thirty, she embraces a series of newfound responsibilities
and deliciously surprising discoveries with her unique brand of
zaniness and charm …… and, well, through all the ballet
recitals, book reports, yoga classes, birthday parties for classmates
whose parents have more money than God, a teacher who seems to
have it in for her, a mom who seems to be undergoing some sort
of life crisis, and ugh-the horror of being the only girl your
age who still wears an Ariel swimsuit, Zoë survives second
grade and develops an unforgettable bond with her mother.
Here is a sneak peak at
one of the chapters...
TEMPORARY INSANITY, a June,
2004 Avon trade paper release, is on the shelves!
Publishers Weekly gave it a rave, writing: " …Carroll's
dramatic flair and peppy, earnest account of all-too-real office
scenarios distinguish this spirited chick-lit offering."
Between Bridget Jones and The Nanny
Diaries lies
Temporary Insanity
Meet Alice Finnegan: thirty-something, single, and stuck in a
cycle of horrific secretarial temp jobs, while struggling to
fulfill
her childhood ambitions of stardom and sharing an apartment with
her ninety-something grandmother, a feisty, funny, former Ziegfeld
showgirl.
Along the rocky road to independence Alice encounters a colorful
cast of oddballs, nuts, and control freaks (including members
of her immediate family), succumbing to the pitfalls of office
romances
and the perils of outshining her bosses as she endeavors to
keep her sanity intact.
Often hilarious, yet also poignant and touching, Temporary
Insanity is another madcap New York adventure by the author
of Miss Match and Reality Check.
Click here for an excerpt...
also by Leslie Carroll...
 Reality
Check
by Leslie Carroll
January 2003
ISBN: 0-8041-2000-5
(Click ISBN to order at Amazon.com)
Miss Match
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