Best Friends Forever
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Read Jennifer’s collection of stories about first loves, breakups, marriage, and the one who got away.
Guy Not Taken
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An engrossing novel about a picture-perfect Connecticut town disrupted by the murder of a neighborhood mother.
Goodnight Nobody
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Read this frank and funny novel about three women facing new motherhood.
Little Earthquakes
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A major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine, the story of very different sisters who borrow shoes, clothes, and boyfriends, and along the way, make peace with their biggest enemies—each other.
In Her Shoes
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Good In Bed
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JENNIFER WEINER is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twelve books, including Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, which was made into a major motion picture, and the forthcoming Who Do You Love. A graduate of Princeton University and a contributor to the New York Times, she lives in Philadelphia with her family. To learn more, visit www.jenniferweiner.com.
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COVER DESIGN BY ANNA DORFMAN • COVER PHOTOS BY STEVE WISBAUER/GETTY IMAGES (GIRL); FRANK VAN GROEN/GETTY IMAGES (WOMAN); YE RIN MOK/GETTY IMAGES (SOFA)• AUTHOR PHOTO BY ANDREA CIPRIANI MECCHI
ALSO BY JENNIFER WEINER
Good in Bed
In Her Shoes
Little Earthquakes
Goodnight Nobody
The Guy Not Taken
Best Friends Forever
Fly Away Home
Then Came You
The Next Best Thing
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Weiner, Jennifer.
Certain girls : a novel / by Jennifer Weiner
p. cm.
Sequel to : Good in bed.
1. Single mothers—Fiction. 2. Jewish women—Fiction. 3. Child rearing—Fiction. 4. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 5. Philadelphia (Pa.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3573.E3935C47 2008
813’.54—dc22
2007038373
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-6127-9 (ebook)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9425-6
ISBN-10: 0-7432-9425-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9426-3 (pbk)
ISBN-10: 0-7432-9426-2 (pbk)