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Carpool Diem - Nancy Star $1.99 B&N / Kindle

Annie Fleming's family has always adjusted well to her hard driving career. How could they not? Annie keeps them in line at home with typed, edited, and proofed to-do and not-to-do lists for her husband, her babysitter, and her daughter. (No TV on a school night, please!) But when an obnoxious co-worker conspires to force Annie out of her job, she finds herself out of work and face-to-face with her family, who, it turns out, isn't quite as well-adjusted as Annie thought. Husband Tim doesn't have near the follow-through that Annie does (ordered to downsize his employees, he can't fire anybody!) And daughter Charlotte doesn't even try to make the local soccer team - a cut-throat, take-no-prisoners system run by Winslow West, a man who dreams of the Olympic gold his young charges will someday win for him.
Here Annie is unemployed and Charlotte's the one with the quitting attitude? Annie doesn't think so. She's determined to get Charlotte on the A team, but finds that the soccer sidelines are more cutthroat than a boardroom ever was.

Talk of the Town - Sherrill Bodine $1.99 B&N / Kindle

When fortysomething Chicago gossip columnist Rebecca Covington is banished to the home pages to make way for a younger replacement, she is determined to show the paper’s new owner that he has made a mistake. But first she has to learn how to cook. By lacing each published recipe with juicy stories, Rebecca has the city talking again—and catches the attention of the handsome CEO, David Sumner. Soon she is entertaining a dream offer from the rival newspaper while embarking on a possibly ill-advised romance with her boss. Rebecca’s efforts to balance career, love, and getting older will resonate with many readers, while her lifestyle of charity balls and designer duds will serve as escapism. Chicago author Bodine, who penned traditional romance novels as Lynn Leslie and Leslie Lynn, is now writing what she calls “lady lit”—a more mature take on life as a career-driven, romance-seeking woman.