Vintage contemporaries original

"Paris has long been romanticized as the city of light. A city with a vibrant literary and artistic expatriate community. Corina--nicknamed Puffina--is a young writer hoping to find that idealized community, but when her money runs out sooner than expected, she finds a network of artists simply trying to find work, make rent, and make Paris home. Years later, when a letter from her friend Martita resurfaces, Corina finds herself older and with enough distance to articulate her time in Paris. While Paris did not bring her the affirmation she was looking for as a writer, Corina finds an emotional connection to her friend that transcends space and time and demonstrates that we are most honest in our writing"--Provided by publisher.

"A teenage girl sets out to write an autobiographical novel of her family in Kanuga, Georgia, according to the advice in 'Write a Novel in 30 Days!'--Provided by publisher.

When Selah Morse sees a taxi run down a young woman, he takes her to the hospital and pretends to be her boyfriend, providing her with a false name before taking custody and attempting to alleviate her amnesia through storytelling that he hopes will offer a hint of self-recognition for the stranger.

College drop-out Henry Elinsky takes a job at the Central Park Zoo, where he learns that it takes more than a weekly paycheck to make him an adult.

A near-future novel presented in the form of e-mail messages between graduate student Alice Lu and EDGAR, an artificial intelligence project she created to browse and summarize information from the World Wide Web, which somehow became conscious, and came to the attention of the government when it started digesting top secret military files.