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THE PERFECT MANHATTAN.

Copyright © 2005 by Leanne Shear and Tracey Toomey.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shear, Leanne.

The perfect Manhattan: a novel / Leanne Shear and Tracey Toomey.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Young women—Fiction. 2. Bartenders—Fiction. 3. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. I. Toomey, Tracey.

II. Title.

PS3619.H4P47 2005

813'.6—dc22

2005042123

eISBN: 978-0-7679-2161-9

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