The Island -- Elin Hilderbrand, Paperback Transportation "A consummate entertainer who has

"A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh

some startling clues to her own identity

riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media--from a man who used to pull the strings

plus exotic senses that some non-human animals have like heat vision

The Island -- Elin Hilderbrand, Paperback Transportation "A consummate entertainer who hasA summertime story only Elin Hilderbrand can tell: a family in upheaval after a cancelled wedding fill an island summer with heartache, laughter, and surprises. Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride to be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy. But