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Name Dropping
Name Dropping
Author: Jane Heller
ISBN-13: 9780312978334
ISBN-10: 0312978332
Publication Date: 3/15/2001
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 83 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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18 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed Name Dropping on + 70 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
What fun to read! Author is so down to earth with her thoughts and wit - a must take for the summer read. I want another book by this author!
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Helpful Score: 3
Two women with the same name end up in the same apartment building in New York City. One is beautiful, rich, and seems to lead a glamorous life. The other is a divorcee who teaches pre-school at a fancy-ass private school. She likes her life but starts to feel kind of dowdy and out of it compared to the woman in the penthouse. Their mail, deliveries, etc. are always getting mixed up with the good stuff always belonging upstairs. There are lots of wrong calls to the preschool teacher instead of the bombshell and one night she pretends to be the bombshell and agrees to go on a date with the caller. She wants to tell him the truth, but can't bring herself to do it. They might have parted ways except that one of her students gives her a gift that she brings to a jewelrey store to have checked and is reunited the man she went out with. The piece of jewlery turns out to be stolen and other events happen. The two characters fall for each other and have an adventure figuring out what is going on.
AimeeR avatar reviewed Name Dropping on + 46 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
very funny; easy, quick read.
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Helpful Score: 2
I had fun with this Nancy Drew-style of mystery crossed with a good not-so-old-fashioned type of romance.
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Helpful Score: 2
A interesting way to find the man of your dreams by having the same name as your neighbor who is a famous journalist, and you're just a school teacher for preschoolers. Fun, challenging.
reviewed Name Dropping on + 35 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is a good read..... I like how Jane Heller writes.
ElleS avatar reviewed Name Dropping on + 112 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is a very fun story to read.
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Helpful Score: 1
This about a pre-school teacher searching for some excitement and takes on the identity of someone with the same name as hers. It was good enough to warrant reading if you are looking to escape from more intense mystery books.
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Helpful Score: 1
Very cute crazy mixed up story.

"another woman with the same name moves into her Manhattan apartment building...who lives in the penthouse...who's blond and leggy and has a stable of boyfriends...who interviews celebrities for glossy magazines....What follows is a raucous and romantic tale involving mixups, mistaken identity, and murder..."
sari-lynn avatar reviewed Name Dropping on + 207 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A fun combination of chick lit & mystery. Well written. An enjoyable quick read - the perfect beach book.
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Helpful Score: 1
Very funny read........
ElleS avatar reviewed Name Dropping on + 112 more book reviews
Very Cute story!

I love all her books!
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Pre-school teacher Nancy Stern is in a rut, spending her days with four-year-olds and her Saturday nights with a good book. Then another woman with the same name moves into her Manhattan apartment building...a Nancy Stern who lives in the penthouse...a Nancy Stern who's blond and leggy and has a stable of boyfriends...a Nancy Stern who interviews celebrities for glossy magazines. Now Nursery School Nancy is deluged with mail and phone calls and deliveries of flowers-all meant for the Glamorous Nancy. It's all too much to bear-until a man calls one night, intending to ask the other Nancy on a blind date. What follows is a raucous and romantic tale involving mixups, mistaken identity, and murder...
Harleygirl avatar reviewed Name Dropping on + 248 more book reviews
Pre-school teacher Nancy Stern is in a rut, spending her days with four-year-olds and he Saturday nights with a good book. Then another woman with the same name moves into her Manhattan apartment building..a Nancy Stern who lives in the penthouse..a Nancy Stern who's blond and leggy and has a stable of boyfriends..a Nancy Stern who interiews celebritie for glossy magazines. Now Nursery School Nancy is deluged with mail and phone calls and deliveries of flowers--all meant for the Glamorous Nancy. It's all too much to bear--until a man calls one night, intending to ask the other Nancy on a blind date. What follows is a raucous and romantic tale involving mix-ups, mistaken identity, and murder...
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Quick, fun read
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Chick-lit thriller in the vein of Susan Issacs.
Nice, light and funny.
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Fun and quirky. Good read.
sealady avatar reviewed Name Dropping on + 657 more book reviews
What if 2 very different women had the exact same name? A raucous romantic love tale inolving mixups, mistaken identity and murder