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Joanne isthe author of Pandora’s Bottle, a novel inspired by the true story of the world’s most expensivebottle of wine (Flint Mine Press, 2010), which was selected as one of PaperbackDolls’ top five books of 2010. The Temporary Detective (Dulcet Press, April 2012) introduces IsobelSpice, aspiring actress and resourceful office temp turned amateur sleuth. Nostranger to the theatrical world, Joanne enjoys an active performing career inboth musical theater and opera. With her husband, composer/conductor JoshuaRosenblum, she has co-authored several musicals including the cult hit Fermats Last Tango and Einstein s Dreams, based on the celebrated novel by Alan Lightman.Her play, Critical Mass,received its Off Broadway premiere in October 2010 as the winner of the 2009Heiress Productions Playwriting Competition. She is a regular contributingwriter to Opera News andholds a B.A. in music, summa cum laude, from Yale University.

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<p>Dr. Bethany McNeal is living her dream as a pediatric resident in one of the most sought-after medical centers in Seattle. Beautiful and intelligent, she’s missing only one thing—love, which she put on hold to focus on her career after ending a tumultuous relationship. Everything changes when she meets Dr. Brent Anderson, a charming and handsome fellow resident. Despite her reservations, Bethany falls for Brent—hard. When she learns Brent is married several months into their relationship, she immediately breaks it off. After graduating residency and going their separate ways, Bethany tries to move on with another man—real estate broker and personal trainer Charles Blakely. But just when things get serious with Charles, she realizes she’s still in love with Brent, and she finds herself caught between the two men, facing a series of difficult decisions and harrowing events that will change her life forever. Will she be able to recover from the vital temptations that turned her perfect life upside down?</p>

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What happens when you pin your hopes on a single event … and it all goes terribly wrong? Lonely, middle-aged financier Sy Hampton is obsessed with a legendary bottle of Bordeaux once owned by Thomas Jefferson, which, through a quirk of preservation, may yet be drinkable. After spending half a million dollars on it at auction, he disappoints the wine community by choosing to uncork it privately with a female companion, rather than share it at a public event. But this decision has drastic consequences—not only for Sy, but also for a determined waiter on the verge of his long-awaited Broadway debut, and an ambitious restaurateur who can't resist an opportunity for much-needed publicity. Their competing agendas are not the only things to collide on that fateful night.

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One of Paperback Dolls' Top Five Books of 2010!<div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong>“<em>Pandora's Bottle</em> is as delicious as a vintage Château Lafite and almost as rare—a novel that is as entertaining as it is smart. Joanne Sydney Lessner serves it with just the right dish of human folly.”</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><strong></strong></span>—Marc Acito, author of <em>How I Paid for College</em> and <em>Attack of the Theater People</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><em></em></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong>“Lessner has served up a bubbly, big-haired and big-hearted opus magnum, redolent of the vanities of New York, with a whiff of Wodehouse and a dash of Dickens, full of raucous overtones but with a gentle finish. Drinkable immediately!”</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><strong></strong></span>—Jonathan Levi, author of <em>A Guide for the Perplexed</em> and co-founder of <em>Granta</em></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><em></em></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><strong>“Joanne Sydney Lessner has carefully crafted a well-wrought, fun, and fast-paced book detailing the highs and lows of the wine world. A great read.”</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span"><strong></strong></span>—Carlo De Vito, author of <em>East Coast Wineries</em> and <em>10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me</em></span></div>

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