title: Hooking Up or Holding Out: The Smart Girl's Guide to Driving Men Crazy and/or Finding True Love
author:  Jamie Callan 
description: "Enlightening and empowering, if not your mother's dating book, Hooking Up is highly recommended" - <strong><em> Library Journal</em></strong>
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  **NOTE TO SELF:**
  
    
    
  
  _**Remind me to have my head examined.**_  
    
   _ ****_
  
    
  
  What exactly possessed me to come home to Millbrook, Maine, where nothing
  changes but the weather? Oh, right. A six-month grant to do genetics research
  at Rand laboratories. What can I say—I’m a smart girl. And smart girls get
  what they need and get out again. Smart girls don’t dream, they settle. And
  smart girls do not get completely tongue-tied while holding a basket of fried
  clams when they bump into the most gorgeous man they haven’t seen in fifteen
  years: Chase Jordan.
  
    
    
  
   _ **Remind me to have my hormones removed.**_  
    
   _ ****_
  
    
  
  Chase Jordan. Town bad boy. Rebel with a cause to show up in my dreams
  unannounced. Oh boy, this is not good. Not smart. It’s like high school all
  over again. But in a good way. A heart-thumping way. An I-have-no-idea-
  what’s-going-to-happen way. A way that’s making me feel like maybe settling
  for what I have isn’t so smart... but really going after what