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Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays
Helen Ellis - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids, lost parents and lost jobs powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges; dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher... |
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Teenagers 101: What a Top Teacher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid Succeed
Rebecca Deurlein Ed.D. - AMACOM
Format: Print book
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As a parent, you want to see your teen succeed in school and in life--and you do your best to help. But how do you know what will make a difference? Maybe it's time to listen to a teacher. Day in and day out, teachers watch kids interact with peers, make decisions, deal with difficulty,... |
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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
Amy Sohn - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Anthony Comstock, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, was one of the most important men in the lives of nineteenth-century women. His eponymous law, passed in 1873, penalized the mailing of contraception and obscenity with long sentences and steep fines. The word Comstockery came to connote... |
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The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
Rhaina Cohen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Rhaina Cohen's moving, intimate portraits of people in unusually devoted friendships upend our cultural narratives about which relationships matter . . . an arresting work of compassion and insight." -- Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should... |
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Gertie Sews Vintage Casual: A Modern Guide to Sportswear Styles of the 1940s and 1950s
Gretchen Hirsch - Stewart, Tabori and Chang; Spi edition
Format: Hardcover
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The mid-20th century was an amazing time for American womens fashion! Following the war, women started looking to American designers rather than French couture houses for inspiration and to demand clothing they could move in, even play in. In this follow-up to Gerties New Book for Better... |
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Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Peggy Orenstein - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times best seller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the postprincess stage - high school through college - and reveals how they are negotiating it. A generation gap has emerged between parents and their... |
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Have a Nice Guilt Trip
Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This four book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron.... |
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