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2) Getting lost
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation...
Author
Language
English
Description
From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, the rock & roll legend examines her illustrious career and complicated personal life, from her darkest hours to her happiest moments. My Love Story is an explosive and inspiring story of a woman who dared to break any barriers put in her way. Emphatically showcasing Tina's signature blend of strength, energy, heart,...
6) Fault line
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
7) The eclipse
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds), a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier, has been seeing and hearing strange things late at night. He isn't sure if he is having nightmares, or if he's experiencing a haunting. Working as a volunteer for an international literary festival, he is assigned to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an author of books about ghosts and the supernatural. Establishing a rapport with one another, Michael...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the heels of her New York Times bestselling book Drinking and Tweeting, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville takes readers on a wild ride through her dating life in this highly-entertaining relationship book. Drinking and Dating chronicles Glanville's misadventures stumbling through today's dating world. From social media blunders to bedroom escapades, Brandi withholds nothing. Each chapter is inspired by a relationship encounter...
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An Emmy Award-winning writer shares her misadventures in dating, describing how when she finally got her life in order, her ex-boyfriend wrote a novel based on their relationship in which he depicted her as overweight and inferior.
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 291 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kristin Newman's funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant debut memoir about mastering the art of the "vacationship." Kristin Newman spent her 20s and 30s dealing with the stresses of her high-pressure job as a television comedy writer, and the anxieties of watching most of her friends get married and start families while she wrestled with her own fear of both. Not ready to settle down and yet loathe to become a sad-sack single girl, Kristin instead...
11) Drama queen
Author
Series
Drama queen (La Jill Hunt) volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself.
18) Dear Mr. You
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker. An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved priest from her childhood to remembrances of former...
19) Rameau's niece
Author
Publisher
Ticknor & Fields
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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