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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada, a compulsively readable novel about a woman whose struggling singer-songwriter husband is catapulted to fame, dragging them both onto the pages of celebrity gossip magazines—and changing their marriage forever.
Brooke loved reading the dishy celebrity gossip rag Last Night. That is, until her marriage became a weekly headline...
For five...
Brooke loved reading the dishy celebrity gossip rag Last Night. That is, until her marriage became a weekly headline...
For five...
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House of Winslow volume 19
Language
English
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Three Winslow cousins come to New York to pursue careers in nursing, show business, and news photography. House of Winslow book 19.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Money and class are colliding in a city that is about to go over a financial precipice and take much of the country with it. At 26, bright, funny and socially anxious Evelyn Beegan is determined to carve her own path in life and free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto the Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she gets a job at...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Twenty-five-old Lacey Whitman is blindsided when she's diagnosed with the BCRA1 gene mutation: the "breast cancer" gene. Should she opt for increased surveillance or a preventative double masectomy? To help her make her choice, she creates a "boob bucket list": everything she wants do with and for her boobs before a possible surgery. This kicks off a year of sensual exploration and sexual entertainment for the quick-witted young woman.
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English
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Grace McCaffery hopes that the bustling streets of New York hold all the promise that the lush hills of Ireland did not. As her efforts to earn enough money to bring her mother to America fail, she wonders if her new Brownie camera could be the answer. But a casual stroll through a beautiful New York City park turns into a hostile run-in with local gangsters, who are convinced her camera holds the first and only photos of their elusive leader.
9) Bloodsong
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
10) Loving Edith
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
11) Some girls
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
14) On the verge
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Publisher
Red Dress Ink
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Overwhelmed by her unemployment and estrangement from her bohemian Brooklyn family, Claudia spectacularly misjudges her younger sister's cry for help and lands in the middle of a disastrous love affair that disrupts three very different families.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A young woman moves to Manhattan seeking romance and excitement, only to find that her apartment is haunted by the ghost of a cantankerous Beat Generation writer in need of a rather huge favor.
20) Brooklyn girls
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
©2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Five twenty-something friends share a brownstone in hip, downtown Brooklyn, and discovering the ups and downs and ins and outs of their "semi-adult" lives. Spoiled and stylish Pia finds herself completely unemployed, unemployable, and broke. So what is a recent grad with an art history degree and an unfortunate history of Facebook topless photos to do? Start a food truck business of course!
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