"From the best-selling author of Maine, a gorgeous, compulsively-readable novel that tells the story of the complex relationship between two women, Elisabeth, a privileged new mother and writer attempting to find her footing after childbirth, and Sam, the idealistic, working-class college student she hires to nanny her young son"--
Hailed as one of “the best novels ever set in America’s fourth largest city” (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is a powerful demonstration of Larry McMurtry’s “comic genius, ...
I Want to Be Her! is part memoir and part illustrated fashion guide, written by one of fashion’s most accessible, trusted, and inspiring writers.
' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that ...
have you ever wanted to have a friend of your very own if your answer to this is yes then this is the book for you. there is more than 9 million people in the world right now so there is a good chance that 1 of them will want to be your ...
He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and ...
Borjas (economics, U. of California, Santa Barbara) provides a pinched, crabby, misanthropic and xenophobic account of immigration that will likely please political conservatives, social troglodytes, and greedy entrepreneurs. Basically, he...
The group met with California Attorney General John Van de Kamp in May of 1987 and made a passionate plea for his help in creating the first state-run equivalent of the FDA. Van de Kamp later described the meeting to The Los Angeles ...
"The story of four couples linked over several decades by one diamond ring, and the woman who launched the most famous diamond campaign in the world"--
Apri l Adam s. Apri l Adams. Suddenly. Bree was standi ng over her. shaking her awake. "Oh my God. Celia. Look at this. Oh my God." At first. Celia thought Bree was referring to her outfit— a long black halter over a pair of Seven jeans ...
This ... novel tells the story of three generations in a working-class family--especially Brick and Ellie's daughter, Samantha"--