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Best Seller | Pre-Owned Welcome to Shirley : A Memoir from an Atomic Town 9781586484866 In a down-and-out service town to the glittering Hamptons a shadow falls over a girl s magical childhood CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal... more | FREE shipping go to store |
When a self-proclaimed lazy scholar embarks on a trip through his life s influences--as diverse as girl-group doo-wop Yeats and Van Gogh--readers are in for an illuminating ride. This collection of essays from cultural critic Di Piero veers from his... more | $19.88 $18.87 FREE shipping go to store |
The Last of the Live Nude Girls : A Memoir (Paperback) A eye-opening gritty and compelling memoir by one of New York City s last Times Square peep show girls (The Paris Review Online). In 2006 Gotham City Video was among the last of its kind where breathing in a cocktail of Pine-Sol and Windex a man paid... more | go to store |
The biography of the revolutionary magazine editor who created the Cosmo Girl before Sex and the City s Carrie Bradshaw was even born As the author of the iconic Sex and the Single Girl (1962) and the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for over... more | FREE shipping go to store |
A young girl strikes out on her own to forge a career in the exciting business mecca that was New York City in the nineteen fifties and establish herslef as an independent woman. Caught in the spirit of revolt that ignites the sixties she sets out to... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl (Paperback) Heaven Will Protest the Working Girl is the third book in the Julia Nye historical mystery series. In 1910 sexual slavery traps immigrant women and country women new to the cities-and now women working in factories. In 1910 Julia Nye s job is supposed... more | $14.99 $11.99 go to store |
A Girl and Five Brave Horses (Hardcover) Originally published: Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday 1961. Reprint of 1961 First Edition. Sonora Carver was an American entertainer most notable as one of the first female horse divers. Carver answered an ad placed by Doc William Frank Carver in 1923 for... more | $24.69 $17.77 go to store |
Hard Luck Georgia Girl (Paperback) Meet Ardith a young woman whose mantra is: Hard luck bad luck or no luck at all-I ll make my own good luck! HARD LUCK GEORGIA GIRL traces Ardith s path from an impoverished mill town to big-city Atlanta. Follow the path of Ardith Evans a young woman... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl: A Memoir (Paperback) A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don t mix. At her husband s prompting suburban mom and New York career woman Susan McCorkindale agreed to give up her stressful six-figure job. Together they headed... more | $16.00 $12.42 FREE shipping go to store |
From Chicago to New York City Charlie Winchester has been a rich girl --- and she is still technically a rich girl even though she s barely on speaking terms with her father. But now she might just be a lost girl. Still reeling after her self-imposed... more | $18.99 $17.35 go to store |
Pre-owned - Story of My Life (Hardcover) McInerney returns to the setting of his first novel the phenomenal Bright Lights Big City to tell a young girl s story of a society consuming itself in reckless affluence. ISBN: 9780871132383 GTIN: 09780871132383 more | $7.22 $6.38 FREE shipping go to store |
Literary Conversations: Conversations with Jonathan Lethem (Paperback) Conversations with Jonathan Lethem collects fourteen interviews conducted over a decade and a half with the Brooklyn-born author of such novels as Girl in Landscape Motherless Brooklyn The Fortress of Solitude Chronic City and many others. Winner of... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Literary Conversations: Conversations with Jonathan Lethem (Hardcover) Conversations with Jonathan Lethem collects fourteen interviews conducted over a decade and a half with the Brooklyn-born author of such novels as Girl in Landscape Motherless Brooklyn The Fortress of Solitude Chronic City and many others. Winner of... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood (Paperback) From the star of Broadway s The Book of Mormon and HBO s Girls the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions bad relationships and some really bad highlights as he chases his dreams in New York City With a... more | $15.68 $13.81 go to store |
An Unexpected Journey To Love (Paperback) The love story between a tribe and a city girl. The story revolves around how the unexpected trip changes their lives. This also gives a quick insight into tribal life and how modernization has impacted their life. Amidst the differences how the duo... more | $30.30 $12.99 go to store |
Sophia Destino: A Twist In Her Fate (Hardcover) Twenty-three-year-old Sophia Destino is a small-town girl about to plunge into life in the big city of Toronto. Still hung up on her past heartbreak she is desperate for a change by taking on a new graduate degree in education. While living it up in... more | go to store |
Pre-Owned Wendy s Got the Heat (Hardcover) 0743470214 9780743470216 Known as a shock jock diva Wendy Williams has had a following in the nation s number one media market New York City and across the nation from the time she became a top-rated radio personality and It Girl in the mid-1990s. Whether she s hosting her... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Mary McLeod Bethune: Voice of Black Hope (Paperback) 0140322191 9780140322194 When Mary McLeod was a girl in rural South Carolina no school would accept her as a student because she was black. But one day a woman from the city came to open a mission school. It changed my life overnight Mary later wrote. Her lifelong goal was to... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Carol Cymbala s ministry in a tough inner-city neighborhood in New York can be summed up in one word: unlikely. A shy girl who struggled through school and never learned to read music she is the last person you d expect to stand before a packed house... more | $6.85 $5.57 FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love Survival and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming Paperback - A fascinating true tale: When city girl Shreve Stockton set out to ride her Vespa from San Francisco to New York she never imagined she d end up staying in Wyoming falling in love with a trapper and working as a ranch hand. Nor could she have forseen... more | $4.58 $4.30 FREE shipping go to store |
The Daily Coyote : A Story of Love Survival and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming (Paperback) - A fascinating true tale: When city girl Shreve Stockton set out to ride her Vespa from San Francisco to New York she never imagined she d end up staying in Wyoming falling in love with a trapper and working as a ranch hand. Nor could she have forseen... more | $15.52 $11.10 FREE shipping go to store |
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