A Song to Take the World Apart

A Song to Take the World Apart

Author: Zan Romanoff

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1101938811

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What if you could make someone love you back, just by singing to them? Fans of Sarah McCarry's All Our Pretty Songs and Leslye Walton’s The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender will be captivated by this contemporary love story with hints of magical realism. Hanging out with Chris was supposed to make Lorelei’s life normal. He’s cooler, he’s older, and he’s in a band, which means he can teach her about the music that was forbidden in her house growing up. Her grandmother told her when she was little that she was never allowed to sing, but listening to someone else do it is probably harmless—right? The more she listens, though, the more keenly she can feel her own voice locked up in her throat, and how she longs to use it. And as she starts exploring the power her grandmother never wanted her to discover, influencing Chris and everyone around her, the foundations of Lorelei’s life start to crumble. There’s a reason the women in her family never want to talk about what their voices can do. And a reason Lorelei can’t seem to stop herself from singing anyway. "Zan Romanoff’s music-saturated debut will snare readers with its melodic, pop-punk hooks and elegant riffs on growing up, falling in love, and letting go." —Sarah McCarry, author of All Our Pretty Songs "Family secrets, first love, and the elemental, raw power of music are all on display in Zan Romanoff's gorgeous novel. A Song To Take the World Apart gives us a heroine who's as fierce as she is vulnerable, and a story that's as page-turning as it is profound. An enchanting and beautiful debut." Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California


Talking as Fast as I Can

Talking as Fast as I Can

Author: Lauren Graham

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2016-11-29

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0425285189

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again. With a new bonus chapter In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, “Did you, um, make it?” She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood (“Strangers were worried about me; that’s how long I was single!”), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role, and her experience being a judge on Project Runway (“It’s like I had a fashion-induced blackout”). In “What It Was Like, Part One,” Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay “What It Was Like, Part Two” reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her. Some more things you will learn about Lauren: She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she’s aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls (“If you’re meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you’ve already set the bar too high”), and she’s a card-carrying REI shopper (“My bungee cords now earn points!”). Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and—of course—talking as fast as you can.


Anita Loos' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Anita Loos' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Author: Kristin Sergel

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780871294128

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Lorelei Lee is just a little girl from Little Rock who takes the world by storm to teach its gentlemen that "kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever." Anita Loos first published the diaries of the gold-digging blonde in 1925, forging a new archetype for the modern world.


The Inn Business

The Inn Business

Author: Canada. Office of Tourism

Publisher: Canadian Government, Office of Tourism ; Ottawa, Canada : Canadian Government Pub. Centre, Supply and Services Canada

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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The Delineator

The Delineator

Author: R. S. O'Loughlin

Publisher:

Published: 1906

Total Pages: 1180

ISBN-13:

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Issue for Oct. 1894 has features articles on Mount Holyoke College and Millinery as an employment for women.


I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die

I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die

Author: Sarah J. Robinson

Publisher: WaterBrook

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0593193539

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A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.


Three's Comedy

Three's Comedy

Author: Darlene Gardner

Publisher: Darlene Gardner

Published: 2015-07-10

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13:

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A boxed set of three full-length romantic comedies. Snoops in the City--What's an amateur PI to do when she falls for the man she's investigating? The Misconception--The sperm donor she hired has gone AWOL, so who's the man in her bed? A misunderstanding of biological proportions. Bait & Switch--After switching places with his identical twin to catch a criminal, Mitch is the one who's hooked - on his brother's girl!


Southern Lady Code

Southern Lady Code

Author: Helen Ellis

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 0385543905

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A collection of essays that are "like being seated beside the most entertaining guest at a dinner party" (Atlanta Journal Constitution)—from the New York Times bestselling author of American Housewives “Thank you Helen Ellis for writing down the Southern Lady Code so that others may learn.” —Ann Patchett, bestselling author of The Dutch House Helen Ellis has a mantra: “If you don't have something nice to say, say something not-so-nice in a nice way.” Say “weathered” instead of “she looks like a cake left out in the rain” and “I’m not in charge” instead of “they’re doing it wrong.” In these twenty-three raucous essays, Ellis transforms herself into a dominatrix Donna Reed to save her marriage, inadvertently steals a Burberry trench coat, avoids a neck lift, and finds a black-tie gown that gives her the confidence of a drag queen. While she may have left Alabama for New York City, Helen Ellis is clinging to her Southern accent like mayonnaise to white bread, and offering readers a hilarious, completely singular view on womanhood for both sides of the Mason-Dixon.


Ruthless Mafia: The Complete Collection

Ruthless Mafia: The Complete Collection

Author: Mckenna Miller

Publisher: Mckenna Miller

Published: 2023-06-06

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13:

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RUTHLESS MAFIA: The Complete Series RUTHLESS ENEMY When Lorelai promised to be mine, I never would have believed that things would end in her betrayal . . . and me spending time in prison for something I didn’t do. Now I’m out and determined to exact revenge against the woman I’d once loved, only to find out she’d been keeping a secret from me . . . a daughter I never knew I had. A daughter who belonged to me and would now be raised as a Capitani, whether her mother is in the picture, or not. Lorelai is still feisty, stubborn, and rebellious, and after so long without a woman, I greet her with an angry, hate filled kiss. But once I feel her lush curves beneath me, all I want is to claim her once again. I tell myself the craving is temporary, that once I have my fill of her I’ll sever our ties and keep my daughter with me. . . but I’ve underestimated just how much of a hold this woman still has over me. The plan should have been simple, until my daughter is kidnapped and held hostage – my life, for hers. Nobody messes with what is mine. This means war, and I will destroy anyone who dares to threaten my family. RUTHLESS REBEL My brother started a war that put me squarely in the enemy’s territory. It was all about finally exacting revenge for our family, but the plan required me to give my false allegiance to a hated Vivenzo. In return for this new alliance, I was gifted Luca’s one and only daughter, Dia, as collateral until we’d both proven our loyalty to one another. The only thing I intended to prove was that the Vivenzo family was meant to suffer and die for killing our father. But first, I had to integrate myself into their world, and Dia was the perfect pawn to make that happen. Sleeping with the enemy’s daughter was never part of the plan, but Dia Vivenzo was an irresistible siren despite us being enemies—and, I later learned, an assassin who had every intention of killing me once I’d given her father all the information he needed to take down my family once and for all. Good thing I planned on killing her first. Both our families intended to wipe out the other, and only one would survive the war. But what will happen when the one woman I should hate the most becomes the one I can’t live without? RUTHLESS RIVAL As the only daughter in a Mafia family, I always knew the possibility existed that I’d be part of an arranged marriage, but I never expected to be given to a man I hated by his name alone. Kai Vivenzo was our families greatest rival, a man I’d been taught to despise, and if he expected me to be a passive and dutiful wife, he was in for a huge surprise. All I wanted was freedom from this ruthless life I’d been born into, even if that meant severing all ties with my family. I was stubborn and strong-willed, but what I didn’t anticipate was Kai’s power of seduction. Even when I chose to escape this sham of a marriage and ran off in the middle of the night to start a new life for myself, he chased me and found me, breaking down my resistance and making me his, again and again. The next morning, I woke to a simple note from him: Until the next time I catch you. What ensued was a steamy, delicious game of cat and mouse . . . until the day I was abducted, and not by Kai, but his enemy who planned to use me in his own plan of revenge against my fiancé. I just hoped I was worth more to Kai alive, than dead.