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How to build a girl volume 1
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What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn't enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes-and build yourself.
It's 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there's no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde-fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer! She will...
5) Knucklehead
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Black law student, Marcus Hayes has a difficult time controlling his anger until he meets Amalia. But then the rage returns.
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Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut
Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa—a small town in the center of the state, the first "a" in Nevada pronounced "ay." This is the late 1990s, and while the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut, there are still regular customers, a rush in the late afternoon. It's
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An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in mid-nineties London to begin life as a drama student. She struggles to fit in, but soon she makes friends and finds a place for herself. Then she meets an attractive established actor twenty years older than her, and the relationship that ensues is one that changes her forever.
13) We were witches
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Ariel Gore is a teen mom, aspiring writer, and feminist witch trying to get a college education during the first Bush administration, all the while combating queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and high-interest student loans.
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Daisy's job is to be as unobtrusive as possible. But when her father suddenly leaves and her mother breaks down, Daisy's old life disappears, and she is set free in the rift created between her parents. Susie Taylor's sharp, quick-witted prose carries Daisy through a family cataclysm, relationships with boys, and her increasingly confusing feelings towards girls, especially Wanda.
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Katharine works to reconcile with her artist and addict husband, Jonathan, and tries to repair her relationship with her grown daughters Ellie, an artist, and Brigitte, an aspiring writer. When unforeseen tragedy strikes it exposes the shackles of intergenerational trauma. Art, addiction and family dysfunction come together as the family confronts the truth that time can't always heal, even as they try to hang onto their former lives.
16) Lady jail
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Fraud artist Abigail is having a hard time adjusting to prison life. When a fellow inmate is found dead Abigail senses more trouble is on the way. Émile is summoned to investigate.
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In 1996 Dublin, when Joan Egan receives a letter from Emma, the daughter whom she gave up for adoption, asking for a life-or-death favor, she, grappling with guilt, must confront her crumbling marriage and simmering tensions with her other daughter to keep her family together before it is too late.
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"Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing...
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It's November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it's guilt and grief over the shocking...
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