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Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2008, Simon & Schuster)
Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life, in her first-ever memoir.
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April …
From one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day comes another look at the tough …
In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, …
Shirley Jackson: The bird's nest (2014, Penguin Books)
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old whiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and …
Tina Fey’s new book Bossypants is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her …
Laura Griffin: Deep dark (2016)
The moment detective Reed Novak steps onto the crime scene, he knows the case is going to rock his world. …
(Westmoreland, #3) A teacher in a school for wealthy young ladies, Sheridan, Bromleigh is hired to accompany one of her …
Part memoir, part 'missive-from-the-middle', Yes Please is a hilarious collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, haikus and words-to-live-by drawn from the …
Company of Rogues #2
SHE VOWED TO DESPISE HIM... Miss Elizabeth Armitage was certain the world had gone mad! …
The Paying Guests is a 2014 novel by Welsh author Sarah Waters. It was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize …
Abducted from her convent school at 17, headstrong Scottish beauty Jennifer Merrick does not easily surrender to 29 year old …
In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become …
This is a very short, good story - if you watched the movie it only begins on the actual day of the assassination & with none of the elements that got the movie its R rating. I should read the original Chinese.
