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On a beautiful day in 1965, a dozen college girls launched their homemade raft on a trip down the Mississippi. Thirty-five years later, four of the girls reunite to cruise the river again. This time it's on a luxury steamboat, and they're carrying the ashes of a fellow rafter to give to the river at the end of the cruise.
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Meet Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed in a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she can't afford. Casey is eager to make it on her own, away from the judgments of her parents' tight-knit community, but she soon finds that her Princeton economics degree isn't enough to rid her of ever-growing credit card debt and a toxic boyfriend. When a chance encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's determined...
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"The Group is the book that Mary McCarthy's admirers have been waiting for. It has a collective heroine--eight Vassar girls who 'grouped together' at college in the Class of '33. Their sad-funny story begins with a New York wedding in the early days of the Roosevelt administration and ends with a New York funeral during the Battle of Britain--the span of the New Deal. Six of the group were born into the Social Register; one has a self-made father,...
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Mel, Sara, Annie, and Lola have traveled distinct and diverse paths since their years together at a small Southern liberal arts college during the early 1980s. Now the friends, all in their forties, converge on Lola's lavish North Carolina beach house in an attempt to relive the carefree days of their college years. But as the week wears on and each woman's hidden story is gradually revealed, these four friends learn that they must inevitably confront...
5) Main Street
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Carol, a college-bred girl, marries a small town doctor. She tries to uplift the natives of the small town.
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Wild seasons volume 1
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After a one night stand, Mia Holland makes an impulsive decision to follow her fling to France for the summer where she gets caught up in erotic masquerades that leave her reconsidering her plan to attend business school in the fall.
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Wild seasons volume 4
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2016.
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When three college besties meet three hot guys in Vegas, anything can and does happen.
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In the fall of 1951, at a Catholic school for girls, Tildy Stratton, a popular student in her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the death of her mother; their friendship brings about many changes that the headmistress, Mother Suzanne Ravenel, contemplates fifty years later.
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This debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric,...
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The gift of Christmas: "This year Ashley has finished her education, launched her career and affirmed her faith. And she's now in a position to pay Cooper back the money he lent her for college. She's achieved all her goals--except one, and it has to do with Cooper, the man she fell in love with years ago. The man whose love she craves. Cooper gave her the gift of education and Ashley would like to return the favor--and offer him her love. But the...
12) Citizen girl
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Another biting satire from Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Nanny Diaries.
Working in a world where a college degree qualifies her to make photocopies and color-coordinate file folders, twenty-four-year-old Girl is struggling to keep up with the essential trinity of food, shelter, and student loans. So when she finally lands the job of her dreams she ignores her misgivings and concentrates on getting...
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"Hannah Martin's life isn't shaping up into much of anything. Since graduating college eight years ago, she has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs. At the age of twenty-nine, she is starting to see crow's feet, and yet, she still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles to regroup. She takes up residence in her best friend...
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"Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny. They first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, even though they are as different as three women can be. Twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge, and someone else is urging them to jump. How did things come to this? As the novel cuts back and forth between their college years and their adult years, you see the exact reasons why these women love and hate each other--but can feelings...
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The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries...
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It's hard to get a date if your brother's an overprotective cop, as Georgie knows all too well. Brad, the cop in question, is ruining her love life. A recent college grad, she has found the perfect job at her local pharmacy, and her life would be complete if she could have a nice fling. But that goal is doubly difficult now that her brother's best friend is living with them. Walt tormented her as a kid, and surely he'll make her life miserable now....
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2012.
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When she lands a job tracking down the past winners of Charm magazine's "Ten Girls to Watch" contest, Dawn West is excited to interview hundreds of fascinating women and discovers that success, love and friendship can be found in the most unexpected of places.
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2012.
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"When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ever part-time clerk at the Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. ... Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its core values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister,...
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Chemistry lessons volume 1
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2017.
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"College student Melody Gage is craving a night of no-strings fun when she meets charming out-of-towner Jeremy, and that's exactly what she gets. Until three years later, when Melody relocates to Los Angeles and finds herself thrust back into Jeremy's orbit. Not only does her hunky one-night stand work at the same aerospace company where she's just started her dream job, he's the CEO's son. Jeremy's got a girlfriend and a reputation as a bad boy,...
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