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Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir

by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Published: 2007-01-09

Paperback: 289 pages

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In Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith fully articulates with great humor and tenderness the wild jubilance of an extended French-Italian family struggling to survive in a post-World War II housing project in Hartford, Connecticut. Smith seamlessly combines a memoir whose intimacy m...

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A Girls War: A Childhood Lost In Britain's WWII Evacuation

by Doreen Drewry Lehr

Published: 2010-05-01

Paperback: 250 pages

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Doreen Lehr was one of 1.5 million children evacuated to the presumed safety of the countryside from British cities during WWII, in a heart-wrenching, social experiment that tore families apart. A GIRL’S WAR is both a memoir and a historical analysis with the resounding message that childhoods do matter,...

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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the DecadesBefore Roe v. Wade

by Ann Fessler

Published: 2007-06-26

Paperback: 362 pages

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In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. An adoptee who was...

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The Girls

by Lori Lansens

Published: 2005

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Girls: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Frederick Busch

Published: 1998-03-24

Paperback: 279 pages

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The Girls: A Novel

by Lori Lansens

Published: 2007-04-10

Paperback: 346 pages

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Rarely has the experience of being a sister been so poignantly and memorably captured as in Lori Lansens's triumphant novel. The Girls celebrates life's fundamental joys and trials as it presents Rose and Ruby, sisters destined to live inseparably but blessed with distinct sensibilities that enrich and...

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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

by Melissa Banks

Published: 2005-03-29

Mass Market Paperback: 274 pages

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Hailed by critics as the debut of a major literary voice, The Girls� Guide to Hunting and Fishing dazzled and delighted readers and topped bestseller lists nationwide. Now, in anticipation of her upcoming new work of fiction, The Wonder Spot, Penguin is publishing Melissa Bank�s bestseller...

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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

by Melissa Bank

Published: 2000-05-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Hailed by critics as the debut of a major literary voice, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing has captivated readers and dominated bestseller lists. Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, it maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition thro...

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Girls' Poker Night

by Jill A. Davis

Published: 2004-02-03

Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages

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Dissatisfied both with writing a “Single Girl on the Edge/Ledge/Verge” column and with her boyfriend, Ruby Capote sends her best columns and a six-pack of beer to the editor of The New York News and lands herself a job in the big city. There, Ruby undertakes the venerable tradi...

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Girls' Guide to Hunting & Fishing: A Novel

by Melissa Bank

Published: 1999-01-01

Hardcover: 274 pages

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Maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal & spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relationships, & the treacherous waters of the workplace. What is love, she wonders. How do you find it (& keep it) -- & above all, who makes the rules? When she is swept off...