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On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. It's Girls A-Go-Go Down the Mississippi read the headline in the Paducah, Kentucky, paper.
Thirty-five years later, four of those "girls" reunite to cruise the river again. This time it's on the luxury steamboat, The Belle of Natchez, and there's no publicity....
3) The group
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Portrays the lives of eight women graduated from the same class at Vassar.
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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 ... She takes up residence in her best friend Gabby's guest room. Along with Gabby and Gabby's husband Mark, [she goes] out to a bar where they meet up with some of [their] old friends, including Hannah's high school boyfriend, Ethan. Shortly after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah...
5) Main street
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"Introduction and notes by Brooke Allen. A fiercely satiric portrait of small-town America, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street created a sensation when it first appeared in 1920. 'If it was not the most important revelation of American life ever made,' wrote Lewis's biographer Mark Shorer, 'it was the most infamous libel upon it.' The story's heroine is Carol Kennicott, a naive college graduate who leaves St. Paul, Minnestoa, to marry a country doctor...
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“Break out the tissues, sunblock, and margarita mix as four friends reunite after twenty-three years for a beach party in [this] feast of Southern friendship. . . . [Cathy] Holton refreshes the action with winning humor.”—Publishers Weekly
Mel, Sara, Annie, and Lola have traveled diverse paths since their years together at a small Southern liberal arts college during the early 1980s. Mel, a mystery writer...
Mel, Sara, Annie, and Lola have traveled diverse paths since their years together at a small Southern liberal arts college during the early 1980s. Mel, a mystery writer...
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W.W. Norton
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[2003]
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English
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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,...
11) Sweet filthy boy
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Wild seasons ; 1
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Gallery Books
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2014.
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English
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"Mia Holland isn't usually one for a fling, but after a sweet, filthy night with charming Frenchman Ansel Guillaume, she makes the wildest decision of her life. Terrified of the boring but practical path ahead of her, Mia rolls the dice and follows Ansel to France for the summer to just ... play. Playing house, playing lovers ... Mia's whole life feels like pretend until she dresses up and pulls Ansel into a provocative masquerade that finally feels...
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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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[2015]
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"Charlotte Silver dazzles with a ruefully funny coming-of-age novel that follows two recent Bennington grads who are determined to make it in the Big Apple. Bennington College, founded in 1932 as a suitable refuge for the wayward daughters of good families, maintains its saucy reputation for attracting free spirits. There, acres outnumber students, the faculty is composed of fading hippies and clothing is largely optional. Or, as J. D. Salinger put...
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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...
16) Wicked sexy liar
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Wild seasons ; 4
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Gallery Books
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2016.
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"When three college besties meet three hot guys in Vegas, anything can and does happen. Book Four in the New York Times Wild Seasons series that began with Sweet Filthy Boy (the Romantic Times book of the year that Sylvia Day called "a sexy, sweet treasure of a story"), Dirty Rowdy Thing, and Dark Wild Night"--
London Hughes is very content to surf daily, tend bar, hang out with her group of friends, and slowly orient herself in the years after college....
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Permanent Press
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[2007]
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English
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Nan, an obstretic nurse; Anastasia, a businesswoman; Jean, a former social worker; and Virginia, a community college professor, all friends from college, find their interlocking relationships strained when one of them, in her late thirties, decides to have a second trimester abortion after delaying the decision in hopes that her husband will change his mind. These women have all wrestled with--and are still engaged by--the questions of careers vs....
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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 her education and Ashley would like to return the favor-- and offer him her love. But...
19) So fly
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St. Martin's Griffin
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2005.
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English
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Sophie's To-Do List: Find an apartment, find a new job (preferably not at a glossy, girly magazine), check out that open mic night in Brooklyn, and (last but definitely not least) figure out what to do about that cute rapper named Furious. . . After graduating from the University of Michigan, Sophie knows that she wants to move to New York and become a music journalist.
After finally landing a job at BeatMaker magazine, finding the perfect little...
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Library of America ; 291
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The Library of America
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[2017]
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English
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Three novels by Mary McCarthy, the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including her landmark classic The Group, as well as McCarthy's final two novels Birds of America, and Cannibals and Missionaries, plus McCarthy's 1979 essay "The Novels that Got Away," on her unfinished fiction.
The group: The lives and experiences of eight Vassar graduates during the thirty years following their graduation as they grapple with sex, sexism,...