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1) The group
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
The lives, loves, and aspirations of eight Vassar graduates, who meet in New York following commencement to attend the wedding of one of their members, then reconvene seven years later at her funeral.
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English
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On a bright June day in 1965, a dozen girls -- classmates at a Blue Ridge women's college -- launch a ramshackle raft on a trip down the Mississippi. Thirty-five years later, four of the "girls" reunite to cruise the river again on a luxury steamboat and rediscover themselves
3) Main Street
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English
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The wife of a town doctor dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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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...
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English
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Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, despite being as different as three women can be. Kate was beautiful, wild, wealthy, and damaged. Aubrey, on financial aid, came from a broken home, and wanted more than anything to distance herself from her past. And Jenny was a striver--brilliant, ambitious, and determined to succeed. As an unlikely friendship formed, the three of them swore they would always be...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Sparking enthusiasm for a play about the founding of their North Carolina mountains Catholic girls' school, a charismatic ninth grader and her recently orphaned best friend set in motion a series of events that have decades-long ramifications.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
1921 [c1920]
Language
English
Description
Carol Kennicott is a young, idealistic woman from the city who moves to the little burg of Gopher Prairie after she marries Will, a simple country doctor. A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there.
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Series
The Library of America volume 59
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Language
English
Description
Contains two of Sinclair Lewis's most famous novels and includes a chronology of the author's life and career, and notes on the texts.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"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,...