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21) In the drink
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An assistant to a famous writer of romance novels describes her life. Claudia Steiner, 29, does most of the writing, but receives little money and no credit. She lives in a rundown apartment in New York, drinks a lot and is in love with a married man.
24) Gorod zhenshchin
Author
Language
Russian
Description
A love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s and told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.
26) Willa & Hesper
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For fans of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell and The Futures by Anna Pitoniak, a soul-piercing debut that explores the intertwining of past and present, queerness, and coming of age in uncertain times. Willa's darkness enters Hesper's light late one night in Brooklyn. Theirs is a whirlwind romance until Willa starts to know Hesper too well, to crawl into her hidden spaces, and Hesper shuts her out. She runs, following her fractured family back...
28) Copygirl
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada in this lively debut about a young woman working at the hippest ad agency in New York... So. You want to work in advertising. The glitz, the glamour, the cocktail-fueled brainstorming sessions and Xbox breaks. Sounds like a dream job, right? Wrong. The reality can be a nightmare. There are five simple rules for succeeding in the ad world--and I think I've already broken every single one... 1) Never let them see...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Iris Smyles's Dating Tips for the Unemployed is an urban odyssey, a wistful, wise, and wry look back at a young woman trying to find her home in the world. "Iris," the narrator and heroine, guides the reader through twenty-four episodes from her life, pausing now and then for meditations on love, sex, work, loneliness, insomnia, arctic exploration, cannibalism, the Higgs boson, Greek mythology, memory, costumes parties, time travel, Rocky I, II,...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Iris Smyles is undecided about what to do with her life, as she tries her hand at being a teacher, T-shirt designer, and sex columnist, goes to Greece, and tries to find consolation with friends while pursuing a hard-partying lifestyle.
Author
Series
Brooklyn Girls volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Sweet, innocent Coco has always been the good one. But when she catches her boyfriend cheating on her, she decides it's time to break bad. Coco swiftly goes from spending all her time baking and reading to working nights in (and dancing on) a bar, falling in and out of love (and lust), stealing education - and along the way discovers that she is stronger than she ever knew... In a time when her best friends are suddenly plunged into break ups, break-downs,...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Su vida perfecta era una perfecta mentira... Ani tiene un secreto. Hay algo en su pasado que todavía la persigue: algo privado, oculto, secreto y doloroso que amenaza con destruirlo todo. Como estudiante en la prestigiosa escuela Bradley, Ani FaNelli no pasó la mejor de las adolescencias. Ahora, con un trabajo glamuroso, un armario caro y un apuesto novio, está muy cerca de vivir la vida perfecta y frívola por la que ha estado trabajando tan duro....
34) Collide
Author
Series
Collide volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling indie author comes the first of two sexy contemporary romances about a woman torn between her seemingly perfect boyfriend and a dark, mysterious stranger--who will stop at nothing to have her. Her mind tried to fight a bloody battle against what her body already knew. She wanted him, and she wanted him bad. On the heels of college graduation and the unexpected death of her mother, Emily Cooper moves to New York...
35) Mankhėtten Bich
Author
Series
Corpus) volume 565
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Russian
Description
"Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family... Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the...
36) Manhattan Beach
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Alejándose de la emblemática Nueva York de los rascacielos, la autora traslada el foco a la primigenia cuidad portuaria, la de los muelles del West Side y los astilleros de Brooklyn, un mundo saturado de salitre y yodo en el que pululan gentes de toda laya que viven del mar. Allí, en ese abigarrado universo de luchadores solitarios, se desarrollan las vidas de Eddie Kerrigan, un empresario del espectáculo castigado por la gran depresión; su...
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