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Paperback. Etat : Good. In a coming-of-age story, young Mattie and Kip tap dance and ride the rails during the Great Depression. Separated by a perceived betrayal and a train crash, the two friends lose each other for a lifetime. At 99, Mattie recalls the roving youth who set her life in motion and confides her deepest regrets to her granddaughter, who discovers lessons in the past for present challenges. With rhythms of tap, modern, and social dancing, the novel's cadence draws readers through a century of change in America, bringing us to wonder if our two dancers might ever see each other again. The story turns upon the uplifting question: Is there still time, in this lifetime, to love and forgive.…

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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. A crusading attorney?s death. Sabotage at a family winery. Secrets buried in California?s past?When corporate attorney Noli Cooper visits her godparents? Santa Cruz Mountain winery, she?s hoping for a few quiet days to consider her future. But the future will have to wait. The body of her childhood mentor, a crusading social justice lawyer and local hero, is discovered in a rocky ocean cove. The sheriff is quick to call it suicide. Noli knows he?s wrong. Teaming up with PI Luz Alvarado, Noli dives into a world where nothing is as it seems.As threats mount and the winery teeters on the brink of ruin, Noli and Luz must navigate a treacherous landscape of greed, revenge, and long-buried secrets. Their investigation weaves through the rich tapestry of California?s vineyard history, the mystery of zinfandel grapes, and the haunting legacy of the Vietnam War. With a murderer on the loose, predatory neighbors circling, and Noli?s godfather framed for murder, the clock is ticking. Can two fearless women from different worlds unravel the truth before it?s too late.…

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Paperback. Etat : Good. Lindsay, a thirty-year-old California native never gave much thought to being adopted. When she unexpectedly inherits her birth mother Claire's farmhouse in Maine, she is plunged into a journey across the country and across the years into a lake of secrets that will ultimately reveal just how far everyone was willing to go to protect her. Told from both Lindsay's and Claire's points of view, The Sunken Town explores adoption, identity, the nature of family dynamics, mother-daughter relationships, the impact of family secrets, the weight of motherhood and the lasting consequences of the choices people make. "You will care about the outcomes of these intimately and complexly drawn characters in this intricately plotted, page-turner of a debut." -Pam Houston, author of Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom "In the tradition of Tartt's The Secret History and Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You, The Sunken Town probes the life or death secrets of an elite east coast school and the trio of glamorous "Royals" who seem to rule it. Gripping, illuminating, and creepy in all the best ways, Nelson's mother/daughter narrators will hook you from page one." -Gina Frangello, author of Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason & A Life In Men.…

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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Etat : good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. WARREN BEATTY WALKS THROUGH THE DOOR.In this offbeat memoir, Nikki Nash tells the story of an obsession that starts with a young girl?s movie-star fantasy. At fourteen, longing for excitement and something of her own, Nikki fixates on superstar Warren Beatty. She?s determined to find him and have him in her life forever. She creates a solid plan that she initiates four years later at the age of eighteen when she gets a job as a restaurant hostess where Beatty frequents. A year later, on a warm Sunday evening in April, after breaking a finger in a judo class and looking her worst?dirty hair pulled back, no make-up, broken finger in a glass of ice?Warren Beatty walks through the door and her plan comes to fruition. In this entertaining and genuine account of the inner workings of Hollywood, Nash pursues a vibrant career as a TV associate director, comic, writer, and actress. Her celebrity-infused journey is also a dance with drugs, religion, Hollywood culture, and other volatile mysteries in the city of angels, including her own metamorphosis.…

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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. This funny mother-daughter caper story stars 73-year-old, overweight former beauty, Aurora Hmans Feldenburg, who is a hapless, perpetually broke, eccentric divorcee living in the wealthy enclave of Marin County in Northern California. Aurora is wakened by a phone call informing her that her father's widow has died. Possibly her last chance at solvency, she decides to drive to Los Angeles to see if there is a will and how she might benefit. Enter Aurora's high-strung daughter, 43-year-old Leyla Feldenburg Rothstein, who spends her days keeping up with the other Marin Uber mom's, manically pursuing perfection in herself, her home, and her children. When she overhears a conversation at parent's night at her children's elite private school, and suspects her husband, an investment banker in the cannabis industry, is embarking on an affair, she decides to sneak into a Cannabis business conference he is attending, also in LA, to spy on him. Aurora and Leyla's separate quests simultaneously intersect and enmesh in Los Angeles over the course of a weekend provoking hijinks and chaos. Will Leyla break free from her mother's toxic dependency? Will Aurora achieve her lifelong goal of financial security, as always, at Leyla's expense? Can you survive your Jewish mother? Will mother and daughter ever be on speaking terms again.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. This funny mother-daughter caper story stars 73-year-old, overweight former beauty, Aurora Hmans Feldenburg, who is a hapless, perpetually broke, eccentric divorcee living in the wealthy enclave of Marin County in Northern California. Aurora is wakened by a phone call informing her that her father's widow has died. Possibly her last chance at solvency, she decides to drive to Los Angeles to see if there is a will and how she might benefit. Enter Aurora's high-strung daughter, 43-year-old Leyla Feldenburg Rothstein, who spends her days keeping up with the other Marin Uber mom's, manically pursuing perfection in herself, her home, and her children. When she overhears a conversation at parent's night at her children's elite private school, and suspects her husband, an investment banker in the cannabis industry, is embarking on an affair, she decides to sneak into a Cannabis business conference he is attending, also in LA, to spy on him. Aurora and Leyla's separate quests simultaneously intersect and enmesh in Los Angeles over the course of a weekend provoking hijinks and chaos. Will Leyla break free from her mother's toxic dependency? Will Aurora achieve her lifelong goal of financial security, as always, at Leyla's expense? Can you survive your Jewish mother? Will mother and daughter ever be on speaking terms again.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Paperback. Etat : Good. Charlotte Salomon Paints Her LifeInspired by the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, this novel shows an artist intent on pursuing her art against all odds. As a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Art Academy during Hitler?s rise to power in 1938, Charlotte?s first place prize is denied because she is a Jew, her enrollment annulled. After Kristallnacht, she is sent from Berlin into exile with her grandparents.When Charlotte?s grandmother leaps to her death, her Old World grandfather shocks her with the family secret, a legacy of female suicides. She struggles against her grandfather?s insistence that suicide, not art, is her destiny too.Haunted by the encroaching terror of the Third Reich and the threat of psychological disintegration, Charlotte clings to her determination to become a serious modernist painter, to complete her monumental work ?Life? Or Theater?? and get it into safekeeping in a race against time before capture by the Nazis.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Paperback. Etat : Good. A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belongProlific cookbook author Brigit Binns? coming-of-age memoir?co-starring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother?reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect lead Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen, eventually allowing her to find some sense of self-worth. In the old Hollywood of her childhood, Brigit seems to live in an elite world. But when her parents eventually divorce?her father flees and her mother sends her off to boarding school so she can more easily conduct her decades-long romance with a married California governor?Brigit racks up seven schools and a host of bad decisions before the age of 16. Marriage to an Englishman takes her across the pond and to professional cooking school. But when that life comes crashing down, she returns heartbroken and alone to Los Angeles eighteen years after vowing never to return. Here she thrives, cold pitching herself to top chefs as co author for their cookbooks. Peppered with humor and seasoned with optimism, Brigit?s story is an entertaining tribute to female resilience.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Fair. On Little Great Island, climate change is disrupting both life and loveAfter offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin has to flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up?a place she swore she?d never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island?s summer residents, now back himself to sell his family?s summer home. Mari and Harry?s lives intertwine once again, setting off a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the island?from generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies. Little Great Island Illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the unyielding power of love.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. On Little Great Island, climate change is disrupting both life and loveAfter offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin has to flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up?a place she swore she?d never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island?s summer residents, now back himself to sell his family?s summer home. Mari and Harry?s lives intertwine once again, setting off a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the island?from generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies. Little Great Island Illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the unyielding power of love.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. MEET THE UNFORGETTABLE YOUNG WOMAN, LaDene Faye Howell, who finds herself in police custody recounting her story after her paroled cousin Bobbie Frank appears and engages her in a crime spree. LaDene Faye Howell has spent her life in the small town of Devola, on an oxbow of the Muskingum River, in southeast Ohio. Her family is conservative and deeply religious, although another branch of the Howell clan are notorious criminals. When one of her outlaw relatives returns from prison, LaDene hopes the two of them may share an evening of fun, or even a spark of romance. Instead, Bobby Frank embroils her in kidnapping their old high school principal. Taken into custody, LaDene recounts her misadventures in the form of a dramatic monologue. Pledging to ?tell all in full truth so help me God,? she hopes to keep herself out of jail and perhaps even soften Bobby?s likely sentence. She also aims to capture her listeners? sympathy by recounting a secret from her past that she has never shared before.Told with country noir flair, the heart of the story is LaDene?s struggle to live as her own person while remaining true to her heritage and family loyalties.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. After her six-year-old daughter puts a hammer through a wall, Megan Williams decides to abandon a career as an academic and become a police officer. It?s not lost on her that she may have applied to the Police Academy to escape the realities of mothering twins born via IVF at twenty-nine weeks. As the twins grow and test her endlessly, she feels she is failing. She needs a win.During a grueling application process, Megan measures herself against the other candidates and confronts the normative notions of what it is to be a good mother. The paralyzing fear that she is a bad mother looms large in her head, as does the real possibility that she might not make the cut at the Academy. With its intertwined narratives of police recruitment and motherhood, the memoir provides an unflinching journalistic view of big-city law enforcement, set atop a personal journey during which Megan learns gratitude and makes peace with a motherhood far different from the dream sold to her by our culture.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. A gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable pastJane is to the world a charismatic personality ? opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful ? who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah, her beautiful only daughter and her intended protégé, senses the stricter, darker truth, and fights to resist the control imposed on her by her mother?s narcissistic tale, especially as Susannah becomes a mother herself.But then Jane at 75, healthy and fit, chooses suicide, leaving her daughter with grief and the unwelcome gift of 45 years of hidden diaries. Daring to ?read? Jane after her death is like unlatching Pandora?s Box. For a year, Susannah twists and turns to the truths she uncovers, comparing what she remembers with what her mother put down in words. As Susannah Kennedy re-lives her life through her mother?s eyes, she grapples with the ties between mothers and daughters and the choices parents make.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.