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Grosse Pointe Girl

Author : Sarah Grace McCandless

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 31,59 MB

Release : 2007-11-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1416583157

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Welcome to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where social rank is determined by the age of your money and the dryness of your martini. The new girl in town, Emma Harris, must prove herself hip to the rigid rules of adolescent conformity. The quest for cool, she discovers, is one long final exam. To pass she must be cruel to be kind (ditching her best friend for the popular crowd), dress to impress (trading her favorite Esprit shirt for three plastic bracelets), and master the art of seduction (puckering up with Mulberry Stain or Peaches 'n' Cream lip gloss). Life is all about making choices -- the right ones. Will Emma's social acrobatics put her on the short list for that coveted country club membership? Will the digits of her zip code pass muster? If her parents split up, will the gossip help or hurt her in the rankings? Grosse Pointe Girl serves as an indispensable road map through the dysfunction privilege brings. So put on your Guess? jeans and your jelly shoes and come along for the ride to the adolescent days that time forgot, but you never will.



Grosse Pointe Girl

Author : Sarah Grace McCandless

Publisher :

Page : 74 pages

File Size : 29,49 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Welcome to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where social rank is determined by the age of your money and the dryness of your martini. The new girl in town, Emma Harris, must prove herself hip to the rigid rules of adolescent conformity. The quest for cool, she discovers, is one long final exam. To pass she must be cruel to be kind (ditching her best friend for the popular crowd), dress to impress (trading her favorite Esprit shirt for three plastic bracelets), and master the art of seduction (puckering up with Mulberry Stain or Peaches 'n' Cream lip gloss). Life is all about making choices -- the right ones. Will Emma's social acrobatics put her on the short list for that coveted country club membership? Will the digits of her zip code pass muster? If her parents split up, will the gossip help or hurt her in the rankings? Grosse Pointe Girl serves as an indispensable road map through the dysfunction privilege brings. So put on your Guess? jeans and your jelly shoes and come along for the ride to the adolescent days that time forgot, but you never will.



Middlesex

Author : Jeffrey Eugenides

Publisher : Vintage Canada

Page : 546 pages

File Size : 31,39 MB

Release : 2011-07-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307401944

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Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there’s a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is a hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie’s grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator’s life in motion. Middlesex is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It’s a brilliant exploration of divided people, divided families, divided cities and nations -- the connected halves that make up ourselves and our world.



The Girl I Wanted to Be

Author : Sarah Grace McCandless

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 44,87 MB

Release : 2006-06-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0743285182

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Presley Moran stugggles with the pressures of High School.



Murder in Grosse Pointe Park

Author : Steve Miller

Publisher : Berkley

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 46,8 MB

Release : 2015-12

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0425272427

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"Holy shit, you have the Mercedes" -- Growing up wealthy and healthy in Detroit -- "He came from an affluent family...a life of the party kind of guy" -- "This is a great guy, I personally vouch for him" -- "I am a true master, come to me" -- Bob and Rachel seek a "very special girl" -- "Without a doubt in my mind I know that he did not do it" -- "I made a mistake" -- Epicenter of Detroit wealth tarnished -- "I gotta get to Joe" -- "It is what it is" -- "I apologize to Mr. Gentz" -- Emails and conversations with Bashara: "This is a setup, clearly" -- "This is one of the most unusual cases I've ever had" -- Jane was the "golden goose" -- "You once said you were living the dream, now you're experiencing a nightmare".



The Virgin Suicides

Author : Jeffrey Eugenides

Publisher : Vintage Canada

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 46,74 MB

Release : 2011-09-20

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307401936

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First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.



Women's Educational Equity Act of 1973

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Education

Publisher :

Page : 436 pages

File Size : 23,10 MB

Release : 1973

Category : Digital images

ISBN :

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Girl, Wanted

Author : Steve Miller

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 49,55 MB

Release : 2011-06-07

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 1101528877

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Sarah Pender was an attractive, outgoing, intelligent woman with great potential. But the straight and narrow had no appeal for this depraved young woman dubbed "the female Charles Manson", who knew how to get what she wanted from men-even if it meant murder.



Oodles and Oodles of Noodley Noodles

Author : Cindy ( Ninni) Grant

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 22,49 MB

Release : 2020-07-31

Category :

ISBN : 9781734647808

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In this rhyming book, a little girl is infatuated with noodles. She is obsessed! Her imagination brings out her silliness. It is funny, entertaining and educational as it uses "big" noodle words. It teaches kids to enjoy what they love, to find their passion and follow it.