Candace Bushnell
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It starts before you can even remember: You learn the rules for being a girl ... Marin has always been good at navigating these unspoken guidelines. A star student and editor of the school paper, she dreams of getting into Brown University. Marin's future seems bright--and her young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. Beckett, is always quick to admire her writing and talk books with her. But when Bex takes things too far and comes on to Marin, she's...
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Candace and her female friends-- Sassy, Kitty, Queenie, Tilda Tia, Marilyn-- navigate the ever-modernizing phenomena of midlife dating and relationships. From the high highs to the low lows, Bushnell illustrates with humor and acuity today's relationship landscape and the types that roam it. She looks at love and life from all angles: marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real pressures on women to maintain their youth...
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Pub. Date
c2008
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One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan's oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into--one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established--or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited...
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Dive into the mating habits of privileged New Yorkers in this hilarious collection of Bushnell's newspaper columns that inspired the hit HBO series.
Sex and the City is a fantastic and sometimes terrifying foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers. Traveling in packs from lavish parties to high-end clubs, Bushnell's vividly candid characters live out the never-ending search for the perfect relationship. Bushnell's...
5) Four blondes
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Pub. Date
2000
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Four women: a B-list model, a magazine columnist in a troubled marriage, a woman haunted by paranoia, and a writer desperate to find a husband, all have come to a turning point in their lives.
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"In Killing Monica Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame, and even the meaning of life itself, when a famous writer must resort to faking her own death in order to get her life back from her most infamous creation--Monica. With her trademark wit and style, KILLING MONICA is Bushnell's sharpest, funniest book to date"--
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Carrie and Miranda wrestle with their single lifestyles. Miranda has new baby Brady and single motherhood, while Carrie finds herself in the world of publishing as the author of a real-life book of her columns. Charlotte wonders if she'd ever find another man, while Samantha finally gets rid of the one that had been vexing her far too much. From Samantha's anointment as the "Michiko Kakutani of vibrators" to Carrie's stressful book launch party. The...
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[2004]
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Last season in the series as Carrie continues her romance with a Russian artist, Miranda has settled down with Steve, Charlotte continues to make baby plans, Samantha faces a breast-cancer scare. In the final two-part episode, Carrie faces her romantic destiny, but also solidifies herself as a fashion icon.
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Ã2010
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The fun, the fashion, the friendship: this sequel brings it all back and more as Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda come together to take another bite out of the Big Apple and beyond. What happens after you say 'I do?' Life is everything the ladies ever wished it would be, but it wouldn't be Sex and the City if life didn't hold a few more surprises. After all, sometimes you just have to get away with the girls.