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Love letters to a serial killer / by Coryell, Tasha,author.;
"Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs with their husbands and children, thirty-something Hannah finds new community in an internet true crime forum that's on a mission to solve the murders of four women who were dumped in a ravine outside Atlanta. When a handsome lawyer named William is arrested for the killings, with evidence of his guilt piling up as quickly as the bodies, Hannah begins writing him letters as another outlet for both her frustration at her failure to launch and her feminist rage. The exercise empowers her, and even feels healthy at first - until William writes back. Their correspondence tips Hannah's interest in the case from curiosity to obsession, leaving space for nothing else as her life implodes around her. When she loses her job, she heads to Georgia to attend the trial, finding herself quickly embedded in a colorful group of fellow true crime junkies and trial chasers. But, a fifth woman is soon found in the same ravine while William is on trial, and the jury has no choice but to find him 'not guilty.' Hannah is the first person he calls upon his release, and they quickly fall into a routine of domestic bliss. Well, as blissful as one can feel while secretly investigating their partner for serial murder ... "--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Acquittals; Man-woman relationships; Serial murder investigation; Serial murderers; Trials (Murder); Women; Young women;
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The crimson petal and the white [videorecording] / by Anderson, Gillian.; Coxon, Lucinda,1962-; Faber, Michel.Crimson petal and the white.Videorecording.; Garai, Romola,1982-; Hale, Amanda,1982-; Munden, Marc.; O'Dowd, Chris,1980-; Thompson, David M.,1950-; Acorn Media (Firm); British Broadcasting Corporation.; Cité-Amérique (Firm); Origin Pictures.;
Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Amanda Hale, Gillian Anderson.Based on Michael Faber's novel, this four-part BBC miniseries follows the fortunes of Sugar, a notorious Victorian-era prostitute who longs for a better life. Sexually adept, ambitious, and clever, she casts a spell on William Rackham, feckless heir to a perfume business and husband to a wife slipping slowly into insanity.PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo sound.
Subjects: Faber, Michel.; Perfumes industry; Prostitutes; Television mini-series.; Young women;
© c2012., Distributed by Acorn Media,
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The last dance of the debutante / by Kelly, Julia,1986-author.;
"When it's announced that 1958 will be the last year debutantes are to be presented at court, thousands of eager mothers and hopeful daughters flood the palace with letters seeking the year's most coveted invitation: a chance for their daughters to curtsey to the young Queen Elizabeth and officially come out into society. In an effort to appease her traditional mother, aspiring university student Lily Nichols agrees to become a debutante and do the Season, a glittering and grueling string of countless balls and cocktail parties. In doing so, she befriends two very different women: the cool and aloof Leana Hartford whose apparent perfection hides a darker side and the ambitious Katherine Norman who dreams of a career once she helps her parents find their place among the elite. But the glorious effervescence of the Season evaporates once Lily learns a devastating secret that threatens to destroy her entire family. Faced with a dark past, she's forced to ask herself what really matters: her family legacy or her own happiness. With her signature "intricate, tender, and convincing" (Publishers Weekly) storytelling, Julia Kelly weaves an unforgettable tale of female friendship amid the twilight days of Britain's grand coming out balls"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Debutantes; Families; Female friendship; Secrecy; Young women;
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Jane Eyre / by Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Romance fiction.; Governesses; Classics; Fathers and daughters; Mentally ill women; Charity-schools; Married people; Country homes; Young women; Orphans;
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Shmutz : a novel / by Berliner, Felicia,author.;
"An arranged marriage is expected for Raizl, but she's not like the other young women in her Hasidic sect in Brooklyn. Raizl has a college scholarship to study accounting, a part-time job that supports her family, and a hidden computer making it all possible. That's where she finds the porn, through the slippery slope of an innocent Google search. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night, her daytime life begins to unravel. The porn is thrilling, cracking open a world of desire and experience that is becoming irresistible to Raizl--but it also threatens to tear her away from the family she loves. As the novel moves between Raizl's combative visits to the shrink she requested, arranged dates, and loving but complicated exchanges with her family, readers will be drawn to confront their own paradoxical sexuality and the trade-offs we all make for the sake of stability and familial love. A singular, compulsively readable debut, Shmutz explores what it means to be a fully-realized sexual and spiritual being amidst the contradictory messages of both the traditional and modern world"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Jewish fiction.; Novels.; Jews; Hasidim; Internet pornography; Jewish families; Self-realization in women; Women; Young women;
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Pride and prejudice / by Austen, Jane,1775-1817,author.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Classics; Literary; Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character); Darcy, Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character); Young women; Social classes;
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Not that kind of girl : a young woman tells you what she's 'learned' / by Dunham, Lena,1986-author.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Dunham, Lena, 1986-; Television producers and directors; Television actors and actresses; Young women;
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Rabbit rabbit rabbit : a novel / by Sander-Green, Nadine,author.;
"Millicent is a shy, 24-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse to work for a failing daily newspaper. With winter looming and the Yukon descending into darkness, Millicent begins a relationship with Pascal, an eccentric and charming middle-aged filmmaker who lives on a converted school bus in a Walmart parking lot. What begins as a romantic adventure soon turns toxic, and Millicent finds herself struggling not to lose herself and her voice. Events come to a head at Thaw di Gras, a celebration in faraway Dawson City marking the return of light to the north. It's here, in a frontier mining town filled with drunken tourists, eclectic locals, and sparkling burlesque dancers, that Millicent must choose between staying with Pascal or finally standing up to her abuser. In the style of Ottessa Moshfegh's honest exploration of dysfunctional relationships, and with the warmth and energy of Heather O'Neill, Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit illuminates what it's like to be young, impulsive, and in love in one of the harshest environments in the world."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Abused women; Abusive men; Courage; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Motion picture producers and directors; Reporters and reporting; Young women;
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Guest house for young widows : among the women of ISIS / by Moaveni, Azadeh,1976-author.;
"In early 2014, the Islamic State clinched its control of Raqqa in Syria. Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, urged Muslims around the world to come join the caliphate. Witnessing the brutal oppression of the Assad regime in Syria, and moved to fight for justice, thousands of men and women heeded his call. At the heart of this story is a cast of unforgettable young women who responded. Emma, from Germany; Sharmeena from Bethnal Green, London; Nour from Tunis: these were women--some still in high school--from urban families, some with university degrees and bookshelves filled with novels by Jane Austen and Dan Brown; many with cosmopolitan dreams of travel and adventure. But instead of finding a land of justice and piety, they found themselves trapped within the most brutal terrorist regime of the twenty-first century, a world of chaos and upheaval and violence. What is the line between victim and collaborator? How do we judge these women who both suffered and inflicted intense pain? What role is there for Muslim women in the West? In what is bound to be a modern classic of narrative nonfiction, Moaveni takes us into the school hallways of London, kitchen tables in Germany, the coffee shops in Tunis, the caliphate's OB/GYN and its "Guest House for Young Widows"--where wives of the fallen waited to be remarried--to demonstrate that the problem called terrorism is a far more complex, political, and deeply relatable one than we generally admit"--
Subjects: Islamic fundamentalism; Widows;
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The splendour falls / by Kearsley, Susanna.;
A young woman stumbles upon mysterious secrets involving two 'Isabelles' from the past in Chinon, France.LSC
Subjects: Love stories.; Historical fiction.; Young women; Time travel; Man-woman relationships; Kings and rulers; Secrecy;
© 2012, c1995., Allison & Busby,
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