Jessica Anya Blau
Author
Language
English
Description
We think of the past as a more innocent time. But in these stories of California teenagers acting out in the last years of the '70s, it's easy to see that love, loss, and heartbreak are even more poignant when viewed through 15- or 16-year-old eyes. Surrounded by friends and family who are spinning with their own losses and heartache, these teenage girls navigate the terrors and tenderness of life in the only ways they know how. In this touching and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Jessica Anya Blau's delicious stories about women behaving badly are perfect for a before-bedtime literary romp. Could a little yellow pill be responsible for landing Lexie James in the bed of her lover-and her lover's wife? Whatever the reason for this charmingly reckless school counselor's bad behavior, you've never been on a bender like "The Problem with Lexie". In "No. Seven", Zandra runs into her seventh love-of 48-in a department...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this funny, wise and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girl's coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for - who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in...