The Selected Journals Of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 5: 1935-1942
10 best books like The Selected Journals Of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 5: 1935-1942 (L.M. Montgomery): Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine, The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, I Love Dick, Miss Buncle's Book, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
| Author | Jenny Lawson |
| ISBN | 0399159010 |
For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris—Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut.
Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 New York...
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine
| Author | Jennifer Gunter |
| ISBN | 0806539313 |
OB/GYN, writer for The New York Times, USA Today, and Self, and host of the show Jensplaining, Dr. Jen Gunter now delivers the definitive book on vaginal health, answering the questions you've always had but were afraid to ask--or couldn't find the right answers to. She has been called Twitter's resident...
The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World
Why does our society hold the belief that we are all destined to have children? Why do we believe that parenthood is the ultimate road to fulfillment in life? In The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World, author Laura...
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
| Author | Jodi Kantor |
| ISBN | 0525560343 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement
For many years, reporters...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
| Author | Chris Kraus |
| ISBN | 1584350342 |
In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that upon its publication in 1997, I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted...
| Author | D.E. Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0708908349 |
Barbara Buncle is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Stumped for ideas, Barbara draws inspiration from fellow residents of her quaint English village, writing a revealing novel that features the townsfolk as characters. The smashing bestseller is published...
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger...
The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation
"A remarkable work of slowed-down journalism...They are doing their jobs as journalists and writing the first draft of history." --Jill Filipovic, The Washington Post
"...Generous but also damning." --Hanna Rosin, The New York Times
From two New York Times reporters, a deeper...
A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man
| Author | Holly George-Warren |
| ISBN | 0670025631 |
The first biography of the influential musician and forebear of the indie-rock scene
Alex Chilton’s story is rags to riches in reverse, beginning with teenage rock stardom and heading downward. Following stints leading 60s sensation the Box Tops (“The Letter”) and pioneering 70s...
I Will Marry George Clooney (...By Christmas)
| Author | Tracy Bloom |
| ISBN | 0099594730 |
A brand new very funny Christmas novel, from the bestselling author of No-One Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday and Single Woman Seeks Revenge.
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only answer is to marry George Clooney.
For Michelle, that time is now.
Slogging her guts...
The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones
| Author | Sandra Tsing Loh |
| ISBN | 0393088685 |
In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller coaster through “the change.” This is not your grandmother’s menopause story. Loh chronicles utterly relatable, everyday perils: raising preteen daughters, weathering...
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
| Author | Jennifer Senior |
| ISBN | 0062072226 |
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?
"All Joy and No Fun is an indispensable map for a journey that most of us take without one. Brilliant, funny, and...
| Author | Mary Henley Rubio |
| ISBN | 0385659830 |
Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery’s life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon, all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery – her son, maids, friends, relatives,...
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
| Author | Jennifer Keishin Armstrong |
| ISBN | 1451659202 |
The story of the making of a classic and groundbreaking TV show, as experienced by its producers, writers, and cast.
Mary Tyler Moore made her name as Dick Van Dyke’s wife on the eponymous show, a cute, unassuming housewife that audiences loved. But when her writer/producers James Brooks...
Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
| Author | Debora L. Spar |
| ISBN | 0374298750 |
Debora L. Spar spent most of her life avoiding feminism. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed that the gender war was over. “We thought we could glide into the new era with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow,” she writes. “We were wrong.”
Spar should know. One of the...
Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
| Author | Brigid Schulte |
| ISBN | 0374228442 |
Overwhelmed is a book about time pressure and modern life. It is a deeply reported and researched, honest and often hilarious journey from feeling that, as one character in the book said, time is like a "rabid lunatic" running naked and screaming as your life flies past you, to understanding the historical...
Big Star: The Short Life, Painful Death, and Unexpected Resurrection of the Kings of Power Pop
| Author | Rob Jovanovic |
| ISBN | 1556525966 |
The formation, music, and break-up of Big Star, a band that for many was the embodiment of the 1970s, is detailed in this definitive history. Even though Big Star was together for less than four years and had limited commercial success, the legacy of their three groundbreaking albums has influenced...
Mastering the Art of Quitting: Why It Matters in Life, Love, and Work
| Author | Peg Streep |
| ISBN | 0738216542 |
Find out why the happiest, most successful people have the ability both to persist and to quit.
In a culture that perceives quitting as a last resort and urges us to hang in, Mastering the Art of Quitting tackles our tendencies to overanalyze, ruminate, and put a positive spin on goals that...
| Author | Mark Lewisohn |
| ISBN | 1400083052 |
Tune In is the first volume of All These Years—a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John Lennon,...
A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York
| Author | Anjelica Huston |
| ISBN | 1451656297 |
Writing with an exuberant love of language and detail, Anjelica Huston shares her enchanted childhood in Ireland, her teen years in London, and her coming-of-age as a model and nascent actress in New York.
Living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid...
Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life
| Author | Graham Nash |
| ISBN | 0385367538 |
From Graham Nash the legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Hollies comes a candid and riveting autobiography that belongs on the reading list of every classic rock fan.
Graham Nash's songs defined a generation and helped shape the history...
The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Nation
| Author | Charlotte Gray |
| ISBN | 1443409235 |
A scandalous crime, a sensational trial, a surprise verdict—the true story of Carrie Davies, the maid who shot a Massey.
In February 1915, a member of one of Canada’s wealthiest families was shot and killed on the front porch of his home in Toronto as he was returning from work. Carrie Davies,...
Otherhood: Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness
| Author | Melanie Notkin |
| ISBN | 1580055214 |
More American women are childless than ever before—nearly half those of childbearing age don’t have children. While our society often assumes these women are “childfree by choice,” that’s not always true. In reality, many of them expected to marry and have children, but it simply hasn’t...
Extraordinary Canadians: L.M. Montgomery
| Author | Jane Urquhart |
| ISBN | 0670066753 |
New material about the private life of Lucy Maud Montgomery has prompted a searching look at the beloved author of Anne of Green Gables. While her fictional characters inhabited a world where love and close community bonds overcame all tribulations, Montgomery's real life was marked by grief and loneliness....
It's bad enough that PD's husband left her a childless widow at 42, but when she heads west from Montana to the Oregon coast to remake her life with a new name, a new look and a new determination to become a professional musician, things keep going wrong. Her cabin has a few problems, but the landlord has disappeared....
This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story
| Author | Jackie Shannon Hollis |
| ISBN | 1942436394 |
Knowing where your scars come from doesn't make them go away. Growing up on a ranch, feeding bottles to bummer lambs and babysitting her little sister, Jackie Shannon Hollis expected to become a mother someday. But, after a series of failed relationships, she begins to question this expectation. She...
The story is set in the early fifties in a quiet village in England. The Dower House belonging to the Morven estate has been sold to the attractive, thirty-ish Miss Kate Hardy. Kate Hardy, a successful novelist, has spent the war years in London, cooped up in an apartment with her selfish cousin and frivolous...
