The Washingtonienne
10 best books like The Washingtonienne (Jessica Cutler): Coffee, Tea or Me?, How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative, The Memoirs of Josephine Mutzenbacher, The Go-Getter Girl's Guide: Get What You Want in Work and Life (and Look Great While You're at It), Fashionistas, Will Write for Shoes: How to Write a Chick Lit Novel, Sleeping Over, Pushing 30, The Education of a Very Young Madam, Girl Talk
| Author | Trudy Baker |
| ISBN | 0142003514 |
Remember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? When airline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, and stewardesses catered to our every need-at least in our imaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspoken young ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewardess...
| Author | Allen Raymond |
| ISBN | 1416552227 |
Fresh out of grad school, Allen Raymond joined the GOP for one reason: rumor had it that there was big money to be made on the Republican side of the aisle.From the earliest days of the Republican Revolution through its culmination in the second Bush White House, Raymond played a key role in helping GOP...
| Author | Josefine Mutzenbacher |
| ISBN | 1596541784 |
The Austrian erotic classic that'll make any parent think twice about taking their young ones to meet a beloved children's book author. Written by Felix Salten (Bambi), The Memoirs of Josephine Mutzenbacher is the story of a young girl and her many amorous encounters, with friends, family, and the...
Every office has one – a Go-Getter Girl – someone who seems to just know certain stuff about how to get the plum jobs/lifestyle she wants and damn, always looks great while she's at it. Magic? No, it’s about strategizing--and The Go-Getter Girl’s Guide shows you how.
Born out of interviews...
| Author | Lynn Messina |
| ISBN | 0373895445 |
Life at Fashionista magazine can be a real bitch. Especially when you work for one.
Vig Morgan finally worked her way out of the assistant-for-the-bitch-from-hell trenches only to get stuck in a sea of editors. But Vig isn't like the other associate editors at the aggressively hip and overwhelmingly...
| Author | Cathy Yardley |
| ISBN | 0312358997 |
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This book started out promising, but the one really good story line of Jess, took a twisted and uncalled for turn toward the end, throwing any promise of feeling good about finishing this book out the window. It is divided into the various stories of the women involved. I found myself caring little about...
| Author | Whitney Gaskell |
| ISBN | 0553382241 |
“The one thing you should know about me is this: I’m the consummate Good Girl. . .”
Ellie Winters is dependable and loyal and has a near-phobic aversion to conflict. But as her thirtieth birthday looms ever closer, she starts to feel like she’s lost the instruction manual to her life....
| Author | Ma-Ling Lee |
| ISBN | 0743289757 |
Full of juicy details about what really goes on behind the bedroom door, The Education of a Very Young Madam is a provocative exposé of the newest developments in the world's oldest profession.
A stripper at age fifteen, involved with majorleague gang members before she was twenty, and a madam raking...
| Author | Julianna Baggott |
| ISBN | 0743400836 |
Lissy Jablonski was fifteen during the summer of 1985. That was the summer her father, a soft-spoken gynecologist, up and left her mother for a redheaded bank teller. The same summer Lissy and her mother disappeared from their quiet New Hampshire lives to have an adventure of their own amid a cast of unlikely...
| Author | Valerie Frankel |
| ISBN | 0060725540 |
It's uncanny! Within six months of breaking up with her, Peg Silver's ex-lovers always meet and marry the women of their dreams. Even worse than being the eternal bridesmaid, she's the last girlfriend, the one who awakens in a guy theknowledge of what he's always wanted in a relationship ... and it's...
| Author | Mary Guterson |
| ISBN | 0425207676 |
Julia has been married to Jim for fifteen years, and admittedly, the thrill is mostly gone. So it's no big surprise that, like so many women in her position, she finds herself thinking a bit too much about the one who got away - in Julia's case, the one in question is Ray, the rugged, impulsive lover of her...
| Author | Jill Nelson |
| ISBN | 0972456201 |
"Smart, explicit, and side-splittingly funny."
--Ebony
Jill Nelson, bestselling author of Volunteer Slavery and Straight, No Chaser, has written a steamy and uproarious debut novel that tells the story of Lydia and Acey, two childhood friends who've grown up to become...
That Summer in Paris: A Novel
| Author | Abha Dawesar |
| ISBN | 0385517491 |
From the award-winning author of Babyji comes an utterly seductive tale of an aging writer whose involvement with a young woman forces him to face the eternal question of love.
Prem Rustum, a famous but reclusive Indian author, has spent most of his life consumed with writing. Feeling the weight...
| Author | Nina Killham |
| ISBN | 0755332776 |
Jack Carter and Molly Desire are just housemates. There could never be anything between them - they're far too different. Aren't they?
Jack, a successful romance writer, is looking for his soulmate. Molly, a fully paid-up sexaholic, views having to lodge in Jack's house as a necessary but...
Friday Night Cocktails stars Gemma who is trying (maybe) to get over a broken relationship, but is clearly very stuck in the bitter resentment phase. Her fiance broke off their engagement. Her friend Sarah and she go out every Friday for cocktails. Back in college they started The List, in which they...
| Author | Pamela Ribon |
| ISBN | 1416503854 |
From the acclaimed author of Why Girls are Weird comes a second hilarious and surprising novel about love and family and the weirdo inside us all.
Belinda "Benny" Bernstein doesn't brag about her life in Los Angeles, but she is proud of her independence. She's got a job and a place to live, and...
| Author | Sheila McClear |
| ISBN | 1593764006 |
In the last of Times Square’s peep shows, a man pays $40 to watch a girl strip naked behind glass. These institutions, left over from the days when 42nd Street was the vicious center of vice, will soon disappear completely from a rapidly gentrifying New York City, their stories lost forever. Yet, the...
| Author | Betsy Burke |
| ISBN | 0373250347 |
Unclear if I'm going to finish this one. Lucy is getting on my nerves, most of the other characters are terrible, and I'm 1/3 of the way in and the damn launderette hasn't even come up yet.
Okay, I actually finished the book and it just made me mad. The launderette finally shows up at halfway through...
| Author | Liz Ireland |
| ISBN | 0758208391 |
The Pink Ghetto was a fast and fun read. Rebecca is working and living in New York City with two college friends when she unexpectedly finds herself out of a job. In a near panic, she revamps her resume and submits it to numerous prospective employers. Rebecca is offered a position at Candlelight Books...
| Author | Susan R. Matthews |
| ISBN | 0380789140 |
Andrei Koscuisko is an Inquisitor for the Bench federation of worlds. It is his duty to root out -- quickly, efficiently, quietly -- anyone who would threaten the ruling order.Andrei has been posted to the penal facility at Port Rudistal. Here hundreds of prisoners -- traitors who dared dream of freedom...
| Author | Saralee Rosenberg |
| ISBN | 0060823887 |
When destiny called, she pressed 1 for more options
With the name Robyn Fortune, shouldn't luck be a sure thing? Instead, black clouds love me. All I did was show up at a family bar mitzvah and cue lightning... this huge storm blew in.
My mom announced she was leaving my dad and moving in...
| Author | Sarah Katherine Lewis |
| ISBN | 1580051693 |
Indecent is not your average I-stripped-my-way-through-college memoir. Sarah Katherine Lewis is a veteran of the sex industry who started small — doing lingerie modeling and striptease shows — but for reasons including the desire to earn more money and curiosity about other types of sex work,...
| Author | Janice Kaplan |
| ISBN | 0345468589 |
In a world where plastic surgery is as popular as a pair of sexy Manolo Blahniks, suburban single mom Jessica Taylor is trying to make it past forty with nothing more than moisturizer and a swipe of mascara. Her glamorous best friend, TV producer Lucy Baldor, has a different idea of aging gracefully. “My...
| Author | Ad Hudler |
| ISBN | 0345451260 |
Lincoln Menner is finding out just how hard it is to be a woman. When his wife Jo was offered her dream job, Linc supported her wholeheartedly, leaving his thriving landscape business in Los Angeles and moving to Rochester, New York. This was a chance to escape the cloying needs and atrocious tastes of...
