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10 best books like Victorine (Maude Hutchins): Unwifeable: A Memoir, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys, Stupeur et tremblements, The Summer Book, The Pure and the Impure, The New York Stories of Edith Wharton, Ride a Cockhorse, The New York Stories, A Way of Life, Like Any Other, A Cidade Sitiada

Unwifeable: A Memoir
AuthorMandy Stadtmiller
ISBN1501174037
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK POST * MARIE CLAIRE * ELITE DAILY * REFINERY29 * ROMPER * PRIDE * PUREWOW

“A gutsy book you need to read right now. Filled with heart and humor, it’s scary good.” —Courtney Love

Unwifeable is the “riveting” (Cheryl Strayed),...
He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
AuthorGreg Behrendt
Everyone can use a daily wake-up call.

Now in bite-size mantras, the abridged empathetic wit and wisdom of the number one New York Times bestseller He's Just Not That Into You will recharge and inspire your dating outlook one wake-up call at a time.

For ages women have come together...
Stupeur et tremblements
AuthorAmélie Nothomb
This is an alternate cover edition for isbn13: 9782253150718

Au début des années 90, la narratrice est embauchée par Yumimoto, une puissante firme japonaise. Elle va découvrir à ses dépens l'implacable rigeur de l'autorité d'entreprise, en même temps qu les codes de conduite,...
The Summer Book
AuthorTove Jansson
ISBN0954221710
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. Gradually, the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings for independence, and a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer...
The Pure and the Impure
AuthorColette
Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den. It continues as a series...
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN1590172485
A New York Review Books Original

Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable...
Ride a Cockhorse
AuthorRaymond Kennedy
I'm convinced that there is a discrete outpost within the southern climes of my stomach— approximately the size of an average avocado pit—where my loathing resides. In this theory, my loathing, in its neutral state, is a congealed knob of greenish wax-like substance which radiates a faint, mostly...
The New York Stories
AuthorElizabeth Hardwick
ISBN1590172876
Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals—such...
A Way of Life, Like Any Other
AuthorDarcy O'Brien
The hero of Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high life on their estate, Casa Fiesta. But his parents' careers have crashed since...
A Cidade Sitiada
AuthorClarice Lispector
ISBN8532508731
You can find the 'newer' cover edition with the same ISBN here.

A simplória personagem Lucrécia, de 'A cidade sitiada', docemente desprovida de raciocínio e/ou de consciência, é alma gêmea de Macabéa, que muitos já viram na versão cinematográfica 'A hora da estrela'. Lucrécia...
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