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Published in 1975, Looking for Mr. Goodbar became an overnight best-seller. The world it described was a shockingly familiar one to a generation whose sexual lifestyles had been revolutionized during the 60s. Today it survives as a riveting story of a young woman whose pursuit of lasting intimacy leads her into a dangerous world of promiscuity.
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The Between Boyfriends Book is an honest, hilarious look at the world of dating-and not dating-that will have fans rushing back for multiple copies to press on the psychic wounds of their afflicted friends. Chupack not only puts voice to the cheerful brutality that shapes young women's love lives, but creates bonus coinages to describe instantly recognizable dating tropes, such as:
* "sexual sorbet": the first person you sleep with after a breakup...
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For Patty Ann Murphy the biological clock is ticking all too loudly. Ethan Gaines, Patty's high-school sweetheart, happens to be gay. What's a woman of the '90s to do? The answer: she persuades Ethan to impregnate her, and they agree to a marriage of true minds (if not bodies.) They won't, of course, actually marry, or even live together. But Patty signs on for a lifetime of child rearing with her sexually indifferent soul mate--and finds herself...
4) Be honest- you're not that into him either: raise your standards and reach for the love you deserve
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Avoid the booty call blues and get the love -- and sex -- you deserve! Come on. Admit it. He may not be that into you, but were you ever really that into him? He was never "the one," but you lowered your standards and dated him in the meantime. Why? For any number of reasons: you were lonely, you were horny, you thought dating him was better than being alone, all your friends are getting married -- you name it. And before you knew it, you got hung...
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Relationship therapist Sonya Rhodes's liberating, straight-talking guide convincingly argues that successful modern women-the audience who embraced Lean In-can find the right guy without having to change or settle, and tells them how to do it.In the twenty-first century, women are outpacing men in education and career advancement. Yet amazingly, successful women constantly hear that their professional achievements doom their chances of marriage and...
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"For a rising generation young women, the sky is the limit. Women can be anything and have everything. They are outpacing their male peers in higher education and earning the corner office at work. Smart, driven, assertive women are succeeding at just about everything they do--except romance. Why are so many men afraid to date smart women? Modern men claim to want smarts, success, and independence in romantic partners. Or so says the data collected...
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"The rising percentage of childless women is one of the most overlooked and underappreciated social issues of our time. Never before have more women lived longer before having their first child or remained childless toward the end of their fertility. Nearly half of North American women of childbearing age are childless--a dramatic rise from 35 percent in 1976--yet childless women are still perceived as the exception, not the norm. In Otherhood, Melanie...
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Mandala
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[2021]
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Though at times it may seem impossible, we can heal with help from our friends and community-- if we know how to ask. This heartrending, relatable account of one woman's reckoning with loss is a guide to the world of self-recovery, self-love, and the skills necessary to meeting one's own needs in these times of pain-- especially when that pain is suffered alone. Grief is all around us. In the world of today it has become common and layered, no longer...
10) The surrendered single: a practical guide to attracting and marrying the man who's right for you
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Fireside
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c2002
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11) The surrendered single: a practical guide to attracting the man and marrying who's right for you
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Fireside
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c2002
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20) Kiss and run: the single, picky and indecisive girl's guide to overcoming her fear of commitment
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Fireside
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2007
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