false 47247 82676 0812974565 9780812974560 133 <![CDATA[Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171024773m/82676.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171024773s/82676.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82676.Girlbomb_A_Halfway_Homeless_Memoir 3.65 635 Janice Erlbaum walked out of her family's Brooklyn apartment and didn't look back. From her first frightening night at a shelter, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up, shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a pregnant girl. But it was still better than living at home. As Janice slipped further into street life, she nevertheless attended high school, harbored crushes, and even played the lead in the spring musical. She also roamed the streets, clubs, bars, and parks of New York City with her two best girlfriends, on the prowl for hard drugs and boys on skateboards. Together they scored coke at Danceteria, smoked angel dust in East Village squats, commiserated over their crazy mothers, and slept with one another's boyfriends on a regular basis.
A wry, mesmerizing portrait of being underprivileged, underage, and underdressed in 1980s New York City, Girlbomb provides an unflinching look at street life, survival sex, female friendships, and first loves.

"A fast and engrossing read in the spirit of Girl, Interrupted." (Entertainment Weekly)

"Gripping . . . a wry, compelling memoir of what it means to stand up for yourself, especially when no one else will." (Bust)

"How satisfying to watch Erlbaum survive adolescence and produce a smart, engaging book." (The New York Times Book Review")

"Erlbaum's survival is hard-won, the journey rendered with page-turning intensity." (New York Post)

"A fast and engrossing read in the spirit of Girl, Interrupted." (Entertainment Weekly)

"Gritty . . . perversely riveting. You want her to survive." (The Washington Post Book World)]]> 47247 3.76 1446 325 2006 1188288 0812974573 9780812974577 104 <![CDATA[Have You Found Her: A Memoir]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188288.Have_You_Found_Her_A_Memoir 3.92 314 And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn't know enough to ask myself: Have You Found Her? The one who reminds you of you?
Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful writer, she'd changed her life for the better; now she wanted to help someone else- someone like the girl she'd once been.
Then she met Sam. A brilliant nineteen-year-old junkie savant, the product of a horrifically abusive home, Sam had been surviving alone on the streets since she was twelve and was now struggling for sobriety against the adverse health effects of long-term drug abuse.
Soon Janice found herself caring deeply for Sam, following her through detoxes and psych wards, halfway houses and hospitals, becoming ever more manically driven to save her from the sickness and sadness leftover from Sam's terrible past. But just as Janice was on the verge of becoming the girl's legal guardian, she made a shocking discovery: Sam was sicker than anyone knew, in ways nobody could have imagined.
Written with startling candor and immediacy, Have You Found Her is the story of one woman's quest to save a girl's life- and the hard truths she learns about herself along the way.

A rich and compelling account . . . Ultimately this is a book about the narrator's journey and the dangers that attend the urge within us all to believe we can save another soul. A terrific read. -Cammie McGovern, author of Eye Contact]]> 47247 3.76 1446 325 2008 46659 0140277749 9780140277746 39 <![CDATA[The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170342928m/46659.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170342928s/46659.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46659.The_Bust_Guide_to_the_New_Girl_Order 3.74 323 BUST we've captured the voice of a brave new girl: one that is raw and real, straightforward and sarcastic, smart and silly, and liberally sprinkled with references to our own Girl Culture." So say Marcelle Karp and Debbie Stoller, smart, sassy founders of BUST ("the magazine for women with something to get off their chests"), and editors of this funky, fabulous, neofeminist manifesto. The Guide to the New Girl Order collects the best of BUST, including thoughtful articles, personal essays, and racy rants about anything from abortion to the lameness of the Lifetime television network. In their own words, they address "that shared set of female experiences that includes Barbies and blowjobs, sexism and shoplifting, Vogue and vaginas."

Having started out as a hand-stapled zine, BUST swims with an in-your-face, grrrl power attitude that alternately taunts, encourages, and calls readers to battle. Contributors range from mysterious authors with names like Betty Boob and Scarlett Fever to such famous femmes as Courtney Love. Karp and Stoller organize the pieces into sections labeled "Sex and the Thinking Girl, "Men Are from Uranus," etc., offering introductions for each that provide humor, insight, and cultural context. And with selections like "Sex, Lies, and Tampax," "How to Be as Horny as a Guy," and "Bitch on Heels," this is not your mother's ladies' journal. Also included are such hilarious explorations of pop culture as "The Mysterious Eroticism of Mini-Backpacks," "My Keanu, A Fantasy," and "Bring Me the Head of Melanie Banderas." Whether you're intimidated or intrigued by such an irreverent approach to redefining the feminine, there's only more to come--and there's no place to hide. As the editors warn, "Wake up and smell the lipgloss, ladies: the New Girl Order has arrived." --Brangien Davis

]]> 26161 3.74 327 41 47247 3.76 1446 325 1999 304125 0312151918 9780312151911 22 <![CDATA[Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173561888m/304125.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173561888s/304125.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304125.Verses_That_Hurt_Pleasure_and_Pain_from_the_POEMFONE_Poets 4.03 90 56615 4.09 628 118 47247 3.76 1446 325 1997 2543562 1416537457 9781416537458 10 <![CDATA[The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2543562.The_Best_American_Erotic_Poems_From_1800_to_the_Present 3.77 26 The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate this exuberant sensuality.

These poems range across the varied landscapes of love and sex and desire -- from the intimate parts of the body to the end of an affair, from passion to solitary self-pleasure. With candor and imagination, they capture the delights and torments of sex and sexuality, nudity, love, lust, and the secret life of fantasy.

David Lehman, the distinguished editor of the celebrated Best American Poetry series, has culled a witty, titillating, and alluring collection that starts with Francis Scott Key, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane, encompasses Frank O'Hara, Anne Sexton, John Updike, Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Kevin Young, and Sharon Olds, and concludes with the rising stars of a whole new generation of versifiers, including Sarah Manguso, Ravi Shankar, and Brenda Shaughnessy.

In a section of the book that is sure to prompt discussion and further reading, the living poets write about their favorite works of erotic writing.

This book will delight, surprise, and inspire.

]]> 39150 3.66 1324 167 47247 3.76 1446 325 2008 2538917 0805087133 9780805087130 6 <![CDATA[The Autobiographer's Handbook: The 826 Valencia Guide to Writing Your Memoir]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2538917.The_Autobiographer_s_Handbook_The_826_Valencia_Guide_to_Writing_Your_Memoir 4.40 10 With an introduction by Dave Eggers, this guide by the founders of 826 Valencia features anecdotes and advice from dozens of bestselling memoirists

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The best way to learn about writing a memoir is from the masters of the form. In The Autobiographer’s Handbook, dozens of the best memoirists in the world explain their methods, struggles, inspirations, and strategies in the most unique writing guide on the market today.



Founded by author Dave Eggers and veteran teacher Nínive Calegari, 826 Valencia operates seven nonprofit writing centers nationwide. Only The Autobiographer’s Handbook—the first in a planned series of 826 Valencia writing guides—features the prominent, published authors who have shared their secrets at 826 workshops and who now bring their best advice to the page. Participants include Frank McCourt, Tobias Wolff, A. J. Jacobs, Alison Smith, Art Spiegelman, Anthony Swofford, David Rakoff, Elizabeth Gilbert, Nick Flynn, Sarah Vowell, Steve Almond, and many more.



Eggers’s introduction encourages all to write their stories, if not for publication, then for the benefit of their children and grandchildren. The book offers lighthearted sidebars (“History’s Strangest Actual Memoirs,” “The Nom de Plume Generator,” and “Childhood Tragedies Unlikely to Move the Reader”) to keep readers engaged and writing assignments to keep them working toward their goal. The Autobiographer’s Handbook is like having coffee with dozens of your bestselling memoirist friends (and a drill instructor), and it will be the writing guide for aspiring memoirists of all ages for years to come.

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