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Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self

by Sara Shandler

Published: 1999-05-05

Paperback: 304 pages

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At age sixteen, Sara Shandler read Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, the national bestseller that candidly explored the unique issues that challenge girls in their struggle toward womanhood. Moved by Pipher's insight yet driven to hear the unfiltered voices of today's adolescent girls, Shand...

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Opportunity Rings: A novel

by Sheryl Steinberg

Published: 2009-05-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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Erica Swift may run the marketing department of Rockit Wireless, but she doesn?t have a clue about tech. Thankfully, she has a computer-savvy assistant and hubby Lowell to help. All seems well until Lowell declares he's leaving her for Meryl, the president of his company. A stunned Erica m...

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The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings

by Amy Tan

Published: 2003

Hardcover: 416 pages

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With the same spirit, humor, and magic that characterize her beloved novels, Tan presents a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties listeners face today, contemplating how things happen in her own life and beyond.

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The Opposite of Invisible

by Liz Gallagher

Published: 2009-10-13

Mass Market Paperback: 160 pages

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?Gallagher's debut?like Alice'shines.??VOYAAlice and Jewel have been best friends since grade school. Together, they don?t need anyone else, and together they blend into the background of high school. Invisible. To Alice, Jewel is the opposite of invisible. Jewel is her best friend who goe...

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The Opposite of Love: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

Paperback: 336 pages

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With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, debut author Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.When twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just...

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The Opposite of Me

by Sarah Pekkanen

Published: 2010-02-17

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Twenty-nine-year-old Lindsey Rose has, for as long as she can remember, lived in the shadow of her devastatingly beautiful fraternal twin sister, Alex. Determined to get noticed, Lindsey is finally on the cusp of being named creative vice president of an elite New York advertising agency, after years...

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* * * Interesting,
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The Opposite of Me: A Novel

by Sarah Pekkanen

Published: 2010-02-17

Kindle Edition: 404 pages

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Twenty-nine-year-old Lindsey Rose has, for as long as she can remember, lived in the shadow of her devastatingly beautiful fraternal twin sister, Alex. Determined to get noticed, Lindsey is finally on the cusp of being named creative vice president of an elite New York advertising agency, after years...

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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain

by Tali Sharot

Published: 2011-06-14

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today, an investigation into the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major part in determining how we live our lives.  Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often irr...

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Optimist's Daughter

by Eudora Welty

Published: 1996-11

Hardcover: 208 pages

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The Optimist's Daughter

by Eudora Welty

Published: 2011-01-13

Paperback: 192 pages

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This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.From the Trade Paperback edition.The Optimist's Daughter is a compact and inward-looking little novel, a Pulitzer Prize winner that's slight of page yet big of heart. The optimist...