Girl Walks Out of a Bar Book
Score: 2
From 1 Ratings

Girl Walks Out of a Bar

  • Author : Lisa F. Smith
  • Publisher : SelectBooks, Inc.
  • Release Date : 2016-06-07
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 219
  • ISBN 10 : 9781590793121
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Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Smith's darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story of her formative years, the decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. Smith describes how her spiraling circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication, nurturing an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.

Girl Walks Into a Bar Book
Score: 3
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Girl Walks Into a Bar

  • Author : Rachel Dratch
  • Publisher : Avery
  • Release Date : 2013-02-05
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 258
  • ISBN 10 : 9781592407576
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The former Saturday Night Live comedienne recounts her midlife career slump, long-distance relationship, and unplanned motherhood, which culminated in uproarious childcare activities and the bewilderment of friends and family members.

Girl Walks Into a Bar Book
Score: 1
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Girl Walks Into a Bar

  • Author : Strawberry Saroyan
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 2003
  • Genre: Journalists
  • Pages : 216
  • ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105113058544
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From the glittering skyscrapers of Manhattan’s media elite to the slacker haven of a fashionably low-rent L.A. bar, Strawberry Saroyan traces her journey from girl- to womanhood, as well as from fantasy to reality. A powerful and profoundly postmodern coming-of-age story, with a voice reminiscent of Liz Phair’s one moment and Mary McCarthy’s the next, Girl Walks into a Bar explores Saroyan’s struggle not only with who she is and who she wants to be but also with who she is in the context of what she’s supposed to embody: the iconic, media-promulgated “girl,” a twenty-first-century version of Audrey Hepburn standing outside Tiffany’s looking at diamonds. Girl Walks into a Bar takes a handful of the most striking and formative episodes of Saroyan’s life and brings them to the page as a filmmaker might, zooming in on the crucial “scenes”: Saroyan losing her virginity, starting her own riot-grrrly magazine, falling in dysfunctional love. Yet all the while she’s trailed by that other black-clad girl, the Platonic ideal of so many modern young women’s fantasies. Will the two ever meet? That question lies at the heart of Saroyan’s genre-bending memoir. Girl Walks into a Bar promises to be one of the most memorable debuts of the year.

Drinking Book
Score: 4
From 15 Ratings

Drinking

  • Author : Caroline Knapp
  • Publisher : Dial Press
  • Release Date : 1999-08-02
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 304
  • ISBN 10 : 9780440334088
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Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. Then it became obsession. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover's refrigerator. The way she slipped from the dinner table to the bathroom, from work to the bar. And then, like so many love stories, it fell apart. Drinking is Caroline Kapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol. Caroline had her first drink at fourteen. She drank through her yeras at an Ivy League college, and through an award-winning career as an editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, a sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion. This startlingly honest memoir lays bare the secrecy, family myths, and destructive relationships that go hand in hand with drinking. And it is, above all, a love story for our times—full of passion and heartbreak, betrayal and desire—a triumph over the pain and deception that mark an alcoholic life. Praise for Drinking “Quietly moving . . . Caroline Knapp dazzles us with her heady description of alcohol's allure and its devastating hold.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Filled with hard-won wisdom . . . [a] perceptive and revealing book.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Eloquent . . . a remarkable exercise in self-discovery.”—The New York Times “Drinking not only describes triumph; it is one.”—Newsweek

A Girl Walks Into a Bar Book
Score: 1.5
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A Girl Walks Into a Bar

  • Author : Helena S. Paige
  • Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
  • Release Date : 2014-02-04
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 10 : 0062291971
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How will your night out end? You make the rules. You're at one of the hottest bars in town, all dressed up for a fabulous girls' night out with your best friend, when she cancels. What do you do now? In this novel, YOU make the decisions. Will you do body shots with a rock star? Cozy up to the hot bartender? Follow a mysterious woman to a rather unusual exhibition? Investigate a suave millionaire's box of tricks? Take a joyride with a buff bodyguard? Or maybe what you want is closer to home than you realize. . . . So many options. . . . All you have to do is choose.

Drunk Mom Book
Score: 4
From 4 Ratings

Drunk Mom

  • Author : Jowita Bydlowska
  • Publisher : Doubleday Canada
  • Release Date : 2013-04-23
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 256
  • ISBN 10 : 9780385677813
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Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. "It's a special occasion," she said to her boyfriend. And indeed it was. It was a party celebrating the birth of their first child. It also marked Jowita's immediate, full-blown return to alcoholism and all that entails for a new mother who is at first determined to keep her problem a secret. Her trips to liquor stores are in-and-out missions. Perhaps she's being paranoid, but she thinks people tend to notice the stroller. Walking home, she stays behind buildings, in alleyways, taking discreet sips from a bottle she's stored in the diaper bag. She know she's become a villain: a mother who drinks; a mother who endangers her child. She drinks to forget this. And then the trouble really starts. Jowita Bydlowska's memoir of her relapse into addiction is an extraordinary achievement. The writing is raw and immediate. It places you in the moment--saddened, appalled, nerve-wracked, but never able to look away or stop turning the pages. With brutal honesty, Bydlowska takes us through the binges and blackouts, the self-deception and less successful attempts to deceive others, the humiliations and extraordinary risk-taking. She shines a light on the endless hunger of wanting just one more drink, and one more again, while dealing with motherhood, anxiety, depression--and rehab. Her struggle to regain her sobriety is recorded in the same unsentimental, unsparing, sometimes grimly comic way. But the happy outcome is evidenced by the existence of this brilliant book: she has lived to tell the tale.

Katie Grand Book

Katie Grand

  • Author : Katie Grand
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release Date : 2022-03
  • Genre: Design
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 10 : 9780847865543
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Super-stylist Katie Grand is fashion’s contemporary heroine. This book is a visual history of her fearless career and looks to the future as she embarks on her new venture, The Perfect Magazine. Influential, visionary, daring, cool: Katie Grand has been setting fashion’s agenda for close to 25 years. Her career trajectory begs the question: Is there anything Grand can’t do? The gap-toothed former editor in chief of the era-defining English glossy LOVE, Grand has worked with and styled for the coolest brands and magazines of note. In this exceptional volume devoted to a career of singular moments that have redrawn the bound-aries of style—including pivotal editorials, magazine covers, advertising campaigns, runway, and private ephemera—Grand mines her rich past and tells us the story, in words and pictures, of her early rock ‘n’ roll years at The Face and Pop to becoming a key player on the global fashion stage to championing what were to become some of the biggest names in fashion (Cara Delevingne and Kendall Jenner). She gives us behind-the-scenes access to the stories and scandals behind some of contemporary fashion’s most provocative photos.

A Girl Walks Into a Bar Book

A Girl Walks Into a Bar

  • Author : Helena S. Paige
  • Publisher : Orbit Books
  • Release Date : 2014-02-27
  • Genre: Erotic stories
  • Pages : 320
  • ISBN 10 : 0751552577
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When your friend cancels on your girls' night out at the last moment, you suddenly find yourself all dressed up and alone at an exclusive bar. What do you do now? Will you spend the evening drinking tequila with a rock star? Or perhaps the suave and charming millionaire businessman is more your style? But the angelic young barman with a body made for sin has also caught your eye ...Then there's the bodyguard who has the keys to his boss's sports car and is offering you a ride ...Maybe you want to head home instead - to your sexy new neighbour. Whichever way you decide to go, each twist and turn will lead to an unforgettable encounter. Can you choose the ultimate sensual experience? Remember: if your first choice doesn't hit the spot, then start over and try something (and someone) new. The power is entirely yours in this fully interactive, choose your own destiny novel.

A Girl in School Uniform Walks Into a Bar Book

A Girl in School Uniform Walks Into a Bar

  • Author : Lulu Raczka
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release Date : 2018-01-30
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 96
  • ISBN 10 : 9781786823502
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It's the future. But only slightly. There are blackouts. No one knows what's causing them, but that doesn't stop people going missing in them. Now Steph and Bell, a schoolgirl and barmaid, have to search for their missing friend, until the outside world starts infecting the theatre that stands around them. Schoolgirl Steph walks into the seedy, empty bar where Bell works. Bell is dressed with everything short and low, and there are no longer any regulars at her bar. Whatever has happened to create this dystopian world remains a mystery, but we learn that there are frequent blackouts, people regularly go missing and women are being killed. Steph is looking for her friend Charlotte, a girl who also at some point walked into Bell's bar but then went missing. The relationship between Bell and Charlotte is unclear, as her conversations with Steph shift between truth, lies and fantasy. In this tense atmosphere, where there is a sense of growing fear, the play "forces the audience to turn detective not just to track down the elusive Charlotte but also to find meaning itself" (The Guardian). A Girl in a School Uniform (Walks into a Bar) is the third play by award-winning playwright Lulu Raczka and was produced at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2017 and the New Diorama Theatre in 2018.

A Highlander Walks into a Bar Book
Score: 4
From 12 Ratings

A Highlander Walks into a Bar

  • Author : Laura Trentham
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
  • Release Date : 2019-07-30
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 336
  • ISBN 10 : 9781250315021
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The timeless romance, soaring passion—and gorgeous men—of Scotland come to modern-day America. And the rules of love will never be the same... Isabel Buchanan is fiery, funny, and never at a loss for words. But she is struck speechless when her mother returns from a trip to Scotland with a six-foot-tall, very handsome souvenir. Izzy’s mother is so infatuated by the fellow that Izzy has to plan their annual Highland Games all by herself. Well, not completely by herself. The Highlander’s strapping young nephew has come looking for his uncle... Alasdair Blackmoor has never seen a place as friendly as this small Georgia town—or a girl as brilliant and beguiling as Izzy. Instead of saving his uncle, who seems to be having a lovely time, Alasdair decides he’d rather help Izzy with the Highland Games. Show her how to dance like a Highlander. Drink like a Highlander. And maybe, just maybe, fall in love with a Highlander. But when the games are over, where do they go from here? “Laura Trentham creates a romance that is both extremely sensual and phenomenal.” —Fresh Fiction

A A Nihilist Walks Into a Bar Book

A A Nihilist Walks Into a Bar

  • Author : Brianna Ferguson
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 2021-12-07
  • Genre: Poetry
  • Pages : 80
  • ISBN 10 : 1771262753
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A Nihilist Walks Into A Bar is the frustrated, fierce, and funny first book of a woman for whom all the old expectations of life have fallen apart. Railing against careers, religion, sex, drinking, and all the usual signposts on the road to self fulfillment, Ferguson strips away the facade of old ideas and shouts and laughs at the chaos that lies beneath. This book is a manifesto of the disenfranchised, and the diary of a country girl with her head in the clouds. It is a love letter to the world, and a breakup text at 3am. To anyone who's ever looked out the window and thought "yes, but why?" this book is for you.

The Addicted Lawyer Book

The Addicted Lawyer

  • Author : Brian Cuban
  • Publisher : Post Hill Press
  • Release Date : 2017-08-29
  • Genre: Self-Help
  • Pages : 272
  • ISBN 10 : 9781682613719
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Brian Cuban was living a lie. With a famous last name and a successful career as a lawyer, Brian was able to hide his clinical depression and alcohol and cocaine addictions—for a while. Today, as an inspirational speaker in long-term recovery, Brian looks back on his journey with honesty, compassion, and even humor as he reflects both on what he has learned about himself and his career choice and how the legal profession enables addiction. His demons, which date to his childhood, controlled him through failed marriages and stays in a psychiatric facility, until they brought him to the brink of suicide. That was his wake-up call. This is his story. Brian also takes an in-depth look at why there is such a high percentage of problematic alcohol use and other mental health issues in the legal profession. What types of therapies work? Are 12-step programs the only answer? Brian also includes interviews with experts on the subject as well as others in the profession who are now in recovery. The Addicted Lawyer is both a serious study of addiction and a compelling story of redemption.

A Horse Walks into a Bar Book

A Horse Walks into a Bar

  • Author : David Grossman
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release Date : 2017-02-21
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 208
  • ISBN 10 : 9780451493989
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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE • From the bestselling author of To the End of the Land comes a searing story of loss and survival. In a dive bar in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, takes the stage for his final show. Over the course of a single evening, Dov’s patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood. And in the dance between comic and audience, a deeper story begins to take shape as Dov confronts the decision that has shaped the course of his life—a story that will alter the lives of several of those in attendance. A Horse Walks Into a Bar is a poignant exploration of how people confront life’s capricious battering.

A Girl Walks into a Wedding Book

A Girl Walks into a Wedding

  • Author : Helena S. Paige
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release Date : 2013-12-19
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 352
  • ISBN 10 : 9781405529051
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*A CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY NOVEL* Your best friend is getting married. You're going to be her bridesmaid so you have a lot to deal with - the hen party, pre-wedding nerves, your dress, the men . . . So many men. And you have to choose between them. Maybe you'll end up having fun at this wedding after all. * The priest is definitely heaven-sent but he's off limits, isn't he? * Or perhaps you'll pick the best man. He's very attractive but the best man and the bridesmaid is such a cliché. Right? * And then there's the rugged pilot - his offer of a brief encounter might have surprising consequences . . . Whichever way you decide to go, each twist and turn will lead to an unforgettable encounter. Can you choose the ultimate sensual experience? Remember: if your first choice doesn't hit the spot, then start over and try something (and someone) new. The power is entirely yours in this fully interactive, choose your own destiny novel.

Skinful Book

Skinful

  • Author : Robyn Flemming
  • Publisher : Scion Publishing Ltd
  • Release Date : 2022-01-04
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 322
  • ISBN 10 : 9781914962035
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Who hasn’t sometimes wanted to change their life and start over? When Robyn Flemming left Australia to wander the world as a nomadic freelance editor, she was single and nearing sixty. It wasn’t the first time she had shed an old skin for a new one in the hope of changing who she was on the inside. Was her decision to risk everything yet again an act of faith or of folly? Was she running from the truth about her dependence on alcohol, or running towards a solution? In this captivating recovery and travel memoir, Robyn finds the courage to change not only her surroundings but herself. Finally, she can be at home in her own skin as well as in the world. Skinful is about the questions we ask at life’s turning points: Who am I? What life do I want to live? This heart-warming, sometimes heart-wrenching, memoir sends a strong message of hope: it’s never too late to make a new path to a different future.