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Ann Napolitano
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William Deresiewicz
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Geraldine Brooks
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Stephanie McAfee
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Tana French
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Terry McMillan
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Jean Kwok
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Margaret Dilloway
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Geneen Roth
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Julie Klam
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Amy Kalafa
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Jeremy Page
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Dominique Browning
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Karen White
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Stephen Dau
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Kim Edwards
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Jeffrey Zaslow
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Claire Bidwell Smith
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Sarah Dessen
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Gayle Forman
Why Women Need Fat
William D. Lassek, M.D. & Steven J.C. Gaulin, Ph.D.
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Vanessa Williams & Helen Williams
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The Cost of Fame

5/24/12 7:31pm by sassymonkey
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One of the things Adam Wilde struggles with in Gayle Forman's Where She Went is the isolation that results from his rise to fame. Adam is already struggling with loss and grief when the band makes it big. It can even be said Adam's loss and grief is what drives the band's material. Grief can be isolating by itself but now that Adam's famous, everyone wants a piece of him.  Read more >

You Don't Want To Be On Helen's List

5/24/12 3:49pm by sassymonkey
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I really, really liked Helen Williams. Helen is the mother of actress Vanessa Williams, co-author of You Have No Idea and a woman who isn't afraid to speak her mind. As Vanessa's mother she's seen her child exposed to ridicule and just plain mean comments in the media. That's not an easy thing for any mother to deal with so how does she cope? She has her list. And you don't want to be on it.  Read more >

Do You Trust the Right People?

5/18/12 11:47am by sassymonkey
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Vanessa Williams didn't always trust the right people. She made this clear in You Have No Idea, the book that she and her mother, Helen Williams, wrote together. She mistrusted two photographers much to her detriment. Not many people would have bounced back successfully from being forced to step down as Miss America but Vanessa did. This is in part due to her also putting her trust in the right people.  Read more >

This is Your Brain on Music

5/16/12 8:21am by sassymonkey
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Music is almost its own character in Gayle Forman's Where She Went. Not only are Adam and Mia both musicians, music was what brought them together. It was important to their relationship with each other, but it was also an integral part of who they were individually. Music was part of them.  Read more >

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