Fast Girls

Author : Elise Hooper
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062938008

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Fast Girls by Elise Hooper Pdf

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY POPSUGAR, FROLIC, PARADE, TRAVEL & LEISURE, SHE KNOWS, and SHE READS! NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF 2020 (SO FAR). “Fast Girls is a compelling, thrilling look at what it takes to be a female Olympian in pre-war America...Brava to Elise Hooper for bringing these inspiring heroines to the wide audience they so richly deserve.”—Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics and The House Girl Acclaimed author Elise Hooper explores the gripping, real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women’s Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. Perfect for readers who love untold stories of amazing women, such as The Only Woman in the Room, Hidden Figures, and The Lost Girls of Paris. In the 1928 Olympics, Chicago’s Betty Robinson competes as a member of the first-ever women’s delegation in track and field. Destined for further glory, she returns home feted as America’s Golden Girl until a nearly-fatal airplane crash threatens to end everything. Outside of Boston, Louise Stokes, one of the few black girls in her town, sees competing as an opportunity to overcome the limitations placed on her. Eager to prove that she has what it takes to be a champion, she risks everything to join the Olympic team. From Missouri, Helen Stephens, awkward, tomboyish, and poor, is considered an outcast by her schoolmates, but she dreams of escaping the hardships of her farm life through athletic success. Her aspirations appear impossible until a chance encounter changes her life. These three athletes will join with others to defy society’s expectations of what women can achieve. As tensions bring the United States and Europe closer and closer to the brink of war, Betty, Louise, and Helen must fight for the chance to compete as the fastest women in the world amidst the pomp and pageantry of the Nazi-sponsored 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

Author : Emily White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Gossip
ISBN : 9780684867403

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Fast Girls by Emily White Pdf

Has she done the things of which she is accused? How is her reputation created in the first place? She is the high school slut, and Fast Girls explores her experience and her legacy." "In this fusion of reportage, criticism, and memoir, Emily White provides an in-depth look at the girls who were labeled high school sluts and the culture that perpetuates the myth."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Diana Amsterdam
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573691843

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Fast Girls by Diana Amsterdam Pdf

Author : Lauren Graham
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780425285183

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Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again. With a new bonus chapter In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, “Did you, um, make it?” She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood (“Strangers were worried about me; that’s how long I was single!”), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role, and her experience being a judge on Project Runway (“It’s like I had a fashion-induced blackout”). In “What It Was Like, Part One,” Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay “What It Was Like, Part Two” reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her. Some more things you will learn about Lauren: She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she’s aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls (“If you’re meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you’ve already set the bar too high”), and she’s a card-carrying REI shopper (“My bungee cords now earn points!”). Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and—of course—talking as fast as you can.

Author : DAWN MARTIN
Publisher : Enlighten Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Fast Girls Finish Last by DAWN MARTIN Pdf

FULL COLOR BOOK! - Fast Girls Finish Last is "A must for every girl!" and "The big sister advice every girl needs!" This one-of-a-kind book is thought provoking and interactive, and filled with quizzes and poetry. It presents controversial issues with candor, while teaching youth to remain abstinent from sex until high school graduation. FAST GIRLS FINISH LAST is the book that can save a young girls life and just the tool youth need today! If you're a teen, this could be the most important book you'll ever read! Parents, grand-parents, aunts, uncles and friends will want to give this "Virgin Bible" to the teen in their life! Book weighs 1.1lb; 488kg

Author : Deborah Paes de Barros
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0820470872

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Fast Cars and Bad Girls by Deborah Paes de Barros Pdf

Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories explores the road narratives of women and the various ways their work re-maps American space. Moving from Mary Rowlandson's famous captivity narrative to the frontier texts of the American West to the postapocalyptic novels of postmodern experience, Fast Cars and Bad Girls interrogates the intersections of nomadic theory and contemporary feminism. What would happen, the text queries the reader, if Jack Kerouac had gone on the road with a baby in the back seat? Women's road texts are different, insists author Deborah Paes de Barros; notions such as resistance to the West, the revision of the natural world, mother-daughter relationships, avant-garde angst, and feminist utopias construct this discussion of women travel writers.

Author : Stephie Davis
Publisher : SMOOCH
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 0843953985

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Smart Boys & Fast Girls by Stephie Davis Pdf

The fourth book of a loosely linked, funny, and heartwarming series about four teenage friends who are learning how to deal with first dates, first kisses, and first loves. A cross-country runner is buddies with all the guys, but what happens when she wants to be more than that? Original.

Author : Jane Vogel,Lissa Halls Johnson
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1561799521

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Fast Forward to Normal by Jane Vogel,Lissa Halls Johnson Pdf

High-school junior Becca finds herself resentful when her parents suggest adopting Alvaro, the ill Guatemalan boy staying with them temporarily.

Author : Rachel Kramer Bussel
Publisher : Cleis Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781573443845

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Fast Girls by Rachel Kramer Bussel Pdf

Wanton, daring, shameless and bold, fast girls don't mind being the girl everyone is talking about, as long as all eyes are focused their way! Boldly doing what others only dream about, they take readers on a journey from bedrooms filled with every toy imaginable to sex clubs, communal showers, the set of a porn star and more. Featuring writing by Tristan Taormino, Shanna Germain, Donna George Storey, Teresa Noelle Roberts, Saskia Walker, Jacqueline Applebee and many more, Fast Girls celebrates the girl with a reputation and the girl who goes all the way.

Author : Jasai Madden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 097662771X

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The New FastGirls by Jasai Madden Pdf

Author : Doreen L. Greenberg,Michael Greenberg,Jenny Thompson
Publisher : Wish Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Swimmers
ISBN : 1930546386

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Fast Lane to Victory by Doreen L. Greenberg,Michael Greenberg,Jenny Thompson Pdf

Chronicles the life of Olympic swimmer Jenny Thompson, discussing how she overcame peer pressure to follow her dreams.

Author : Holly Jackson
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781984896384

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson Pdf

THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES • Everyone is talking about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! With shades of Serial and Making a Murderer this is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer? Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger. And don't miss the sequel, Good Girl, Bad Blood! "The perfect nail-biting mystery." —Natasha Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Author : Francisco Bujan
Publisher : vitalcoaching.com
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Fast Seduction - Power Up Your Inner Game Instantly When Connecting With Girls by Francisco Bujan Pdf

I am always amazed to see how little guys sometimes know about women - What triggers their subconscious desire to spend time with you - Why they reject men and then beg them to try again - How they test guys and why they do it - What they actually really want when it comes to sex - And so much more! - All these questions are in most guy's heads all the time - They guess!!! - They don't actually know - They might spend a couple of years experiencing at attitude with a new girlfriend and realize some time later why their specific behavior was not working - Here is what I believe guys need the most: they need to speed up things! - Imagine if you are in you are a man and you actually download to your mind the skills to create instant sexual connections with women AT WILL! - That's the type of skill that would RADICALLY shift about any man's life, right? - This is part of what I want to give you in this powerful book! - It is a set of attitudes that I believe work best when wanting to establish instant connections with girls - Look, your life and time are precious and I simply don't want you to wasted 1 more sec being frustrated in the friend zone - I want you to succeed! - This set of tactics will give an instant new edge in the dating game - I am sure you will enjoy every bit of it!

Author : Emma Cline
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812988024

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The Girls by Emma Cline Pdf

THE INSTANT BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Vogue, Glamour, People, The Huffington Post, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out, BookPage, Publishers Weekly, Slate Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award • Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Emma Cline—One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists Praise for The Girls “Spellbinding . . . a seductive and arresting coming-of-age story.”—The New York Times Book Review “Extraordinary . . . Debut novels like this are rare, indeed.”—The Washington Post “Hypnotic.”—The Wall Street Journal “Gorgeous.”—Los Angeles Times “Savage.”—The Guardian “Astonishing.”—The Boston Globe “Superbly written.”—James Wood, The New Yorker “Intensely consuming.”—Richard Ford “A spectacular achievement.”—Lucy Atkins, The Times “Thrilling.”—Jennifer Egan “Compelling and startling.”—The Economist

Author : Nic Stone
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781984893017

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Fast Pitch by Nic Stone Pdf

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the field. Shenice Lockwood, captain of the Fulton Firebirds, is hyper-focused when she steps up to the plate. Nothing can stop her from leading her team to the U12 fast-pitch softball regional championship. But life has thrown some curveballs her way. Strike one: As the sole team of all-brown faces, Shenice and the Firebirds have to work twice as hard to prove that Black girls belong at bat. Strike two: Shenice’s focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending—and family-name-ruining—crime may have been a setup. Strike three: Broken focus means mistakes on the field. And Shenice’s teammates are beginning to wonder if she’s captain-qualified. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family’s past—and fast—before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever.