Susan Jane Gilman
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510 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
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Seventy years of the transformation of Lillian Dunkle and her extraordinary life as an immigrant, orphan, entrepreneur and the persona she crafts for herself as the face of the very successful Dunkle's Famous Ice Cream.
Setenta años de la transformación de Lillian Dunkle y su extraordinaria vida como inmigrante, huérfano, empresario y el personaje que ella hace por sí misma como la cara de la muy acertada Dunkle helado famoso.
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306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"In her hardcover debut, bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman describes a very different kind of back-packing trip to China in which she and her college friend set out to conquer the world only to be conquered by it"--Provided by publisher.
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403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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From the beloved, New York Times-bestselling author of Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress comes a hilarious, timely, and big-hearted new novel about rebuilding life in the face of disaster. Forty-five-year-old Donna Koczynski is an ex-punk rocker, a recovering alcoholic, and the mother of two teenagers whose suburban existence detonates when she comes home early from a sales conference in Las Vegas to the surprise of a lifetime. As her world implodes,...
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506 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything...
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xi, 352 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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A collection of true stories by everyday women follows such remembrances as coming of age as an unfashionable white girl in an all-Puerto Rican neighborhood, experiencing embarrassment in front of a rock star, and receiving horrible mistreatment by a "feminist" boss.