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Read

  • Simon Doonan: Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You

    Simon Doonan: Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You

  • Mick LaSalle: Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood

    Mick LaSalle: Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood

  • Doris Langley Moore: The Technique of the Love Affair

    Doris Langley Moore: The Technique of the Love Affair

  • Simon Doonan: Wacky Chicks: Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women

    Simon Doonan: Wacky Chicks: Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women

  • Karen Dawn: Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals

    Karen Dawn: Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson: Ralph Waldo Emerson On Self Reliance

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: Ralph Waldo Emerson On Self Reliance

  • Maria DiBattista: Fast-Talking Dames

    Maria DiBattista: Fast-Talking Dames

  • Mark A. Vieira: Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood

    Mark A. Vieira: Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood

  • Cynthia Heimel: Sex Tips For Girls

    Cynthia Heimel: Sex Tips For Girls

  • Damon Runyon: Guys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyon

    Damon Runyon: Guys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyon

  • Arianna Huffington: On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life

    Arianna Huffington: On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life

  • Marie Brenner: Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women

    Marie Brenner: Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women

  • Matthew Kennedy: Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes (Hollywood Legends)

    Matthew Kennedy: Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes (Hollywood Legends)

  • Martha Beck: Steering by Starlight: A Step-by-step Guide to Fulfilling Your True Potential

    Martha Beck: Steering by Starlight: A Step-by-step Guide to Fulfilling Your True Potential

  • Simon Louvish: Mae West: It Ain't No Sin

    Simon Louvish: Mae West: It Ain't No Sin

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