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"Beautifully told. Maria Finn relays her adventures in the world of tango with excitement, wit, and insight."
-Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love
Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. It turns out that tango has a lot to teach about understanding love and loss, about learning how to follow and how to lead, how to live with style and flair,...
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From podcast host Sutanya Dacres comes Dinner for One When Sutanya Dacres married her French boyfriend and moved to Paris at twenty-seven, she felt like she was living out her very own Nora Ephron romantic comedy. Jamaican-born and Bronx-raised, she had never dreamed she herself could be one of those American women in Paris she admired from afar via their blogs, until she met the man of her dreams one night in Manhattan. A couple of years later, she...
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A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller's own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she finally confronts the tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and about the family she left behind in Africa. A breathtaking achievement, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a memoir of such...
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"The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph--an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in her work and life. From From humble beginnings as a schoolgirl and young violinist in Maywood, Illinois, Sheila Johnson rose to become one of the most accomplished businesswomen in America. A cofounder...
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"Incluso cuando Demi se estaba convirtiendo en la actriz mejor pagada de Hollywood, siempre estaba superando su pasado, solo un paso por delante de las dudas e inseguridades que definieron su infancia. A lo largo de su ascenso a la fama y durante algunos de los momentos más cruciales de su vida, Demi luchó contra la adicción, los problemas de imagen corporal y el trauma infantil que la seguiría durante años mientras hacía malabarismos con una...
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Después de su divorcio del famoso cantante Marc Anthony, Dayanara Torres tuvo que enfrentarse al reto de recomenzar una vida y crear el ambiente más sano posible para ella misma y para sus dos hijos.
After her divorce from the famous singer Marc Anthony, Dayanara Torres had to face the challenge of beginning her life anew and of creating the most healthy environment possible for herself and for her two children.
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"Laura Esther Wolfson's literary debut draws on years of immersion in the Russian and French languages; struggles to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; and her search for a form to hold the stories that emerge from what she has lived, observed, overheard, and misremembered. In "Proust at Rush Hour," when her lungs begin to collapse and fail, forcing her to give up an exciting and precarious existence as a globetrotting...
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