Laura Zigman
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"Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy's old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and she's repeated the process every day since. Life hasn't gone according to Judy's plan. Her career as a children's book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive....
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2012
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Ellen Franck isn't in love with Big Bird. After all, he's a big yellow Sesame Street character — and she's an intelligent single woman with a fabulous job. On the other hand, Big Bird is looking like a better candidate for fatherhood every day: he's tall, affectionate, and steadily employed. And right now, for Ellen, thirty-five years old and dying to have a baby, almost any father will do.
In her hilarious and heartbreaking new novel, Laura...
In her hilarious and heartbreaking new novel, Laura...
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2023.
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A year after her divorce, Joyce is settling into being single again. She likes her job archiving family photos and videos, and shes developed a secret comforting hobby: trolling the neighborhood social networking site, Small World, for posts that help solve lifes easiest problems. When her older sister, Lydia, also divorced, calls to tell her shes moving back east from Los Angeles after almost thirty years away, Joyce invites Lydia to move into her...
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[1998]
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A comedy on a jilted woman whose misfortune leads to a new career. Jane Goodall of New York turns to studying animal-mating habits for an explanation of why her man left her. She evolves a theory applicable to humans, gets a job as a columnist and proceeds to offer advice. The public laps it up and Jane is famous.
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2017.
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"Critically acclaimed, award-winning British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard details his childhood, his first performances on the streets of London, his ascent to worldwide success on stage and screen, and his comedy shows which have won over audiences around the world"--