Gilbert, Elizabeth

"In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing show girls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand"--Provided by.

Eighteen-year-old Ruth Thomas, born on Fort Niles, arrives home from school determined to join the men who work the lobster boats, placing herself squarely in the middle of a generations-old feud over fishing rights between the lobstermen of Fort Niles and Courne Haven, but when she spies Owney Wishnell, a silent young Courne Haven dreamboat, she begins to long for a truce.

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Explores attitudes, approaches, and habits needed to live a creative life.

Elizabeth Gilbert recounts the experiences she had on her year-long journey around the world, and shares how her trip helped her deal with her divorce and the depression that threatened to end her career and her happiness.

A memoir in which the author discusses, after learning that marriage to her partner, Felipe, was the only way to keep from being detained at the American border, various aspects of marriage, including compatibility, fidelity, social expectations, the risk of divorce, and responsibility.

Alma, born into luxury in 1800, becomes a gifted botanist like others in her family, but as she delves into the mysteries of evolution she falls in love with a man who pulls her in the opposite direction, into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical.

A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.

Elizabeth Gilbert recounts the experiences she had on her year-long journey around the world, and shares how her trip helped her deal with her divorce and the depression that threatened to end her career and her happiness.