Lena Dunham
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Was tun als junge Frau von heute, die der Cosmopolitan nicht mehr traut, keine Manolos trägt und erst recht keine Sehnsucht nach dem einen Prinzen hat? In "Not That Kind of Girl" erzählt Lena Dunham hemmungslos persönlich von Kondomen in Zimmerpalmen, bequemen Baumwollunterhosen, rotem Lippenstift bei Sonnenbrand, Heulen im Büro und einem Leben, in dem Perfektion so was von gestern ist. Krisengeschüttelt, komisch und absolut im Jetzt: Dunham...
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"If I could take what I've learned and make one menial job easier for you, or prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away during the act, then every misstep of mine was worthwhile. I'm already predicting my future shame at thinking I had anything to offer you, but also my future glory in having stopped you from trying an expensive juice cleanse or thinking that it was your fault...
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"February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Lena Dunham tells stories about wonderful nights with terrible boys and terrible days with wonderful friends, about ambition and the two existential crises that she had before the age of twenty. About fashion and its many discontents. About publicly sharing her body, and having to prove one's self in a meeting full of fifty-year-old men, and the health fears (tinnitus, lamp dust, infertility) that keep her up at night.
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[2015]
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English
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Hannah and Adam are now in a committed and the two are settling into a newfound domesticity in Hannah's apartment. Hannah is also working on her writing career and concentrating on delivering her eBook to her eccentric publisher. Marnie is adjusting to life after a sudden and traumatic breakup with Charlie. Nearing graduation, newly single Shoshanna masterminds a plan to create a healthy (at least on paper) balance between partying and her studies....
6) Sharp stick
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Living in Hollywood with her mother and sister, a young woman begins an affair with her older boss as she sets out to take control of her life.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From writer/director/actor Lena Dunham and comedy veteran Judd Apatow, this scripted half-hour series focuses on a group of 20-something women in New York and their adventures in post-collegiate floundering. Over the course of Season 1's ten episodes, the four girls try to figure out what they want from life, from boys, from themselves and each other.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A scripted half-hour series focuses on a group of 20-something's in NYC. Season Two episodes, Hannah forges ahead in her writing pursuits, but her enthusiasm is tempered by the responsibility for Adam; Marnie needs her best friend and former roommate; Jessa returns from her honeymoon in Mexico; Shoshanna takes charge of her new identity; and Ray has an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude.
11) Happy Christmas
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the director of Drinking Buddies comes a comedy about an irresponsible 20-something, Jenny, who arrives in Chicago to live with her older brother Jeff and his novelist wife, Kelly, after a breakup. Jenny's arrival shakes up their quiet domesticity as she and her friend Carson instigate an evolution in Kelly's life and career.
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English
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Broad City's Abbi Jacobson brings together an evening of conversation centered on her latest book, a wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful illustrated look at the world around us--all through the framework of the things we carry. In conversation with Lena Dunham (Girls).
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From writer/director/actor Lena Dunham and comedy veteran Judd Apatow, this scripted half-hour series focuses on a group of 20-something women in New York and their adventures in post-collegiate floundering. Over the course of Season 1's ten episodes, the four girls try to figure out what they want; from life, from boys, from themselves and each other.
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, Dash learns of the administration's cover-up that puts all the students in danger.
15) Tiny furniture
Series
Criterion collection volume 597
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A recent college graduate named Aura returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.
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English
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Famed documentary producer Sheila Nevins is the one person who always tells it like it is, and who will say, "Learn from my mistakes and my successes. Because you don't get smarter as you get older, you get braver." An astonishingly frank, funny, poignant book about the real-life challenges of being a woman in a man's world; what it means to be a working mother; what it's like to be an older woman in a youth-obsessed culture; the sometimes changing,...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new...
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Series
Iconoclasts volume 6
Language
English
Description
Join the NBA's all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and firebrand hip-hop musician Chuck D as they shoot hoops, trade philosophies and pick through Kareem's storied collection of memorabilia.
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Series
Iconoclasts volume 4
Language
English
Description
Turlington + Burch will closely examine the careers of two fashion icons from different sides of the industry who are dedicated to empowering other women. Beginning behind the scenes at Tory's spring 2013 New York City fashion show, Tory and Christy share their personal passions: for Tory it's mentoring female entrepreneurs, while Christy advocates and supports mothers globally via Every Mother Counts.
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Series
Iconoclasts volume 5
Language
English
Description
Oliver + Smith will offer an entertaining behind-the-scenes journey into the unique and creative relationship of two of Great Britain's most prolific, quirky and globe-trotting men. Jamie Oliver, a chef-turned-food-activist, and his longtime mentor and inspiration Sir Paul, one of the world's most successful menswear designers, will give a look into each other's respective workplaces and explore how they have turned their very personal sensibilities...
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