Arcadia Public Library

"Offering a path for a new way to think about friendships, The Life Council will inspire and equip you to be a better friend, make new friends, and appreciate how different types of friendships can bring a richness to your life like never before. You'd love to have a "ride or die" posse like you see on social media, but instead you have a host of really good . . . acquaintances. After all, trying to find a soul friend in the midst of dirty dishes,...

A modern girl is nothing without her squad of besties, but Maggs takes readers on a tour of some of history's most famous female BFFs. You'll meet lady pirates, socialites, Olympic skiers and medical students who showed just how essential female friendship has been throughout history-- and throughout the world. --

"Two of the nation's leading feminists and hosts of the hit podcast "Call Your Girlfriend" make the bold and compelling argument that a close friendship is the most influential and important relationship a human life can contain-helping you improve as a person and in your relationships with others"--

"An expert's rich exploration of the intense, complicated landscape of women's friendships" --

"Despite portraying Dunder Mifflin frenemies Pam Beesly and Angela Martin on the hit television show The Office, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey have been best friends for over eighteen years. For nine seasons they battled over party planning, relationship advice, and baby names, while behind the scenes they supported each other through life-changing events like marriage, motherhood, and careers that took them all over the globe. In The Office BFFs,...

After more than a decade of dead-end dates and dysfunctional relationships, Tate was giddily in a new relationship. At a recovery meeting, a friend gave her a gentle suggestion: perhaps now would be the perfect time to examine why friendships gave her trouble. Tate embarked on a brutally hones excavation of her friendships, examining how shame and jealousy had kept the lasting bonds she craved out of reach. When that friend becomes ill, can Tate confront...

"Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth's legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated "on the basis of sex" to be unconstitutional. In a time when women...

Drawn in by the promises of the popular and wealthy Naomi, insecure prep school student Carole is talked into accompanying Naomi and two young men to a Vermont cabin for the purpose of losing her virginity, with tragic results.