A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists -- Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon -- charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time.   Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct. Carole King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Joni Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Carly Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper crust. They collectively represent, in their lives and their songs, a great swath of American girls who came of age in the late 1960s. Their stories trace the arc of the now mythic sixties generation -- female version -- but in a bracingly specific and deeply recalled way, far from cliché. The history of the women of that generation has never been written -- until now, through their resonant lives and emblematic songs.  Filled with the voices of many dozens of these women's intimates, who are speaking in these pages for the first time, this alternating biography reads like a novel -- except it's all true, and the heroines are famous and beloved. Sheila Weller captures the character of each woman and gives a balanced portrayal enriched by a wealth of new information.  Girls Like Us is an epic treatment of midcentury women who dared to break tradition and become what none had been before them -- confessors in song, rock superstars, and adventurers of heart and soul.

Girls Like Us

Sheila Weller

Ebury Press

The News Sorority

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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Describes the murder of Nicole Simpson, uses interviews to depict her troubled marriage to O.J. Simpson, and offers an inside look at O.J. and Nicole's relationship in the weeks leading up to her murder

RAGING HEART

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Pocket

The Long Island woman who shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco describes how she had an affair with Joey Buttafuoco, worked as a prostitute for Buttafuoco, and how Buttafuoco planned his wife's murder. Reprint.

AMY FISHER: MY STORY

Amy Fisher

HardcoverPublisher: Pocket Books; 1St Edition edition (1997)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0671936018ISBN-13: 978-0671936013Average Customer Review:  3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,875,564 in Books

Saint of Circumstance

Pocket_Books

Raging Heart: The Intimate Story of the Tragic Marriage of O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson

Raging Heart is so revealing that the book itself became part of the actual O.J. Simpson murder trial.
 It is the only book to trace the path of O.J. and Nicole's fatal love story through the eyes of the people who really knew them. Acclaimed journalist Sheila Weller gained the unprecedented cooperation of Nicole Brown Simpson's family, and had exclusive access to O.J. and Nicole s friends who reveal private information here for the first time.
 Though the story that unfolds in Raging Heart was never fully explored in court, the revelations from its incisive reporting sent shock waves through the trial. Raging Heart is full of explosive information from people who knew, but couldn't or wouldn't tell their stories on the witness stand.
 As vivid as a home movie, Raging Heart is an explicit, heartrending look behind the verdict of the century and the one book the O.J. Simpson jurors would be astonished to read.

Leaders & Notable People

Graymalkin Media

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