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• Stories about HIV, sex and relationships, addiction, recovery, family, class—told with street-smart humor. • From Poz magazine cover story, 1998 fiction issue : “Carter, the bad girl in the celebrated Roiphe literary clan (Carter is her middle name—she dropped the Roiphe) was born in 1960 to writer Anne Roiphe, whose 1970 novel Up the Sandbox was made into a movie starring Barbra Streisand . . . Both Emily’s sister and her mother have used parts of her biography in their own writing. Ten years younger than Emily, Kate Roiphe earned a PhD in English from Princeton University, contributed articiles to Harper’s, Esquire, and The New York Times, and then made a national stir wiith her first book, The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism. . . . Roiphe followed up her success with her 1997 current affairs book, Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at Century’s End.”

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The perfect gift, spread joy this Christmas with this decadent pop-up advent calendar, part of the bestselling Welcome to the Museum family.In conjunction with the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, fans of the bestselling Welcome to the Museum series can now countdown to Christmas with this beautiful pop-up advent calendar. Inside, readers will find a beautiful pop-up tree, alongside a 28 page mini booklet detailing all the wonderful flora and fauna there is to discover during the autumn and winter months, from reindeer to red robins, and pear trees to poinsettia. Hidden in compartments beneath it are 25 removable and displayable cardboard ornaments - including pine cones, holly leaves, cinnamon bundles and acorns.This is the ideal sustainable gift, and would look stunning as a centrepiece year after year.

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