Austria 1767 : Maria Carolina Charlotte -- tenth daughter and one of sixteen children of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria -- knows her position as a Habsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her...
Epistolary fiction
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Author:Giovinazzo, DianaSummary: - Author:Richardson, SamuelSummary:
A milestone in the history of the novel, Samuel Richardson's epistolary and elaborate Clarissa follows the life of a chaste young woman desperate to protect her virtue. When beautiful Clarissa Harlowe is forced to marry the rich but...
- Author:Webster, JeanSummary:
When orphan Jerusha Abbott receives word that a mysterious millionaire has decided to fund her schooling, she's ecstatic. But as her benefactor proves to be more and more elusive, requesting that she write him without inquiring as to...
- Author:Thériault, GabrielSummary:
Juin 1941. Vétéran médaillé, Ernst Scheller est sergent et chef de panzer lorsque la campagne de Russie le jette, vivant, dans l'incendie d'une guerre nouvelle, totale et idéologique. Esprit de devoir, camaraderie,...
- Author:Nickel, BarbaraSummary:
Dear Peter, Dear Ulla is an imaginative and beautifully crafted historical middle-grade novel about two cousins who are fast friends even though they have never met. Letters fly back and forth between them, and although Ulla lives in...
- Author:Tsai, AddieSummary:
Poppy wants to go to college like everyone else, but her father has other ideas. Ever since her mirror twin sister, Lola, mysteriously vanished, Poppy’s father has been depressed and forces her to stick around. She hopes she can...
- Author:Black, DanielSummary:
AN ESSENCE MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR. "Don't Cry for Me is a perfect song."--Jesmyn Ward. A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating...
- Author:Xue, YiweiSummary:
Xue Yiwei's life has been marked by that of the legendary Montreal surgeon Norman Bethune, who died in China in the cause of Communism. Like other Chinese of his generation - the generation that has turned China into the world...
- Author:Burney, FannySummary:
This precursor to the works of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth takes a witty look at romance and womanhood in eighteenth-century high society. Denied by her aristocratic libertine father and raised by a clergyman in the English...
- Author:Smith, LeeSummary:
Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the decades of Ivy's life are captured in...
- Author:Needham, Chris FSummary:
Two voices, two families, two interweaving narratives with thirty years dividing them. In 1972 Birdie Cormack enters a highly controversial experiment in Toronto. Her story unfolds piece by fascinating piece, mostly by way of a...
- Author:Moriarty, JaclynSummary:
Life is pretty complicated for Elizabeth Clarry. Her best friend Celia keeps disappearing, her absent father suddenly reappears, and her communication with her mother consists entirely of wacky notes left on the fridge. On top of...
- Author:Gárdos, Péter, Szász, ElizabethSummary:
Twenty-five-year-old Holocaust survivor Miklós is being shipped from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Gotland, Sweden, to receive treatment at the Larbro Hospital. Here he is sentenced to death again: he is diagnosed with...
- Author:Geiger, A. V.Summary:
"Follow Me Back is the perfect mix of fandom with just the right amount of suspense. An enthralling page turner from beginning to end." -Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author of the After series Tessa Hart's world...
- Author:Menon, SandhyaSummary:
"Cinematic." -Teen Vogue "Funny and sweet." -Buzzfeed "Delightful, inspiring." -Book Riot Three starred reviews for this charming romantic comedy about an aspiring teen filmmaker who finds her voice and falls in love, from the New York...
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
- Author:Alsanea, Rajaa AbdullahSummary:
GIRLS OF RIYADH was released in Lebanon in Arabic in 2005. The novel, about women from Saudi Arabia’s upper classes, immediately became a sensation all over the Arab world. Scholars and critics throughout the Arab world hailed the book...
- Author:Shaffer, Mary AnnSummary:
It's a book club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island. Juliet Ashton, a London writer, converses in letters with the Society's members, learning about...
- Author:Baratz-Logsted, LaurenSummary:
It's 1969 and the country is gearing up for what looks to be the most exciting moment in U.S. history: men landing on the moon. Ten-year-old Mamie's class is given an assignment to write letters to the astronauts. All the girls write to...
- Author:Austen, JaneSummary:
This epistolary novel, an early complete work that the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the main character—the widowed Lady Susan—as she seeks a new husband for herself, and one for...
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