Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Evans is the privileged and naive only child of prominent New Englanders, part of a group of Planters who settled in Nova Scotia following the deportation of the...
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Author: Jefferson, JoanneSummary: -
Author: Gold, JenniferSummary:When fifteen-year-old Elizabeth finds an antique doll in a garage sale, she thinks it would be a good gift for her dad who's about to ship out for Afghanistan. She doesn?t realize that the doll...
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Author: Jackson, FredaSummary:Trained as a nurse and midwife, Elizabeth Evans never wanted to help set up the fledgling town of Aspen Coulee, Alberta, but travels there with her father when he agrees to become the town doctor...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: Garmus, BonnieSummary:Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male...
Genre: Historical fiction, Humorous fiction -
Author: Wingate, LisaSummary:Experience three novellas about the joys and trials of sisterhood!The Sea Glass SistersA mother-daughter road trip is the last thing Elizabeth Gallagher needs. But with an impending hurricane,...
Genre: Religious fiction -
Author: Evans, Claire L.Summary:
The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at...
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Author: Luciani, Patrick; Griffiths, Rudyard; Munk, PeterSummary:The Munk Debates is Canada's premier international debate series, a highly anticipated cultural event and feast of ideas. Launched in 2008 by philanthropists Peter and Melanie Munk, these debates...
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Author: Ferriss, TimothySummary:We All Need Mentors. Here Are More than 100 of the World's Best. When facing life's questions, who do you turn to for advice' We all need mentors, particularly when the odds seem stacked against...
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Author: Muller, MarciaSummary:A knock on the door in the middle of the night. It can only be bad news, and it is: Sharon McCone's father, Elwood, has been the victim of a vicious, racially motivated attack. With little...
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Author: Heltzel, AnneSummary:
Spine-chilling and sharp, Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother is a modern gothic from a fresh new voice in horror, and "is set to be one of the year's most talked about books" (...
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Author: Rose, JenevaSummary:
Meet the women of Buckhead--a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships. Who amongst them will be clever enough to survive, and who will wind up dead?
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction) -
Author: Oliver, LaurenSummary:
Dara and Nick used to be inseparable until a terrible accident left them estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But when another girl also...
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Author: Cantor, JillianSummary:
Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, retelling this timeless American classic from the women's perspective.
Genre: Historical fiction