Teen Genius (and Hermit) Carrie Pilby' s To-Do List: 1. List 10 things you love (and do them!) 2. Join a club (and talk to people!) 3. Go on a date (with someone you actually like!) 4. Tell someone you care (your therapist doesn...
Young women
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Author:Lissner, CarenSummary: -
Author:Deveraux, JudeSummary:Ariel and Sara never imagined their high-spirited attempt to step into each other's shoes would cause such upheaval. The lifelong pen pals, who look exactly alike, meet for the first time in their twenties and embark on a daring...
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
The Berrybender's party is moving forward across the Great Plains of the West towards Santa Fe. Tasmin's husband scouts ahead and falls in love with Pomp Charbonneau, who dies at the hand of the ruthless commander of the Spanish troops...
- Author:ALI, MonicaSummary:
Nazneen is a teenager forced into an arranged marriage with an older man and misery seems to stretch ahead for her. Fearfully leaving the sultry oppression of her Bangladeshi village, Nazneen finds herself cloistered in a small flat in...
- Author:Whittall, ZoeSummary:
Welcome to Montreal in the months before the 1995 referendum. Riot Girl gets bought out and mass marketed as the Spice Girls, and gays are gaining some legitimacy, but the queers are rioting against assimilation, cocktail AIDS drugs are...
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Author:Macpherson, MargaretSummary:Body Trade weaves together two stories of survival. The main narrative follows Rosie and Tanya, two young Canadian women who decide to leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California,...
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Author:Ross, MartySummary:Based on the true story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, perhaps one of the greatest mass murderers of all time, a woman who tortured and killed over 600 young women for their blood. Too noble to be executed, in 1610 the "Bloody Lady of...
- Author:Scheuerer, HelenSummary:
With her death foretold, Althea Zoltaire only has three years to become what she's always dreamed of being: a warrior legend. Women are forbidden to wield blades, so she has trained in secret her entire life. Now racing against the...
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Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of...
- Author:Sykes, PlumSummary:
With invitations to high-profile baby showers and benefits, more Marc Jacobs clothes than is decent, and a department store heiress for a best friend, our heroine known only as Moi is living at the peak of New York society. But what is...
- Author:Sellet, AmandaSummary:
Sharp and subversive, this delightfully messy YA rom-com offers a sly wink to the classic Little Women, as teenage Jo Porter rebels against living in the shadow of her literary namesake. Lit's about to hit the fan. Jo Porter has...
- Author:Peterson, J.C.Summary:
Every bookworm wishes to be Lizzy Bennet from Pride and Prejudice, but what if Mary Bennet is a better fit? For Marnie Barnes, becoming Mary makes her want to reinvent herself, opening up to the world.
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
King explores'Sherlock Holmes's initial meeting with Mary Russell. Holmes is in a decidedly dark temper as he searches the countryside for wild bees, until he meets the headstrong young woman who will become his apprentice and eventual...
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Author:Dey, ClaudiaSummary:In a white trash, northern Ontario gothic, we follow Beatrice "Beaver" Jersey as she learns to grow beyond her circumscribed world, struggling with her whacky extended family, her alcoholic father, and her chain-smoking ghost of a...
- Author:Holden, WendySummary:
Anna Farrier learns the hard way that in some careers, high-powered connections mean far more than actual talent. So, she becomes assistant to Cassandra Knight, author of scorching blockbusters whose real forte is social climbing....
- Author:Bowers, CedarSummary:
What if you could see yourself as others see you? Astra is a beguiling debut novel that reveals the different faces of one woman, as seen through the eyes of ten people over a lifetime. Born and raised on a remote British Columbia...
- Author:Koontz, DeanSummary:
The girl who said no to death. Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman—whose doctor says she has one year to live. She replies, “We’ll see.” Her sudden recovery astonishes medical science. An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi...
- Author:Hendricks, GreerSummary:
"Seeking women ages 18-32 to participate in a study on ethics and morality. Generous compensation. Anonymity guaranteed." When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks...
- Author:Poston, AshleySummary:
Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that...
- Author:El Akkad, OmarSummary:
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is...
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