Left penniless after the death of her father, Amaryllis Duvane is forced to work as a servant in the home of her wealthy relations. When her ex-fiancé courts one of her relatives, she can't bear the thought of him seeing what's become...
Young women
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Author:Chesney, MarionSummary: -
Author:Neels, BettySummary:When Dr Oliver Fforde unexpectedly arrived at Amabel's guest house during a winter storm, he made a lasting impression. Amabel didn't expect to see him again, so it was strange how Oliver seemed to reappear every time Amabel...
- Author:Dallas, SandraSummary:
When Alice Bullock's husband joins the Union Army, the young quilting enthusiast is left to deal with an Iowa farm and an imposing mother-in-law. And then her life turns upside down when she's accused of murder.
- Author:Bird, SarahSummary:
Mary Jo's caustic comments about love and life can't conceal her confusion about both, but liberated baptist Fayrene and party girl Collie help Mary Jo cope in a white, patriarchal world.
- Author:Moyes, JojoSummary:
How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is...
- Author:Hibbert, TaliaSummary:
Eve, the flightiest Brown sister, finds it's time to grow up and prove herself, even though she's not entirely sure how. But when she crashes into the life of Jacob Wayne, an uptight B&B owner, she has him falling hard, literally....
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Author:Egan, JenniferSummary:Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose...
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
In a poignant tale of 1902 North Dakota, Lauraine Snelling'best-selling author of Sophie's Dilemma' explores the silent world of 18-year-old Grace Knutson. Surrounded by her family's love and the townsfolk's kindness, Grace finds all...
- Author:Peterson, Tracie, Miller, JudithSummary:
21-year-old Amanda Broadmoor doesn't want to abandon her mentor Dr. Carstead when cholera strikes Rochester, New York, in 1899. But after the Broadmoor fortune is mishandled, Amanda must sacrifice her lofty aspirations to rescue her...
- Author:Harrow, Alix E.Summary:
"A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales." -Katherine Arden, author of the Winternight...
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Author:Forster, E. M.Summary:Lucy Honeychurch is traveling in Italy with her overbearingly upright cousin Charlotte when a chance encounter with an unconventional father and son grant her a glimpse of a world beyond the repressive strictures of Edwardian society....
- Author:Austin, Lynn N.Summary:
Austin tells the uplifting story of 20-year-old Violet Hayes and her search for her elusive mother and for true love. In her quest, Violet learns much about love, faith, and life as she marches for women's rights, feeds slum dwellers,...
- Author:Juby, SusanSummary:
Butler-detective Helen Thorpe returns to help a wannabe influencer get her life in order - and solve the murders of her fellow content creators - in this hilarious sequel to Mindful of Murder by bestselling author Susan Juby When...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Beth Gallatin, who immersed herself in romance novels until her father's death, fulfills her dream to settle in a rugged Montana frontier town and considers her feelings for a man she has always regarded as a friend.
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Author:Freedman, ArielaSummary:A Joy To Be Hidden is set in a vividly recreated late-90s New York City. The protagonist is Alice Stein, a graduate student whose father died a year before, and who has now lost her grandmother. In the process of sorting through the...
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Author:Adderson, CarolineSummary:Malcolm Firth is an aging hairdresser whose partner, Denis, in the late stages of Alzheimer's, has become inexplicably anti-Semitic. Alison, his young suburban protege, has never heard of the Holocaust. When Alison notices a tattoo on...
- Author:Miller, JudithSummary:
Karlina Richter must get past her feelings of animosity toward a hired shepherd if she is ever going to find out the secrets her father is keeping, while Dovie Cates risks her budding relationship to delve into her mother's past.
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
"Mrs. Parks was often paid in gold dust, but she paid her girls in dollars ..." From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes...
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Author:Gault, ConnieSummary:In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena finds herself living alone in the small village of Trevna. Her mother has been dead for many years, and her father, burdened by the hardships of drought, has...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world. These characters and more confront issues of...
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