Cutter is determind to sabotage the sale of her family's dilapidated ancestral home. Her sister Ginny (in the midst of an affair with a professor) doesn't seem to care either way. When the professor's reclusive wife...
Women
- Author:Friddle, MindySummary:
- Author:Barclay, ByrnaSummary:
On midsummer's eve, 1941, Lena, keeper of the forest horses of Gotland, is kidnapped by a Russian poacher along with her herd, and taken to Leningrad just in time to endure the two-year German siege of that city during World War II. Her...
- Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:
Resigned to living out the Second World War in a German POW camp, James Hunter, an English officer, begins studying a pair of redstarts near the camp. His interest in the birds captures the attention of the Kommandant and gives James...
- Author:Hoffman, AliceSummary:
The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a suicidal son and a defiant granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family and the grounds of their waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And...
- Author:LAURENCE, MargaretSummary:
In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter. With unusual wit and depth, Morag recognizes that she needs...
- Author:Spence, Jonathan D.Summary:
- Author:Hannon, LaurettaSummary:
Growing up in Warner Robins, Georgia, with her parents--and their loving but rocky relationship--isn't always easy for Lauretta. It doesn't help that the rest of her family is a who's who list of misfits and petty...
- Author:Tucker, HeatherSummary:
A stunning and lyrical debut novel. Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life had unravelled many times before. This time it explodes. Eight-year-old Hariet, known to...
- Author:Wilkie, EllieSummary:
- Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary:
When Christmas Eve comes to Elm Creek Manor, the tenor of the holiday is far from certain. Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, the Master Quilter, has her own reasons for preferring a quiet, even subdued, Christmas. Her young friend Sarah McClure...
- Author:Dallas, SandraSummary:
On a train bound for Nalgitas, New Mexico, hookhouse proprietor Addie French encounters Emma Roby, a prim and proper lady seeking a new life with a man she's never met. But when they reach Nalgitas, all that awaits the bride-to-be is a...
- Author:Schapira, Laurie LaytonSummary:
- Author:PILCHER, RosamundeSummary:
Prue meets an attractive young artist who is troubled by his past. In order for the relationship to work she must discover the cause of his entanglements.
- Author:Mitchell, Gilaine E.Summary:
Married woman Natha Cole works as a prostitute and eventually reconnects with her former client, bookstore owner, Jules Moore and becomes drawn to an auctioneer.
- Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:
"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York Times. The three books in Deborah Ellis's Breadwinner trilogy bound into one handsome volume Deborah Ellis's novels The Breadwinner, Parvana's...
- Author:Hoggard, Liz, Conville, Clare, Lovett, Sarah-JaneSummary:
Ever wonder how to best dress your apple-shaped figure? Do you know the top twelve rules on how to properly (and discreetly) conduct an affair? The Book for Dangerous Women is a sly, elegant encyclopedia of practicalwisdom by three...
- Author:Swan, SusanSummary:
- Author:Chopin, KateSummary:
Just as evocative as it is original, The Awakening isn’t your everyday Victorian Romance. Chopin beautifully crafts the story of protagonist Edna Pontellier, a woman living in the American South during the post Civil War period, as she...
- Author:Chopin, KateSummary:
The scandalous story of a young matron living in New Orleans in the late 1800s, who, awakens to the pangs of passion and desire for the first time in her life.
- Author:Chopin, KateSummary:
Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renown musician Mademoiselle...