A decade after being cast off to live with strangers, Tabby Saint returns to Solace River, Nova Scotia, to find her childhood home deserted. She quickly latches on to the lonely tavern-keeper, West, who informs her that her family was...
Young women
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Author:Mian, SarahSummary: -
Author:Leslie, AlexSummary:We All Need to Eat, is a new collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolve around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver, chronicling her attempts to come to grips with herself, her family and her...
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Author:James, HenrySummary:Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the century, Washington Square is the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations.
- Author:Bird, SarahSummary:
Sonja is seen as a curiosity in the minuscule Texas town of Dorfburg. Twenty-nine years old and big-boned, she is purported to be the daughter of a famous Native American trick-roper. Now that her mother is marrying a fang-toothed...
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Author:Thúy, Kim.Summary:"The youngest of four children and the only girl, Vi was given a name that meant 'precious, tiny one,' destined to be cosseted and protected, the family's little treasure. Daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father...
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Author:PICOULT, JodiSummary:Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own Search and Rescue bloodhound which she uses to find missing persons. But as...
- Author:Archer, KatrinaSummary:
Untalented. Unwanted. Unbroken.Saroya: Untalented, a stain on her family's honor. Orphaned and barred from the Guilds, she has nowhere to go when her Talent fails to emerge. Loric: Brother-in-law to the king. Thwarted in his ambitions,...
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Author:Gill, Nav K.Summary:It’s the spring of 1984 in British Columbia, and life is just getting exciting for Esha. A secret that looms over her family has reinforced her proud resistance to her family’s Indian identity. However, one day changes everything, and...
- Author:Mi, Ai, Holmwood, AnnaSummary:
Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing's father is a political...
- Author:BLAIR, EmmaSummary:
The Devonshire village of Ford is full of excitement at the arrival of its new doctor, the dashing young Scotsman Jamie Murray. Maggs Fletcher frequents the local pub in the hope of a chance meeting with him, but it is her sister,...
- Author:Minot, SusanSummary:
Tells the story of two extraordinary young women: Esther, a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to commit unspeakable acts, and Jane, an American journalist traveling in Africa, hoping to give a voice to...
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Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:In a world driven by shadowy, corrupt corporations and the uncontrolled development of new, gene-spliced life forms, a man-made pandemic occurs, obliterating human life. Two people find they have unexpectedly survived: Ren, a young...
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Author:Butler, PaulSummary:The Widow’s Fire explores the shadow side of Jane Austen’s final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance. We join the action close to the moment when Austen draws away...
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Author:Archer, KatrinaSummary:A murky past. A forbidden love. A deathly power.When the river spits Umbra onto its bank, naked and shivering, the only clue to her identity is the arcane brand seared into her skin. A brand hunted by both a murderous necromancer and a...
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This book portrays the relationship between Eileen Hughes, the quiet young shop assistant from Ulster and her wealthy employers, tracing the pattern of passion and suspense that surrounds them on their trip to London.
- Author:Cather, WillaSummary:
Thea Kronberg has a voice that can call down angels and the soul of a Colorado pioneer girl. But as she develops her talents and devotes herself to the life of an artist, she must consider the cost of the creative path she follows.
- Author:HOWARD, AudreySummary:
Clare Hanrahan has nothing left to lose the day she stumbles into the arms of Lew Earnshaw. By the time Lew and his kindly neighbour Nelly Bradbury have nursed Clare back to health, he is hopelessly in love with the frail Irish girl....
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Author:Fitch, JanetSummary:Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young...
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Author:Bell, AldenSummary:Temple can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember the tragedy that sent her on her personal journey toward redemption. Wandering the blighted land, she must decide where to make a home and find the salvation she...
- Author:Adamson, Gil, Spalding, EstaSummary:
In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand. Two vengeful brothers and a pack of bloodhounds track her across the western...
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