"Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life, Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where humans and older beings must work to keep the whole...
Young women
- Author:De Lint, CharlesSummary:
- Author:Hime, James L.Summary:
Sisy Fletcher, the preacher's daughter, disappeared about ten years ago on the night of the rodeo dance in Washington County, Texas. But now her body has been found by men drilling for oil in a field outside of town. Sheriff Dewey...
- Author:Pérez-Reverte, ArturoSummary:
At a maritime auction in Barcelona, Merchant Marine officer Manuel Coy sees an intense bidding war erupt over a seemingly innocuous 18th-century atlas. The auction winner is the beautiful Tánger Soto, who is obsessed with a Jesuit ship...
- Author:Rae, IssaSummary:
In the bestselling tradition of Sloane Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me', a collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards...
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
"This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver,Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of the great heroines of Victorian...
- Author:Boll, HeinrichSummary:
- Author:Fisher, Suzanne WoodsSummary:
After three years on a whaling voyage, Henry Macy returns to Nantucket to news that his grandmother has passed, bequeathing her vast fortune to him and his sister, Hitty. And it was truly vast. But Lillian Coffin was no fool. The...
- Author:Landry, JaniceSummary:
Halifax author and journalist Janice Landry returns to her roots, as she revisits high-profile Canadian police investigations she covered as a novice television reporter during the 1980s and 1990s. One story involves the unsolved murder...
- Author:Rivers, FrancineSummary:
Set in the 1850s Smoky Mountains, Rivers tells the gripping tale of a girl who's desperate to remove the guilt of her sister's death and anxious to absolve her departed grandmother of sins. While seeking the elusive Sin Eater...
- Author:Archer, JulietSummary:
Mark Knightley is used to women falling at his feet, all except Emma Woodhouse--she's like part of the family. But Emma's grown into an attractive young woman, full of ideas for modernizing her family business, and when Mark...
- Author:de Nikolits, LisaSummary:
The Hungry Mirror is the fictional tale of a young woman overwhelmed. Lured by false promise and seeking fickle social acceptability, she starves herself and fast becomes trapped when seeming-sanctuary proves a cage of...
- Author:Lansens, LoriSummary:
The story of Rose and Ruby Darlen, conjoined twins born in a rural farming community in 1974. To some they are freaks, monsters or witches. But to most in small-town Leaford, they are just "The Girls".
- Author:Lethbridge, AnnSummary:
As an illegitimate child, the quiet-mannered Frederica Bracewell grew up as a stain upon her family's good name. But when she meets her uncle's new gamekeeper Robert--who also wishes to break free from a scandalous past--she...
- Author:Bird, SarahSummary:
Rae's life falls apart when her father dies of cancer and her mother joins a religious cult. The only person who understands Rae is local bad girl Didi, who is experiencing a similar loss. Both girls fall in love with handsome flamenco...
- Author:Goobie, BethSummary:
It's 1977, and Mary-Eve Hamilton (Mary for the Mother of God, Eve for the mother of mankind) is plodding through her final year at Eleusis High School. Mary-Eve's mother, famed prophetess at the Waiting for the Rapture End Times...
- Author:Sherman, GiselaSummary:
Six girls just out of high school live together during the summer of 1943 on a farm as part of the Farm Services - doing the work of the men who are off fighting the war in Europe. We follow the stories of Helene, who sends her wages...
- Author:Sykes, PlumSummary:
Young Manhattanite Sylvia Mortimer can't help noticing that her friends "put almost as much effort into losing husbands as they once did into finding them." Lauren, the most recent to discard hers, has just had a champagne-fueled...
- Author:Weise, Jillian MarieSummary:
It's 2015, and Anne Hatley is leaving her North Carolina home for a Long Island research lab called the Colony. Anne, who was born with a genetic mutation that left her only one leg, will be donating stem cells for gene research in...
- Author:House, SilasSummary:
Easter is a devout Pentecostal, while Anneth is headstrong and restless. The two live in the heart of coal mining country, surrounded by the ghosts of their loved ones. One night, Easter meets El, the man that will become her husband....
- Author:Day, DianSummary:
Esa Withrod is a young woman struggling over recent events in her personal life—a failed first relationship and resulting pregnancy—as well as the legacy of her desolate upbringing. Eccentric and enigmatic, Esa’s childhood has prepared...