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Young women

  • The bride's house
    Author:
    Dallas, Sandra
    Summary:

    Dallas' novel traces the experiences of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house, from Nealie, a hired girl torn between two suitors; to motherless Pearl, whose grieving father sabotages her happiness; to...
  • The Birdcage
    Author:
    WILLETT, Marcia
    Summary:

    It was Felix who named it The Birdcage - the tall house in Bristol where Miss Pidgeon lived with her tenant, the beautiful and talented actress Angel, and Angel's daughter, Lizzie. It was Felix whom they all adored and who was so...
  • The bean trees
    Author:
    Kingsolver, Barbara
    Summary:

    When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three-year-old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.
  • The artificial silk girl
    Author:
    Keun, Irmgard
    Summary:
  • The apothecary's daughter
    Author:
    Klassen, Julie
    Summary:

    Lillian longs to soar beyond her provincial limits. After enjoying London's sophisticated society and the attentions of wealthy suitors, Lilly returns home to help her ailing dad. Determined to resurrect his apothecary business,...
  • The ambassador's daughter
    Author:
    Jenoff, Pam.
    Summary:

    Paris, 1919. The world's leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons, for which many could pay dearly. Brought to the peace...
  • The "she" stands alone
    Author:
    Keels, Nadine
    Summary:

    She can’t seem to catch any guy’s notice for anything. No, that pick-up pitch from a stranger gawking at her at the gas station doesn’t count. And one attractive salesman in town shouldn’t have been flirting with her in the first place...
  • Testament
    Author:
    Gendreau, Vickie, Wall, Aimee
    Summary:

    On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her "room of her own," she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same...
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a pure woman faithfully presented
    Author:
    Hardy, Thomas
    Summary:

    What do sexual violation, murderous farm implements, and Stonehenge all have in common? Thomas Hardy’s classic heartbreaker. On the one hand, this might be the most depressing novel you’ll ever read. On the other hand, women have come a...
  • Staying on
    Author:
    HOOD, Evelyn
    Summary:

    When, after serving in World War II, her grandson Joe Scott refuses to return to the small family farm, Celia Scott is furious. Celia kept the farm going after the premature death of her husband, as well as raising her three...
  • Sous sa garde
    Author:
    Banks, Maya
    Summary:

    Abandonné à un très jeune âge dans le foyer d’un jeune couple fortuné et dans un monde privilégié, notre héroïne n’a aucune trace de son passé et d’où elle vient, autre qu’elle possède des dons de télékinésie. Cacher du monde extérieur...
  • Somewhere to belong
    Author:
    Miller, Judith
    Summary:

    Johanna has lived her entire life in Amana and she longs to explore the outside world. Meanwhile, rebellious Berta struggles to adjust to life in their close knit community.
  • Someone to trust
    Author:
    FRANCIS, June
    Summary:

    Plucky Lucy Linden is the mainstay of her family, selling firewood and toffee apples on the streets of Liverpool to support her widowed mother. Police constable Rob Jones, keeps a watchful eye over her, much to her annoyance.
  • Small admissions : a novel
    Author:
    Poeppel, Amy
    Summary:

    Despite her innate ambition and Summa Cum Laude smarts, Kate Pearson has turned into a major slacker. After being dumped by her handsome, French "almost fiance," she abandons her grad school plans and spends her days lolling on the...
  • Sense and sensibility
    Author:
    Austen, Jane
    Summary:

    Relegated to a small cottage by the death of their aristocratic father, passionate Marianne (sensibility) and practical Elinor (sense) are as vulnerable in love as they are in fortune. Toyed with by unscrupulous men, snubbed by wealthy...
  • Seed seeker
    Author:
    Sargent, Pamela
    Summary:

    After Ship settled humans on planet Home, it promised to return. Over time, and with conflict, the colony divided. When a light appears in the sky, one side believes it's Ship, but the others are silent. Whatever it is, life is about to...
  • Searching for Billie
    Author:
    Jackson, Freda
    Summary:

    Jane Priddle, a proper young Englishwoman, has lived a sheltered, genteel life. In 1897, she is offered a life-changing opportunity: she will travel to Canada's northwest frontier to search for young Billie Thomm. Surviving in the...
  • Remembered
    Author:
    Alexander, Tamera
    Summary:

    When Véronique Girard was five, her father left for America to amass a fortune and send for his family. After 25 long years, a deathbed promise carries Véronique from Paris to Willow Springs to find her long-lost father--said to be...
  • Regency gold
    Author:
    Chesney, Marion
    Summary:

    Jean Lindsay was always the object of ridicule, until news of her unexpected inheritance spread and someone wants her dead! With the marquess nearby to save her pretty neck, Jean finds herself smitten. And her hero can't help but...
  • Portrait in sepia
    Author:
    Allende, Isabel
    Summary:

    Both historical novel and family saga and set in 19th-century Chile, this story concerns Aurora del Valle's search for the mystery of her past, a trauma so brutal that it erased from her mind all recollection of the first five...

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