Newlyweds Missie and Willie share a dream. However, it means that Missie must leave her parents, family and friends behind to join a wagon train and claim land in the West with her new husband. Overcoming incredible hardships on the...
Young women
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
- Author:Patterson, Richard NorthSummary:
Educated, engaged, and the youngest in a prominent family, Whitney has everything she and her father have ever wanted. But the arrival of Benjamin Blaine awakens a sense of independence within Whitney, changing her entire world.
- Author:Alcott, Louisa MaySummary:
Based loosely on Louisa May Alcott's own upbringing, Little Women follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. Each girl has a vision of what their ideal future will bring, though ultimately experiencing, as most...
- Author:Crosbie, LynnSummary:
"Little Snowfall" is a short story about a beautiful, young woman named Pixie, who suspects her new neighbour is James Franco. The problem is that her neighbour says his name is Edward and denies he is the famous actor/artist.Pixie has...
- Author:Shange, NtozakeSummary:
- Author:Harper, HillSummary:
A Brown University and Harvard Law School alum, Harper is also a passionate public servant. In this book he offers comforting advice for today's youth through his own wisdom as well as that of such luminaries as Michelle Obama and...
- Author:Ford, CattSummary:
Cuando su hermano la entrega sin su consentimiento para que forme parte del harén del general Hüi Wei a modo de tributo, la única duda de la princesa Lan’xiu es cuánto tardarán en descubrir su secreto. No se hace ilusiones. Cuando el...
- Author:Morris, GilbertSummary:
Dans les années 1850, Julienne Ashby se voit contrainte de changer ses manières d’aristocrate après la mort de son père, un homme d’affaires prospère de Natchez, qui, à force de négligences financières, a laissé sa famille sans fortune...
- Author:Belletête, MaryseSummary:
Comment écrire sa propre histoire lorsqu’on est empêché par le poids de celle de toutes les autres, ou lorsque celle-ci nous échappe ? Digne descendante d’une lignée de femmes dérangées et d’un père absent, Ève cherche à en apprendre...
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
Through her dozens of novels, including The Bluebird and the Sparrow (RB# 94672) and Too Long a Stranger (RB# 94970), Janette Oke has become one of today's most beloved inspirational writers. In Julia's Last Hope, drawing on...
- Author:Courtenay, BryceSummary:
Based on the real life of a remarkable young woman at the beginning of the last century, this is the gripping, heart-wrenching story of Jessica and her courageous fight for justice and love against enormous odds. Born into a life of...
- Author:Brontë, CharlotteSummary:
Jane Eyre is alone in the world, orphaned and living off the charity of reluctant relatives. Hired as a governess, she enters a society of high glamour and dark family secrets. Possibly the world’s most romantic book about child abuse,...
- Author:Nichols, LindaSummary:
Miranda DeSpain is a young woman still haunted by a painful adolescent experience. When she finds a clue to this troubling mystery from her past, she travels to an idyllic Virginia town. There an 11-year-old girl helps her find lodging...
- Author:Alvarez, JuliaSummary:
In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and towards the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differences, language barriers, and prejudice...
- Author:Williams, NiallSummary:
Ruthie Swain, the bedridden daughter of a dead poet, tries to find her father through stories -- and through generations of family history in County Clare.
- Author:McKinty, AdrianSummary:
In this electrifying noir thriller, a young Irish ex-cop travels half a world away to investigate the murder of a beautiful girl he once loved. But plagued by a heroin habit, things don't go as planned for Alex.
- Author:Marinelli, CarolSummary:
Sheikh Prince Ibrahim refuses to bow to the duty that has destroyed his family by locking away his emotions and shunning his royal responsibility. Georgie is just the kind of woman duty demands he should avoid--streetwise, troubled and...
- Author:Cast, P. C.Summary:
Goddesses Hera, Athena, and Venus have had it up to here with the Trojan War. But the only way to end the devastation is to distract the Greek champion Achilles with something far more pleasurable than combat.
- Author:Schreiner, OliveSummary:
The story is about two white women, Rebekah and Bertie, sisters born into the racist and sexist society of mid-nineteenth South Africa. One sister remains in the Cape, marries and has children, the other becomes a kept woman and then a...
- Author:Lowell, ElizabethSummary:
Fleeing the remarkable love that was prophesied at her birth, Amber the Untouched does not suspect that the wounded warrior with no memory who has come to her in the darkness is that same foretold lover.