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1) Herland
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Feminist novel, written in 1915, tells the story of three male explorers who discover an all-female society and have trouble understanding how it can work so well without men.
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 1
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1998, c1986
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Titled nobleman Royal Dewar promises his dying father that he will marry heiress Jocelyn Caulfield and restore Bransford Castle, the family estate, but it is Jocelyn's penniless cousin Lily that he is attracted to, and the feelings between them become hard to deny when they are thrown together in a scheme to recover some of the Bransford fortune from an infamous confidence artist.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
A request by a young poet to see an archive of letters written by T.S. Eliot, unsettles librarian Matthias's composure and forces him to confront his painful memories of his relationship with Judith in the years after World War II.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Adie Klarpol, an artist working on a vast virtual reality project in Puget Sound, and Taimur Martin, a political prisoner in Beirut, retreat into the world of the imagination, each in their own white room.
6) The heir
Author
Series
Reid Family volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young, beautiful, but country-born Sabrina feels awkward upon coming to London for guidance in the ways of nobility until she meets Scottish heir Duncan MacTavish. Unfortunately, he is betrothed to Ophelia, Sabrina's mentor, and the young lovers are divided by class and fate.
8) The hours
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are different, they are tied together by a common bond.
10) Key of knowledge
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Librarian Dana Steele, one of the three young women in a quest for the keys to a mystical box that holds the trapped souls of three Celtic demigoddesses imprisoned by a jealous sorcerer, is led to author Jack Hawke, but their prior romantic history complicates things when the two of them are forced into working together to locate the next key.
11) The voyage out
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
We meet young free-spirited Rachel Vinrace aboard her father's ship, the Euphrosyne, departing London for South America. Surrounded by a clutch of genteel companions -- among them her aunt Helen, who judges Rachel to be "vacillating," "emotional," and "more than normally incompetent for her years" -- Rachel displays a startling maturity when she finds her engagement to the writer Terence Hewet listing toward disaster.
12) The quiet game
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widowed attorney Penn Cage, having returned with his young daughter to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, finds himself battling the FBI, a powerful judge, a former love, and the citizens of the city when he joins ranks with local publisher Caitlin Masters to solve the mystery of the thirty-year-old murder of an African-American Korean War veteran.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drea Rousseau, a beauty with a taste for the finer things in life, is forced to run after betraying her boyfriend, crime lord Rafael Salinas, who sends the Assassin after her, and when fate intervenes to give her another chance, she teams up with the most dangerous man she has ever met, risking her life and heart to bring Salinas down.
Author
Series
Brides of Webster County volume 4
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allison Troyer, a tomboy of marriageable age, is sent to her aunt in Missouri to learn how to manage a household and meets young Aaron Zook, a harness maker who hesitantly falls for Allison.
17) The surrendered
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
469 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
June Han, who survived her childhood in war-torn Korea thanks to American soldier Hector Brennan and the loving care of missionary wife Sylvie Tanner, reunites with Brennan in her later years to search for Tanner.
Author
Series
Huxtable quintet volume 3
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Duncan Pennethorne, Earl of Sheringford, forced to marry in fifteen days or lose his inheritance, extends an offer to Margaret Huxtable who has her own reasons for accepting--on the condition that he spend some time wooing her first, and they soon find their marriage of convenience turning into something much different.
19) A secret affair
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hannah, the beautiful Duchess of Dunbarton, freed at the age of thirty by the death of her elderly husband after more than ten years of marriage, announces that she plans to take Constantine, the black sheep of the Huxtable family, as her lover, and while both intended to have only a brief fling, the scandalous union soon turns to love.
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
c1984
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Megan Miller is determined to resist the charms of cocky, confident David Katcherton, especially after she learns he is after her beloved grandfather's business, but she soon comes to see in him the answer to all her romantic dreams.
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