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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
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
431 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the anniversary of his beloved wife's death, Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter Hannah had written him. In it she reminds him of her love and makes one final request. An impossible request - I want you to marry again. She tells him he shouldn't spend the years he has left grieving her. And to that end she's chosen three women she asks him to consider.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Successful advertising executive Michelle Turner steels herself for a difficult encounter with her past when she returns to the small Montana town where she grew up to donate a kidney to her estranged father, and to make peace with Sam McPhee, her ranch-hand lover--now a prosperous rancher and doctor--who left town seventeen years earlier before learning that she was pregnant with his child.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. It begins in the early part of the 20th century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda, the vast Australian sheep station owned by his autocratic and childless older sister; and it ends more than half a century later, when the only survivor of the third generation, the brilliant actress Justine O'Neill, sets a course of life and love...
8) 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.
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.
10) 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
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
504 pages ; map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four women, Yael--whose father, an expert assassin, has never forgiven her for her mother's death during childbirth--Revka--a local baker's wife who witnessed the murder or her daughter by Roman soldiers--Aziza--a warrior's daughter who was raised like a son--and Shirah--a woman born with uncanny insight and knowledge of ancient magic--are drawn to Masada, a mountain the Judean desert where, in 70 CE, nine hundred Jews withheld for months against...
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 8
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
There are days on Willow Lake…
Daisy Bellamy has struggled for years to choose between two men—one honorable and steady, one wild and untethered. And then, one fateful day, the decision is made for her.
When the wind is so still and the water so calm…
Now busy with a thriving business on Willow Lake, Daisy knows she should be happy with the life she's chosen for herself and her son. But she still aches for the one thing she can't have....
14) 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.
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maureen Davenport, who loves the Christmas holiday, prepares to direct Avalon's annual pageant, and as she makes preparations, she learns that former child star Eddie Haven, a man with tattoos and long hair, has been ordered to co-direct the production with her.
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
Macmillan Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2009
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of "Philadelphia Inquirer" columns includes stories about the author's experience of being caught braless in an emergency room, what she identifies as a man's most important body part, and interrupting as an art form.
19) Royal's bride
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.
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