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1) The women
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
Author
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Shortly after her mother's death, Christine is surprised to learn that she was adopted, and as she digs into her biological family, she reveals a shocking lineage--will she be able to come to terms with the past, take hold of the present, and look forward to a brighter future?
Author
Publisher
Trafford Publishing
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After 18 years of never dating, Rose McDowell finally breaks out of her naivety by romantic adventures with a sailor, Marvin Brown, much to her father's chagrin. Complications end that romance only for Rose to fall in love with a drug dealer that doesn't help for permanency of a romance either when Rose, now AKA Gertrude, is serving time in a penitentiary. Paroled and moving to Denver, a series of unplanned situations bring Gertrude and Marvin together...
Author
Language
English
Description
When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and two perfect children, and as she embraces the new relationships and the perks of maturity, she must ask herself some difficult questions.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Girl in the box: In 1977, a girl is kidnapped and kept in a coffin-sized box. When her captors let her out, it's only to abuse her horribly. Will she ever escape?
Girl in the bunker: A teenage girl is abducted and held in a forest in an underground bunker by a sexual predator.
Girl in the basement: Sarah is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Follows the relationship of two contrasting communities: Lark Rise, a small hamlet gently holding onto the past, and Candleford, a neighboring market town bustling into the future. When young Laura Timmins leaves Lark Rise for a job at the Candleford post office, she discovers an eye-opening, exciting new world. In the face of scandals and feuds, she must leave her childhood behind.
7) Rosewater
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evicted from her social housing in south London, 28-year-old Elsie turns to her childhood friend, Juliet, for help, and among Juliet’s mismatched cushions and shelves lined with trinkets, Elsie is able to breathe for the first time in years, discovering what she’s been searching for has been there all along.
8) Obsessed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a killer becomes obsessed with his oldest daughter, Detective Michael Bennett will do anything to keep his family safe as he races against time to crack this superstitious killer's code.
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Clambering into the branches of a tree, a young woman flees flaming arrows and massacre. She will struggle for survival: scour the wilderness for shelter, strive and seek for a new family and a setting where she can belong. For Charis, the world is a maze of hazards. And even if she survives, it is no simple matter to nest among her own kind--the godly, those called Puritans. She may desire companionship, may even fall in love with a man, and may...
11) Poor things
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping (and sometimes failing) to find herself. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the terrible decisions she made in her early twenties through the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, CHOOSE YOUR OWN DISASTER is a manifesto about the millennial experience...
13) House of cotton
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral home. Magnolia...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traveling the region of Nyons with her foster father’s mobile library in 1960s France, Marie-Jeanne, who has a special gift for matchmaking, brings soulmates together each place they go, but is unable to find one for herself, wondering when love will finally come to her.
15) Freshman year
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the constant angst, hilarity, and self-doubt enmeshed in the experience of going away to college--all through the eyes of an eighteen-year-old burgeoning comics artist.
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