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102) Big girls don't cry
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Four women start a feminist publishing company to get even with men, only to discover that sisterhood is just as prone to greed and betrayal as manhood. The setting is 1970s England.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since she met him, Caroline has intended to wed Mr. Darcy. Intelligent and well educated, Caroline is an ambitious rising star in fashionable society--some might say conniving--but in Regency England, what can she do to better her situation but marry well? Surely, Mr. Darcy is aware that Caroline will make the perfect wife and hostess at Pemberley, his grand estate. Now, all she need do is await his proposal. Caroline's brother, Charles, takes...
104) The chestnut tree
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
By bestselling British writer Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree is a sweeping, romantic novel about the women who stayed behind in World War II.
It is the summer of 1939, and the residents of the idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war. Beautiful but shy Judy Melton, daughter of a naval hero; her determinedly feckless friend, the social butterfly Meggie Gore-Steward; seemingly demure Mathilda Eastcott, and Rusty Sykes, the...
105) Staring at the sun
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes's wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes-winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending-follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and...
106) The jewel box
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
London, 1927: the city is buzzing with life. By day, Grace Rutherford is a copywriter at one of London's biggest advertising agencies but by night, she is Diamond Sharp, author of a racy gossip column. When Grace meets two Americans who are sworn enemies, she is drawn into a web of secrets and lies which will change her life forever…
107) Judgment day
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Judgment Day takes us into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a sleepy village enlivened only by sideshows of adultery and gossip. An avowed agnostic, Clare is nonetheless caught up in the restoration of the church, even inciting the villagers to put on a pageant that recreates the church's dark history. With flawless precision, Penelope Lively brings the village and its inhabitants to life as an unpardonable...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
It is 1947, the worst winter in England since records began, and even the sea is frozen. For the women living in the little fishing port of Bexham, the chronic lack of everything from fuel to food has left them reeling. When Waldo Astley, a handsome young American, drives through thick Sussex snow into the village in his large Buick, he finds Bexham filled not only with grumbling residents, but with frustrated wives and mothers, forced back behind...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Darcy's Story comes a novel of romance, family tragedy, and intrigue in a volatile England at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Julia Maitland had an idyllic childhood with her brother and younger sisters on her family's estate in rural Derbyshire. Upon reaching marriageable age, she looked forward to everything that her new status could bring: the excitements of her first "season" in society, a choice of handsome suitors, and-hopefully-a...
110) The gates of ivory
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Successful London psychiatrist Liz Headleland receives a mysterious package from her old friend Stephen Cox which takes her to the chaos and corruption of Southeast Asia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Cassandra Bainbridge has twice set aside her scholarly pursuits--once for the London Season and once for her wedding preparations. Love seems a wonderful alternative to study, until disaster strikes. When an accident brings an end to her betrothal, she heads for the country to recover from both her injuries and her broken heart. There she pursues her love for ballooning and envisions a future for herself as a daring aeronaut. But when her former fiancé...
114) The deception
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Devers and Lord Burfield court two of the Beverly sisters while they remain obsessed with regaining Mannerling, the family's seventeenth-century mansion.
116) The heat of the day
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1949.
Language
English
Description
Story of espionage and betrayal set in World War II England.
119) This real night
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to The Fountain Overflows, Rose Aubrey, her sisters, and her cousin stand on the brink of adulthood and a new era for women. They have put down their schoolbooks and put up their hair, but a talented musician and her kin ponder what being a young woman on one's own will entail. Abandoned by their feckless father, Rose and her family must move beyond their comfortable drawing room to discover a world of kind patrons, music teachers, and...
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