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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 the...

Ashley Baxter, convinced she is unlovable, hides her heart from her family, the man who loves her, and even God, but she moves to a position of hope and faith with the help of four Alzheimer's patients, and the life-changing events of September 11, 2001.

Jane Austen's first novel--published posthumously in 1818--tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature....

Phineas King knows better than to expect anything but shock and pity wherever he shows his face. Horribly scarred from the tragic accident that claimed his mother's life, he chooses to keep his distance from everyone, focusing his time and energy on the bees his family raises. If no one sees him, no one can judge him. So why does he start finding excuses to seek out Deborah Lantz, the beautiful new arrival in town? Deborah can't get out of Bee County,...

Puts a new spin on the familiar story of Belle, a kind-hearted young woman who saves her father by agreeing to go live in the castle of a Beast.

"As this finale opens, Tasmin and her family are under irksome, though comfortable, arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Her father, the eccentric Lord Berrybender, is planning to head for Texas with his whole family and his retainers, English, American and Native American. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband, Jim Snow, anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go next. Neither does anyone else - even Captain Clark, of...

"A novel about a young woman who loses her job and her boyfriend and spirals down a dark path of self-destruction that threatens to harm anyone close to her."-- Elsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom-- fired from MoMA on the heels of an affair with her married boss, she retreats to Los Angeles to blow her severance package on whatever it takes to numb the pain. Her abandoned crew of college friends think she's on vacation, and are celebrating the...

Virginia Simpson has a yearning deep inside her to go somewhere, discover something, be a part of the world about her in a new way would not go away. But what would satisfy it? When her graduation day arrives, she walks to the podium as the class valedictorian to the proud grins of her grandparents, Marty and Clark Davis. College beckons, and life seems to be well in hand. She thought she would feel different. Like an adult, with an inner knowledge...

He's a bastard, a gambler, and society's favorite reprobate. But to Lady Kiri Lawford he's a hero - braver than the smugglers he rescues her from, more honorable than any lord she's ever met, and far more attractive than any man has a right to be. She can't stop herself from falling in love. Damian Mackenzie has secrets that leave no room in his life for courting high-born young ladies - especially not the sister of one of his childhood friends. Yet,...

An award-winning novelist's captivating look at postwar England and a summer that changes the lives of three schoolgirls on the brink of womanhood and a new world.