Chinese Cinderella: The true story of an unwanted daughter

The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother.

The Age of Innocence

Countess Olenska, having suffered the collapse of her marriage in Europe, arrives in New York. Newland Archer anticipates marriage to May Welland, the countess's cousin, but eventually falls in love with the countess. He discovers the real anguish of loving outside of society's rules.

Revenge wears Prada: The devil returns

The hotly-anticipated sequel to The Devil Wears Prada - the million copy bestseller that took the world by storm Everything's in place for the season's hottest launch: Tall latte (with two raw sugars)? Check. Gucci trench (draped over desk)? Check. Outrageous, unreasonable demands? Check. Andy has just turned thirty and is an incredibly successful magazine editor, working closely with her best …

Anna Karenina: A novel in eight parts

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of c…

Path of the Seer

Thirianna walks the dangerous Path of the Seer and gets a vision of Alaitoc in danger.

Anna Karenina

Tells the story of Anna's forbidden love for the dashing soldier, Count Vronsky. This work is a study of passionate love set against the background of pre-Bolshevik Russia at the time of the development of the Russian railway.

Anna Karenina

A new translation of Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina", in which a woman of fine nature forsakes her husband for a lover, and after a bitter experience commits suicide.

Help

Aibileen is a black maid, raising her 17th white child, but with a bitter heart after the death of her son. Minny is the sassiest woman in Mississippi. Skeeter is a white woman with a degree but no ring on her finger. Seemingly as different as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk.

The careful use of compliments

Ousted as editor of the "Review of Applied Ethics", Isabel thankfully has her newborn son to keep her occupied. What's more, Charlie's adoring father Jamie has offered the most intriguing proposal of all--marriage. But before she can settle into a quiet, domestic existence, Isabel becomes entangled in an art world mystery. At an auction, two paintings attributed to a deceased artist hit the mar…

October

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0-553-28630-7

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Hang a thousand trees with ribbons

A historical novel based on the story of Phillis Wheatley - the first African American female poet. It presents an intriguing and moving story of a young girl kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold, in 1761, as a slave to the wealthy Wheatley family of Boston.

Lavender blue

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0-590-13940-1

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Forget Me Not

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The joy luck club

In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.

The bean trees: A novel

Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a home in Tucson with Mattie, a woman who takes in refugees.

Emma

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9781847494139

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My Antonia

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9780140187649

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The Scarlet letter

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9780553210095

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247 p.

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Eight girls taking pictures: A novel

A tale inspired by the lives of famous twentieth-century female photographers traces the progression of feminism and photography in various world regions as each woman explores private and public goals while balancing the demands of family and creativity.

Beloved

Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her childre…

The invention of wings

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9780525426806

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373 p.

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Elizabeth is missing

In a heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging, an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared. Convinced Elizabeth is missing and in terrible danger, Maud's search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences. As this singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud's rapidl…

Far from the Madding Crowd

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Far from the Madding Crowd

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978-1-85326-067-4

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331p.

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Wordsworth Classics

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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978-1-85326-005-6

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360p.

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Wordsworth Classics

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Parvana

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978-1-86508-694-1

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Middlemarch

An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly fluid social mobility, Eliot's depiction of the small community of Middlemarch weaves an intricate web of different characters disparate lives as they strive to adapt to the changing world around them. Eliot was one of the first of her female contemporaries to write a novel that dealt wit…

Cut Nyak Din

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9796667096

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Bleak house

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9780141439723

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Penguin Classics

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Bleak house

Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Nicola Bradbury ; preface by Terry Eagleton.

Masa remaja Hee Ah

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