young women

Examines the lives of female migrant factory workers in China, focusing on the experiences of two young women and including the author's story of her family's migration within China and to the West.

Presents historical evidence, based on research that includes the diaries of American girls written between the 1830s and 1990s, to show how the process of maturation has changed since the nineteenth century, making young women more anxious than ever before about their bodies and themselves.

Young Catherine Morland's entry into nineteenth-century English society is attended by the collapse of many of her romantic illusions.

Sixteen-year-old Blue van Meer and her professor father settle into North Carolina after a decade of moves, where she becomes a part of an elite group of student intellectuals and is rocked by the suspicious death of their mentor, film studies teacher Hannah Schneider, whose murder she tries to solve.

An annotated version of Jane Austen's novel in which a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes historical context, citations, definitions, comments and analysis, maps, illustrations, and more.

Charles Dickens's 1853 novel tells the story of several generations of the Jarndyce family who wait in vain to inherit money that is tied up in a legal dispute in England's notoriously slow-moving Court of Chancery.

Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-eight, Hannah Gavener learns about love, the lies one tells oneself, growing up, and taking risks as she struggles through two relationships and an unrequited love for her friend Henry for which she moves halfway across the country.

On a trip home to visit her parents, Khorii happens upon a derelict spacecraft drifting in space, its crew the subject of a deadly plague; and now Khorii is in a race against time to find the perpetrators and a cure before it destroys everyone.

Ginger Lee moves to New York to escape her controlling mother and life in Milwaukee, but when her mother thinks Ginger needs help running her life, she shows up on Ginger's doorstep, causing a series of hilarious, and embarrassing, encounters.

Emma Corrigan must discover whether she has set herself on the road to ruin or romance when she arrives at work to find the handsome stranger she has confessed all her secrets to during a dangerously turbulent flight is the elusive CEO of Panther Cola, her place of employment.