young women

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

Twenty-three-year-old Jennifer Stempler, her mother dead, her father remarried, and deserted by her lover, makes a failed attempt to kill herself, but her obvious call for help is answered by her beloved grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, who takes Jennifer to her home in New York, and tries to give her a reason for living.

The worlds of Dublin and Knockglen will suddenly be joined in intrigues and dreams as the mysteries of the past and the hopes of the future test the bonds of Benny and Eve's friendship.

Nineteen-year-old Free Meeker grabs at the chance to start life over when she is mistakenly reported dead in a highway pileup and takes on the identity of a hitchhiker, along with a bag filled with $740,000 in drug money, not realizing there are people out there who want both the hitchhiker and the cash back and are willing to kill to get them.

Lucy Honeychurch, a British woman living in Italy, finds herself torn between the snobbery of her class and her desires when she becomes attracted to a socially unsuitable man.

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.

Darby, not happy about having to move from New York to Florida where her family has taken over the management of a hotel, feels much better about the situation when she starts hanging around with local beach boy Zach, but complications arise when her old boyfriend from the city decides to pay a visit just in time for the hotel's annual Valentine's Day Cupid's Ball.

Derek asks Sasha to match him with her own sister, but she's not sure she's up to the challenge because Sasha has eyes for Derek herself.

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