young women

A confrontation between a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan, called Little Bee, and a wealthy British couple on vacation, has life-changing consequences for everyone involved.

Teenaged Lady Patience learns that she is the Heptarch who must choose between saving and destroying her world, the human-controlled alien sphere called Imakulata, and begins her journey to meet the Unwyrm, a native life-form that has waited more than a millennium for her arrival.

Presents a suspenseful drama about the devastating events that leads a young woman into a life of murder, ecoterrorism, and her own death.

Thirty-two-year-old New Hampshire search-and-rescue worker Delia Hopkins, a soon-to-be-married mother of a five-year-old daughter, begins having strange flashbacks of a forgotten childhood and learns that her father, whom she always believed to be a widower, kidnapped her when she was four--and that her mother is still alive.

Katharine Hilbery must decide whether she wants to marry a man she doesn't love but who is socially acceptable or a man who is poor but the true love she has been looking for.

Thirteen-year-old Fair O'Nelli has spent nine years living in a cellar, fearing her father and brother are dead, and when she is set free on her day of maidenhood, she and three guardians set off to find Selador's Gate, where she hopes to learn of her family's fate.

Profiles ten women who work in the field of travel and hospitality in such jobs as cruise ship social hostess, photographer, travel writer and editor, and spa director, and explains their duties and how they prepared for and got started in their careers.

"Mika, heartbroken over his breakup with his ex-girlfriend, meets Leah. He is instantly drawn to her but learns there is something different about Leah--she is deaf. Mika learns sign language so he can communicate with her, but discovers the world of deaf culture is much different from his own. Soon, Mika and Leah find that extraordinary love overcomes all obstacles"--Provided by publisher.