women librarians

Rosa Fiore, a Sicilian woman with an amazing talent for cooking, deals twice with tragic love and loss and learns about life and sensuality through her culinary art.

A fictional account of the Pinkerton Detective Agency's involvement in uncovering the Baltimore Plot, an assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

Nineteenth-century town librarian Glynis Tryon, a veteran of a number of political crusades, becomes involved in battling discrimination against the Seneca Iroquois by white settlers, but when one of her Iroquois friends is accused of murder, the fight becomes personal.

Trudi Montag a dwarf, living in a small German town, through both world wars, learns to find acceptance, because she learns that all humans are different.

Nineteenth-century town librarian Glynis Tryon, a veteran of a number of political crusades, becomes involved in battling discrimination against the Seneca Iroquois by white settlers, but when one of her Iroquois friends is accused of murder, the fight becomes personal.

After being struck by lighting, a woman undergoes startling physical and emotional changes, and sets out to find another lighting-strike survivor in the hopes of learning how to cope with her new life.

A sheltered fifteen-year-old girl named Mary Fred Anderson is removed from her home in a fundamentalist sect and placed in foster care in a Washington, D.C. suburb, where a violent act upon her new family has an indelible impact on her, making her reexamine her long-held beliefs.

Follows the popular children's author through college years during the Depression; jobs including that of librarian; marriage; and writing and publication of her first book, "Henry Huggins.".