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A novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.

"You know Haylah Swinton - she's big, bold and funnier than a cat in a onesie playing the bagpipes. She's been busy proving she's as a kick-butt comedian, she's got herself a fab boyfriend called Dylan, the best girl crew in the world totally have her back, her little brother isn't driving her totally nuts, and did she mention she has a boyfriend called Dylan? Yes, THAT Dylan. But this proving-she's-funny thing is kind of tough sometimes. And come to think of it, Dylan isn't acting particularly boyfriendly at the moment. Plus her pathetic excuse for a dad has decided to turn up and make everything confusing. As if real life wasn't complicated enough, when Haylah sets up her own comedy YouTube channel, she finds out that online life can be a whole other can of trolls..." -- Amazon.

Firethorn flees a life of drudgery to live alone in the forest and then accompanies one of King Thyrse's noblemen to war where she learns to use her gifts as a healer.

Presents a adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" which chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

In the time since their friend Arie died, new problems have surfaced for Ciana Beauchamp and Eden McLauren of Tennessee--Eden is heading to Australia to rekindle her romance with Garret, while Ciana is being pressured to sell her family's land to a developer and a long buried family secret is threatening to end her relationship with Jon, the man she wants to marry.

Alice MacCauley's eleventh summer is shaped by new friendship, the twinges of first love, and adult lessons about life and death when she and Theo, a New York City boy of mixed race visiting his white New England grandparents, become the companions of Kenneth, an artist dying of and losing his eyesight to AIDS, reading him the journals of Lewis and Clark and building him a secret "rope walk" through the woods.

In the early twentieth century, a small town is rapidly transformed into a bustling, money-making nest of competitors overrun by a group of greedy men.

Alice Adams, a middle-class girl with charm, looks, and ambition, embarks on a foolish quest to impose herself on high society in a small midwestern town in the early twentieth century.

"Meet Anne, a fiery, red-headed orphan with a knack for trouble. Sent to live with the Cuthberts by mistake, she'll need pluck and imagination to prove she belongs at Green Gables"--Back cover.