married women

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage. Includes an introduction by Mona Simpson, commentary, and a reading group guide.

Assistant district attorney Nina Frost has always prided herself on the fact that she protects the city's children from abuse and crime, but when her own son is sexually abused, she finds herself overcome with rage and sets out to find his attacker and exact justice for her son.

It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, WI. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen and her 2 children move into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill. This is a loveless house where calculated cruelty is a way of life.

Frances Scott, the penniless niece of an English lord, agrees to marry Bristol trader Josiah Cole, an arrangement that provides her with a home and him with the social contacts he needs to build his business. However, she is forced to confront her need for love and liberty when Josiah brings the slave Mehuru to their house and assigns her the task of training the man, a former priest and aide to the King of Yoruba, to become a house servant.

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.

Forty-two-year-old Jessie is summoned home to Egret Island off the coast of South Carolina after her obsessively devout mother inexplicably cuts off her own finger, and finds herself oddly exhilarated to be free of her husband, and wildly attracted to Brother Thomas, a monk who has yet to take his final vows.

Presents a collection of fictional letters in which struggling film producer Olivia Hunt chronicles a year in her life, traveling back and forth from Ohio, where her sister is battling leukemia, to Hollywood where she is trying to put together a big-budget production of her dream film, "Don Quixote.".

Flannery Jansen, overwhelmed by her new life at college, finds herself drawn to an older woman who teaches her many of life's most important lessons.

While her husband lies in the hospital after a suicide attempt, Misty Tracy Wilmot keeps a diary of her thoughts and reflects on the choices she has made in her life.