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In a quiet Wiltshire village, Larch Tree Lane winds slowly up a gentle hill.Among the residents is Maggie Hatherall, full of life despite her advancingyears, who worries what she is...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob. . . .A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the children,...

She's loved his music for years and knows he's had a tough time lately, with an intruder slashing his face, then a car accident putting his ability to play music...

A new friend helps Miranda take the first steps towards freedom, but her actions uncover painful secrets from the past which still have the power to hurt. Her sister escaped...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Anne Elliot is persuaded to reject the love of her life, Captain Wentworth, when her good friend Lady Russell, hints...

Their relationship didn't get off to the best of starts...but who can tell what the future will bring? As a longstanding fan of bestselling author Jivan Childering, aspiring young novelist...

The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale...

Forced from her home to escape the advances of her leering stepbrother Norris, Harriet is sent into service to provide for the family. Arriving at the grand Dalton House, she...

Sisters Mattie, Nell and Renie have all managed to escape their oppressive and bullying father, but now separated, the girls must draw upon their strength and courage to build new...

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream, but not so for Paula. She'shappy and secure in Western Australia with her own business, a completecontrast to her rootless childhood, and has...

But there is a condition to his legacy. She must give up her quiet life in England and live at the vineyard for a least one year. How will a...

Sarah Blakemere has been married and widowed three times and seen great success in her business life. Now at the age of ninety-five, she signs her final will and testament,...

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIME ' S "30 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU'RE 30" "Mukherjee gives us the gift of being allowed to...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Volume Volume 12 missing from this set. Small remainder marks on all twelve books. This series by David Jacobs, published...

A guaranteed best-seller - a brilliant new edition of one of Penguin's top-ten classics - more than 35k of the Black Classic edition sold every year. Orphaned Jane Eyre grows...

Defining the Renaissance "Virtuosa" considers the language of art in relationship to the issues of gender difference through an examination of art criticism written between 1550 and 1800 on approximately...

Author: Anna Jacobs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935, Frankie Redfern is unusual. She faces prejudice even from her...

Two of Virginia's Woolf most striking essays published together in a new Black Classics edition A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is...

As actress, activist, businesswoman, wife, and mother, Jane Fonda has pushed herself to the limit, attempting to please all, excel in every arena, be everything. We've read her version of...

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Fearful of commitment after a dismal romantic disaster, Lexi James, a thirtysomething Philadelphia PR executive, seeks the advice of her best friends, the Council of Girlfriends--a group consisting of "Princess"...

Written by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name "Linda Brent," Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an in-depth chronological account of Jacobs's life as a slave,...

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Author: Jane Cabrera Format: Board book Number of Pages: Playful and engaging titles from the award-winning author/illustrator Jane Cabrera. Die-cuts on alternate spreads create a joyous guessing game parents can...

From Harriet Jacobs and Jane Addams to Gloria Steinem and Maxine Hong Kingston, 25 American women tell the stories of their lives. Jill Ker Conway, author of "The Road from...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Yellowed cover, some minor peels to edges.Out In The World: Selected...

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a child, her world is turned upside down. Aaron Buchanan only discovered...

Meet the Corrigans. Childless Maeve, though rich and successful, is dying of cancer. She wants to leave her business empire to one of the offspring of her two estranged brothers,...

Lara Perryman has spent her whole life travelling for her busy corporate job, so it's a relief when she takes early retirement and settles in a leisure village in Wiltshire....

Armistice Day, London, 1918. Fiercely independent Georgie is tired of being told what's best for her by men. When she defies her father's wishes by going out into the peace...

Are love and devotion enough to create a happy family? When Andi married Ethan she not only got the man she loved but also the chance to be a mother,...

Author: Jane Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Acclaimed historian, Jane Robinson brings out of the shadows one of Victorian Britain's most influential but forgotten women. First wave feminist,...

A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte...

A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the children, there is only doubt.One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...

Author: Alan Jacobs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women....

Author: Jane SandilandsBinding: HardbackPublished: Trustees of the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, 2011Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, Helen Macpherson Smith: Her Life And Lasting Legacy, chronicles the remarkable...

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