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1) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
3) Songbird
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Lisa Samson's moving novel, the wife of a popular televangelist discovers a family secret that threatens to destroy her marriage and her husband's ministry.
4) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
Author
Language
English
Description
There's something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. When she was seventeen a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. At forty she spends days unable to get out of bed, and often alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks. When her husband Patrick-- who has only ever wanted her to be happy-- moves out, she returns to her childhood home: a dilapidated townhouse in a rundown part of London,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Laure, a ward attendant at the Salpêtrière women’s asylum, knew Josephine was lucky being placed in the hysteria ward, where there were more freedoms than in the lunacy ward. Josephine came to the asylum not remembering anything of her past, but when hypnotized by the famous Dr. Charcot, she relives a brutal attack. Dr. Charcot has his favorites and presents his patients on stage for the public to witness the symptoms of hysteria. Soon Josephine...
11) A quiet storm
Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
12) The optimists
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
16) Golden years
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages : geneological table ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dolores has suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists. Her father is a violent, philandering liar, her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O, and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures. She is determined to rise above all of it.
20) Mr. Rochester
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On his eighth birthday, Edward Rochester is banished from his beloved Thornfield Hall to learn his place in life. His journey eventually takes him to Jamaica where, as a young man, he becomes entangled with an enticing heiress and makes a choice that will haunt him. It is only when he finally returns home and encounters one stubborn, plain, young governess, that Edward can see any chance of redemption - and love.
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