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Emma on fire [text (large print)] / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Raymond, Emily,1972-author.;
"Everyone at Ridgemont Academy knows what to expect from Emma Caroline Blake. Perfect grades. Perfect record. Perfect life. Then she stands up in class and commits an act so shocking her reputation will never recover. And that's exactly what Emma wants. In a world where the path forward is uncertain, expectation is the enemy. Emma on Fire is the unforgettable story of one brave young woman -- and her decision to live life as if everyone's future depends on it. Because it does."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Novels.; Grief; Life change events; Mental health; Self-immolation; Young women;
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River wild / by Daniels, B. J.,author.;
Everyone has a secret. Some of them are deadly ... Some scars can't be hidden. Sheriff Stuart Layton has plenty of those, courtesy of an attack that left him doubting himself as a lawman. But in Bailey McKenna he recognizes a different kind of hurt. That unspoken understanding has him opening his door to the mysterious, elusive young woman again and again, hoping she'll tell him what she's running from. Bailey has spent years searching for the rancher who put her through hell. She never saw his face, but she's convinced he's somewhere in Powder River. Now, suddenly, she has terrifying proof of how close he is. This time, Stuart is by her side, determined to protect her--and find retribution for himself. But will that be enough to fend off a killer waiting to finish what he started?
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Ranchers; Secrecy; Sheriffs; Young women;
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The shocking experiments of Miss Mary Bennet : a novel / by Taub, Melinda,author.;
"Mary Bennet is the middlest middle child of all time. Awkward, plain, and overlooked, she's long been out of favor not only with her own family but with generations of readers of Pride and Prejudice. But what was Mary really doing while her sisters were falling in love? Well, what does any bright, intrepid girl do in an age when brains and hard work are only valued if they come with a pretty face? Take to the attic and teach herself to reanimate the dead of course. The world refuses to make a place for peculiar Mary, but no Bennet sister ever gives up on happiness that easily. If it won't give this fierce, lonely girl a place, she'll carve one out herself. And if finding acceptance requires a husband, she'll get one. Even if she has to make him herself, too. However, Mary's genius and determination aren't enough to control what she unwittingly unleashes. Her desperate attempts to rein in the destruction wreaked by her creations leads her to forge a perhaps unlikely friendship with another brilliant young woman unlike any she's ever known. As that friendship blossoms into something passionate and all-consuming, Mary begins to realize that she may have to choose between the acceptance she's always fought for and true happiness"--
Subjects: Queer fiction.; Monster fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Experiments; Monsters; Scientists; Sisters; Woman-woman relationships; Young women;
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Strega / by Holm, Johanne Lykke,1987-author.; Vogel, Saskia,translator.; translation of:Holm, Johanne Lykke,1987-Strega.English.;
"With toiletries, hairbands, and notebooks in her bag, and at her mother's instruction, a nineteen-year-old girl leaves her parents' home and the seaside town she grew up in. Out the train window, Rafa sees the lit-up mountains and perfect trees-and the Olympic Hotel waiting for her perched above the small village of Strega. There, she and eight other girls receive the stiff black uniforms of seasonal workers and move into their shared dorm. But while they toil constantly to perform their role and prepare the hotel for guests, none arrive. Instead, they contort themselves daily to the expectations of their strict, matronly bosses without clear purpose and, in their spare moments, escape to the herb garden, confide in each other, and quickly find solace together. Finally, the hotel is filled with people for a wild and raucous party, only for one of the girls to disappear. What follows are deeper revelations about the myths we teach young women, what we raise them to expect from the world, and whether a gentler, more beautiful life is possible. In stimulating and uninhibited imagery, Johanne Lykke Holm builds a world laced with the supernatural, filled with the secrecy and potential energy of girls on the cusp of womanhood. An allegory for the societal rites and expectations of women and the violence we too easily allow, Strega builds like a spell that keeps exerting its powers long after reading"--
Subjects: Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Hotels; Missing persons; Young women;
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I will blossom anyway : a novel / by Bose, Disha,author.;
"A romantic coming-of-age story about one woman's inspiring journey to find self love, reconnect with family, and forge a new path for her future, from the author of the Good Morning America book club pick Dirty Laundry. First edition"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Female friendship; Man-woman relationships; Self-realization in women; Young women;
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Study for obedience / by Bernstein, Sarah(Literature teacher),author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Hostility (Psychology); Housekeepers; Siblings; Threats of violence; Young women;
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Looking for salvation at the Dairy Queen : a novel / by Gilmore, Susan Gregg;
Subjects: Young women; City and town life; Self-actualization (Psychology);
© c2008., Shaye Areheart Books,
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A very nice girl : a novel / by Crimp, Imogen,1989-author.;
"A razor-sharp debut novel about an ambitious young opera singer caught between devotion to her craft and an all-consuming affair with an older man"--Anna doesn't fit in. Not with her wealthy classmates at the selective London Conservatory where she unexpectedly wins a place after university, not with the family she left behind, and definitely not with Max, a man she meets in the bar where she sings for cash. He's everything she's not-rich, tailored to precision, impossible to read-and before long Anna is hooked, desperate to hold his attention, and determined to ignore the warning signs that this might be a toxic relationship. As Anna shuttles from grueling rehearsals to brutal auditions, she finds herself torn between two conflicting desires: the drive to nurture her fledgling singing career, which requires her undivided attention, and the longing for human connection. When the stakes increase, and the roles she's playing-both on stage and off-begin to feel all-consuming, Anna must reckon with the fact that, in carefully performing what's expected of her as a woman, she risks losing sight of herself completely.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Psychological fiction.; Ambition; May-December romances; Psychological abuse; Singers; Young women;
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Bitter sweet : a novel / by Williams, Hattie(Novelist),author.;
"Charlie is twenty-three, single and the new publicity assistant at London's preeminent independent book publishing house. Richard Aveling is fifty-six, married and the author who has defined his generation. Charlie has long idolized the charming, illustrious writer, who also represents a link to her late mother who loved his work. But as they embark on an illicit and all-consuming affair, Charlie is forced to hide the relationship from everyone she cares about. Too soon, she can't imagine her life without Richard, and too late, she understands that losing him will unravel more than just their relationship -- it might also unravel her."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Adultery; Authors; Man-woman relationships; Publishers and publishing; Young women;
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No country for love / by Trofimov, Yaroslav,author.;
Seventeen-year-old Deborah Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv, 1930, to make her own fate as a modern woman. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; it's a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers go up overnight. Deborah finds work and meets a dashing young officer named Samuel who is training to become a fighter pilot. They fall in love, and begin to become part of Ukraine's new cultural elite. But Deborah's prospects, and Ukraine's, soon dim. Famine rolls through the over-harvested countryside, and any deviation from Moscow-dictated ideology is punished by disappearance: without warning, Samuel is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Deborah is on her own with a baby. And this is only the beginning. As advancing Nazi armies move through Ukraine during World War II, its yellow fields of wheat run red with blood. Forced to renounce the man she loves, her identity and even her name, Debora also learns to endure, manipulate and resist. No Country for Love follows the hard choices Debora makes as Ukraine, caught between two totalitarian ideologies, turns into the deadliest place in the world -- while she tries to protect those she loves most."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; World War, 1939-1945; Young women;
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