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' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' - born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans ...

Describes the domestic obligations, social limitations, and economic factors that impede literary creativity in women, in the story of William Shakespeare's ...

Tell me the truth.

The 1934 journal of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain reveals her perspective on six stormy months in the eccentric and poverty-stricken life of her family ...

A tale spanning from the Victorian era through World War I finds famous children's book author Olive Wellwood taking in a runaway who reminds her of her own ...

A wandering writer, who boards at an herbalist's house in Maine, finds herself becoming more and more involved in the lives of the villagers

When children's book author Molly Somerville acts on her crush on Chicago Stars quarterback Kevin Tucker, she sets in motion a chain of events that will alter ...

DADDY-LONG-LEGS " BLUE WEDNESDAY " THE first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day — a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and ...

On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to ...

I. THE RETUEN. THERE was something about the coast town of Dunnet which made it seem more attractive than other maritime villages of eastern Maine. ...

After purchasing a farm in the beautiful Lake District of England, the animal lover attempts to make friends among her fellow villagers, while her animal ...

Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonial ...

Near Sawrey, the seat of Miss Beatrix Potter's country home, has been abuzz since Mr. Wickstead had met his death under a tree limb.

While dealing with the mob and the mysterious disappearance of a friend, Maggie, along with the dangerously sexy Viscount Saint Just, who is one of her ...

Famed children's author Winifred Rudge attempts to write a novel about a woman haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper and finds herself the object of spectral ...

Literary agent JoJo Harvey is troubled by her affair with her married boss, and the lack of a second novel from Lilly Wright, a bestselling author who has just ...

When Beatrix Potter returns to her new hometown of Sawrey after some time away, she finds the village threatened by a mysterious outsider who plans to destroy ...

The author of twelve consecutive New York Times best-sellers presents a romance of Regency England involving a set of forbidden rings suffused with the powers ...

Introduction Catherine Rainwater & William J. Scheick I n 1970, a signal year in the development of the women's movement, Kate Millett published her ...

After consulting a hypnotist, modern-day romance writer Hayden Lane finds herself journeying back in time to Edwardian England, where she awakens in the body of ...