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Set in the Republic of Gilead, the former United States, during the late twentieth century.

Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are different, they are tied together by a common bond.

This is a book I really enjoyed because of the discriptive words used to explain what is happening are used in a very good way.

Four women, Yael--whose father, an expert assassin, has never forgiven her for her mother's death during childbirth--Revka--a local baker's wife who witnessed the murder or her daughter by Roman soldiers--Aziza--a warrior's daughter who was raised like a son--and Shirah--a woman born with uncanny insight and knowledge of ancient magic--are drawn to Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert where, in 70 CE, nine hundred Jews withheld for months against armies of Romans.

Katy Carter dreams of a perfect life come crashing down when one disastrous dinner party ends her engagement, but when she vows to find romance once again, her desperation for love sets her off on a wild journey that could toss her into the arms of her true love.

An annotated edition of Jean Rhys's novel centered upon Bertha, the Jamaican madwoman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; includes several of Rhys's letters, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and works of criticism discussing such aspects of the novel as colonialism, race, and Caribbean culture.

Contains a complete plot summary and analysis of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God", as well as discussion of the characters, themes, and includes study questions.

Alicia, Carmen, Jamie, and Gaz are hired by Binky Mortimer, a spoiled, rich, and bubbly girl intent on having the biggest and best Quincean?ra in Miami, but Binky's high demands and expectations wear on the girls from Amigas Inc.

Tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a wife and mother living in Victorian-era New Orleans.

Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later, with his circumstances much improved.

Twenty-six-year-old Sammy Joyce, health care analyst for a U.S. senator, falls for the speechwriter for a rival senator she cannot stand and finds herself stumbling through love, Capitol Hill politics, and the campaign for president.

The history of a woman born poor, orphaned early, and who eventually rose to a position of unique influence.

Free-spirited Rois Melior is content to roam the woods about the reportedly cursed Lynn Hall, but when the estate's owner Corbet returns, she is drawn with him into an otherworld of perpetual summer ruled by a goddess who refuses to let Corbet leave until Rois realizes she holds the key to his freedom.

Set in a future society that has reverted to, and gone beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans, this story is told through the eyes of Offred, a so-called handmaid.

Mary Mackenzie travels from Britain to China so that she can marry the man she is betrothed to, but when she arrives, she falls in love with a young Japanese nobleman, and she must choose between her love and her country.