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1) Shirley
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Follows two different young women, one trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory, while the other who inherits a local estate whose wealth liberates her from convention
2) Cranford
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Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her demurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move...
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Now, you would obviously never, ever look up your exes on Facebook. Nooo. And even if you did, you most certainly wouldn't run off trying to track them down, risking your job, family and happiness in the process. Posy Fairweather, on the other hand ... Posy is delighted when Matt proposes - on top of a mountain, in a gale, in full-on romantic mode. But a few days later disaster strikes: he backs out of the engagement. Crushed and humiliated, Posy...
4) The outcast
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Independent single woman Rachel is shunned by the Mennonite community she grew up in when she becomes pregnant, and dark secrets threaten to rise when her bishop brother-in-law coerces her to leave.
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"A novel about teenager Emmie Blue, who releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it; now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has been counting on is gone for good, and everything she planned is up in the air"--
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Part of a family-oriented Amish community, twenty-four-year-old Naomi King has given up her dreams of finding true love. But when a young widower stirs surprising feelings in her, Naomi cautiously opens her heart to him and receives an unexpected response that once again turns her world upside-down.
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"A searing Southern story about confronting the difference between the family you're born into and the family you choose, from the acclaimed author of How to Bury Your Brother Lex fled Memphis years ago, making ends meet with odd jobs teaching English around the world. She only returns when she has no choice, when her godmother presents her with a bargain she can't refuse. Lex has never understood her mother, who died tragically right before Lex's...
12) The midwife
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The past: Graduate student Beth Winslow was sure she was ready to become a surrogate. Then the parents decided to end the pregnancy, and she fled to Hopen Haus, a home for unwed mothers in a Tennessee Mennonite community. The present: As head midwife of Hopen Haus, Rhoda Mummau delivers babies with confident ease, and keeps her past carefully concealed. But past and present collide when a young woman named Amelia arrives.
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Summer Harbor novels volume 1
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"When the Christmas season finds Eden in Summer Harbor, Maine, she's on the run from trouble. Romance is the last thing on her mind. Riding in a bus in the thickly falling snow, Eden Davis wonders how it ever came to this -- fleeing under cover of night with young Micah sleeping fitfully in the seat beside her. When a winter storm strands them in Summer Harbor, Maine, Eden wonders if what might have been the end could be a new beginning. Beau Callahan...
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Morgan Spencer is shattered in the wake of his wife's death. After two years of mourning on his brother's ranch, Morgan meets Quinn Riley, and hope blossoms that he could love again. But Quinn is fleeing a dangerous man bent on revenge, and she won't risk the Spencer family's safety by sticking around. If Morgan is going to win Quinn's heart, he'll first have to keep her safe.
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"Maggie is fine. She's doing really good, actually. Sure, she's broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcee. Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at four A.M., and 'get back out there' sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris;...
16) Savannah breeze
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Left with only a ramshackle motel on Tybee Island, and struggling to cope with the loss of everything following her disasterous encounter with a swindler, a Savannah woman launches a campaign to retrieve her fortune and bring the conman to justice
18) The odd women
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Two elderly spinster sisters in Victorian England eke out a living in a boarding house while their younger sister escapes into a loveless marriage and feminist friend falls in love
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"A night they will always remember... A connection neither can deny... A secret that could destroy it all... When Kennedy Ryan moves to California, she never expected to come face to face with the man who has haunted her thoughts for a year. A man who had her breaking all her rules for a single night of passion that ended up meaning more than it was ever supposed to. But because of her experience with men, Kennedy shields herself before he can break...
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