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By 1866, Dr. Cheney Dufall has had her fill of places where people distrust her skill simply because she is a woman.

"Allison Lee is seventeen and off to college in the fall. So far, she's been in love once (total catastrophe) and on fire twice (also pretty bad).

Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods--and by shared tragedy.

School is just like a film set: there's The Crew that make things happen, The Extras who fill the empty desks, and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos.

Peter, the only boy among four siblings born to Chinese immigrants, is convinced he is a girl and must fight the confines of a small town as well as the expectations of his parents to forge his own

Ladies, it is time to give yourself something you deserve - an escape.

When Priscilla Jayne Morgan, a country music superstar, becomes the talk of the tabloids, her record label hires her ex-crush Jared Hamilton to escort her on her summer tour, causing things to get

"It is 1983. On the streets of Vancouver women's libbers are marching. In the forests of the northern interior a tapped out logging contractor is slowly going broke.

"Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle--a string of slaves-- Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South

Lara is mother to Maudie and stepmother to Jasmine and Eve.

" In the quiet of a warm summer's evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies.

"“Its an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it.