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(0)Julie Harris
Author
Summary
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
Pub. Date
2004, c1999
Summary
Presents the history of women's suffrage in the United States through the dramatic, often turbulent friendship of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony. Part 1 covers the years from their youth up to the establishment of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1868. Part 2 spans the period from 1868 to the passage in 1919 of the 19th amendment to the Constitution which gave women the vote.
4) Ellen Foster
Pub. Date
2002, c1997
Summary
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for most of her life, a young girl searches for a better life and finally finds it in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Pub. Date
2009
Summary
A romantic comedy set in 1905 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, "The Golden Boys", is the story of three retired sea captains who keep house together as a way to moderate the loneliness of their retirements. As the story begins, chaos reigns in the house; dirty dishes, dust and disorder have become their bane. Together they hatch a plan to solve the problem: they flip coins, and the loser must get married and take the other two in as boarders. The three...
6) The haunting
Pub. Date
[2001]
Summary
Adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, this psychological thiller tells the story of four people who come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena.
8) Harper
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
