Shoemaker, Sarah
Summary: "<Strong>"Reader, she married me."</strong> For one hundred seventy years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most romantic, most complex, and most mysterious heroes. Sometimes haughty, sometimes tender-professing his love for Jane Eyre in one breath and denying it in the next-Mr. Rochester has for generations mesmerized, beguiled, and, yes, baffled fans of Charlotte...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOParciak, Wendy.
Summary: These are the words of Marzita Zaferatos, a mentally-ill young woman who wanders into the lives of her neighbors on Locust Street, whether they want her to or not. On the street live a frail spinster, a career-driven couple and their toddler, a neurologist with a constricting shyness of women, a teenager who wishes her life could be as interesting as her daydreams, and Marzita's father, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARLeary, Ann
Summary: "It's 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She's immediately in awe of her employer--brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MarySue Rucci Books/Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEABronte, Charlotte
Summary: In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROFlock, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FlockMason, Meg
Summary: Pushing away her devoted husband, a once-successful writer moves back into her bohemian childhood home, where she struggles to come to terms with the mental illness that has overshadowed her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASMorrissey, Donna
Summary: Kit Pitman lives with her unstable mother in a cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland. Her life is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her illegitimate birth. Morrissey depicts the way the lines between mother and daughter, although blurred, are deeply felt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOREpstein, Jennifer Cody
Summary: "A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories-and even more perilously, her sanity-in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. "I didn't see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPSMillet, Lydia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILBrontë, Charlotte
Summary: In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer, who has a terrible secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAChung, Maxine Mei-Fung
Summary: "One woman, multiple personas. But which one is telling the truth? Alexa W nearly has her life together: a new relationship, a job that pays the bills, and a promising interview for a photojournalism position. But, it's complicated. Alexa is manipulated by a series of alternate personas that run her life, and it's a constant struggle to keep her other selves in check, to prevent them from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUSamson, Lisa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Faith 2003