"Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is putting on a cooking contest--and the grand prize is a job as the program's first-ever female co-host. For four very different women, winning the contest presents a crucial chance to change...

Gilbert Markham falls in love with the beautiful young woman, supposedly a widow, who lives in seclusion with her son at Wildfell Hall. She rejects his advances and he has a jelous encounter with her landlord, whom he wounds. She then gives him her dairy, which revels the story of her unhappy marriage to Arthur Huntingdon who turns out to be an irresponsible drunkard and from whom she finally ran awayafter he installed his mistress in their home....

New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini's delightful Elm Creek Quilts series features strong women who face life head-on and chronicle their triumphs and tragedies in elaborate quilts. Here, listeners meet Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman fighting for her family's survival in Prohibition-era Southern California. "Jennifer Chiaverini's strength is not only writing strong female characters, but also placing them in interesting lives and times."...

In Sanctuary, Ryan James comes home one day to find his wife gone, leaving a hastily written note. Stunned, Ryan searches frantically, only to discover that Melissa is not who she claimed to be. Now she has escaped to Amish country. There Melissa's painful history unfolds—even as danger closes in.

Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. These were passionate relationships which also had some longevity, except in cases such as that of two young sisters, one of whom was discovered by Joseph's first wife, Emma, in a locked bedroom with the prophet. Emma remained a steadfast opponent of polygamy throughout her life.

The majority of Smith's wives were younger than he, and one-third...

In this shocking, timely, and inspirational memoir, Elissa Wall details her life growing up in the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints religious sect, being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of 14, and her courage to testify against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.--From publisher description.