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"Follow a year in the life of four very different sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as they grow up in New England during the American Civil War, and despite hardship and illness, find new experiences and loves"--Back cover.

"Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, Jo's boys--including wanderer Dan, sailor Emil and musician Nat--are grown up and discovering more about the world. But life after childhood can be confusing and frightening, and it is Jo and the warm-hearted March family who can comfort and guide the boys when they need it most."--Back cover.

Adventures in Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer's school for boys; a place of light, warmth, comfort, and delights; where self-knowledge and self-control are acquired along with book learning.

Follow the adventures of the four endearing March sisters as they journey into young womanhood. There's Meg, at sixteen the oldest, who longs for a rich life full of beautiful things and free from materail want. Next comes Jo, the willful and headstrong tomboy, who plans to become a writer and who retires to the attic when "genius burns." Gentle, music-loving Beth, "the pet of the family," is delicate and sweet. And fashionable Amy, the youngest of...

The romantic folly of young Catherine Morland whose entry into adult life in nineteenth-century England is attended by the collapse of many illusions.

When friends Jack and Jill are injured in a sledding accident, their family and friends rally around them to help in their recovery.

This abridged edition follows the activities of seven children in nineteenth-century New England as they prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday while Mother is away caring for Grandmother.

Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts, her uncle, and seven mischievous boy cousins.

Coco Martin, the adored only child of wealthy parents, has lived a charmed existence in their beautiful Manhattan home, and summers in a fabulous Hamptons house. Despite her privileged upbringing, Coco's parents instilled in their daughter their own values of hard work, honesty and kindness. But as she's just entering her twenties, Coco's world is devastated by the sudden death of her beloved parents. Now the heir to a considerable fortune, Coco...

A stunning national bestseller, here is the story of a family in the tradition of Ordinary People and Terms of Endearment. The Farrells are a family as ordinary and special as any family. There are parents, a son, and an eleven-year-old daughter with big dreams of gymnastic gold. But a shocking tragedy consumes them, and it becomes all too clear that when it comes to love, everyone is at risk. A Book-of-the Month Club Main Selection with movie rights...