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Drawing on the story of his own great-aunt, Watson explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-20th-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central "uses" for a woman in that time and place: sex and marriage. From the highly erotic world of nature around her to the hard tactile labor of farm life, from the country doctor who befriends her to the boy who loved but was forced to leave her, Miss Jane Chisolm and her world are anything but barren.

This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.

In the classic work that launched a play, a movie, and a song, Muriel Spark tells the darkly intriguing story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher and the intense relationship she develops with six of her students. The scandalously outspoken Miss Brodie makes big waves in the conservative Scottish school, preaching the value of art, passion, and daring.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman has sold over a million copies nationwide since its publication in 1971, making the fictional character of Miss Jane so real many people don’t know she exists only in the imagination of Louisiana-born author Ernest J. Gaines. Miss Jane is 100 years old when she is interviewed by an area high school teacher looking to teach his students more about plantation society in the Deep South. Her story is not only a vivid picture of the South before the dawn of the civil rights era, but also a story of one woman’s survival against overwhelming odds.

Now a major TV series on PBS Masterpiece! "In a cultured, melodious voice, narrator Juliet Stevenson becomes Miss Cassandra Austen, older sister to Jane and keeper of her memory." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner For fans of Jo Baker’s Longbourn, a witty, poignant audiobook about...

Have you ever wondered what Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill and the mysterious Mr. Dixon got up to in Weymouth the summer before the events recounted in Jane Austen's "Emma"? Now is you chance to find out, in this latest from the author of "Pride Unprejudiced".

Miss Janie is at the end of a long and full life, but she has no intention of crossing that finish line until she’s found her girls.... It’s been ten years since Teresa and Kayla shook off the dust of Birthright, Texas, went their separate ways, and never looked back. Apart from their foster mom, Miss Janie, they don’t have many fond memories of their hometown. Or of each other. Still, neither can forget the kind woman who opened her home and heart to two teenagers in need.

Step into the warm holiday glow of Pemberley Estate and witness an unexpected romance unfold in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. At last, bookish middle sister, Mary Bennet—forever eclipsed by her sisters’ romantic escapades—takes center stage.

I see ghosts. They’re everywhere. They are the victims of violent crimes whose cases haven’t been solved. Once they realize I can see them, they beg me to find justice for them so they can rest. Except one. My sister, Debra. She was ten and I was six when we were kidnapped. The monster held us for a week and did horrible things to her before we tried to make our escape. He caught us and killed my sister brutally. I barely survived. That was when the ghosts came. Our case was never solved so Deb became my constant companion. My secret solace and best friend.

Mrs Bennet's new baby is tragically stolen from her nursery when the child is just a week old. Oldest child Jane is one year old: with Elisabeth missing, her mourning mother eventually produces three more girls, leaving Mr Bennet without an heir to inherit Longbourn. Ten years later neighbour Sir William Lucas happens to intervene in a domestic dispute between a gypsy and his dirty ragged daughter. The brutish gypsy flees and abandons the pale, emaciated child, leaving Sir William to place her with a tenant farmer on his estate. Charlotte Lucas happens to be present at the child's rescue ...

Elizabeth Bennet is hiding a forbidden power. She can speak to draca, the fire-breathing creatures kept as status symbols by English gentry. But Mr. Darcy has noticed, and he has his own dark secret.

What if Darcy met Elizabeth in Ramsgate, during the summer Wickham tried to elope with his sister? Thus begins A Ramsgate Love Affair.... In this vagary, Elizabeth is on a trip to the seaside with her aunt and uncle Gardiner when she meets young Miss Darcy and her companion, Mrs. Younge. Enter Wickham—handsome, dashing, gallant and suave, and Elizabeth observes a romance unfolding between him and the young girl. But something doesn't feel quite right, though Elizabeth can't put her finger on what. That's when she meets Darcy, and a whole new romance unfolds. Read on to see how ODC finds ...

Rose Wallace’s world revolves around all things Jane Austen, and with the annual festival in Bath - and the arrival of dishy archaeologist Dr. Aiden Trevellyan - just around the corner, all is well with the world. But then a mysterious woman who bears more than a passing resemblance to the great author moves in upstairs, and things take a disastrous turn. Rose’s new neighbour is none other than Jane Austen herself, now trapped in the 21st century after her time-travel adventure was sabotaged by a mischievous dog. Rose’s life is instantly changed.

A chance meeting at a London ball between Mary Crawford, still handsome, witty and rich, and Fanny Price's brother William, now a successful captain in the Royal Navy, starts a trail that leads Mary back to Mansfield, to reunite the shattered Bertram family, while war rages over Europe.

Now that she is Miss Dashwood, Margaret, possessed of both sense and sensibility, must carve out her own role in life. Her sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are both happily married and supremely content with their lives, but such a conventional destiny does not appeal to the erstwhile "Terror of the Seas" and while Margaret admits that piracy is no longer a practical option, she determines to seek fame and fortune in her own way. Find out how she does so, and how far she succeeds, in this latest homage to the immortal Jane Austen from the author of "Pride Unprejudiced."

When Caroline Lackland meets rich Mister Hilney at a ball in Brighton, and later joins him at his home at Southover Priory, she has no romantic notions of how her visit will end.But if Caroline does not want romance, then romance wants her, and she soon finds herself in the midst of a Gothic fantasy to rival Mrs Radcliffe or Monk Lewis.Read all about it in this latest Jane Austen Amplification from the author of the acclaimed Pride Unprejudiced and many others.

This collection features 18 classic radio episodes of "Our Miss Brooks", starring Eve Arden in her famous role of Connie Brooks, Madison High's 10th grade English teacher. Co-starring Gale Gordon as Principal Osgood Conklin, Jeff Chandler as bashful biologist Philip Boynton, Richard Crenna as Connie's student Walter Denton and Jane Morgan as Connie's landlady Mrs. Davis.

When Caroline Bingley, desperate to avoid her creditors in London, agrees to accompany her friend Fanny Adams on a visit to her father, she expects to go to Guernsey, the family's ancestral home. Instead, she ends up in the backwoods of the U.S. and Canadian borders at just the worst time, and her actions on the far side of the Atlantic have results that are still felt in the world today. Read all about it in this latest from the author of the best-selling 'Pride Unprejudiced'.

After becoming trapped in present-day Bath due to a mishap with her time-traveling charm, Jane Austen is safe and sound back in the 1800s thanks to Rose Wallace’s help. Now, Rose is ready to focus on her fledgling romance with dreamy Dr. Aiden Trevellyan. But when Jane reappears in the present, it looks like Rose and Aiden have no choice but to follow her back to 1813....

17-year-old Enore Adesuwa doesn’t dive into things, she walks in carefully. So when she, her mother, and her sister move from Nigeria to America shortly after her father’s death, she wants to be extremely prepared before attending an American high school. Her cousin, Adrian, doesn’t have time to explain the ins and outs to her but, luckily, he recommends the perfect research tool: teen movies. Still dealing with grief but armed with a set of rules of survival gathered from these movies (including the crucial rule of keeping a low profile), Enore is ready for her senior year.