Kelly O'Connor McNees
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A richly imagined, remarkably written story of the woman who created Little Women—and how love changed her in ways she never expected.
Countless readers have fallen in love with Little Women. But how could the author—who never had a romance—write so convincingly of love and heartbreak without experiencing it herself?
Deftly mixing fact and fiction, Kelly O’Connor McNees returns to the summer of 1855, when...
Countless readers have fallen in love with Little Women. But how could the author—who never had a romance—write so convincingly of love and heartbreak without experiencing it herself?
Deftly mixing fact and fiction, Kelly O’Connor McNees returns to the summer of 1855, when...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline—and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign—and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor—turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York and Washington to Scotts Run, West Virginia,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Berkley Trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"For Clara Bixby, brokering mail-order brides is a golden business opportunity--and a desperately needed chance to start again. If she can help New York women find husbands in a far-off Nebraska town, she can build an independent new life away from her own loss and grief. Clara's ambitions are shared by two other women, who are also willing to take any risk. Quiet immigrant Elsa hopes to escape her life of servitude and at last shape her own destiny....
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline-- and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign-- and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor-- turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York and Washington to Scotts Run, West Virginia, where...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What if the most important decision of your life was not yours to make? This vivid and powerful novel follows two women whose paths intersect at a maternity home in the "Baby Scoop Era." In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. She doesn't know Margie, sixteen and bookish, who lives a sheltered suburban life, but they soon meet when unplanned pregnancies send them to the Holy Family Home for the...
