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Mary B.
by Katherine J. Chen
The awkward middle child of five, Mary Bennet, who loses herself in the secret pleasures of reading and writing in 19th-century England, soon discovers that her fictional creations are no match for the very real scandal, tragedy and romance that come into her life.
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The Clergyman's Wife
by Molly Greeley
When she makes the acquaintance of Mr. Travis, the tenant of her vicar husband’s condescending patroness, Charlotte, for the first time in her life, feels appreciated, heard and seen and must question the role of love and passion in her life.
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Eligible
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Returning with her sister, Jane, to their Ohio hometown when their father falls ill, New York magazine editor Lizzy Bennett confronts challenges in the form of her younger sisters' football fangirl antics, a creepy cousin's unwanted attentions and the infuriating standoffish manners of a handsome neurosurgeon.
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By the Book
by Julia Sonneborn
In this re-telling of Jane Austen’s classic, Persuasion, an English professor in California fighting for tenure experiences a huge setback when her first love and ex-fiancé is hired as the college’s new president.
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The Youngest Miss Ward
by Joan Aiken
Hattie Ward, one of the sisters from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, has been sent to live with her uncle by her family who no longer wants her around them, but once settled at her new residence, she finds a new battle with Lady Ursula over the affections of a special man.
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Persuading Annie
by Melissa Nathan
Sweet, kindhearted Annie Markham is forced to turn to tough Jake Mead, the one-time love of her life who had left her seven years earlier, to help her save her family's ailing company, in a story of love and revenge based on Jane Austen's Persuasion.
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The Dashwood Sisters Tell All: A Modern-Day Novel of Jane Austen
by Beth Pattillo
Sent by their dying mother on a tour of Hampshire, England, that follows in the footsteps of Jane Austen, Ellen and Mimi Dodge discover the secrets that nearly tore Jane and her sister Cassandra apart, and inspired one of the greatest love stories of all time.
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First Impressions
by Debra White Smith
A modern tale loosely based on Pride and Prejudice finds lawyer Eddi Boswick landing a part in a local theater production opposite an unlikely but attractive leading man who hides a difficult secret.
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Love & Friendship
by Whit Stillman
Widowed Lady Susan Vernon arrives unannounced at her brother-in-law's estate to escape from rumors about her circulating through society, and decides to find husbands for herself and her daughter, in an adaptation of Jane Austen's early unpublished work,"Lady Susan."
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