Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Features Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four 'little women' enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England....

The Overstory

Richard Powers

An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

India Holton

Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to a very prestigious circle of women: The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels.Yet this is no ordinary Victorian lady's society - as it's full of pirates, thieves and ne'er-do-wells.These women spend their days pickpocketing and blackmailing their way around the country all ...