fathers and daughters

Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret. Includes criticism from feminist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, cultural, and Marxist perspectives.

Marea Hoffman returns to New York after wandering the world for seven years with the intention of starting her real life, but when she has trouble adjusting, she turns to her father's colleague and friend, the grandfatherly Albert Einstein.

At the end of the 17th century in Quebec, C?cile Auclair and her father, the town's apothecary, live a life very different than the one they knew in Paris.

Fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio attempts to work through her guilt and grief over the death of her three-year-old half-sister, Zoe--who was struck and killed by a car while Tess was supposed to be watching her--by writing letters to her.

Eccentric young chemist, Emilie Selden, lives in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishments until an unexpected encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home, her work, and her father.

Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.

Seventeen-year-old Leah's quest to make the national soccer team does not seem so important when she learns that her father has cancer and may only have months to live.

Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.

Fourteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship.