single women

Examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of American single women and the unusual statistic of marriage for twenty-something Americans, where only twenty percent get married before age twenty-nine. Discusses historical cases and generations where young, single women have caused great societal change, such as in the abolition, temperance, suffrage, and labor movements of the past.

A young woman in search of her identity leaves her cut-throat finance job in New York and settles in a dilapidated cottage in Connecticut that she rents from her next door neighborhood, a local handyman and single father. When the couple falls in love and starts to imagine life together as a family, fate intervenes in a startling way and she is forced to fight for what she loves.

"A psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception"--Provided by publisher.

Lily Bart's quest for a husband among the noveau riche of New York high society leads to shame and misery when she is accused of being the mistress of a wealthy married man.

In 2009, award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was the year the proportion of American women who were married dropped below fifty percent; and the median age of first marriages, which had remained between twenty and twenty-two years old for nearly a century (1890?1980), had risen dramatically to twenty-seven. But over the course of her vast research and more than a hundred interviews with academics and social scientists and prominent single women, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results were massive social change?temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more. Today, only twenty percent of Americans are married by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960.

Bridget Jone's Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement.

Boston antiques dealer Abby Randolph, betrayed by an old friend, dumped by her lover, and grieving the death of her mom, makes the surprising discovery that an old chamber pot she inherited from her mother once belonged to poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and is worth nearly one hundred thousand dollars--a fact that brings a lot of people from her past calling.

Ave Maria Mulligan, a thirty-five-year-old spinster in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, is jolted out of her rut when her mother reveals a shocking secret, and things become even more exciting when Elizabeth Taylor announces plans to visit the sleepy town.

Once a widow, twice divorced, Tara is a woman with a past she prefers to keep hidden. She?s gorgeous, affluent, and content living alone in her flawless San Francisco mansion. That is, until she meets Cavin Lattimore?the charming surgeon who sweeps her off her feet following a ski accident in Lake Tahoe.

An unnamed young woman chronicles her life on the outskirts of a small village.