Can she make a new life for herself in the home she once shared with her father? What will her meddlesome cousins do when they find she has fled their control to find independence?Suddenly Astra is called upon to aid a mysterious stranger, and kind Charles Cameron enters her life. Together they face danger--and find love unfolding--as they experience the miracle of Christmas.

    But will he be able to do what it takes to save the two people who have so effectively brought upheaval into his well-ordered life?

    But few contemporary fans of this story of a woman’s self-realization know its source. Olive Higgins Prouty’s 1941 novel Now, Voyager provides an even richer, deeper portrait of the inner life of its protagonist and the society she inhabits. Viewed from a distance of more than 60 years, it also offers fresh and quietly radical takes on psychiatric treatment, traditional family life, female desire, and women’s agency.Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Lonely, dowdy, repressed, and pushing 40, Charlotte finds salvation at a sanitarium, where she undergoes an emotional and physical transformation. After her extreme makeover, the new Charlotte tests her mettle by embarking on a cruise—and finds herself in a torrid love affair with a married man which ends at the conclusion of the voyage. But only then can the real journey begin, as Charlotte is forced to navigate a new life for herself. While Now, Voyager is a tear-jerking romance, it is at the same time the empowering story of a woman who finds the strength to chart her own course in life; who discovers love, sex, and even motherhood outside of marriage; and who learns that men are, ultimately, dispensable in the quest for happiness and fulfillment.Olive Higgins Prouty (1882–1974), like many of her characters a wealthy Bostonian, was the author of ten novels, including Stella Dallas (1923), which became the basis for three films and a long-running radio serial. A graduate of Smith College, Prouty endowed a writer’s scholarship at Smith that was received by Sylvia Plath, who later portrayed her patron unflatteringly in The Bell Jar.

    Grace Livingston Hill is the beloved author of more than 100 books. Read and enjoyed by millions, her wholesome stories contain adventure, romance, and the heartwarming triumphs of people faced with the problems of life and love.

    She was a Broadway star and was adored by the masses. On a chance encounter while vacationing in Maine she would meet the love of her life. Rodney Monroe, an ornithologist and adventurer, a professor and doctor, everything she was unfamiliar with. Before long they fall madly in love and Elizabeth decides to give up the stage for her new life, which is full of new obstacles. How can love keep two people so very different together? What power will it have over their two worlds as they meet in a clash? Can they survive each other and the odds long enough to find their peace together? Set around New York, South America and Mexico, this story is full of adventure, thrills and romance strong enough to change everything. From the way you look at nature, to the way you look for love.

    She's known little about cooking, housekeeping and children- and even less about her own hopes and needs. Willie loved her husband but in the strain and pressure of raising their large family, she'd never had the time to analyze why her feelings toward him were never quite.....comfortable, or why she never really felt fulfilled.Now she was forced to realize that the confining traditions by which she'd been living had not prepared her for her new responsibilities. She'd already gone through all of Paul's insurance money. She was alone and helpless and she had six children to take care of....

    Now Sierra is a movie star, James a writer, and everything conspired to keep them apart until their guardian angels stepped in. Set during the Depression, this is an unforgettable story of friendship and romance, told with wry humor and an unexpected look at the movie business of that time.