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Title My Plain Jane Authors Cynthia Hand , Brodi Ashton , and Jodi Meadows Content Warning Abuse and death of children Goodreads Synopsis You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks on a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester. Despite their significant age gap (!) and his uneven temper (!!), they fall in love—and, Reader, she marries him. (!!!) Or does she? Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and one orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Brontë, and supernatural investigator Alexander Blackwood are about to be drawn together on the most epic ghost hunt this side of Wuthering Heights. ( Goodreads ) Story Review ***** (5 stars out of 5) A wonderful retelling of Jane Eyre with ghosts. The basic premise is that Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre are friends who both l...

Title In the Quick Author Kate Hope Day Content Warning None Goodreads Synopsis June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention who leaves home to begin grueling astronaut training at the National Space Program. Younger by two years than her classmates at Peter Reed, the school on campus named for her uncle, she flourishes in her classes but struggles to make friends and find true intellectual peers. Six years later, she has gained a coveted post as an engineer on a space station—and a hard-won sense of belonging—but is haunted by the mystery of Inquiry, a revolutionary spacecraft powered by her beloved late uncle’s fuel cells. The spacecraft went missing when June was twelve years old, and while the rest of the world seems to have forgotten the crew, June alone has evidence that makes her believe they are still alive. She seeks out James, her uncle’s former protégé, also brilliant, also difficult, who has been trying to discover why Inquiry’s fuel cells fai...

Portrait of Charlotte Brontë, painted by Evert A. Duyckinck, based on a drawing by George Richmond, 1873, University of Texas, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Jane Eyre is a novel originally published on October 16, 1847 by English writer Charlotte Brontë , under the pen name "Currer Bell." ( Wikipedia ) Charlotte was one of six children, five girls and one boy. After the death of their mother, the oldest four girls, including Charlotte, were sent to the Clergy Daughters' School, where the oldest two girls died of tuberculosis. Their father brought the other two girls back home. Once she had completed her education, Charlotte briefly worked as a governess. She then tried to open a boarding school with her two remaining sisters, a project they later abandoned. All three sisters went on to publish under their respective Bell pen names. Charlotte's brother and sisters died in rapid succession while she was working on her third novel. Charlotte married, but died whi...