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by Geraldine Brooks
Published Jan 2024
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2022 BookBrowse Fiction Award
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.
by Delia Owens
Published Mar 2021
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2018 BookBrowse Debut Author Award
How long can you protect your heart?
by Sue Monk Kidd
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsThis exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.
by Claire Messud
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsThe riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own.
by Ayana Mathis
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsA debut of extraordinary distinction: through the trials of one unforgettable family, Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration, a story of love and bitterness and the promise of a new America.
by Toni Morrison
Published Jan 2013
Read ReviewsA taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
by Jenny Wingfield
Published Jul 2012
Read ReviewsWith characters who spring to life as vividly as if they were members of one's own family, and with the clear-eyed wisdom that illuminates the most tragic - and triumphant - aspects of human nature, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake is a memorable and lasting work of fiction.
by Kathryn Stockett
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsWinner of BookBrowse's 2009 Reader Awards. Three extraordinary women start a movement that forever changes a small town in 1960s Mississippi, and the way women mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends view one another. The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
by Amy Greene
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsNamed for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legaciesof magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and lossthat haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.
by Jeannette Walls
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsJeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant.
by Carolyn Wall
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsDestined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family.
by Elyse Singleton
Published Sep 2003
Read ReviewsIn this lifelong story, Lilian and Myraleen struggle through dramatically changing times: From the stark realities of life in rural Mississippi, through the different sort of racism they find in workaday Philadelphia and France during World War II.
by Sue Monk Kidd
Published Jan 2003
Read ReviewsA mesmerizing novel about women with extraordinary gifts coping with loss, finding forgiveness and especially, learning to forgive themselves. Kidd's strong, irresistible voice catches us up and doesn't let go.
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsWeaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
by Kent Haruf
Published Aug 2000
Read ReviewsA heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.
by Harper Lee
Published Jul 1960
Read ReviewsHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred.
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