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by Nyani Nkrumah
Published Jan 2024
Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker's classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class that explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the ...
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
by Sidik Fofana
Published Aug 2023
Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it.
by Jackie Polzin
Published Jul 2022
An exquisite new literary voice - wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout - depicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss.
The Last True Poets of the Sea
by Julia Drake
Published Jun 2021
From a stunning new voice in YA literature comes an epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life.
How to Make Friends with the Dark
by Kathleen Glasgow
Published May 2020
A novel about love and loss and learning how to continue when it feels like you're surrounded by darkness.
by Gilly Macmillan
Published Sep 2016
The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew returns with an electrifying new novel about how the past will always find us...
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
by A. S. King
Published Jun 2015
In this masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny, Printz Honor author A.S. King tells the epic story of a girl coping with devastating loss at long last--a girl who has no idea that the future needs her, and that the present needs her even more.
by Kathryn Stockett
Published Apr 2011
Winner 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 Alice Sebold
Published Apr 2004
A luminous and astonishing novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories. In the hands of a brilliant new writer, this story of the worst thing a family can face is transformed into a suspenseful and even funny novel about love, memory, joy, heaven, and healing.
by Judy Blume
Published May 1999
An extraordinary novel of reminiscence and awakening--an unforgettable story of two women, two families, and the friendships that shape a lifetime.
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