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Lace Makers of Glenmara, The
Heather Doran Barbieri - Harper
Format: Print book
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"Charmingly wry yet evocative, with details and descriptions both telling and vivid." - Boston Globe "This hopeful, comforting novel is a testament to the power of taking chances and starting fresh and a reminder that life can bring joy after sorrow." - Miami Herald... |
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Talk Before Sleep
Elizabeth Berg - Delta Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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What do women talk about when they know they don't have forever? They talk about what they have always talked about, only they go deeper and more honest: with outrageous humor they try to mitigate pain. Intimate and uncensored sharing, the kind of connection women prize, is at the heart... |
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The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel (Wednesday Series Book 1)
Meg Waite Clayton - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of this beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family."This generous and inventive book is a delight to read,... |
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The Wildwater Walking Club
Claire Cook - Thorndike Press
Format: Large print book
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Three women who are neighbors share their struggles with unfaithful men, rebellious children, and parental expectations while taking long walks near their homes on Wildwater Way. |
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
Fannie Flagg - Ballantine Books
Format: Book
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Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of... |
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The Saving Graces: A Novel
Patricia Gaffney - Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Meet the Saving Graces, four of the best friends a woman could ever have.For ten years, Emma, Rudy, Lee, and Isabel have shared a deep affection that has helped them deal with the ebb and flow of expectations and disappointments common to us all. Calling themselves the Saving Graces, the quartet... |
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Firefly Lane
Kristin Hannah - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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From the "New York Times" bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement,... |
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The Knitting Circle: A Novel
Ann Hood - Norton
Format: Hardcover
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In the spirit of How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club, a novel about friendship and redemption.After the sudden loss of her only child, Stella, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island, as a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days,... |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini - Riverhead
Format: Hardcover
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Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found... |
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The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd - Viking
Format: Print book
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Sue Monk Kidd's first novel The Secret Life of Bees, a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina, a New York Times bestseller for more than 125 weeks, and a Good Morning America "Read This" Book Club pickFans of The Helpwill love Sue Monk... |
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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Lorna Landvik - Ballantine Books
Format: Book
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From her sensational sleeper hit Patty Jane's House of Curl to her heartwarming novel Welcome to the Great Mysterious, Lorna Landvik has won the hearts of readers everywhere by skillfully balancing hilarity with pathos, and bittersweet insights with heartwarming truths. Now she returns... |
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Where the Heart Is
Billie Letts - Warner Books
Format: Paperback
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Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures... |
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film - a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't - nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.Aibileen is a black maid... |
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See - Random House
Format: Book
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Lily is haunted by memories-of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived... |
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel
Annie Barrows - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A NETFLIX FILM * A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. "Treat yourself to this book, please - I can't recommend it highly enough." - Elizabeth Gilbert,... |
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The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club.Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter... |
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel
Rebecca Wells - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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"A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter." - Washington Post"Mary... |
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