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• The Calamity Club

  Stockett, Kathryn

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  During the Great Depression, an orphaned girl and two determined women form an unlikely alliance in search of justice, family, and a fresh start. Their courageous bond challenges the expectations of a time when women had little power and everything…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Personal Librarian

  Benedict, Marie

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  In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vanishing Half

  Bennett, Brit

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  The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe

  Flagg, Fannie

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  Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who's in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who's telling her life story. Her tale…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Four Winds

  Hannah, Kristin

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  Like The Calamity Club, this book is about a Depression-era woman struggling to keep her family together through impossible economic hardship. Elsa Martinelli is left to raise her two children alone when her husband leaves during the Dust Bowl. She…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

  Hoffman, Beth

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  After a family tragedy, twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt leaves her troubled home for Savannah, where she's embraced by a lively group of unforgettable Southern women. Their kindness, wisdom, and eccentricities help her discover confidence,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kin

  Jones, Tayari

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  Raised together in rural Louisiana, two lifelong friends take very different paths as they search for love, belonging, and a place in the world. Spanning decades, their intertwined stories explore the enduring bonds of friendship, family, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Demon Copperhead

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  Kingsolver offers a deeply evocative story of a boy born to an impoverished single mother. In this self-styled, modern adaptation of Dickens's David Copperfield, Demon Copperhead, 11, is the quick-witted son and budding cartoonist of a troubled…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ordinary Grace

  Krueger, William Kent

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  After a young woman's murder shatters his small town, a teenage boy struggles to make sense of grief, faith, and the loss of innocence. Looking back decades later, he reflects on the unforgettable summer that changed his family—and his life—forever.

• The Frozen River

  Lawhon, Ariel

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  In 1789 Maine, 54-year-old midwife Martha Ballard is asked to help determine the cause of death for Joshua Burgess, an accused rapist whose body was found frozen in the river. Martha is convinced that Burgess was beaten and hanged before he was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Blue

  Morley, Isla

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  In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio -- a writer and photographer -- are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Giver of Stars

  Moyes, Jojo

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  Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hello Beautiful

  Napolitano, Ann

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  William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Crawdads Sing

  Owens, Delia

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  Like in The Calamity Club, here is a motherless girl in the rural South who learns to rely on no one. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Briar Club

  Quinn, Kate

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  The action opens on Thanksgiving 1956 at Briarwood House, where a corpse lies bleeding in one of the attic apartments, the police have just arrived, and the tenants have gathered in the living room to await questioning. The narrative then rewinds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

  Richardson, Kim Michele

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  Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Help

  Stockett, Kathryn

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  By the same author, with the same Mississippi setting, and the same architecture of women's voices braided together to tell one truth. If you haven't read The Help yet, or you read it years ago and want to revisit, this is the natural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cliffs

  Sullivan, J. Courtney

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  Returning to her coastal Maine hometown, an archivist is hired to research the history of a long-abandoned Victorian house she loved as a child, and the women who lived there. As she unravels generations of family secrets, tragic losses, romantic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hang the Moon

  Walls, Jeannette

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  The Prohibition-era Southern setting, with an indomitable young woman against a corrupt local power structure, provide the similarities with The Calamity Club. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small Virginia town. Moonshine…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Before We Were Yours

  Wingate, Lisa

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  When five siblings are torn from their family and sent to a notorious orphanage in 1939, their older sister fights to keep them together. Decades later, a successful lawyer uncovers a shocking family secret that leads back to one of America's most…Read moreRead more of this annotation