Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship

As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

Julia Child · 416 pages

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi · 368 pages

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to

Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

Leymah Gbowee, Carol Mithers · 253 pages

In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia's women together--and together they led a nation to peace. As a young woman, Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action

I'll Be Seeing You

Suzanne Hayes, Loretta Nyhan, Suzanne Palmieri · 313 pages

Two women forge a friendship during World War II through their letters to each other, allowing them to survive the loneliness and uncertainty of waiting on the home front and giving them the courage to face the battles raging in their very own backyards.

Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

Nina Stibbe · 328 pages

In 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively young boys. In frequent letters home to her sister, Nina described her trials and triumphs.

The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

Helene Hanff · 137 pages

All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Robert Hunt Rhodes, Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein · 347 pages

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

Roomies

Sara Zarr, Tara Altebrando · 288 pages

While living very different lives on opposite coasts, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth and eighteen-year-old Lauren become acquainted by email the summer before they begin rooming together as freshmen at UC-Berkeley. Living very different lives, 17-year-old Elizabeth and 18-year-old Lauren email the summer before they begin rooming together as freshmen at UC-Berkeley. The plot contains profanity and

P.S. Longer Letter Later

Paula Danziger, Ann M. Martin · 237 pages

Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara-Starr continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara-Starr's family moves to another state.

Everything I Know About Love

Dolly Alderton · 368 pages

The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding

Letters Home

Sylvia Plath · 512 pages

Forms a kind of autobiography of at least one aspect of Sylvia Plath's very complex life; it also coduments the flowering of abright young woman with promising talents into a full-blown genius, one of the greatest writers of this century.

Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958

Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson · 195 pages

"On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac met Joyce Glassman. This unique book, containing the many letters the two of them wrote to each other whenever Jack was in transit, reveals a surprising side of Kerouac - his capacity for forming a tender bond with a woman who shared his passion for writing. It also gives us a vivid and immediate picture from the female

Between Friends

Debbie Macomber · 400 pages

Debbie Macomber tells the story of a remarkable friendship—and tells it in a remarkable way. Between Friends is a story in which every woman will recognize herself...and her best friend.The friendship between Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski begins in the postwar era of the 1950s. As they grow up, their circumstances, their choices—and their mistakes—take them in virtually opposite directions. Le

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Elinore Pruitt Stewart · 281 pages

The book is comprised of a series of letters written by a young widow from Denver to her friend and former employer about the experience of homesteading in rural Wyoming in the early 20th century. She describes the people who inhabited this harsh landscape with empathy and humor, including migrants from the US and abroad, orphans, newlyweds and hermits. These people were settling the frontier at

Dear Mr. You

Mary-Louise Parker · 240 pages

"A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker. An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved

Feeling Sorry for Celia

Jaclyn Moriarty · 276 pages

A #1 bestseller in Australia, this fabulous debut is a funny, touching, revealing story written entirely in the form of letters, postcards, and missives from imaginary organizations such as "The Cold Hard Truth Association." "Edgy and irreverent ... a sharp, witty take on friendship, family, and the roller-coaster ride of adolescence."--"Gotham" magazine.

Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer · 316 pages

**being the correspondence of two young ladies of quality regarding various magical scandals in London and the country** In 1817 in England, two young cousins, Cecilia living in the country and Kate in London, write letters to keep each other informed of their exploits, which take a sinister turn when they find themselves confronted by evil wizards. A great deal is happening in London and th

l8r, g8r

Lauren Myracle · 274 pages

Angela, Zoe and Maddie are finally seniors and ready for the great year they deserve. After two years of fighting, experimentation and some hilarious stories, they are prepared to enjoy the fruits of seniority - even though being top dogs at school means thinking about college, sex and even the impending end of their inseparable trio.

My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

Abigail Adams, John Adams · 528 pages

A collection of letters between Abigail and John Adams written from 1762 to 1801 covering topics of revolution, independence, and nation building, along with those that reflect their love for one another.

Letters to Zell

Camille Griep · 326 pages

"Everything is going according to story for CeCi (Cinderella), Bianca (Snow White), and Rory (Sleeping Beauty)-- until the day that Zell (Rapunzel) decides to leave Grimmland and pursue her life. Now, Zell's best friends are left to wonder whether their own passions are worth risking their predetermined "happily ever afters," regardless of the consequences. CeCi wonders whether she should become a

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

Jennifer Ryan · 401 pages

Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.

Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq

Riverbend, Alia Mamdouh · 286 pages

In August 2003, the world gained access to a remarkable new voice: a blog written by a 25-year-old Iraqi woman living in Baghdad, whose identity remained concealed for her own protection. Calling herself Riverbend, she offered searing eyewitness accounts of the everyday realities on the ground, punctuated by astute analysis on the politics behind these events. In a voice in turn eloquent, angry, r

The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War

Denise Chong · 373 pages

On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.This book is the story of how that photograph came to be-and the story of what happened to that gir