Divining Women

The Shuttle

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 512 pages

Over the Plain Houses

Julia Franks · 271 pages

A Depression-era Appalachian farm wife is branded as a witch by her fundamentalist husband when she bonds with a USDA agent who has traveled to the North Carolina mountains to instruct regional families on how to modernize their homes and farms.

The Stars Are Fire

Anita Shreve · 241 pages

"In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers figh

The Third Life of Grange Copeland; Meridian; The Color Purple

Alice Walker · 245 pages

Here in this exclusive Black Expressions Rediscoveries edition, are three celebrated novels by Alice Walker: The Third life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The color Purple. The Third Life of Grange Copland (1970) chronicles the psychological enslavement spanning three generations in the family of tenant farmer Grange Copeland. Worn down by the hopelessness of his mis

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston · 231 pages

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as she journeys from a naive teenager to a woman in control of her destiny.

Beneath a Burning Sky

Jenny Ashcroft

Music And Freedom

Zoe Morrison · 352 pages

The Dark Room

R.K. Narayan · 210 pages

The End of Always

Randi Davenport · 324 pages

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fannie Flagg · 403 pages

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 includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Ala

Weyward

Emilia Hart · 392 pages

His Last Duchess

Gabrielle Kimm · 406 pages

When sixteen-year-old Lucrezia de' Medici marries the fifth Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso d'Este, she imagines life with her handsome husband will be idyllic. But little does she know that he is a very complicated man. The marriage is fraught with difficulties from the start, and, as time passes, Lucrezia becomes increasingly alienated. For Alfonso, the pressure mounts as the Vatican threatens to recla

The Kitchen God's Wife

Amy Tan · 532 pages

Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s,

The Sword of Kaigen

M.L. Wang · 651 pages

A Lie of the Mind

Sam Shepard · 142 pages

Also contains The War in Heaven, Angel's Monologue by Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard.

And on the Eighth Day She Rested

J.D. Mason, Jaclyn Meridy · 282 pages

"Ruth Johnson has finally left her abusive husband of fourteen years and jumped feetfirst into "What the hell do I do now?" oblivion. Then into her life come three unforgettable women who turn her world upside down. Feisty, outspoken Bernice, a.k.a. "Bernie," has been there and done that when it comes to love and marriage. Her ex-husband is settled down with his much younger wife and her kids are

I Let You Go

Clare Mackintosh · 384 pages

Devastated by a hit-and-run accident that has ended the life of her young son, Jenna moves to the remote Welsh coast to search for healing while two dedicated policemen try to get to the bottom of the case.

Full Dark, No Stars

Stephen King · 419 pages

Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four intense short stories with retribution as the central theme. Released in the fall of 2010 in hardcover and audiobook formats, Full Dark, No Stars is a powerful read featuring some of Stephen's most graphic and merciless content to date. ([source][1]) Contains: - [1922][2] - [A Good Marriage][3] - [Big Driver][4] - Fair Execution [1]:

Cruel Beautiful World

Caroline Leavitt · 384 pages

"Set in the early 1970s amid the specter of the Manson girls, when the peace and love movement begins to turn ugly, this is the story of a runaway teenager's disappearance and her sister's quest to discover the truth"-- 1969. Sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man, to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania. Her rash act will have vicious repercussions for both her and h

They Were Sisters

Dorothy Whipple · 354 pages

Het Meisje in de Trein

Paula Hawkins · 360 pages

Sunset and Sawdust

Joe R. Lansdale · 321 pages

A gripping crime thriller set in Texas at the start of the 1930s oil boom. When Pete Jones, the local constable, is shot dead, his widow, Sunset, finds herself in his job, investigating a series of brutal murders. Most of the townsfolk object to her wearing Pete's gun and badge, some because this is the 1930s and they think a woman's place is in the home, others because it was Sunset who blew off

Ghost on Black Mountain

Ann Hite · 329 pages

Nellie Clay married Hobbs Pritchard without even noticing he was a spell conjured into a man, a walking, talking ghost story. But her mama knew. She saw it in her tea leaves: death. Folks told Nellie to get off the mountain while she could, to go back home before it was too late. Hobbs wasn't nothing but trouble. He'd even killed a man. No telling what else. That mountain was haunted, and soon eno

Walk Into Silence

Susan McBride · 357 pages

When Patrick Dielman shows up at Detective Jo Larseń⁰9Сs desk insisting that his wife, Jenny, is missing, Jo wonders if it́⁰9Сs a case of a bored housewife running away. But as she digs deeper into Jenný⁰9Сs life, Jo learns that Dielman keeps a stranglehold on the family finances, down to the last nickel, and that Jenný⁰9Сs first marriage dissolved following the death of her young son. By all acco