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All Time Faves: Issue-Driven Women's Fiction
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Midwives With a suspense, lyricism, and moral complexity that recall To Kill a Mockingbird and Presumed Innocent, this compulsively readable novel explores what happens when a woman who has devoted herself to ushering life into the world finds herself charged with responsibility in a patient's tragic death. |
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White Oleander When a woman murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life, her daughter must navigate a new reality--that of a series of foster homes, each its own universe, each with its own limits and dangers. ...More |
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A Map of the World A spectacularly taut drama about a rural American family, by the author of The Book of Ruth. Set in the small Midwestern town of Prairie Center, here is an achingly accurate rendering of how one event--the drowning of a child--can change forever the lives of everyone involved. Reading tour. ...More |
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The Things We Do for Love "New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah "touches the deepest, most tender corner of our hearts" (Tami Hoag). Her last novel, "Between Sisters, was chosen by CBS's "The Early Show as one of the best books of the summer. Now she returns with "The Things We Do for Love--a poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love. The youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was always "the princess" of the family, a girl who thought she knew how her life would unfold. High School. College. Marriage. Motherhood. That was how it had gone for her sisters, her cousins, her friends. But it didn't work out that way for Angie. She and her husband tried desperately to have a child; year after year, their perfectly decorated nursery remained empty. ...More |
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The Girls Winner - 2007 ALA Notable Fiction Selection |
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A Song I Knew By Heart A BookPage Notable Title |
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The World Below From the author of "While I Was Gone", a magnificent new novel that exposes the nerves that lie hidden in marriages, families, and the lives of women. Catherine Hubbard takes up residence in her grandmother's old house and stumbles upon the true story of her grandmother's life and the misunderstanding upon which she built a lifelong love. ...More |
 
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The Breakdown Lane A BookPage Notable Title |
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The Center of Everything In Moriarty's extraordinary first novel, a young girl tries to make sense of an unruly world spinning around her. Growing up with a single mother who is chronically out of work and dating a married man, ten-year old Evelyn Bucknow learns early how to fend for herself. Accelerated Reader: Reading Level 5, 18 Points. ...More |
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My Sister's Keeper 2005 ALA Young Adult Top Ten Selection |
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Three Women A woman's neat, buttoned-up life starts to unravel after her daughter returns home, angry and unemployed, and her vital, working mother suffers a debilitating stroke. ""Three Women" is a passionately told story, an uninhibited mix of politics, protest, and pain, a searing treatise on the situation of women".--"Chicago Tribune". ...More |
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Blessings In this richly written novel by the author of "One True Thing, " Skip Cuddy, caretaker of the Blessing estate, finds a baby asleep in a box and decides he wants to keep her. The secrets of the past, how they affect the decisions and lives of people in the present--these are at the center of this work by the beloved author called "a national treasure" by Alice Hoffman. ...More |
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Icy Sparks The eponymous heroine of Gwyn Rubio's Icy Sparks is only 10 years old the first time it happens. The sudden itching, the pressure squeezing her skull, and the "little invisible rubber bands" attached to her eyelids are all symptoms of Tourette's syndrome. At this point, of course, Icy doesn't yet have a name for these unsettling impulses. But whenever they become too much to resist, she runs down to her grandparents' root cellar, and there she gives in, croaking, jerking, cursing, and popping her eyes. Nicknamed the "frog child" by her classmates, Icy soon becomes "a little girl who had to keep all of her compulsions inside." Only a brief confinement at the Bluegrass State Hospital persuades her that there are actually children more "different" than she. ...More |
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The Weight of Water Enthusiastically embraced by critics, readers, and booksellers across the country, this powerful novel of obsession and betrayal is now available in paperback. When a photographer researches a legendary crime that took place a century earlier, she immerses herself in the details of the case--and finds herself caught in the grip of an uncontrollable emotion. ...More |