Work: A Story of Experience
By: Louisa May Alcott , Joy S. Kasson
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alcott's concerns about social justice, women's work, domesticity, and community lie at the heart o…
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1. The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
By: Sue Monk Kidd
3.98
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The acclaimed spiritual memoir from the author of The Secret Life of Bees. I was amazed to find … read more
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"But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy."-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
"Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing."-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
". . . in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form."-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
"Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always."-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
2. The Professor's House
By: Willa Cather , A.S. Byatt
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St. Peter finds himsel… read more
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"He knew that he was terribly selfish about personal pleasures, fought for them. if a thing gave him delight, he got it, if he sold his shirt for it. By doing without many so-called necessities he had…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidence of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel diff…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"It struck him that the seasons sometimes gain by being brought into the house, just as they gain by being brought into painting, and into poetry. The hand, fastidious and bold which selected and plac…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"I had no plans, I wanted nothing but to get back to the mesa and live a free life and breathe free air, and never, never again to see hundreds of little black-coated men pouring out of white building…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
3. A Rose for Emily
By: William Faulkner
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more
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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
4. Benito Cereno
By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more
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5. The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)
By: Andrew Peterson , Justin Gerard
4.69
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Book Three of The Wingfeather Saga Janner Wingfeather's father was the High King of Anniera. But h… read more
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"Sorry, lass. Ye have to seize the teachable moments, you know. Carry on."-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)
"Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way."-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)
"He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and …"-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)
"I'll put her in charge of the puppies. I've twelve this week that need tending. How does that suit you?" Leeli's mouth hung open. She tried to say something but instead crumpled to the floor. She had…"-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)
6. The Song of the Lark
By: Willa Cather , Doris Grumbach
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young… read more
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7. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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8. Work: A Story of Experience
By: Louisa May Alcott , Joy S. Kasson
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alcott's concerns about social justice, women's work, domesticity, and community lie at the heart o… read more
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9. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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10. Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
By: John Matteson
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louis… read more
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11. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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12. Emily Climbs (Emily, #2)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.17
Format: 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped… read more
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"My pen shall heal, not hurt."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs (Emily, #2)
"The future was mine—and the past, too."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs (Emily, #2)
"He was so lonely that he laughed at himself."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs (Emily, #2)
"No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs (Emily, #2)
13. The House of Arden (Fabian Time Fantasies, #1)
By: E. Nesbit
3.81
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The famous Arden family treasure has been missing for generations, and the last members of the Arde… read more
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14. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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15. The Keeper of the Bees
By: Gene Stratton-Porter
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in the author's adopted home of California in the 1920s, this is Gene Stratton-Porter's last no… read more
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16. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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17. Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray
By: Dorothy Love
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A general's wife and a slave girl forge a friendship that transcends race, culture, and the crucibl… read more
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18. Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.12
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart,… read more
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"Don’t let a three-o’clock-at-night feeling fog your soul."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)
"Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)
"Oh, I am—I am lonely—with the loneliness of unshared thought."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)
"It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other."-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)
19. The Buccaneers
By: Edith Wharton , Marion Mainwaring
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Nan and Jinny St George have both wealth and beauty in generous supply. In the New York society of … read more
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20. Dear Henry, Love Edith
By: Becca Kinzer
3.70
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
After a short and difficult marriage, recently widowed Edith Sherman has learned her lesson. Forget… read more
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21. The Revenant Games (The Revenant Games, #1)
By: Margie Fuston
3.72
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Blood is survival in Bly's world – any human can compete in the Revenant Games, an annual fight to … read more
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