The Last Carolina Girl
By: Meagan Church
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
"Unforgettable, this a powerful debut to savor." — Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselli…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Sometimes tears are the only words worth sharing."-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl
"Sometimes the strength you need comes in silence."-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl
"Sometimes yuh gotta love even when it don't make sense."-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl
"Sometimes family's not who you've been given. It's who you choose."-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl
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1. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
2. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
3. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
4. The Paris Daughter
By: Kristin Harmel
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two m… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chanc…"-Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter
5. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
6. Go as a River
By: Shelley Read
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more
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- coming of age
- historical
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Women endure. That’s what we do."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
7. The Orphan Collector
By: Ellen Marie Wiseman
4.24
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia… read more
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- adult fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"May God forgive you for what you’ve done."-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector
"Obey the laws and wear the gauze, protect your jaws from septic paws."-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector
8. Hang the Moon
By: Jeannette Walls
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk … read more
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- adult fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
9. The River We Remember
By: William Kent Krueger
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
10. Only the Beautiful
By: Susan Meissner
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
11. The Caretaker
By: Ron Rash
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- audiobook
12. When the Jessamine Grows
By: Donna Everhart
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- audiobook
13. The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson
By: Ellen Baker
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Orphan Train meets Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in this compelling multigeneratio… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
14. The Secret Book of Flora Lea
By: Patti Callahan Henry
4.07
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea
"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea
15. Crow Mary
By: Kathleen Grissom
4.33
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. The Summer of Songbirds
By: Kristy Woodson Harvey
3.97
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves… read more
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- adult fiction
- southern
- family
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
17. The Last Carolina Girl
By: Meagan Church
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
"Unforgettable, this a powerful debut to savor." — Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselli… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Meagan Church's The Last Carolina Girl book and Meagan Church's The Last Carolina Girl
- adult fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Sometimes the strength you need comes in silence."-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl
"Sometimes tears are the only words worth sharing."-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl
"Sometimes yuh gotta love even when it don't make sense."-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl
"Sometimes family's not who you've been given. It's who you choose."-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl
18. Beyond That, the Sea
By: Laura Spence-Ash
4.24
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of t… read more
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- adult fiction
- coming of age
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- audiobook
19. Shelterwood
By: Lisa Wingate
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
20. A Happier Life
By: Kristy Woodson Harvey
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put h… read more
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- adult fiction
- family
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Trends come and go; the simplicity of timeless meals with the ones you love is forever."-Kristy Woodson Harvey, A Happier Life
21. The Briar Club
By: Kate Quinn
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club
"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club