Daughter of Moloka'i
8 best books like Daughter of Moloka'i (Alan Brennert): This Tender Land, Lost Roses, The Lost Girls of Paris, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Searching for Sylvie Lee, Finding Dorothy, Mistress of the Ritz, The Guest Book
Author | William Kent Krueger |
ISBN | 1476749299 |
For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.
1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds...
Author | Martha Hall Kelly |
ISBN | 1524796379 |
The runaway bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. This sweeping new novel, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow...
Author | Pam Jenoff |
ISBN | 0778330273 |
From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female spies during World War II.
1946, Manhattan
Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war....
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Author | Kim Michele Richardson |
ISBN | 1492671525 |
In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across...
Author | Jean Kwok |
ISBN | 0062834304 |
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York Times bestselling author...
Author | Elizabeth Letts |
ISBN | 0525622101 |
A richly imagined novel that tells the story behind
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud--from the family's hardscrabble days in South Dakota to the Hollywood film set where she first meets Judy Garland.
Maud...
Author | Melanie Benjamin |
ISBN | 0399182241 |
A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife...
An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.
The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American...