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10 best books like Joy Comes in the Morning (Jonathan Rosen): Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, The Weight of Ink, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Where Am I Now?, The Visitors, As Long as We Both Shall Live, Before You Know Kindness, The Last American Vampire, Cherry

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
AuthorRoxane Gay
ISBN0062413503
Powerful. Raw. Stunning writing. Pretty much everything I would expect from a collection put together by Roxane Gay.
What is it like to live in a culture where it often seems like it is a question of when, not if, a woman will encounter some kind of sexual violence?
This is book about rape and...
The Weight of Ink
AuthorRachel Kadish
An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book.

Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester...
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
AuthorNora Ephron
ISBN0307264556
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.

The...
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
ISBN0062406582
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
Where Am I Now?
AuthorMara Wilson
ISBN0143128221
For readers of Lena Dunham, Allie Brosh and Roxane Gay, this funny, poignant, daringly honest collection of personal essays introduces Mara Wilson—the former child actress best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire—as a brilliant new chronicler of the experience that is...
The Visitors
AuthorSally Beauman
ISBN0751551678
Under the tablecloth, Frances's hand reached for mine and clasped it. I knew what it meant, that clasp and the mischievous grateful glance that accompanied it: it meant I was thanked, that there were secrets here. I could accept that. I too had secrets - who doesn't?
Sent abroad to Egypt in 1922 to...
As Long as We Both Shall Live
AuthorJoAnn Chaney
ISBN1250076390
What happens when you're really, truly done making your marriage work? You can't be married to someone without sometimes wanting to bash them over the head...
As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney's wicked, masterful examination of a marriage gone very wrong, a marriage with lots of secrets...

"My...
Before You Know Kindness
AuthorChris Bohjalian
ISBN1400031656
Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of Midwives, presents his most ambitious and multi-layered novel to date--examining wildly divisive issues in today’s America with his trademark emotional heft and spellbinding storytelling skill. On a balmy July night in New Hampshire a shot rings out in...
The Last American Vampire
AuthorSeth Grahame-Smith
New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith returns with the follow-up to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--a sweeping, alternate history of 20th Century America as seen through the eyes of vampire Henry Sturges.

THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE

In Reconstruction-era America,...
Cherry
AuthorMary Karr
ISBN0330485768
This memoir of adolescence follows the earlier volume by Mary Karr, The Liars' Club. In Cherry, we find Karr once again trying to run from the thrills and terrors of her psychological and physical awakening by violently crashing up against authority in all its forms, shuttling between the principal's...
The Pretty One
AuthorLucinda Rosenfeld
ISBN0316213551
Perfect. Pretty. Political. For nearly forty years, The Hellinger sisters of Hastings-on-Hudson-namely, Imperia (Perri), Olympia (Pia), and Augusta (Gus)--have played the roles set down by their loving but domineering mother Carol. Perri, a mother of three, rules her four-bedroom palace in...
Muck: A Novel
AuthorDror Burstein
ISBN0374215839
Hipster kings and careerist prophets populate a fantastical Israel on the brink of destruction

In a Jerusalem both ancient and modern, where the First Temple squats over the populace like a Trump casino, where the streets are literally crawling with prophets and heathen helicopters buzz...
The Art of Leaving
AuthorAyelet Tsabari
ISBN1443447889
An unforgettable memoir about a young woman who tries to outrun loss, but eventually finds a way home.

Ayelet Tsabari was 21 years old the first time she left Tel Aviv with no plans to return. Restless after two turbulent mandatory years in the Israel Defense Forces, Tsabari longed to get away....
Home to Harmony
AuthorPhilip Gulley
ISBN0060858370
This is one of those books I'd like to give a 3.5
It is, as the book jacket indicates, a cross between Jan Karon's "Mitford" series and Garrison Keillor's "Lake Woebegone" tales - a genre I've tentatively decided to call "Nostalgic Pastoral Fiction," with "Pastoral" used in its older sense rather...
A Circle of Wives
AuthorAlice LaPlante
ISBN0802122345
* An Indie Next Pick
* A LibraryReads Selection
* An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Mysteries & Thrillers)
* A Daily Candy Best Book of March
* One of More Magazine’s "Five Thrillers Not to Read After Dark"

When Dr. John Taylor turns up dead in a hotel room, the local police...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933
AuthorBlanche Wiesen Cook
ISBN0140094601
Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians & reviewers everywhere, Blanche Wiesen Cook's Eleanor Roosevelt presents an unprecedented portrait of the towering female figure of the 20th century. This volume begins with her harrowing childhood, describes the difficulties of her marriage...
The Affliction
AuthorBeth Gutcheon
ISBN0062431994
The New York Times bestselling author of More Than You Know, Leeway Cottage, and Death at Breakfast delivers the second installment in her clever romp of a mystery series combining social comedy and dark-hearted murder a novel set at a girls’ boarding school in a picturesque Hudson River town with...
This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home
AuthorMargot Kahn
ISBN1580056687
Home is a loaded word, a complex idea: it's a place that can be comforting, difficult, nourishing, war-torn, or political. In this breathtaking, thought-provoking collection, 30 women writers explore the theme in personal essays about neighbors, marriage, kids, sentimental objects, homelessness,...
Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum)
AuthorErika Meitner
ISBN1942683626
Erika Meitner’s fifth collection of poetry plumbs human resilience and grit in the face of disaster, loss, and uncertainty. These narrative poems take readers into the heart of southern Appalachia—its highways and strip malls and gun culture, its fragility and danger—as the speaker wrestles...
Children of the Moon
AuthorAnthony De Sa
ISBN0385685971
From celebrated author Anthony De Sa comes a raw and compelling novel of love, war and the heartbreaking effects of memory.

"'You must listen to my words. You must promise to tell my story the way I have shared it with you.'"

Tanzania, 1956. A Maasai woman gives birth to a child with...
Baddawi
AuthorLeila Abdelrazaq
ISBN1935982400
Baddawi is the story of a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. Raised in a refugee camp called Baddawi in northern Lebanon, Ahmad is just one of the thousands of Palestinians who fled their homeland after the war in 1948 established the state of Israel.

In this visually...
Dead Run
AuthorP.J. Tracy
ISBN0451218159
Computer game company founders Grace MacBride and Annie Belinsky—along with Wisconsin deputy Sharon Mueller—are en route to Green Bay, following reports of a serial killer, when their car breaks down deep in the northern woods. A short walk through the forest leads them to the eerily quiet town...
The Fox Hunt: A Memoir of Yemen and My Odyssey to America
AuthorMohammed Al Samawi
ISBN0062678213
“Nail-bitingly suspenseful. ... Inspiring. ... Essential reading.” — Booklist, starred review

The Fox Hunt tells one young man’s unforgettable story of war, unlikely friendship, and his harrowing escape from Yemen's brutal civil war with the help of a daring plan engineered...
The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits
AuthorAlys Clare
ISBN0727888684
London, 1880. "I'm dreadfully afraid someone is threatening to kill my wife ..." When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her, the bureau's owner Lily...
Sheltering Rain
AuthorJojo Moyes
ISBN0060012897
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, the basis for the major motion picture, comes the touching, unforgettable story of three generations of Irish women faced with the fundamental truths of love, duty, and the unbreakable bond that unites mothers and daughters.

Estranged...
Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi
AuthorMaNishtana
Ariel Samson is just your run of the mill anomaly: a 20-something black Orthodox Jewish rabbi looking for love, figuring out life, and floating between at least two worlds.

Luckily, it gets worse.

Finding himself the spiritual leader of a dying synagogue, and accidentally falling...
Davidsstjärnor
AuthorKristina Ohlsson
ISBN9164204081
In her phenomenal #1 international bestseller—fifth in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Fredrika Bergman series—“one of Sweden’s best younger writers” (Los Angeles Times Magazine) delivers a tense, atmospheric mystery featuring an enigmatic killer rooted in folklore.

On...
Closed Casket
AuthorSophie Hannah
ISBN0062458841
"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock..."

With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off...
Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism
AuthorLynn Davidman
ISBN0520075455
The past two decades in the United States have seen an immense liberalization and expansion of women's roles in society. Recently, however, some women have turned away from the myriad, complex choices presented by modern life and chosen instead a Jewish orthodox tradition that sets strict and rigid...
They Eat Puppies, Don't They?
AuthorChristopher Buckley
In an attempt to gain Congressional approval for a top secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre and sexy NeoCon wonkette Angel Templeton start a rumor that the Chinese secret service is trying to assassinate the Dalai Lama. Their outrageous scheme provokes a series of crises involving...
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