Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs

6 best books like Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs (Carl Lindahl): Brokeback Mountain, Secret Daughter, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, The Weight of Ink, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls, Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500

Brokeback Mountain

Author	Annie Proulx
ISBN	0743271327

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender...

Secret Daughter

Author	Shilpi Somaya Gowda
ISBN	0061922315

Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be — she's newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco — until she makes the devastating discovery she never will be able to have children.

The same year in India, a poor mother makes the heartbreaking choice to...

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

Author	James McBride
ISBN	1573225789

Touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.

Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve...

The Weight of Ink

Author

Rachel 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...

Home for Erring and Outcast Girls

Author

Julie Kibler

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen girls,” and inspired by historical events.

In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection...

Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500

Author	Henrietta Leyser
ISBN	1842126210

Medieval Women looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.

Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood...