She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana
9 best books like She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana (Michael Lee West): Where the Heart Is, The Awakening of Miss Prim, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon, Mongrels, A Year on Ladybug Farm, The Mermaid Chair, Queen of Broken Hearts, The Sunday Wife, The Myth of Perpetual Summer
Author | Billie Letts |
ISBN | 0446672211 |
Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures in this...
The Awakening of Miss Prim
Author | Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera |
ISBN | 1476734240 |
In this #1 international bestseller, a young woman leaves everything behind to work as a librarian in a remote French village, where she finds her outlook on life and love challenged in every way.
When Miss Prim, an independent, accomplished young woman, reads an ad in the newspaper seeking...
The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
Author | Billie Letts |
ISBN | 0446675059 |
Caney Paxton wanted his cafe to have the biggest and brightest sign in Eastern Oklahoma-the "opening soon" part was supposed to be just a removable, painted notice. But a fateful misunderstanding gave Vietnam vet Caney the flashiest joke in the entire state. Twelve years later, the once-busy highway...
Author | Stephen Graham Jones |
ISBN | 0062412698 |
A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on the fringes of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.
He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows with...
Author | Donna Ball |
ISBN | 0425225879 |
Their husbands were gone, their families were grown, and the future stretched out before them like an unfulfilled promise...
Tired of always dreaming and never doing, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget make a life-altering decision. Uprooting themselves from their comfortable lives in the suburbs,...
Author | Sue Monk Kidd |
ISBN | 0143036696 |
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Sue Monk Kidd's phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Times bestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent...
Author | Cassandra King |
ISBN | 1401301770 |
The national bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife returns with another compulsively readable novelIt's not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who has willingly assumed the mantle while her career as a divorce coach thrives. Now she's preparing to open a...
Author | Cassandra King |
ISBN | 0786890703 |
Married for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a "Sunday wife." When her husband is assigned to a larger church, Dean becomes fast friends with...
The Myth of Perpetual Summer
Author | Susan Crandall |
ISBN | 1501172018 |
From the national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes a moving coming-of-age tale set in the tumultuous sixties that harkens to both Ordinary Grace and The Secret Life of Bees.
Tallulah James’s parents’ volatile relationship, erratic behavior, and hands-off...