State of Grace

7 best books like State of Grace (Joy Williams): Aurora Blazing, The Undying, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan, Brown Girl, Brownstones, The Secret Commonwealth, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories, Polaris Rising

Aurora Blazing
AuthorJessie Mihalik
ISBN0062802461
Bianca von Hasenberg did her duty for High House von Hasenberg and ended up trapped in a terrible marriage. When her husband dies unexpectedly and leaves her a happy widow, she vows never to marry again. Instead, she uses her connections to save other young women. Information is power and Bianca has a...
The Undying
AuthorAnne Boyer
Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data—sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying.

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed...
The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan
AuthorSherry Thomas
ISBN1620148048
CHINA, 484 A.D.

A Warrior in Disguise
All her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated decades earlier, and avenge her father, who was paralyzed...
AuthorPaule Marshall
ISBN1558614982
Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, "Brown Girl, Brownstones" is the enduring story of a most extraordinary young woman. Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants, is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wants to "buy house" and educate...
The Secret Commonwealth
AuthorPhilip Pullman
ISBN1448194512
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.

It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end...
AuthorWilliam H. Gass
ISBN0879233745
IN THIS SUITE of five short pieces -- one of the unqualified literary masterpieces of the American 1960s -- William Gass finds five beautiful forms in which to explore the signature theme of his fiction: the solitary soul’s poignant, conflicted, and doomed pursuit of love and community. In their...
Polaris Rising
AuthorJessie Mihalik
ISBN0062802402
A space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure—the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy.

In the far distant future, the universe is officially ruled by the Royal Consortium, but the High Councillors,...
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