Ten Thousand Saints

9 best books like Ten Thousand Saints (Eleanor Henderson): The Hand of Ethelberta, Girlchild, The Lifeboat, Mistress Shakespeare, Her, The Year We Left Home, This Beautiful Life, The Cry of the Go-Away Bird, The Lost Girls

AuthorThomas Hardy
ISBN0140435026
Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning the male-dominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions...
AuthorTupelo Hassman
ISBN0374162573
Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn’t got a troop or even a badge to call her own.  But she’s checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card, and she pores over its surreal advice (Disposal of Outgrown Uniforms;...
AuthorCharlotte Rogan
ISBN0316185906
In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying Grace Winter and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.

Adrift...
AuthorKaren Harper
ISBN0399155457
A delicious and intriguing historical novel about the woman who was William Shakespeare’s secret wife— by New York Times–bestselling author, Karen Harper.

In Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley reveals intimate details of her dangerous, daring life and her...
AuthorChrista Parravani
ISBN0805096531
A blazingly passionate memoir of identity and love: when a charismatic and troubled young woman dies tragically, her identical twin must struggle to survive.

Christa Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, were linked by a bond that went beyond siblinghood, beyond sisterhood, beyond friendship....
AuthorJean Thompson
ISBN1439175888
From National Book Award–finalist Jean Thompson comes a mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family—proud, flawed, hopeful—whose story simultaneously captures the turbulent history of the country at large.
In The Year We Left Home, Thompson brings together...
AuthorHelen Schulman
ISBN0062024388
When fifteen-year-old Jake Bergamot receives—and then forwards to a friend—a sexually explicit video that an eighth-grade admirer sent to him, the video goes viral within hours. The scandal that ensues threatens to shatter his family’s sense of security and identity—and, ultimately,...
The Cry of the Go-Away Bird
AuthorAndrea Eames
ISBN1846553733
Elise loves the farm that is her home; she loves playing with beetles and chameleons in the garden, buying sweets from the village shop and listening to the stories of spirits and charms told by her nanny, Beauty. As a young white girl in 1990s Zimbabwe, her life is idyllic. Her clothes are always clean...
The Lost Girls
AuthorJennifer Spence
ISBN1925791386
A haunting tale of love and loss that will make you think twice …

What would you do if you had the chance to change a pivotal moment from your past?
 
How far would you go to save someone you loved?
   
These are just two of the fateful choices a woman must face in this highly original...
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