The Gilly Salt Sisters
10 best books like The Gilly Salt Sisters (Tiffany Baker): Compulsively Mr. Darcy, The Salt God's Daughter, The Kitchen Daughter, The Legacy of Eden, The Lost Saints of Tennessee, Holding on to Zoe, The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse, Shelter, The Manicurist, Shame the Devil
| Author | Nina Benneton |
| ISBN | 1402262493 |
For anyone obsessed with Pride & Prejudice, it's Darcy and Elizabeth like you've never see them before This modern take introduces us to the wealthy philanthropist Fitzwilliam Darcy, a handsome and brooding bachelor who yearns for love but doubts any woman could handle his obsessive tendencies....
| Author | Ilie Ruby |
| ISBN | 1619020025 |
Set in Long Beach, California, beginning in the 1970s, The Salt God’s Daughter follows Ruthie and her sister, Dolly, as they carve out a life in a place filled with meteorological myths and exotic folklore, where female rites of passage are met with startling discoveries. Raised by a mother drawn...
| Author | Jael McHenry |
| ISBN | 1439191697 |
After the unexpected death of her parents, painfully shy and sheltered 26-year-old Ginny Selvaggio seeks comfort in cooking from family recipes. But the rich, peppery scent of her Nonna’s soup draws an unexpected visitor into the kitchen: the ghost of Nonna herself, dead for twenty years, who appears...
| Author | Nelle Davy |
| ISBN | 0778329550 |
"To understand what it meant to be a Hathaway, you'd first have to see Aurelia."
For generations, Aurelia was the crowning glory of more than three thousand acres of Iowa farmland and golden cornfields. The estate was a monument to matriarch Lavinia Hathaway's dream to elevate the family name...
| Author | Amy Franklin-Willis |
| ISBN | 0802120059 |
With enormous heart and dazzling agility, Amy Franklin-Willis expertly mines the fault lines in one Southern working-class family. Driven by the soulful voices of forty-two-year-old Ezekiel Cooper and his mother, Lillian, The Lost Saints of Tennessee journeys from the 1940s to 1980s as it follows...
| Author | George Ella Lyon |
| ISBN | 0374332649 |
After sixteen-year-old Jules has her baby, Zoe, it doesn't matter anymore that her mother thinks she's a drama queen, or that her father left them years ago, or even that Zoe's father is gone, too. She and her baby make a family now; she doesn't need anyone else in the world except Zoe.Though it's tough...
| Author | Jane Rowan |
| ISBN | 0981583024 |
In this brave and touching memoir, Jane Rowan shares her journey through the healing process of recovering from childhood sexual abuse; a past she knew nothing about until vague, foggy memories began invading her mind.
The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse opens with...
A gorgeous, poetic literary debut from award-winning author Frances Greenslade, Shelter is a brilliant coming-of-age story of two strong, brave sisters searching for their mother.
For sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect....
| Author | Phyllis Schieber |
| ISBN | 1611940451 |
""Schieber has painted a fine portrait of the struggles and challenges of being different in an unforgiving world. Her characters are authentic and touching. Using language that is at once both straightforward and evocative, Schieber writes a story that you will recognize and remember long after...
| Author | Debra Brenegan |
| ISBN | 1438435878 |
"There may be married people who do not read the morning paper. Smith and I know them not ... It is not too much to say the newspapers are one of our strongest points of sympathy; that it is our meat and drink to praise and abuse them together; that we often in our imagination edit a model newspaper, which shall...
| Author | Richard Biggs |
| ISBN | 1466488298 |
Apparently writing "see comments" can get a review banned (an author just nixed one but who cares, it's on the same shelf as this one and the shelf name speaks for itself) so this will be a proper review of the various excerpts I read and downloaded on the net.
This author, who calls himself Dick,...
| Author | Jillian Lauren |
| ISBN | 0452297346 |
An electrifying debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Some Girls. Bebe Baker is an ex-everything: ex-stripper, ex-Christian, ex-drug addict, ex-pretty girl.
It's been one year since the car accident that killed her boyfriend left her scarred and shaken. Flanked by an...
| Author | Sharon Bially |
| ISBN | 0615475604 |
Veronica Berg has everything she needs to achieve her dream of becoming a painter--a charming home studio in Provence, a hardworking husband, and a nanny who watches her two-year-old twins. Yet instead of painting, she spends her days lingering over meaningless chores and secretly indulging in lengthy...
| Author | Angela Elwell Hunt |
| ISBN | 1439182051 |
One innocent mistake… a lifetime of consequences.
One innocent mistake . . . a lifetime of consequences.
After growing up an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can’t afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn...
| Author | Kirstie Alley |
| ISBN | 1451673582 |
Emmy Award-winning actress Kirstie Alley’s candid and audacious memoir about her life and the men she has shared it with—for better and for worse.
John Travolta.
Parker Stevenson.
Ted Danson.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
Kelsey Grammer.
Patrick...
| Author | David Cristofano |
| ISBN | 0446567353 |
From David Cristofano, the Edgar® Award-nominated author of The Girl She Used to Be, comes a poignant, darkly witty story about the ties that bind us together . . . and the choices that rip us apart.
THE EXCEPTIONS
No loose ends. It's the Bovaro family motto. As part of the Bovaro clan,...
| Author | Mary Curran Hackett |
| ISBN | 0062079980 |
“Proof of Heaven belongs on any keeper shelf. It’s beautifully written, mesmerizing and tragic, thought-provoking, and a reaffirmation of faith….I loved this book.”
—Shelley Shepard Gray
Proof of Heaven by Mary Curran Hackett is an astonishing debut—a moving, inspiring,...
| Author | Denise Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0743296745 |
Maggie Silver is solidly middle class, with a mortgage to pay and an ill mother to support. She does her best to scramble up the ladder at an exclusive, high-powered PR firm in Southern California, whose clients are movie stars and famous athletes. Now, Maggie is being asked to take on her toughest client...
| Author | Gary McMahon |
| ISBN | 0857661272 |
HE SOUGHT TO FLEE HIS TRAGIC PAST, but when Thomas Usher hears a clockwork voice on the phone, and sees ever-more disturbing visions in a derelict warehouse, Usher realizes that he has to return home - for the sake of his own sanity.
Meanwhile, a deadly figure from Usher's past threatens to undermine...
| Author | Alexandra Whitaker |
| ISBN | 0446583944 |
Adam and Sophie Dean's good-enough marriage could easily have lasted forever. But Adam succumbs to pressure from his mistress to leave Sophie, and in the course of his carefully prepared farewell speech, Sophie has a revelation: unless she leaves him in the family home in the role of primary caregiver,...
| Author | Mary Lydon Simonsen |
| ISBN | 1402250770 |
In the tradition of Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange (35,000 copies sold) this fresh, original paranormal Jane Austen sequel by bestselling author Mary Lydon Simonson explores Mr. Darcy as the leader of a secret world of werewolves threatened with extinction.Elizabeth comes to realize that she...
| Author | Trevor Cole |
| ISBN | 0062082507 |
Jean Vale Horemarsh is an ordinary, small-town woman with the usual challenges of middle age. She's content, mostly, with the life she's built: a semi-successful career as a ceramics artist, a close collection of women friends (if you ignore the terrible falling out she had with Cheryl all those years...
The Roaring Twenties crumble into the Great Depression, but Virginia Kingsley, New York's toughest and most successful speakeasy owner, is doing just fine. Now that the world is falling apart, bootlegging is a flourishing business, and she's queen of that castle.
Then her infant nephew...
| Author | Kathryn Casey |
| ISBN | 0312379528 |
On a quiet afternoon in the park, four-year-old Joey plays in the sandbox, when a stranger approaches looking for his puppy. While Joey’s mom, Crystal, talks on her cell phone, the stranger convinces the child to help search. By the time Crystal turns around, her son has disappeared. Yet her reaction...
| Author | Andrew Klavan |
| ISBN | 1595547932 |
Do Right, Fear Nothing.Sam Hopkins is a good kid who has fallen in with the wrong crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and thugs, Sam knows it’s only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble.But one day, Sam sees these thugs harassing an eccentric schoolmate...
