The Hummingbird

6 best books like The Hummingbird (Stephen P. Kiernan): As Bright as Heaven, Lost Roses, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, We Hope for Better Things, Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope & Change from Young Female Staffers of the Obama White House, All the Flowers in Paris

AuthorSusan Meissner
ISBN0399585966
From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love.

In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young...
Lost Roses
AuthorMartha Hall Kelly
ISBN1524796379
The runaway bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. This sweeping new novel, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow...
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
AuthorKim Michele Richardson
ISBN1492671525
In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across...
We Hope for Better Things
AuthorErin Bartels
ISBN0800734912
When Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request--that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of photos--seems like it isn't worth her time. But when she loses her job after a botched investigation, she suddenly...
Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope & Change from Young Female Staffers of the Obama White House
AuthorMolly Dillon
ISBN1984848453
Return to President Obama’s White House in this anthology for young women by young women, featuring stories from ten inspiring junior staffers who joined his administration right out of college with the hope of making a difference.

Meet ten amazing young women who were so inspired by Barack...
All the Flowers in Paris
AuthorSarah Jio
Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious journal, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present--for readers of Sarah's Key.

When Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital with no memory of her past, she's confused to learn that she's lived a sad, reclusive...
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