The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
10 best books like The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove (Susan Gregg Gilmore): Kings of the Earth, The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady, The Lighthouse Road, Cold Rock River, The Lost Saints of Tennessee, The Bee-Loud Glade, Blood on the Forge, The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home, House Arrest, Miracle on I-40
| Author | Jon Clinch |
| ISBN | 1400069017 |
Following up Finn, his much-heralded and prize-winning debut whose voice evoked “the mythic styles of his literary predecessors . . . William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy and Edward P. Jones” (San Francisco Chronicle), Jon Clinch returns with Kings of the Earth, a powerful and haunting...
| Author | Elizabeth Stuckey-French |
| ISBN | 0385510640 |
This lively, intricately plotted, laugh-out-loud funny, and surprisingly touching family drama combines the wit of Carl Hiaasen with the southern charm of Jill McCorkle.
Seventy-seven-year-old Marylou Ahearn is going to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs come hell or high water. In 1953, he gave...
| Author | Peter Geye |
| ISBN | 1609530845 |
Against the wilds of sea and wood, a young immigrant woman settles into life outside Duluth in the 1890s, still shocked at finding herself alone in a new country, abandoned and adrift; in the early 1920s, her orphan son, now grown, falls in love with the one woman he shouldn’t and uses his best skills...
| Author | Jackie Lee Miles |
| ISBN | 1581825706 |
In 1963 rural Georgia, with the Vietnam War cranking up, pregnant seventeen-year-old Adie Jenkins discovers the diary of pregnant seventeen-year-old Tempe Jordan, a slave girl, begun as the Civil War wound down. As Cold Rock River comes to its surprising, shocking, endings, questions of family,...
| 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 | Steve Himmer |
| ISBN | 0984510583 |
Meet Finch, a corporate drone and blogger who invents words and imaginary lives, but none as surreal as the life he's about to lead as a decorative hermit. Meet Mr. Crane, an eccentric billionaire whose whims and moods change as often as the landscape outside his employee's cave. Join them both as they...
| Author | William Attaway |
| ISBN | 1590171349 |
This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters,...
| Author | Howard Frank Mosher |
| ISBN | 0307450694 |
From bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for.
Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that...
| Author | Ellen Meeropol |
| ISBN | 1597094994 |
Home-care nurse Emily Klein can’t get out of her new assignment – weekly prenatal visits to Pippa Glenning, a young Isis cult member under house arrest for the death of her daughter during a Solstice ceremony. But she takes her work seriously and plays by the rules, so Emily is determined to take good...
| Author | Curtiss Ann Matlock |
| ISBN | 0778322238 |
To reconcile with her folks back East and give her kids grandparents for Christmas, truck stop waitress Lacey Bryant arranged transportation with her steadiest customer. Little did she know she'd hitched a ride with Scrooge! Eighteen hundred miles confined with scowling Barry Cooper would feel...
| Author | Suzanne (Sue) Corso |
| ISBN | 1439190224 |
To me, some people lived in the real world and others lived Brooklyn. . . .It’s the summer of 1978, and Samantha Bonti is fifteen years old, half Jewish and half Italian, and hesitantly edging toward pure Brooklyn, even if her dreams of something more are bigger than the neighborhood girls’ teased...
| Author | Thomas Trofimuk |
| ISBN | 0385529139 |
A man arrives at an insane asylum in contemporary Spain claiming to be the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus. Who he really is, and the events that led him to break with reality, lie at the center of this captivating, romantic, and stunningly written novel.
Found in the treacherous...
| Author | Mary Glickman |
| ISBN | 1453219463 |
From the author of Home in the Morning comes this National Jewish Book Award Finalist: the sweeping story of a father and son, and of the loves that transform them amid the turbulence of the American South
Bernard Levy was always a mystery to the community of Guilford, Mississippi. He was even...
| Author | John Milliken Thompson |
| ISBN | 1590514440 |
On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but there are curious clues at the scene that suggest foul play. The case attracts local attention, and an eccentric group of men...
| Author | Lynne Bryant |
| ISBN | 0451232283 |
A moving debut novel about female friendship, endurance, and hope in the South.
Roxanne Reeves defines her life by the committees she heads and the social status she cultivates. But she is keeping secrets that make her an outsider in her own town, always in search of acceptance. And when she...
| Author | Chris McKinney |
| ISBN | 1569474508 |
“A book about ‘the sins of the fathers.’ . . . A gritty, troubling book.”—The Honolulu Advertiser
“The other Hawai’i, the one tourists never get to see.”—Ian MacMillan
Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He’s tough looking, a hard...
| Author | Matthew Dicks |
| ISBN | 0307592308 |
Milo Slade, a thirty-three year old home healthcare aide, is witnessing the rapid dissolution of his three-year marriage to a polished, high-powered attorney named Christine. Though Milo doesn't quite know the root of his marital problems, he inevitably blames himself, or more specifically, he...
| Author | Skip Horack |
| ISBN | 1582436096 |
In 1816, five years after being captured and sold into slavery, Kau, a pygmy tribesman, flees south into the Spanish Florida wilderness, determined to find a place where he can once again live in harmony with nature. Both haunted and driven by his memories of Africa, he embarks on an epic quest through...
| Author | Thad Ziolkowski |
| ISBN | 1609450701 |
Lewis Chopik has just graduated from Columbia University. Having been dumped by his girlfriend and in flight from the pressures exerted by his ambitious professor father, Lewis returns to Wichita in search of respite at the home of his New-Ager mother, Abby. But when Abby picks Lewis up from the airport,...
| Author | Jill McCorkle |
| ISBN | 1565126327 |
Jill McCorkle, a master of the short story whose work has been compared to that of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore, is a writer whose characters insist on our immediate and total attention. Here, in her first collection in eight years, are eleven new stories bristling with her signature wit and weight. One...
Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for their infant daughter. Michel Stone s harrowing novel meticulously examines the...
| Author | Preetham Grandhi |
| ISBN | 1599552353 |
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town's top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children. Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury's hospital,...
| Author | Steve Yarbrough |
| ISBN | 0307271706 |
Luke May teaches local history—his lifelong obsession—at his old high school in Loring, Mississippi. Having been mentored by his hometown newspaper’s publisher, a survivor of the civil rights turmoil, he now passes these stories along to students far too young to have experienced...
