The Last Suppers

8 best books like The Last Suppers (Mandy Mikulencak): As Bright as Heaven, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, This I Know, White Chrysanthemum, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls, The Seventeen Traditions, If The Creek Don't Rise, The Sisters of Glass Ferry

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...
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...
This I Know
AuthorEldonna Edwards
ISBN1496712862
Set in a small Midwest town in the late 1960s and helmed by an unforgettable young protagonist--compassionate, uncannily wise Grace--This I Know is a luminous coming-of-age story from an astonishing new voice.

Eleven-year-old Grace Carter has a talent for hiding things. She's had plenty...
AuthorMary Lynn Bracht
In the spirit of Lilac Girls, the heartbreaking history of Korea is brought to life in this deeply moving and redemptive debut that follows two sisters separated by World War II.

Korea, 1943. Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, she...
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls
AuthorJulie Kibler
An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen girls,” and inspired by historical events.

In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection...
AuthorRalph Nader
ISBN0061238279
“The Seventeen Traditions brings us back to what’s important in life—and what makes America truly great.”
—Jim Hightower, Illinois Times

The activist, humanitarian, and former presidential candidate named one of the 100 most influential figures in American history by...
AuthorLeah Weiss
ISBN1492647454
A strikingly sincere portrait of a town and its buried secrets from an outstanding new voice in southern fiction.

In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She’s...
The Sisters of Glass Ferry
AuthorKim Michele Richardson
ISBN1496709551
*EDITORS CHOICE* Historical Novel Society
SIBA Okra Pick, Fall 2017
Longlisted for the 2018 Southern Book Prize


Spanning several decades and written in an authentic voice both lyrical and wise, The Sisters of Glass Ferry is a haunting novel about small-town Southern secrets,...
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