The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women

7 best books like The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women (Paula Kelly Harline): Follow the Drinking Gourd, The Trumpet of the Swan, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, Alabama Spitfire: The Story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, The Maggie B., Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy, Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Author	Jeanette Winter
ISBN	0679819975

Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by...

The Trumpet of the Swan

Author	E.B. White
ISBN	0064408671

Swan Song

Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.

Louis tries...

A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

Author	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
ISBN	1681684578

From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and...

Alabama Spitfire: The Story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird

Author

Bethany Hegedus

Nelle Harper Lee grew up in the rocky red soil of Monroeville, Alabama. From the get-go she was a spitfire.

Unlike most girls, Nelle preferred overalls to dresses and climbing trees to tea parties. Nelle loved to watch her daddy try cases in the courtroom. And she and her best friend, Tru, devoured...

The Maggie B.

Author	Irene Haas
ISBN	0689500211

I don't remember exactly what part of this appealed to me as a child. The ship? Most likely just the idea of having a private place that was exactly how I wanted it. Isn't that a fantasy for many children?

North Star, star of the sea,
I wish for a ship
Named after me,
To sail for a day
Alone...

Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy

Author	Jamie C. Martin
ISBN	0310354978

Motherhood is beautiful; motherhood is hard. All moms understand this paradoxical truth. Yet introverted mothers face unique challenges. When our quiet nature collides with our often loud role, frustration and guilt result. We wonder why motherhood feels at odds with our personality, and in our...

Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness

Author	Eric Metaxas
ISBN	0718021835

In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history’s greatest women, each of whom changed the course of history by following God’s call upon their lives—as women....