The Tall Woman

6 best books like The Tall Woman (Wilma Dykeman): Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes), All Over But the Shoutin', Word to the Wise, How to Fracture a Fairy Tale: 2, A Parchment of Leaves, Master of the Phantom Isle

Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes)

Author	Lorna Landvik
ISBN	1452959617

A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world

The curmudgeon who wrote the column “Ramblin’s by Walt” in the Granite Creek Gazette dismissed...

All Over But the Shoutin'

Author	Rick Bragg
ISBN	0679774025

The story of a violent, war-haunted, alcoholic father and a strong-willed, loving mother who struggled to protect her three sons from the effects of poverty and ignorance that had tainted her own life.

The extraordinary gifts for evocation and insight and the stunning talent for storytelling...

Word to the Wise

Author

Jenn McKinlay

It's no-holds-barred murder, in the latest page-turning Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Hitting the Books.

Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of her dreams--but it's not all roses for Briar Creek's beloved library director, as gardening...

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale: 2

Author	Jane Yolen
ISBN	1616963069

“[Yolen is] the Aesop of the twentieth century”
—The New York Times

Fantasy legend Jane Yolen (The Emerald Circus, The Devil’s Arithmetic) delights with these effortlessly wide-ranging transformed fairy tales. Yolen fractures the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets,...

A Parchment of Leaves

Author	Silas House
ISBN	0345464974

Winner-Kentucky Novel of the Year, 2003
Winner-Award for Special Achievement from Fellowship of Southern
Writers
Nominee-Southern Book Critics Circle Prize
Nominee-BookSense Book of the Year (longlist)

"So it is that Vine, Cherokee-born and raised in the early 1900s,...

Master of the Phantom Isle

Author	Brandon Mull
ISBN	1629726168

Cursed by the Key of Forgetting, Seth has lost all memory of his past—his relationships, his experiences, and who he really is. For now he will align with his new mentor, Ronodin, the dark unicorn, who takes him to the Phantom Isle, the secret gateway to the Under Realm. Though Seth is not formally a prisoner,...