Under a Wing: A Memoir
10 best books like Under a Wing: A Memoir (Reeve Lindbergh): Cape May : A Novel, Gift from the Sea, Rules for Visiting, The Aviator's Wife, The Traitor's Wife, The Whistling Season, The Homesman, The Reluctant Midwife, Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters, 1929-1932, Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life
A mesmerizing debut novel by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites.
Late September 1957. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia,...
| Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0394724550 |
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s...
| Author | Jessica Francis Kane |
| ISBN | 0525559221 |
A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.
At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in...
| Author | Melanie Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0345528670 |
In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
When Anne Morrow, a shy college senior with hidden literary aspirations,...
| Author | Allison Pataki |
| ISBN | 1476738602 |
A riveting historical novel about Peggy Shippen Arnold, the cunning wife of Benedict Arnold and mastermind behind America's most infamous act of treason . . .
Everyone knows Benedict Arnold--the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British--as history's most notorious...
| Author | Ivan Doig |
| ISBN | 0151012377 |
"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting,...
| Author | Glendon Swarthout |
| ISBN | 1476754268 |
IN PIONEER NEBRASKA, A WOMAN LEADS WHERE NO MAN WILL GO
Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones. The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of...
| Author | Patricia Harman |
| ISBN | 0062358243 |
The USA Today bestselling author of The Midwife of Hope River returns with a heartfelt sequel, a novel teeming with life and full of humor and warmth, one that celebrates the human spirit
The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children....
Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters, 1929-1932
| Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0156421836 |
Part radiant, part somber, this second volume of Anne Lindbergh's Diaries and Letters covers the years of the Lindbergh marriage and includes events surrounding the kidnapping of their son.
The shy, sheltered, introspective girl is thrown into the world of action of her famous husband....
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life
| Author | Susan Hertog |
| ISBN | 0385720076 |
An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--loyal wife, devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling Gift from the Sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh has been one of the most admired women and most popular writers of our time. Her Gift from the Sea...
| Author | A. Scott Berg |
| ISBN | 0425170411 |
This is a most compelling story of a most significant life; the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott Berg, this is at once Lindbergh the hero--and Lindbergh the man.
Awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for...
| Author | O.A. Bushnell |
| ISBN | 0451024788 |
Molokai--one of the beautiful Hawaiian islands, but in the late nineteenth century, a name synonymous with a desolate leper colony. Kalaupapa, accessible only from the sea, was "The Given Grave," where victims of the dreaded disease were sent to die, exiled in a desperate attempt to halt the spread...
| Author | Ragnar Jónasson |
| ISBN | 9935475417 |
Elliðaey is an isolated island off the coast of Iceland. It is has a beautiful, unforgiving terrain and is an easy place to vanish.
The Island is the second thrilling book in Ragnar Jonasson's Hidden Iceland trilogy. This time Hulda is at the peak of her career and is sent to investigate what...
This captivating, breakout novel—told in alternating viewpoints—brings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day, where a woman is prepared to tell her secrets at last.
Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life...
We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir
| Author | Kelly Grey Carlisle |
| ISBN | 1492645206 |
A mother's murder. Her daughter's redemption. And the complicated past that belongs to them both.
Kelly always knew that her family was different. She knew that most children didn't live with their grandparents, and their grandparents didn't own porn stores. Her classmates didn't sleep...
Sensible Shoes: A Story about the Spiritual Journey
| Author | Sharon Garlough Brown |
| ISBN | 0830843051 |
Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they embark together on a journey of spiritual formation: Hannah, a pastor who doesn't realize how exhausted she is. Meg, a widow and recent empty-nester who is haunted by her past. Mara, a woman who has experienced a lifetime of rejection...
| Author | Fannie Flagg |
| ISBN | 1400065933 |
The beloved Fannie Flagg is back and at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, past, present, and future.
Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems...
The Ladies of Garrison Gardens
| Author | Louise Shaffer |
| ISBN | 0812968832 |
Charles Valley’s legendary dowagers, the three Miss Margarets, have lost one of their own: Peggy Garrison, who married into a huge fortune but was constantly overshadowed by the legacy her husband’s first wife, the great Myrtis Garrison. When Peggy’s will is read, the news of who will take over...
