Until She Comes Home
10 best books like Until She Comes Home (Lori Roy): Before She Sleeps, And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation, The Wishing Hill, Can't Quit You, Baby (Contemporary American Fiction), Head Games, Point, Click, Love, The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis, Lessons in Laughing Out Loud, Why I March: Images from the Woman's March Around the World, The Ninth Step
| Author | Bina Shah |
| ISBN | 1883285763 |
In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible.
Yet...
| Author | Agnes Kamara-umunna |
When bullets hit Agnes Kamara-Umunna's home in Monrovia, Liberia, she and her father hastily piled whatever they could carry into their car and drove toward the border, along with thousands of others. An army of children was approaching, under the leadership of Charles Taylor. It seemed like the end...
| Author | Holly Robinson |
| ISBN | 0451415949 |
What if everything you knew about your life was wrong?
Years ago, Juliet Clark gave up her life in California to follow the man she loved to Mexico and pursue her dream of being an artist. Now her marriage is over, and she’s alone, selling watercolors to tourists on the Puerto Vallarta boardwalk.
When...
| Author | Ellen Douglas |
| ISBN | 0140121021 |
"It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature." - The Boston Globe
Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees...
| Author | Craig McDonald |
| ISBN | 1932557423 |
You start a book like Head Games, set as it is in the fifties, and you wonder if it has to go so hard on period details like casual homophobia, and so often at that. The first novel written in Craig McDonald's Hector Lassiter series, although the seventh chronologically, starts well. People die indiscriminately,...
| Author | Molly Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0345527631 |
In Molly Shapiro’s fun and sexy debut novel, four women try to sort through the wild and complicated world of text messaging, status updates, and other high-speed connections.
Best friends and fellow midwesterners Katie, Annie, Maxine, and Claudia are no strangers to dealing with...
The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis
| Author | Elle Thornton |
| ISBN | 1466431687 |
Nearly everything important in twelve-year-old Gabriella's life that summer of 1957 can be traced to the river. On the North Carolina military base where she lives, she meets the African-American Marine Hawkins by the river's brown-green water. Hawkins, a servant in the kitchen of her father's quarters,...
| Author | Rowan Coleman |
| ISBN | 0099551268 |
A heart-warming and moving novel for any woman who has ever felt like she has lost herself, from the author of The Memory Book.
Willow and Holly are identical twins. They are everything to each other. Holly calls Willow her rock, her soul mate, her other half. And Willow feels the same about Holly....
| Author | Emma Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1419728857 |
On January 21, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S. presidential race--immigration, health...
| Author | Grant Jerkins |
| ISBN | 0425255980 |
Is it true what they say? That we’re only as sick as our worst secret? Because Helen Patrice has one. Last night, she murdered a stranger…
Helen is a recovering alcoholic struggling through a twelve-step program. Now it’s time to make amends for a crime she got away with—a hit and run...
| Author | Tom Piccirilli |
| ISBN | 0345529006 |
Professional thief Terrier Rand hasn’t gotten caught yet. It’s only his conscience chasing at his heels.
In the follow-up to Tom Piccirilli’s acclaimed novel The Last Kind Words, prodigal thief Terrier Rand has come home to the family that has lawbreaking in its blood. With generations...
A stunning literary thriller set in rural Vermont from the much praised author of Nightswimmer and Clara's Heart
Catherine Winslow, taking a walk during an early spring thaw, discovers the body of a woman leaning against an apple tree near her house in the Upper Valley of Vermont. From the corpse’s...
| Author | T.V. LoCicero |
| ISBN | 0615681352 |
At a conference in Italy’s lake district, American graduate student Stanford Lyle is enchanted with Lina Lentini, a lovely Italian professor of comparative lit. And when she lectures for a term at his mid-Michigan university, she considers a fling with Stan—until she meets John Martens, a professor,...
| Author | Anne-Marie Casey |
| ISBN | 0399160213 |
If you loved The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, this book is right up your alley.” —Isabel Gillies,New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day
Sometimes what you want in your twenties isn’t what you want or need in your forties. . . .
When Lucy Lovett’s...
The Old Mermaid's Tale: A Novel of the Great Lakes
| Author | Kathleen Valentine |
| ISBN | 0978594061 |
(Novel - 132k words. Love Story, Coming-of-Age, Historical - Paperback or eBook) In 1960 when Clair Wagner's friends are showing off their new bikinis at the local swimming hole and planning weddings, Clair is plotting her escape from her rural farm-community life. She is headed for college on the...
| Author | Gene Twaronite |
| ISBN | 1470003031 |
My Vacation in Hell is a young adult dark fantasy. Set in the mid-1960s, it is a first person narrative by a 15-year-old writer named John Boggle. A troubled nerdy misfit and a frequent flyer of his imagination, John is inspired by a book report reading of Dante Alighieri's the Inferno. In the eternity...
| Author | Suzanne Chazin |
| ISBN | 1617736333 |
"A tremendous talent."--Lee Child
From award-winning author Suzanne Chazin comes a powerful novel of passion, bigotry, and murderous secrets in a homicide detective's picturesque hometown…
A body is found in a reservoir fifty miles north of New York City. The victim is young,...
| Author | Rachel Howzell Hall |
| ISBN | 0765336367 |
Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton and her partner, Colin Taggert, arrive at the scene of a tragic house fire. Juliet Chatman perished in the blaze, along with her two children. Left behind is grieving husband and father Christopher Chatman, hospitalized after trying to rescue his...
| Author | Thomas H. Cook |
| ISBN | 0802126081 |
Edgar Award winner Thomas H. Cook is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, and he offers one of his most compelling novels ever in Sandrine's Case, a lush and twisting literary mystery in which a college professor falls in love with his wife all over again...while on trial for her murder.
Samuel...
| Author | Chris Knopf |
| ISBN | 1579622836 |
Imagine this: You have a nice life. You love your beautiful, successful wife. You're an easygoing guy working out of your comfortable Connecticut home. The world is an interesting, pleasant place.
Then in seconds it's all gone. You're still alive, but the world thinks you're dead. And now...
| Author | M.J. Rose |
| ISBN | 0671041320 |
Lip Service is the seductive new novel that everyone is talking about. Crackling with eroticism and suspense, Lip Service probes the secret world of phone sex and one woman who becomes empowered by what she discovers there. Not since Erica Jong's Fear of Flying has a novel so masterfully examined the...
| Author | Louise Ure |
| ISBN | 0312375867 |
“Hands On Emergency. This is Jessie. Is there an emergency in the vehicle?”
Roadside Assistance Operator, Jessie Dancing, knows what it’s like to take a life, and she’s trying to put that memory behind her. But when the call comes in from real estate tycoon Darren Markson, she thinks...
| Author | Simon Brett |
| ISBN | 1780290446 |
After a long period of ‘resting’, life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlet’s Father and First Gravedigger in a new production of Hamlet. But rehearsals are fraught. Ophelia is played by Katrina Selsey, who won the role through a television talent show. ...
| Author | T. Jefferson Parker |
| ISBN | 1455818097 |
ChLos Angeles County sheriff’s deputy Charlie Hood is attached to the ATF, working undercover on the Iron River that flows across the U.S.-Mexican border. The diamond fillings he wears in his left canine glimmer, distracting the men who sell the illegal firearms that enable the unspeakable violence...
| Author | Matthew Guinn |
| ISBN | 0393348814 |
At South Carolina Medical College, Dr. Jacob Thacker is on probation for Xanax abuse. His interim career—working university public relations—takes an unnerving detour into the past when the bones of African American slaves are unearthed on campus.
In a parallel narrative set in the...
