Books like The Giver of Stars
Alice Wright marries a handsome American to escape her stifling life in England, and in Baileyville, Kentucky, in 1937, she joins the Packhorse Library, riding into the Appalachian mountains with books under the lead of the fiercely independent Margery O'Hare.
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The Book of Lost Names
Eva Abrams, a semi-retired Florida librarian, sees a newspaper photograph of a book stolen by the Nazis that she has not seen in sixty years, the book that holds the key to the papers she and a forger named Rémy made for Jewish children in occupied France.
The Calamity Club
In Oxford, Mississippi, in 1933, Meg, an eleven-year-old left by her mother at the county orphan asylum for girls, and Birdie, who has come to town to beg her socialite sister for money to save the family home, find their lives tangling together in the depths of the Depression.
The Personal Librarian
Belle da Costa Greene becomes J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, building his collection of rare manuscripts and art into a library that makes her one of the most powerful women in New York, while hiding that she is a Black woman passing as white.
Gap Creek
Julie Harmon, seventeen and used to doing a man's work on her family's farm, marries Hank Richards in the 1890s and moves with him to a house on Gap Creek, across the state line in South Carolina.
The Four Winds
In 1934, as drought and dust storms ruin the Texas Panhandle farm she has worked for years, Elsa Martinelli must choose between staying with the land and taking her two children west to California, where the promise of work is not what it seems.
Serena
In 1929 a timber baron brings his new wife Serena to the North Carolina mountains, and her ruthlessness, matched with his own, makes them a terror to the loggers and to anyone who stands in their way.
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
In 1913 Laura Lyons lives in an apartment inside the New York Public Library, where her husband is superintendent, and is drawn into a club of radical women. In 1993 her granddaughter Sadie, a curator there, faces a run of thefts of rare books.
The Rose Code
A debutante, an East End girl and a shy puzzle-solver become codebreakers at Bletchley Park, then reunite on the eve of the 1947 royal wedding to unmask the traitor among them.
The Reivers
An eleven-year-old Mississippi boy and two friends steal his grandfather's car and drive it to a Memphis brothel.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
In a remote county of nineteenth-century China, seven-year-old Lily is matched with Snow Flower as a laotong, an 'old same' for life, and the two girls write to each other in nu shu, a secret women's script, on a silk fan as foot-binding, marriage and upheaval shape their lives.
Water for Elephants
An old man in a nursing home remembers the Depression summer he jumped a train into a second-rate travelling circus and the wife and the elephant he helped steal from it.
Of Mice and Men
Two migrant workers in Depression-era California dream of owning a small farm, but loneliness and violence conspire against even the simplest hopes.