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Do you love historical fiction? 5 Stars - I will loan it to you, but I'd really like it back, ok? 4 Stars - I will loan it to you, and it's cool if you keep it or pass it on. 3 Stars - You can have it. It was just ok.

  • By Barbara Kingsolver: The Bean Trees: A Novel

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    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 5 Star Rating"
    • Erin, Chief Mom: I loved reading so many of the recommendations on your list that I know I will enjoy the ones I haven't read yet. Just bought this one and will start on my next plane ride. THANKS!
  • Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel [Hardcover]

    For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 5 Star Rating"
  • The Glass Castle: A Memoir [Paperback]

    Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 5 Star Rating"
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    • SkinnyScoop Team: This is such a great list - we'd love to see a list of books on your "must read" list for Summer!
    • Erin: loved this book. great rec.
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel [Paperback]

    Starred Review. See's engrossing novel set in remote 19th-century China details the deeply affecting story of lifelong, intimate friends (laotong, or "old sames") Lily and Snow Flower, their imprisonment by rigid codes of conduct for women and their...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 4 Star Rating"
  • A Severe Mercy [Paperback]

    A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken, is a heart-rending love story described by its author as "the spiritual autobiography of a love rather than of the lovers." Vanauken chronicles the birth of a powerful pagan love borne out of the relationship...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 5 Star Rating"
  • The Giver [Mass Market Paperback]

    In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 3 Star Rating"
    • Claudia Roldan: This has to be my favorite book I read in grammar school!
  • To Kill a Mockingbird [Mass Market Paperback]

    "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 5 Star Rating"
  • The Other Boleyn Girl [Paperback]

    Sisterly rivalry is the basis of this fresh, wonderfully vivid retelling of the story of Anne Boleyn. Anne, her sister Mary and their brother George are all brought to the king's court at a young age, as players in their uncle's plans to advance the...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 4 Star Rating"
  • The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream [Paperback]

    Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 3 Star Rating"
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns [Hardcover]

    It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 4 Star Rating"
  • Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far [Hardcover]

    “Amy Grant is a remarkable woman whose contributions to the worlds of faith, charity, and entertainment continue to put her in a class of her own. And in many ways, Amy’s wonderful new book, Mosaic, is a lot like Amy herself: it sparkles...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 4 Star Rating"
  • Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel [Paperback]

    According to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not mean "prostitute," as Westerners ignorantly assume--it means "artisan" or "artist." To capture the geisha experience in the art of fiction, Golden trained as long and...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 4 Star Rating"
  • Home: A Memoir of My Early Years [Hardcover]

    Syphilis, alcoholism, infidelity, and indeterminate parentage may seem improbable touchstones in the back story of one who didn't so much portray as embody the blithe Maria in The Sound of Music. But as this memoir of her formative years makes clear,...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 3 Star Rating"
  • The Middle Place [Hardcover]

    Newspaper columnist Corrigan was a happily married mother of two young daughters when she discovered a cancerous lump in her breast. She was still undergoing treatment when she learned that her beloved father, who'd already survived prostate cancer,...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 4 Star Rating"
  • The House at Riverton: A Novel [Hardcover]

    Amazon Best of the Month, April 2008: In her cinematic debut novel, Kate Morton immerses readers in the dramas of the Ashbury family at their crumbling English country estate in the years surrounding World War I, an age when Edwardian civility,...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 4 Star Rating"
  • The Help [Hardcover]

    Starred Review. What perfect timing for this optimistic, uplifting debut novel (and maiden publication of Amy Einhorn's new imprint) set during the nascent civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 5 Star Rating"
  • The Secret Life of Bees [Paperback]

    In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she...

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 4 Star Rating"
  • The Red Tent [Paperback]

    The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life.....

    Kate Thompson Eschbach says: "Kate's 5 Star Rating"

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