Women's Literature | Women's Studies - Interest
Oct.27.2009
This Bitter Earth picks up where Sugar left off-on the dirt road leading to Sugar's childhood home in Short Junction, Arkansas. Here, Sugar hears a shocking revelation about unrequited love, and about one man's hatred-and the black magic that has cursed generations. Her travels take Sugar to St....
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Oct.27.2009
Despite being born to a broken-hearted mother and a faithless father, Campbell still believes in the power of love…if she can ever find it. Living in the same neighborhood, but unknown to Campbell until a chance meeting brings them together, is Donovan, the "little man" of a shattered...
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Oct.26.2009
Set in Brooklyn, NY, McFadden's birthplace and current residence, narrator Kenzie Lowe tells an intensely moving story that begins with her childhood in the 1970's growing up with her abusive, alcoholic father, Hy-Lo. Everyday young Kenzie lives in fear that her too loud footsteps, her too high...
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Oct.26.2009
Three generations of mothers and daughters take center stage, with 20th century events as backdrop, in this novel of depth and humor, with a touch of magic realism, spotlighting the power of music—from classical to jazz to rock and international folk—and the tug between ethnic loyalty and global...
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Oct.18.2009
When Sara’s niece, Janice, is notified that her sharp-witted aunt, now in her 80s, hasn’t been seen for several days, Janice’s panicky drive to find out what’s happened begins our journey of discovering that Sara has led a life very different from what her relatives and friends assume. Historical...
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Oct.08.2009
Bluegrass is the final installment in the "B" Kentucky Women's Fiction Series. For a full synopsis, please click on the link to my website. That way you can read about all my novels, not just this latest one. Thanks!
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Sep.25.2009
Beyond the Cayenne Wall captures the cultural chasm—and sometimes the collision between the East and the West—as the characters struggle to find their individualities despite the barriers imposed by society. Tannu refuses to give up her firstborn to the caretakers of the shrine of Shah Daullah as...
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Sep.14.2009
Regina is Diana’s beloved grandmother - a spirited woman who loves her, cares for her, even teaches her to type her first stories on a Remington typewriter. So when Regina inexplicably takes her own life at age sixty-one, ten-year-old Diana is left devastated.
Three decades later, Diana...
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Sep.13.2009
Tragedy-and her brother's midnight plea for help with his young twins-pulls Cat Hood back home to Galway, North Carolina, in the third book in the popular Cat Rising trilogy.
After five years in Scotland, the place where she'd expected to find both roots and family, Cat is still single (...
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Sep.13.2009
BookList Review
"Girls with Hammers," the truck proudly proclaims--the sign of Lily's carpentry business, which ran smoothly for years until her longtime friend and coworker departed. With that loss, Lily is spinning out of control, according to live-in lover Hannah, a...
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