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by Toni Morrison
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Masterful, richly textured, bittersweet, and vital, Sula is a modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. Most of all, they ask: When can we let go? What must we hold back? And just how much can be shared in a friendship? -
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by Pearl S. Buck
A novel of a Southern woman trapped in the past and two brothers divided by the Civil War, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Good Earth. The Angry Wife is a memorable and impassioned dissection of prejudice, as well as a riveting portrait of post–Civil War America. -
by Goliarda Sapienza
Winner, USA Best Book Award in Fiction
"From its explosive, disturbing opening to the quiet cadences of its lyrical prose, The Art of Joy is crammed with passion, ideas, adventure, and mystery." —San Francisco Chronicle
"An astute litany of the moral, political, and feminist issues of the last century." —Booklist
"As errant, excessive, and irresistible as the woman at its heart, The Art of Joy more than lives up to the title. Modesta's "intense feeling for life" overcomes whatever obstacles the ideologies of "sorrow, humiliation, and fear" can throw at her as she embraces "life's fluidity." —The Independent (London)
The tumultuous twentieth century, told through the life of a single extraordinary woman. Rejected by a series of publishers, abandoned in a chest for twenty years, Goliarda Sapienza's masterpiece, The Art of Joy, survived a turbulent path to publication. It wasn't until 2005, when it was released in France, that this novel received the recognition it deserves. At last, Sapienza's remarkable book is available in English. -
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by Sylvia Plath
“It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath’s voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal.” — USA Today
A realistic and emotional look at a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by iconic American writer Sylvia Plath. -
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by Nicola Kraus
From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful novel about family, the weight of secrets, the choices we make, and the repercussions of the decisions made for us.
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by L. M. Montgomery
A young woman breaks free from her stifling home in search of love and freedom in this novel by the author of Anne of Green Gables.
