Fiction or non-fiction...winter is coming in the northeast and I will be in the house most of the time reading when not working!
2007-11-17 01:07:47 · 11 answers · asked by Teresa 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
All H G WELLS books
John
2007-11-25 00:50:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Color purple, The: a novel
Author: Walker, Alice, 1944-
Two African American sisters, one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, support each other through their correspondence, beginning in the 1920s.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982, 245 p.
Cider house rules, The: a novel
Author: Irving, John, 1942-
The practices of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician, orphanage director, ether addict, and abortionist--are hindered, abetted, and continued, in turn, by his favorite orphan, Homer Wells
New York: W. Morrow, 1985, 560 p.
Loving Frank: a novel
Nancy Horan
Author: Horan, Nancy
Fact and fiction blend in a historical novel that chronicles the relationship between seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, from their meeting, when they were each married to another, to the clandestine affair that shocked Chicago society.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2007, 384 p.
Fall on your knees: a novel
Author: MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958-
Often compared to the great Victorian family sagas, this complex tale of a Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, family from the early 1900s is often extreme, violent, beautiful and moving. The processes of human love and betrayal, faith and suffering are described in a full-bodied and theatrical prose.
New York: Simon & Schuster, copyright 1996, 508 p.
When we were orphans
Author: Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-
Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances. He grows up to become a renowned detective, and more than 20 years later, returns to Shanghai to solve the mystery of the disappearances.
New York: A. A. Knopf, copyright 2000, 335 p.
2007-11-17 03:35:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marguerite Thatcher Victor Hugo Stephen King Bessie Moran Genevieve De Cruze
2016-05-23 23:16:07 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Das Kapital - Karl Marx
Churchill, An Unruly Life - Norman Ross
A Horseman Riding By - R.F. Delderfield
The Regiment - CK Skelton
2007-11-17 01:27:55 · answer #4 · answered by natsmam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Second Glance: Jodi Picoult
Drowning Ruth
2007-11-17 01:53:11 · answer #5 · answered by speechy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just read a book setting in world war time and it is called the book of lost things
2007-11-17 01:19:46 · answer #6 · answered by Devon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
"The Alienist" by Caleb Carr
2007-11-24 12:41:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The endless steppe-Esther Hautzig
2007-11-17 08:13:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bronte books are great reads.. though i believe they're before the 1900's..
2007-11-17 01:22:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dorothy Garlocks books are set around that time period and the Great depression era....they are great. Check out her website...www.dorothygarlock.com
2007-11-17 02:21:01 · answer #10 · answered by deb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋