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Fannie Flagg Author Read Alikes April 25, 2015 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Fannie Flagg try these authors.
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The Beginner's Goodbye : A Novel by Anne TylerSharing a happy marriage with the plain and outspoken Dorothy, Aaron, a physically disabled man who spent his youth avoiding a controlling sister, is devastated by his wife's sudden death and moves through the grieving process with the help of her apparition.
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The Art of Mending : A Novel by Elizabeth BergReturning home for the annual family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister, Caroline, and her allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and are forced to come to terms with the truth and lies within their family, as well as the painful cycle of denial, blame, repression, and forgiveness.
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Milk Glass Moon : A Big Stone Gap Novel by Adriana TrigianiIn the conclusion of the Big Stone Gap trilogy, Ave Maria faces unexpected upheavals and changes that test her faith, conscience, generosity, and understanding as her daughter, Etta, confronts the perils and choices of adulthood, her friends in Big Stone Gap deal with major life changes of their own, and her husband sets out to reinvent his life.
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Circle of Friends by Maeve BinchyTwo friends who grew up together in a small Irish village attend college in Dublin, where their lives become intertwined with the beautiful Nan Mahon and Jack Foley, the handsome son of a doctor
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The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanRepresenting the letter “T” in a series of 26 collectible editions, this story follows the lives of four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, who meet regularly to chat, play mahjong and eat dim sum.
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Return to Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton FrankA long-awaited sequel to the best-selling Sullivan's Island brings readers back to the steamy low country of South Carolina and continues the story of the family and relationships of Susan Hamilton.
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A Light in the Window by Jan KaronUnable to deny his feelings for his neighbor, Father Tim, the village rector of Mitford, North Carolina, is torn between his personal emotions, the wealthy widow who has been wooing him, and his cousin Meg, who moves into the rectory uninvited.
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Animal Dreams : A Novel by Barbara KingsolverHallie Nodine fights for justice in Nicaragua while her sister, Codi, returns to Arizona to confront her dying father, as myths, dreams, and flashbacks blend to examine life's commitments
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood : A Novel by Rebecca WellsSiddaLee has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers mementos from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood
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Etta Mae's Worst Bad-Luck Day : A Miss Julia Novel by Ann B. RossA latest adventure set in Abbotsville is written from the perspective of heart-of-gold Etta Mae Wiggins, whose ambition to marry a wealthy elderly man is challenged by the man's scheming children, her ex's underworld enemies and her former flame Bobby Lee.
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Black and Blue : A Novel by Anna QuindlenA nurse escapes her abusive husband, a New York policeman, taking their son with her to Florida. She assumes a new identity and even finds romance, but there is a price, the 10-year-old boy misses his father and she lives in constant fear the father willfind them, which he does. The novel analyzes why abused women wait so long to make their break
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Angry Housewives Eating BoBons : Eating Bon Bons by Lorna LandvikFrom the initial formation of The Freesia Court Book Club and over the course of the next thirty years, five women in small-town Minnesota, share the events, triumphs, tragedies, hardships, joys, and sorrows of their lives, in a heartwarming story of friendship.
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Made in the U.S.A. by Billie LettsFending for themselves after the death of their mother and the abandonment of their fortune-seeking father, fifteen-year-old Lutie and twelve-year-old Fate flee their hometown in order to avoid becoming wards of the state.
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Ellen Foster : a novel
by Kaye Gibbons
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children
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The Prince of Tides by Pat ConroyInterweaves the events of Tom Wingo's summer in New York and his relationship to Susan Lowenstein, his sister Savannah's beautiful psychiatrist, and the complex history of the South Carolinian Wingo family, from World War II through Vietnam.
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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddAfter her mother's death, Lily Owens and her African-American maid seek refuge from the racism of their South Carolina hometown with eccentric beekeeping sisters in this coming of age story representing the letter “K” in a new series of twenty-six collectible editions.
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The Pilot's Wife : A Novel by Anita ShreveWhen her husband, a pilot, dies in an airplane crash off the Irish coast, Kathryn Lyons finds herself in the media spotlight as rumors abound of her husband's shocking secret past.
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Disobedience : A Novel by Jane HamiltonChicago private school student Henry stumbles onto the e-mail account he set up for his mother and inadvertently discovers she is having an affair with a violin maker wholly different from Henry's socialist history teacher father.
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The Museum of Extraordinary Things : A Novel by Alice HoffmanThe daughter of a curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
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Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann BurnsYoung Will Tweedy becomes chaperon, conspirator, and confidant to his renegade grandpa, E. Rucker Blakeslee, and the old man's young new wife, Miss Love Simpson, in a new edition of the classic novel set against the backdrop of Cold Sassy, Georgia, at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Nine Lives to Die by Rita Mae BrownA busy holiday season for Harry, her husband and her posse of pet detectives is interrupted by dark secrets from the community's past involving a cold case and a 25-year-old love triangle.
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Burnt Mountain : A Novel by Anne Rivers SiddonsThayer Wentworth marries an Irish professor and moves into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, a short distance away from the summer camp she attended as a child, where begins to question whether her husband is the man she thought she knew.
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True Sisters by Sandra DallasJoining the ranks of emigrants responding to Brigham Young's edict to move to Salt Lake City with two-wheeled handcarts as their only mode of travel, four women share a grueling journey of survival that tests the bonds of their friendship and faith.
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The Hour I First Believed : A Novel by Wally LambRelocating to a family farm in Connecticut after surviving the Columbine school shootings, Caelum and Maureen discover a cache of family memorabilia dating back five generations, which reveals to Caelum unexpected truths about painful past events.
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Ladies' Night by Mary Kay AndrewsCut off from her palatial home and checking account after an act of post-divorce rage forces her to move in with her widowed mother and attend court-mandated group therapy, rising media star Grace Stanton bonds with three fellow patients who she helps plot respective pursuits of justice and closure.
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Gone With A Handsomer Man by Michael Lee WestEnding her relationship with her unfaithful fiancé, out-of-work Charleston pastry chef Teeny Templeton is wrongly accused of the fiancé's murder days later and turns for help to a lawyer ex-boyfriend who broke her heart a decade earlier.
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Calico Joe by John GrishamFollows the divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher.
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Hell's Corner by David BaldacciAfter a bomb detonates near the motorcade of the U.S. president and Britain's prime minister, British MI-5 agent Mary Chapman--along with the help of Oliver Stone, Harry Finn, Alex Ford and the rest of the Camel Club--investigates whether or not the bomber had a different target in mind.
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No Time To Wave Goodbye by Jacquelyn MitchardIn a book that revisits the family featured in the author's best-selling The Deep End of the Ocean, the Cappadora family is once again in peril after adult son Vincent's acclaimed film about the families of abductees leads to Beth Cappadora once again leading her family in search of the truth that can save a life.
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Secrets of Eden : A Novel by Chris BohjalianHaunted by the final words of a newly baptized congregation member who was subsequently murdered by her husband, the Reverend Stephen Drew abandons his pulpit to spend time with an author who writes best-selling books about angels.
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So Pretty It Hurts : A Bailey Weggins Mystery by Kate WhiteAccepting an invitation to spend the weekend at a music mogul's house in upstate New York with her friend Jesse, Bailey Weggins, a true crime journalist for a leading celebrity magazine, finds her relaxing getaway turning into a murder mystery when supermodel Devon Barr is found dead.
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Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn JacksonTwenty-one-year-old Shandi Pierce, who is juggling college and raising her three-year-old genius son, falls head over heels in love with a brilliant geneticist who, in the middle of a stick-up at a gas station mini-mart, willingly steps between the armed robber and her son.
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The Arsonist by Sue MillerA series of summer house fires exposes deep social faults in the hometown of Frankie Rowley, who makes unsettling discoveries about her aging parents while engaging in a passionate affair with a local journalist.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil : A Savannah Story by John BerendtIn charming, beautiful, and wealthy old-South Savannah, Georgia, a local bad boy is found shot to death inside of the opulent mansion of a gay antiques dealer, and a gripping trial follows, in a gripping account of a landmark murder case.
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Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonRuth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, South Carolina, home, her notorious, hard-living family, and the unwanted attentions of her abusive stepfather, Daddy Glen.
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