Women of Spirit

 

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Author

Title

Peter Abrahams

End of Story

Hannah Alexander

Silent Pledge
Solemn Oath
Sacred Trust

Monica Ali

Brick Lane

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Lynn N Austin

A Light to My Path

Joan Barfoot

Abra

David Beasley

Sarah's Journey

Constance Beresford-Howe

The Book of Eve

Elisabeth Berg

Range of Motion

Rosanne Bittner

Into the Prairie : The Pioneers
Into the Valley : The Settlers

Peter Blauner

Slipping into Darkness

Jenna Blum

Those who Save Us

Barbara Taylor Bradford

A Woman of Substance
Hold the Dream
To Be the Best
Everything to Gain
Power of a Woman
Voice of the Heart
The Triumph of Katie Byrne
Unexpected Blessings
Emma Harte Saga
Emma's Secret
Just Rewards

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Mists of Avalon

Ann Brashares

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Simon Brett

The Stabbing in the Stables

Susan Carroll

The Silver Rose

Angela Carter

Nights at the Circus

Jonatha Ceely

Bread and Dreams

Megan Chance

An Inconvenient Wife

Tracy Chevalier

The Virgin Blue

Jennifer Chiaverini

The Sugar Camp Quilt

Pearl Cleage

Baby Brother's Blues

Douglas Coupland

All Families Are Psychotic

Hannah Crafts


The Bondwoman's Narrative

Anne Eliot Crompton

A Woman’s Place

Elaine Cunnigham

Shadows in the Starlight

Kiana Davenport


House of Many Gods

Charles De Lint

Memory and Dream

Debra Dean

The Madonnas of Leningrad

Anita Diamant


The Red Tent

Sara Donati

Lake in the Clouds

Linda Donn

The Little Balloonist

Sara Douglass



Threshold

Monique Durand

The Painter’s Wife

Cindy Dyson

And She Was

Clyde Edgerton

Walking across Egypt

Lynne Everatt

E-Mails from the Edge

Karen Fisher

A Sudden Country

E. M Forster

A Passage to India

Margaret Forster

Keeping the World Away

Margaret Frazer

The Sempster's Tale

Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

Diana Gabaldon

Dragonfly in Amber

Ellen Glasgow

Vein of Iron

Rumer Godden

In this House of Brede

Gail Godwin

Queen of the Underworld

Alan Gold

The Pirate Queen: the Story of Grace O'Malley, Irish Pirate

Philippa Gregory

The Other Boleyn Girl

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

A Woman of Independent Means

Brian Hall

The Saskiad

Stephen Harrigan

Challenger Park

Kuwana Haulsey

Angel of Harlem

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

Ursula Hegi

Stones from the River

William Haywood Henderson

Augusta Locke

Peter Hoeg

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Nick Hornby

How to Be Good

Iris Johansen

On the Run

Jeanne Kalogridis

The Borgia Bride

Barbara Kingsolver

The Bean Trees

Jane Kirkpatrick

Hold Tight the Thread

Deborah Larsen

The White

Gretchen Moran Laskas

The Midwife's Tale

Margaret Lawrence

The Burning Bride

Tobsha Learner

The Witch of Cologne

Billie Letts

Where the Heart Is

Judith Lindbergh

The Thrall's Tale

Mary E Lyons


Letters from a Slave Girl : The Story of Harriet Jacobs

Jo-Ann Mapson

Hank and Chloe

Michele Martinez

The Finishing School

Suzanne Matson

The Tree-Sitter

Bernice L. McFadden

Nowhere Is a Place

Elizabeth McGregor

A Road through the Mountain

Katharine McMahon

The Alchemist's Daughter

Larry McMurtry

By Sorrow's River

Elisabeth McNeill

The Lady of Cawnpore

Linda Lael Miller

One Last Look

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

Gilbert Morris

Jordan's Star

James Morrow

TheLast Witchfinder

Barbara Louise

Mujica Frida

An Na

A Step from Heaven

Linda Newbery

Sisterland

Deborah Noyes

Angel and Apostle

Carol O'Connell

Mallory's Oracle

Janette Oke

Love Comes Softly
Love's Abiding Joy
Love's Long Journey
When Breaks the Dawn
When Comes the Spring
When Hope Springs New

Ann Oosthuizen

Sometimes When It Rains

Chuck Palahniuk

Diary

Thomas Perry

Vanishing Act

Tracie Peterson

The Hope Within
Land of My Heart
Rivers of Gold
To Dream Anew
Treasures of the North

Marge Piercy

Sex Wars

Nancy Rawles

My Jim

David Adams Richards

River of the Brokenhearted

Conrad Richter

The Trees

Judith Merkle Riley

A Vision of Light

Lucia St. Clair Robson

Shadow Patriots

Ann B. Ross

Miss Julia Stands her Ground

May Sarton

As We Are Now

James H Schmitz

The Witches of Karres

Nina Schuyler

The Painting

Betty Smith

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Lee Smith

Fair and Tender Ladies

Martin Cruz Smith

Rose

Mitchell Smith

Due North

Lauraine Snelling

The Long Way Home
Opal
Pearl

Neal Stephenson

Diamond Age

Susan Straight

A Million Nightingales

William Styron

Sophie's Choice

Virginia Swift

Hello, Stranger

Sherri Szeman

The Kommandant's Mistress

Amy Tan

The Bonesetter's Daughter

Ann Tatlock

I'll Watch the Moon

Alice Taylor

The Woman of the House

Sheri S Tepper

Beauty

Nancy E Turner


Sarah's Quilt : A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906

Harry Turtledove

In High Places

Sigrid Undset Kristin

Lavransdatter

John Updike

Seek My Face

Lara Vapnyar

Memoirs of a Muse

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Stephanie Grace Whitson

Secrets on the Wind

Lauren Willig

The Masque of the Black Tulip

Terri Windling

The Wood Wife

Marly Youmans

Catherwood

Simone Zelitch

Louisa



 

 

 

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