need help after THE HELP?

Kathryn Stockett's book, The Help, is flying off the shelves!!  If you're interested in the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, race relations in the South or the friendships among women, try some of these:

friendships:
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

the South and race relations:
We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Air Between Us by Deborah Johnson

or the Civil Rights Movement:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Summer We Got Saved by Pat Cunningham Devoto
Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas

and there are a myriad of non-fiction titles that we can help you with too! 

school books

it's september and it's back-to-school time...

• the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian by sherman alexie
• carrie by stephen king
• election by tom perrotta
• the group by mary mccarthy
• the headmaster's dilemma by louis auchincloss
• how opal mehta got kissed, got wild and got a life by kaavya viswanathan
• looking for alaska by john green 
• old school by tobias wolff
• the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky
• prep by curtis sittenfeld
• a secret history by donna tartt
• a separate peace by john knowles
• sloppy firsts by megan mccaffery
• testimony by anita shreve
• we need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver
• the whistling season by ivan doig

have more "school books"?  leave us a comment!