View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave

by Jennifer Fleischner

Published: 2004-02-10

Paperback: 396 pages

2 members reading this now
2 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly. “I consider you my best living friend,” Mary Lincoln ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Mrs. Lincoln LP: A Life

by Catherine Clinton

Published: 2009-02-01

Paperback: 736 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Abraham Lincoln is the most revered president in American history, but the woman at the center of his life, his wife, Mary, has remained a historical enigma. In this definitive, magisterial biography, Catherine Clinton draws on important new research to illuminate the remarkable life of M...

View Reading GUide

* * * Romantic,
Adventurous,
Epic

1 club review

Review This book

Mrs. Mike

by Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman

Published: 2002-01-08

Paperback: 313 pages

4 members reading this now
7 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

A classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide, Mrs. Mike brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life?and masterfully evokes the tender, touching moments that bring a man and a woman together forever. Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta after a long, ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Mrs. Miracle

by Debbie Macomber

Published: 2009-11-24

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

1 member reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Now a TV movie from the Hallmark Channel, Mrs. Miracle is a fan favorite from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. In this beloved, heartfelt classic, single dad Seth Webster needs help keeping his family together—and it arrives in the form of Mrs. Miracle, a warm, knowi...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Mrs. Paine's Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy

by Thomas Mallon

Published: 2003-11-10

Paperback: 240 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Exactly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. Mrs. Paine's Garage is the tragic story of this well-intentioned woman who found Oswald the job ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm

by Betty MacDonald, Maurice Sendak

Published: 1985-08-09

Paperback: 128 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Ms. Piggle-Wiggle's left her upside-down town house and has moved to a farm in the country. With the help of her cows and pigs and horses, she's still curing girls and boys of their bad habits. So whatever the problem-from pet forgetter-itis to fraidycat-ness-the parents all exclaim, "Bett...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

by Kate Summerscale

Published: 2012-06-19

Hardcover: 320 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

"I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman?bodily and morally the husband's slave?a very doubtful happiness." ?Queen Victoria to her recently married daughter VickyHeadstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry Robinson...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Ms. Hempel Chronicles

by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Published: 2008-09-08

Hardcover: 193 pages

1 member reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Published: 2011-10-01

Paperback: 238 pages

1 member reading this now
2 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, they begin to question whether their witty banter and sharp-tongued repartee conceals something deeper. Schemes...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal

by Margaret Visser

Published: 2010-06-08

Paperback: 352 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

A staple of the food-writing genre that prefigured the current locavore and foodist movements by almost two decades, Margaret Visser'sMuch Depends on Dinneris a delightful and intelligent history of the food we eat, and a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways we do it.Presented a...