Okay ladies April definitely got away from me...so I am not going to have time to take suggestions and then make a poll....SOOOO I am going to give you two options and you can vote...these are two books that I have been really wanting to read...so hopefully no on is upset
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Once in a blue moon, a book comes along from out of nowhere and takes the book-loving community by storm. The Help is such a book. Written by first-time novelist Kathryn Stockett, it takes us to 1962 Jackson, Mississippi—at the height of the civil rights movement—and into the lives of three women unwilling to be trapped by their race or gender. Aibileen is a black maid—a wise, regal woman working as a nanny to her 17th white child while still bereft by her son’s death. Her best friend Minny is the sassiest woman in town—she can cook like nobody’s business, but she has a mouth on her that keeps getting her fired. And then there’s Skeeter, a white woman who comes back from college with a degree…but, to her mother’s chagrin, no ring. Seemingly as different as can be, these three women forge a unique bond, joining forces in a clandestine project that puts them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times...and sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women who would change their town forever. Hilarious, poignant and wise, this is a masterful debut.
A reliable wife by Robert Goolrick
Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for “a reliable wife.” But what he gets is Catherine Land, a would-be black widow who plans to win the wealthy man’s devotion…and then slowly poison him to death. What she has not counted on, however, is the passion she finds in the seemingly solid, forthright Truitt—a man whose own past is far from pure, and who harbors secret plans of his very own. With echoes of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca, Robert Goolrick's intoxicating debut novel is a classic tale of suspenseful seduction as husband and wife match wits in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis.
The stepmother by Carrie Adams
Tessa King, a successful lawyer, sees in James the man she’s been waiting for all her life. Unfortunately, he’s divorced with three hostile daughters and an ex-wife who’s still in love with him. Tessa’s dilemma is no less troubling than Bea’s, the former wife, who, mortified by her declining self-esteem in the wake of three births, pushes her husband away by allowing him to believe a terrible untruth. Author Carrie Adams captures the complexities of relationships in this moving novel with great depth and skill. Both women are admirable, Tessa in her honest attempts to woo James’ children, Bea in her determination to change. But which one will offer James the happy life he, too, deserves? The Stepmother is impossible to put down.