Rochester Public Library

The Last Lincolns: Rise and Fall of a Great American Family by Charles Lachman (Reserve a Copy)

Beginning with Lincoln’s assassination, this book follows the misfortunes of the Lincoln family through its final descendant, Robert Lincoln Beckwith.

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown (Reserve a Copy)

When three sisters return home to care for their ailing mother, they are horrified to find the others there.  They soon discover that everything they’ve been running from might offer more than they expect.

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (Reserve a Copy)

The fictional memoir of Hadley Hemingway, wife of Ernest Hemingway, and their life in Jazz Age Paris. Readers get a personal look at the lives of the Lost Generation writers.   

Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom (Reserve a Copy)

When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the best and worst in the people she has come to call her family.

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan (Reserve a Copy)

Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in the wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction.

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (Reserve a Copy)

The second Mrs. Maxim DeWinter finds it difficult and frightening to live in the shadows of her predecessor, a situation exasperated by her husband’s moodiness and the presence of the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.