Waiting for "The Help"?

Bestselling title, "The Help" has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for 51 weeks. It's one of the hottest titles now. Even with 25 copies, we can't keep it on the shelves, but it's well worth the wait! If you're of the many who have been on reserve for it for weeks (myself included) or haven't been able to snag a Rental copy, here's some other titles you may enjoy while you wait:

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (and after you've read it, join us on Monday, May 3 when our Monday Afternoon Book Group, Page Turners, will discuss it) Set in 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters.

We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg. It is the summer of 1964 in Tupelo, Mississippi, and tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently--and violently--across the state. But in Paige Dunn's small, ramshackle house, challenged by the effects of the polio she contracted during her last month of pregnancy, she is nonetheless determined to live as normal a life as possible and to raise her daughter, Diana, in the way she sees fit--with the support of her tough-talking black caregiver, Peacie.

The Summer We Got Saved by Pat Cunningham Devoto. Embracing the belief systems of her Southern hometown, Tab witnesses changes in the attitudes throughout the course of a 1960s gubernatorial campaign, which is marked by the establishment of a voting school for church members.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Two African American sisters, one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, support each other through their correspondence, beginning in the 1920s.

The Air Between Us by Deborah Johnson. Racial segregation in a small 1960s Mississippi community is brought into question in the aftermath of an apparent hunting accident, an event that also tests the views of two prominent physicians.

Right as Rain by Bev Marshall. Living and working on the rural Southern farm belonging to their white employers, Tee Wee and Icey forge a bond based on their shared servitude and their equally painful pasts.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Scout's father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in a small Alabama town during the 1930s.