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Publisher's summary
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.
“Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep insights into our country’s divides.”—Los Angeles Times
ONE OF BOOKPAGE'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND LOCUS AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, Vulture, Paste, Tordotcom, Book Riot, Polygon, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal
Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear.
The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it—except that Adelaide isn’t alone. And the secret she’s tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing that will help her survive the harsh territory.
Crafted by a modern master of magical suspense, Lone Women blends shimmering prose, an unforgettable cast of adventurers who find horror and sisterhood in a brutal landscape, and a portrait of early-twentieth-century America like you’ve never seen. And at its heart is the gripping story of a woman desperate to bury her past—or redeem it.
Critic reviews
“Enthralling . . . The combination of LaValle’s agile prose, the velocity of the narrative and the pleasure of upended expectations makes this book almost impossible to put down . . . Lone Women deftly weaves history, horror, suspense and the perspectives of those rarely recorded in the West.”—The New York Times
“Propulsive [with] a fast-paced plot—though I found myself gripped just as much by Adelaide’s defiant, glorious stubbornness and guarded wit. Lone Women combines elements of Western fiction, horror and magical realism, while featuring queer, POC characters inventing lives for themselves in the last years of the American frontier. It’s impossible to categorize and impossible to put down.”—NPR, “Books We Love”
“LaValle populates his Western with an array of grotesques, killers, hypocrites, and sinners, but he also makes room for diversity that the genre has too long suppressed. It’s a corrective to the founding myth of America, a book filled with bloodshed and pain, but always holding out for the hope of a happy ending.”—Esquire, “Best Horror Books of 2023”
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In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora", madam of San Francisco's finest bordello. Judges and senators do her bidding; a vicious newspaper editor plots her downfall; a preacher looks at her from across his pulpit and tries to forget that once she was his wife. Merchant's daughter, farm girl, prostitute, mother - the only thing that never changes is her tireless pursuit of the one man who can see her for who she really is.
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excellent
- By Patricia on 05-15-20
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Wild Texas Flame
- By: Janis Reams Hudson
- Narrated by: Annie Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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With her ranch on the line and three younger sisters to care for, Sunny Thornton is in no position to take on any more responsibility. But when she learns that the man who was paralyzed saving her life in a bank robbery isn't being cared for, she feels it's her duty to help him. She isn't moved by his attempts to push her away, nor does she care that he is an ex-con. As far as she's concerned, Ash has paid for his crimes. Plus, she can't deny the stirrings inside of her whenever he's near.
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good story but...
- By joanie on 09-11-19
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The Third Mrs. Galway
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- Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
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It’s 1835 in Utica, New York, and newlywed Helen Galway discovers a secret: Two runaway slaves are hiding in the shack behind her husband’s house. Suddenly, she is at the center of not only the era’s greatest moral dilemma, but her own, as well. Should she be a “good wife” and report the fugitives to her husband? Or will she defy convention and come to their aid? Within her home, Helen is haunted by the previous Mrs. Galway, recently deceased but still an oppressive presence.
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A good story
- By F. Dickens on 06-20-23
By: Deirdre Sinnott
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The Conductors
- By: Nicole Glover
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Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, were Conductors on the Underground Railroad, ferrying dozens of slaves to freedom with daring, cunning, and magic that draws its power from the constellations. With the war over, those skills find new purpose as they solve mysteries and murders that White authorities would otherwise ignore. In the heart of Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward, everyone knows that when there’s a strange death or magical curses causing trouble, Hetty and Benjy are the only ones who can solve the case.
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Very Good
- By Mother of Pearl 3 on 08-01-21
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The Last Ballad
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Twelve times a week, 28-year-old Ella May Wiggins makes the two-mile trek to and from her job on the night shift at American Mill No. Two in Bessemer City, North Carolina. The insular community considers the mill's owners - the newly arrived Goldberg brothers - white but not American and expects them to pay Ella May and other workers less because they toil alongside African Americans like Violet, Ella May's best friend. While the dirty, hazardous job at the mill earns Ella May a paltry nine dollars for 72 hours of work each week, it's the only opportunity she has.
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Dryer than a popcorn fart
- By Scott Wilson on 02-11-18
By: Wiley Cash
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Last Town on Earth
- By: Thomas Mullen
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
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The Last Town on Earth centers on the inhabitants of a small logging town in Washington and what happens when they take drastic measures (quarantine) to try and protect themselves from the virulent and deadly flu epidemic of 1918. When a deserting WWI soldier demands sanctuary, events are set in motion that change the town forever.
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Thrill for a Reader. Model for a Writer
- By Angela on 03-04-11
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Varina
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With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a landowner. He instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history - culpable regardless of her intentions. The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives.
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Read it rather than listen
- By Anonymous on 08-31-18
By: Charles Frazier
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Wolves
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Ten years after the collapse, Huxley has built a good life again. He has a loving wife, a farm with fields of golden barley, and a daughter with a strange and wonderful gift. Then the slavers come. Working out in the fields during the attack, Huxley returns too late. His daughter has been taken, and his wife is bleeding out, her last whispered words about a man with a scorpion tattoo on his neck. Where do the slavers go? Huxley has no idea. He knows only that they head east, and so will he, setting out on foot across the desert of the Wastelands.
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Brilliant. I do have one criticism.
- By Billy on 09-04-16
By: D. J. Molles
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- 04-01-23
Another great book
Victor LaValle is a master at writing horiffic books that read like fairy tales. This is now my second favorite, behind the Changeling, of his.
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- GardenGirl
- 05-15-23
A new genre for me
I loved it yet didn’t expect the twists and turns and finding myself a bit skeptical.
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- Michelle K. Cross
- 04-20-23
Nicely done
I enjoy the telling of this book. The storyline works for me. The storyteller is okay
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- Donna
- 06-15-23
Best performance
Original and genre bending. One of my all time favorite Aubible productions. I’ll will by looking for more stories by the author.
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- Tracy
- 12-04-23
Great Story; Not so Scary
This book started out so well, and by the end of the first section I was deeply invested in what was going on with Adelaide and the secret of her steamer trunk. The second section, though, moved in a new direction and introduced several new characters, all of which pulled me right out of the creepy mood that had been established so brilliantly in the first section. By the end of the novel I’d pretty much forgotten that I was reading horror at all. Skipping over the climactic scene in the opera house was, I think, a mistake. That moment was built up for too many chapters for it just to be fast-forwarded past. So many spooky details throughout the second two sections were just left sort of dangling. This novel had the opportunity to be a terrific fright fest, but it ended up reading like historical fiction with just some hints at horror.
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- Osama Samad
- 08-07-23
Really Good
Really good story, but a bit long at points. Narrator does a very good job.
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- TM Brown
- 04-26-23
Intriguing and original premise
I enjoyed this quirky novel - liked the independent women in the plain storyline coupled with the fantasy twist. Will look for other books from this author.
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- tam mb
- 05-03-23
Entertaining story
Fun listen. Kept me guessing. Good American historical horror fiction. Narrator did a wonderful job! Would love to find more books like it.
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- Zahra W.
- 06-20-23
The Ending
Great ending! It left me wanting to know more about the the future of there little town
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- RKN
- 06-16-23
Imagination runs wild.
Great book. Really touched on a lot of historical and current social issues hidden in a creative book. Kudos to Victor Lavelle.
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