Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996), by Rebecca Wells, accounts for the Ya-Yas, a circle of women whose activities seem to center on Siddalee's mother, Vivi. This is a book about female friendship, love, and the power of forgiveness as expressed in the memoirs of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

Schindler's List (1982), by Thomas Keneally, recalls the story of Oscar Schindler, a Jewish businessman and wartime profiteer who, during World War II, saved more Jews from the gas chamber than did any other individual. The book is a great source for understanding the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust and its impact on the Jews of Poland.

The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays (1991), by Wendy Wasserstein, is a collection of three of Wasserstein's plays: Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't It Romantic, and the Pulitzer Prizewinning Heidi Chronicles. These plays are further examples of...