Lois Battle, Author Dell Publishing Company $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21690-2
Battle's smoothly written novel, set in turn-of-the-century New Orleans's red-light district, depicts two women at opposite ends of the social scale who become activists for women's rights.
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Lois Battle, Author Viking Books $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-86074-6
Battle's (Storyville) considerable storytelling gifts breathe life into what might well have become just one more novel about the estranged children of a dysfunctional Southern family. Josie Tatternall, the septuagenarian widow of an unfaithful...
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Lois Battle, Author Viking Books $24.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-670-89469-7
That readers who pick up Battle's (Bed & Breakfast) eighth novel, with its folksy, long Southern title, will expect something along the lines of the Ya-Yas is understandable; what awaits is, in fact, a considerably more sober affair. At age 50,...
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Lois Battle, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-00128-5
Battle's absorbing new novel should prove to be her most successful yet. Thirty-four-year-old Ceci Baron, the beautiful daughter of a once-famous character actor, returns to the family estate in Jamaica, where she finds the Nettleton Plantation in...
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Lois Battle, Author Viking Books $19.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-82576-9
Her fifth book (after War Brides ) should confirm Battle as an outstanding practitioner of the kind of old-fashioned, well-crafted novel that rewards readers with rich details and an absorbing story. This poignant exploration of women's needs, goals
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Lois Battle, Author Viking Books $22 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-83867-7
Though this period novel takes its title from the notorious red-light area of New Orleans where prostitution was legalized from 1898 to 1917, Battle more often calls the area ``the District,'' the epithet New Orleaneans familiarly used. With the...
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