"At forty-eight, Eloise McAllister loves living alone. Successful, assertive and resolutely private, her days pass in a blur of adrenaline, especially when she gambles the company fortunes on a tip from an old lover. Her mother...
Domestic fiction
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Author:Richard MasonSummary: - Author:King, StephenSummary:
The chilling novella featured in Stephen King's New York Times bestselling short story collection Full Dark, No Stars-soon to be a Netflix original film starring Thomas Jane and Molly Parker. A violence awakens inside a man when...
- Author:Magoon, KeklaSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Ellis recalls her favorite things as her mother's desire to turn off the machines that have kept Ellis's father alive for two years fill the last four days of her sophomore year with major changes in herself and her...
- Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:
Everything is falling to pieces for Francesca Thayer. Her relationship with Todd collapses and he moves out. Her leaky house needs total restoration; yet, as the owner of a struggling art gallery, her mortgage still needs paying. So she...
- Author:Noble, ShelleySummary:
New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble returns to the beach in her latest summer read about the family we create and the wishes we make that can shape us. Zoe Bascombe has never said no to her family. When she blew her...
- Author:Laurence, MargaretSummary:
In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod - a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girl's growing awareness of and...
- Author:Lavoie, Marie-ReneeSummary:
A Boring Wife Settles the Score marks the return of Diane, the raunchy and entertaining heroine of the prize-winning and bestselling Autopsy of a Boring Wife. Despite the end of her marriage, Diane still has plenty of love to give....
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
From the author of the bestselling Jalna series! Writing in isolation was never trickier than in this full house. In this short but poignant tale, Mazo de la Roche tells the story of a small boy from an orphan home who has come to work...
- Author:Gist, DeeanneSummary:
Tobacco brides--women prisoners shipped from England--are a hot commodity with farmers in 1643 Virginia. Drew isn't concerned about marriage--he just wants a servant to keep his house. Yet fate brings him to Constance, who claims to be...
- Author:Ferris, JoshuaSummary:
From a National Book Award Finalist comes a novel about a modern American family and a man on a secret mission to uncover the world's hidden truths-until his two lives come crashing together. Someone is telling the story of the...
- Author:Harrington, LauraSummary:
Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It's 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the...
- Author:Kincaid, Gregory D.Summary:
For George and Mary Ann McCray, watching their disabled son Todd move out is unbearable--even though he's in his twenties. But Todd has a dog named Christmas and an entire community ready to help him find his way.
- Author:Montgomery, L.M.Summary:
Originally published in 1901, A Christmas Inspiration centers around a group of girls spending Christmas at a boarding-house. Once they realize that Miss Allen did not receive any gifts or letters, they come up with a plan to make her...
- Author:Karon, JanSummary:
The sixth book in the Mitford series finds the community of Mitford awaiting the marriage of Father Tim and his bride-to-be, Cynthia.
- Author:Berne, SuzanneSummary:
A confused and lonely ten-year-old girl, Marsha, a witness to her siblings' deviant behavior, her father's affair, and her mother's flirtation with the new neighbor, produces the only lead in a case of sexual assault and murder.
- Author:ALLIOTT, CatherineSummary:
There are already three people in artist Imogen Cameron's marriage - herself, her husband, Alex, and their son, Rufus - and that's just the way she likes it. But all that's about to change. When the Camerons hit dire...
- Author:Broeckhoven, Diane, Hawke, LiedewijSummary:
When Alice, an elderly woman, smells the coffee her husband Jules has just made, she gets up. This ritual repeats itself every day, until one morning she finds him lifeless on the sofa in the living room — the coffee hasn’t quite...
- Author:Souljah, SisterSummary:
The stunning sequel to The Coldest Winter Ever. Sharp-tongued, quick-witted Porsche worships her sister Winter. Cut from the same cloth as her father, Ricky Santiaga, Porsche is also a natural-born hustler. Passionate and loyal to the...
- Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
The story of three young people in Northumberland in the first half of the 19th Century, their lives lastingly entwined by the inexorable demands of a strange cruel destiny.
- Author:Kincaid, Gregory D.Summary:
Summary: Discovering that a local shelter is looking for temporary homes for their dogs over the Christmas holidays, Todd, a developmentally challenged young man, persuades his reluctant family to take in a special canine named...
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