Beautiful, fearless, and tormented, at forty-five Dalva has lived a life of adventures. Now, she begins a journey back to the Nebraska prairie where she was born and the son she gave up for adoption years ago.
Domestic fiction
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Author:Harrison, JimSummary: - Author:Ouriou, SusanSummary:
Susan Ouriou's first novel explores a season in the life of three women, two sisters - on an artist, the other a codemaker - and their mother. The women have made their separate ways from Montreal to Mexico, the land of their...
- Author:RICE, LuanneSummary:
Jane Porter has always been a free spirit. But, despite leaving Twin Rivers Valley, Rhode Island, behind her, fourteen years ago, the town is forever etched upon her heart. Now she is unexpectedly drawn home to visit her mother and...
- Author:Senior, OliveSummary:
When her house in the Jamaican countryside is damaged by a hurricane, Gertrude Samphire is sent (by her estranged daughter Celia) to Ellesmere Lodge, an assisted living centre. Gertrude is unimpressed with her new wealthy neighbours,...
- Author:Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)Summary:
When she moves to Boston to live with her wealthy grandmother, Heaven believes that she has found a place to belong and an opportunity to make something of herself until she begins to realize the terrible truth beneath the glamorous...
- Author:Buchan, ElizabethSummary:
Lara is mother to Maudie and stepmother to Jasmine and Eve. She has enough to worry about with Eve's upcoming wedding without an ex-husband embarking on a new marriage and the surprising, late-blooming developments in her own love life...
- Author:Cunningham, MichaelSummary:
NATIONAL BESTELLER - An "exquisite" ( The Boston Globe ) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life-and how we all must learn to live together and apart-from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of...
- Author:Georges, KarolineSummary:
L’une s’immobilise devant les fenêtres de sa maison en banlieue avec le poids de la mort au creux du ventre; l’autre cherche à traverser l’écran pour se transformer en image grâce à son avatar numérique, en quête d’absolu. L’une a donné...
- Author:McMann, LisaSummary:
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to...
- Author:Moulite, MaikaSummary:
This exceptional debut novel captures a sparkling new voice and irrepressible heroine in a celebration of storytelling sure to thrill fans of Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi and Jenna Evans Welch! When a school presentation goes very wrong,...
- Author:Flanagan, RichardSummary:
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature. Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning....
- Author:Weber, LoriSummary:
Deep Girls tells stories that defy the conventions of young adult literature. The clichés of fictional relationships are tossed aside, and instead we read about girls whose relationships with their families are like the real...
- Author:Obaro, TomiSummary:
Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's...
- Author:Martin, C. K. KellySummary:
Ivy’s seemingly perfect, master-of-social-causes boyfriend breaks it off in the school hallway before their final exam. So much for love. It turns out Jeremy wants to get good and laid by someone new over summer vacation, before they...
- Author:Monroe, MarySummary:
When Christine married Jesse Ray Thurman, she thought she had found her lifetime love. Together, they worked hard to build his fledgling video store business, but now 12 years into the marriage, Christine feels an unbridgeable distance...
- Author:Innes, DanielSummary:
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders. Bringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes (illustrations) and Christina...
- Author:Keim, JudithSummary:
One favor deserves another, or does it? Against their better judgment, Ann and Rhonda agree to help a young girl in distress at the request of the vice-president of the United States, Amelia Swanson. After almost losing their lives...
- Author:Bartlett, CathieSummary:
Story of a young British immigrants experiences as she comes to Alberta, Canada.
- Author:Basu, DikshaSummary:
From the internationally bestselling author of The Windfall. ... What could go wrong at a lavish Indian wedding with your best friend and your entire family?"A witty and romantic novel perfect for all readers."--Terry McMillan...
- Author:Peters, TorreySummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in “one of the most celebrated novels of the year” ( Time ) “Reading this novel...
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