Here comes a captivating western romance and family-centered drama with a heart of gold, featuring plenty of cowboys and family drama, from prolific author and networker Ruth Logan Herne. Colt Stafford's winner-take-all personality...
Domestic fiction
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Author:Herne, Ruth LoganSummary: - Author:Jackson, JoshilynSummary:
Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As "Mrs. Ro Grandee" she's trapped in a marriage that's thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true...
- Author:Haigh, JenniferSummary:
Born and raised on Bakerton's Polish Hill, the five Novak children come of age during wartime, a thrilling era when the world seems on the verge of changing forever. The oldest, Georgie, serves on a minesweeper in the South Pacific and...
- Author:DeWoskin, RachelSummary:
Samantha Baxter has a full, sane life--creative job, lovely family, and all the trappings of middle-age happiness. But when she gets a diagnosis that terrifies her, a lifetime of polite pleasing and putting others first ignites in her a...
- Author:Smith, HeatherSummary:
Growing up in a picturesque Newfoundland fishing village should be idyllic for sixteen-year-old Kit Ryan, but living with an alcoholic father makes Kit's day-to-day life unpredictable and almost intolerable. When the 1992 cod moratorium...
- Author:Holton, CathySummary:
Holton's novel finds four middle-aged friends convening at a beautifully appointed beach house--and reexamining their lives.
- Author:Backman, FredrikSummary:
By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town's junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals-and they actually have a shot at winning. All the...
- Author:Goldberg, MylaSummary:
Nine-year-old Eliza Naumann is considered an unspectacular child -- until she surprises everyone by winning her school spelling bee. But just as Eliza begins to shine, her family starts falling apart.
- Author:Lang, MaureenSummary:
18-year-old Meg Davenport is in New York City after her father dies. Never close to the man--having been raised in an exclusive prep school--Meg is surprised to learn he was not a wealthy businessman but an accomplished thief....
- Author:Divakaruni, Chitra BanerjeeSummary:
The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her...
- Author:Keats, IsraelSummary:
Hannah's sister, Alexis, has been acting different lately. For one thing, she's constantly on her phone when she never used to care that much about it. But after Hannah discovers that Alexis has developed a relationship with a...
- Author:Mbue, ImboloSummary:
A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream-the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends...
- Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:
The story begins with Nell, the "spinster on the hill" near St. Peter's, Cape Breton. Scarred by her own childhood, she swears she could never love a child and that she will never marry, denying herself a life with the man she loves....
- Author:Fellowes, JulianSummary:
Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's new legendary ball, one...
- Author:Chong, CorinnaSummary:
A heartfelt and quirky look at growing up mixed-race in 1990s Calgary, viewed through the lens of the irrepressible Grace. The strange interests of Grace and her mother Belinda, ufology and undersea life respectively, do not overshadow...
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Les médias parlent sans arrêt des activités d'un nouveau mouvement, le FLQ. Le Québec s'apprête à vivre des événements historiques qui marqueront son histoire. Nous sommes en 1970 et chez les Lacaille, c'est une autre révolution qui se...
- Author:Bruneau, CarolSummary:
Uprooted, longing for love and to feel somehow situated, Willa Jackson flees life as a military wife when she meets Hugh, the lighthouse keeper on McNabs Island in Halifax Harbour. The object of her fantasies, a musician, he's the...
- Author:Roby, Kimberla LawsonSummary:
Celine's marriage is at a crossroads when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. As her relationship deteriorates and Celine worries that she'll be left to endure cancer treatment alone, comfort and support come in the form of her best...
- Author:Warsh, SylviaSummary:
Amanda Moss is a young hairstylist with ambitions to become a musician and play in a band. She was adopted at age three after her parents were killed in a car crash. At least that's what her adoptive mother Shelley has always told her....
- Author:Kerz, AnnaSummary:
In this stand-alone sequel to The Mealworm Diaries, Aaron is anxiously waiting for his father to return for the first time since Aaron's mother's death eight years earlier. Aaron works hard with a counselor at school, but he still has...
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