After opening her own advertising agency, Alexis relied on her husband, Tommy, for the household duties and supervision of their teenage daughter, CeCe. When Tommy receives a terminal cancer diagnosis, Alexis puts her career on hold....
FICTION / Family Life / General
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Author:McMillan, TerrySummary:After leaving her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, Trinetta disappears. BJ already has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her own postponed dreams-all while...
- Author:Coster, NaimaSummary:
A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. When Gee and Noelle join the school play...
- Author:Carlan, AudreySummary:
Every year on her birthday, Suda Kaye opens another of the letters her mother penned before she passed. But on her twenty-eighth birthday, she opens the letter that sends her home.
- Author:Carofiglio, GianricoSummary:
When Antonio is diagnosed with epilepsy at eighteen, he and his absentee father travel to Marseille to visit a doctor who may hold the hope for an effective treatment and connect for the first time.
- Author:Cross-Smith, LeesaSummary:
Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. She convinces the man to join her for a cup of coffee, and he reluctantly shares his first name: Emmett. Over the course of the...
- Author:Giovinazzo, DianaSummary:
Swept into a passionate affair with the idolized mercenary, Anita's life is suddenly consumed by the plight to liberate Southern Brazil from Portugal, a struggle that would cost thousands of lives and span almost ten bloody years....
- Author:Hayes-McCoy, FelicitySummary:
To cheer up her recently widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald, visiting from Canada, persuades Lissbeg Library to set up a Skype book club, linking readers on Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula with the US town of Resolve. But when the club...
- Author:Oliver, JennySummary:
For Ava Fisher, the backdrop to all her sun-drenched memories is her grandmother's summerhouse in the sleepy Spanish seaside town of Mariposa. Returning for one last summer, Ava throws herself into a project her grandmother would...
- Author:Mallery, SusanSummary:
Rival stepsisters put aside their differences for their common younger sister. But when their fragile truce is threatened, will they turn their backs on each other, or could they learn to forgive?
- Author:Solomons, NatashaSummary:
Harry Fox-Talbot and his brothers are determined to save their once grand home from ruin. Fifty years later, now a celebrated composer, Fox reels from the death of his adored wife, Edie. But his connection with his four-year-old...
- Author:Williams, SheilaSummary:
Elise Armstrong, Carmen Bradshaw, and DeeDee Davis meet in a yoga class. Though vastly different, these women discover they all have one thing in common: their mothers have recently passed away. Becoming fast friends, the trio make a...
- Author:Sparks, NicholasSummary:
Tending to his grandfather's beehives while gearing up for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love, and yet he senses a connection with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson.
- Author:Hobson, BrandonSummary:
For fifteen years, the Echota family has been grieving their son. As the family's annual bonfire approaches, each of them feels a blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world.
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Author:Roby, Kimberla LawsonSummary:Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for 15 years, they have a wonderful daughter, successful careers, and a beautiful house. They also have a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs.
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Author:Blalock, GeorgieSummary:If you love The Crown, then this is the book for you! Diana, Catherine, Meghan...glamorous Princess Margaret outdid them all. Springing into post-World War II society, and quite naughty and haughty, she lived in a whirlwind of fame and...
- Author:Vlautin, WillySummary:
Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted juggling multiple jobs but still wants to provide a stable home for her family. As her desperation builds, Lynette makes a dangerous choice that sets her on a precarious, frenzied spiral.
- Author:Gannon, GenevieveSummary:
On the same day that Priya is booked for her next IVF cycle, Grace goes in for her final, last-chance embryo transfer. Two weeks later, both women get their results. A year on, angry and heartbroken, one of the women learns her embryo...
- Author:Whitty, EthelSummary:
The Light a Body Radiates Ethel Whitty Eileen MacPherson is a child of eight when her beloved sixteen-year-old brother, Francis, leaves home after a violent family episode. Over the next 25 years, everything she understands to be true...
- Author:Harper, KarenSummary:
This novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the Boleyns, one of England's most powerful families, through the eyes of the eldest daughter, Mary. This book tells Mary Boleyn's life story from when she was ten years old...
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