domestic fiction

Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan lives a double life in Rosario, Argentina. At home, she's the dutiful daughter living within her family's narrow expectations, but on the field, she's La Furia, a soccer player with incredible skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila finally gets the chance to see how far her talent can take her; hopefully she'll get an athletic scholarship to a North American university. But her parents don't know about her soccer playing and she needs their permission to compete in the tournament. And Diego, the boy she's been in love with for years, is back in town on a break from playing with Juventus. As Camila is forced to confront her secrets, she struggles with her feelings for Diego and the harsh life that girls face in Rosario.

Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, haven't spoken in fifteen years when their father and brother disappeared on a camping trip. Their father returned days later, but their brother, Jakob, has remained missing. Kass, believing her college-dropout twin just ran off, became the rock of the family whereas Evie threw herself into alien conspiracy theories. But the sisters are forced together once more when Jakob returns claiming he is on a mission to stop an intergalactic war. Now on the run from the FBI and a possible space armada, the Shao siblings must make amends with their unresolved family issues before Jakob can save the galaxy.

Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.

Claudia Parr and her husband Ben have always agreed they did not want children, but when one of them changes their mind, their relationship is tested as they decide whether or not a child will fit into their lifestyle.

Mary, a quiet young girl, finds herself at odds with her loud family. Mary is so quiet that she seems to fade from her family's sight. When calling loudly for Mary gets no result, her family tries quiet waiting instead and finds both Mary and the simple beauty in slowing down to listen to the world. Includes tips for being mindful.

"Tells the story of Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother in Honduras along with her four year old twin brothers. Her mother is sending money home from Texas where she's trying to make a better life for her family, but she only has enough to bring one son to her. When Carla's grandmother dies, Carla decides to take her fate into her own hands and embarks on a dangerous journey across the border with Junior, the twin left behind."--Provided by publisher.

Presents the last novel written by Marjorie Rawlings, first published in 1953, about farmer Ase Linden, a man who lives his life with integrity and a sense of wonder for the world.

In the early twentieth century, a small town is rapidly transformed into a bustling, money-making nest of competitors overrun by a group of greedy men.

When a sweet old lady disappears, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford come out of retirement to find out what happened to her.

Alice Adams, a middle-class girl with charm, looks, and ambition, embarks on a foolish quest to impose herself on high society in a small midwestern town in the early twentieth century.