domestic fiction

Wealthy Caucasians Dana and Hugh Clarke give birth to a child that has distinctly African-American traits; and while searching their lineage for answers, they uncover secrets about both of their families.

Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves plagued by a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the family's teenage girls.

A former colonel for the Iranian Air Force believes he can create a new life for himself and his family when he buys an attractive bungalow in the California countryside, and when the cottage's former owner wants her house back, he is willing to do anything to keep it.

Chronicles the joys and troubles of the four March sisters-- Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth-- as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.

Elizabeth resents her foster mother for forcing her and her foster sister, Alexi, to steal in order to support the family, but fears there is nothing she can do to stop it, until a third foster child is pulled into the scheme and Elizabeth decides she will stop at nothing to ensure he does not share her fate.

Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.

Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit. They end up in a Hooverville outside of Flint, Michigan, and her brother attempts to be a performer while Deza and her mother search for a home.

Chayo and her husband Candelario, living in the small village of Santiago, Mexico, finally may be blessed with the child they thought they would never have.

Cassie Barrett, a victim of abuse at the hands of her movie star spouse Alex, takes refuge with the parents of Native American cop Will Flying Horse to await the birth of her child and gather enough strength to publicly renounce her husband.

The changing social climate in England, spurred by the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, is reflected in the lives of Maude Coleman and Lavinia Waterhouse, two young girls of different classes who meet and become fast friends while their families are visiting adjoining funeral plots.