domestic fiction

Scarlett Chen used to work in a factory in her native China, where she fell in love with Boss Yeung. Now, Scarlett is in America, pregnant with Boss Yeung's son--Boss Yeung is overjoyed to finally have a son, even though Scarlett is not his wife--which if born on American soil will become an American citizen and open up new doors for him and his family. Scarlett goes to a secret maternity home in Los Angeles where she meets Daisy, a teenager and fellow unwed mother. When Scarlett gets an ultrasound and finds out something shocking, she hijacks a van, and she and Daisy go on a cross-country trip to escape.

Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft accepts her estranged grandmother's six-figure bribe to live with her for a year and to participate in the debutante season and ball, in order to possibly meet the father she has never known. As she endures makeovers, big dresses, and fancy balls, she finds unexpected friendship with the other debutantes who have scandalous, dangerous secrets of their own.

It's been sixteen years since Ivy's birth mother gave her up for adoption. Now the same age as the woman who gave her life, Ivy sets out to uncover the truth about where she came from. But along the way, she begins to wonder if the price of the truth is too great.

Jen Maddox is determined to understand what happened to her daughter, Lana, during the four days she was missing. But Lana is equally determined not to discuss it and hides her memories behind a claim that she cannot remember. But Jen won't let it rest. As she watches Lana spiral into a deeper depression, she investigates her daughter's life and uncovers the truth behind why she was gone.

Presents a novel about three Jewish families who live on both sides of California Avenue in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood and chronicles their loves, heartaches, friendships, and losses during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic story of the Pyncheon family, who lived for generations under the curse of a supposed witch who had once occupied the land, until the arrival of young Phoebe Pyncheon from the country. Includes explanatory notes, critical commentary, and chronology of author's life.

Vicky Fallon feels her life spinning out of control when her father loses her job, her troubled little brother is kicked out of school, her grades start to fall, and her parents start to fight, and as she struggles to hold everything together, Vicky fears she is about to lose everything.

Wilson Lewis, forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage after thirty years, and realizing his responsibility for that loss, embarks on a mission to make his wife fall in love with him all over again.

Wealthy teen Thea Parott's jealousy of her older, prettier, more popular sister Alex prompts a series of self-destructive acts that threaten their seemingly-idyllic lives.

Fanny Price, a teenaged girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' countryside estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by a flirtatious, exciting--and unprincipled--London girl.