domestic fiction

Follows four generations of the Montrose family, who have been living with a curse that leaves any person they fall in love with dead, stemming back to a Voodoo sorceress in 1950s New Orleans' French Quarter.

"Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world. This novel contains all of life, the rich and the poor, the conventional and the radical, literature and science, politics and romance, but above all it gives us a vision of what lies within the human heart"--Provided by publisher.

"On a summer day on the Gulf of Mexico in 1988, two extraordinary things happen to twelve-year-old Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is attacked by a blacktip shark. Eighteen years later, Maeve is a world-traveling marine biologist studying and swimming with the very animals that once threatened her life. Known among her peers as the 'shark whisperer,' Maeve is fearless in the water. On land, however, Maeve is dogged by unresolved wounds and indecisive about the path her life will take. When she returns to the small island off Florida's coast where she grew up and to her childhood home--the legendarily charming and eccentric Hotel of the Muses, where she was raised by her grandmother--she finds that her twin brother may be about to make it big as novelist, using her love life as his jumping-off point."--Provided by publisher.

"When Lauren and Ryan's marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren's ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for?"--Publisher.

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.

"Maud is a talented garden historian and devoted mother to daughters Ella and Louise. Motivated to reinvigorate her career and escape her troubled marriage, she accepts a summer job restoring the garden of a lush, nineteenth-century Hudson Valley estate. While waiting for her daughters to join her at the end of their school year, Maud meets coworker and archaelogist Gabriel Crews, whose passion for landscape history matches her own. When their immediate and intense friendship ignites, it sets in motion a seismic shock that will profoundly change Maud's life, as well as the lives of everyone she cares about"--Back cover.

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.

Thirty-something martial arts fighter Xavier Wallace is forced to place his White father in a nursing home after his Alzheimer's progresses to a late stage. Disturbing racist rants from his father help Xavier understand why his Black mother left their family when he was a small boy. Battling his own brain disease as well as a stalled career after he was sidelined for taking an illegal substance, Xavier gets a last chance to redeem his career in a comeback fight. Trying to maintain his focus through memory loss and migraines, Xavier trains for the fight, hoping to win and pay back his trainer Shot, whom he owes a debt.

Pinkalicious makes a holiday sweater for her Secret Snowman gift.

It is summer in Bear Country and it is hot outside. Papa bear cannot wait to cool off in his new pool. Splish splash! But when the cubs want to join in on the fun, Papa bear must learn to share and share alike.