domestic fiction

When Augusta Iris realizes her husband is having an affair, she packs his bags and asks him to leave. Then her life crumbles and it takes her son Henry's girlfriend Bette to shake mother and son out of the doldrums.

The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, who are taking a family vacation before their daughter leaves for college. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic.

"It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come, Annie and each member of her family are pulled in different directions"--Provided by publisher.

"Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe"--OCLC.

The Courtlands are having a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For Caitlin, the Rocky Mountains will be the ultimate test of her rural heart. For her parents, they hope the beauty and grandeur will somehow repair a damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her younger brother go out for an early morning run, and only Sean returns, the mountains become terrifying.

It's late October, 1962. Wes Avery is living his version of the American dream, as loving husband to Sarah, doting father to seventeen-year-old Charlotte, and owner of a successful Florida Texaco gas station. But after President Kennedy announces that the Soviets have nuclear missiles in Cuba, Army convoys clog the highways, and the sky fills with fighter planes. Within days Wes's carefully constructed life begins to unravel. Sarah spends more and more time in the family's bomb shelter, Charlotte is caught up in the excitement of the upcoming homecoming dance and her first love---a Cuban American boy her mother disapproves of, and Wes tries to keep his family calm. But as the panic over the Missile Crisis rises, a long-buried secret threatens everyone.

Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.

Tells the story of two sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the South, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.".

Arthur is not sure he is happy about the new baby in the family, but when his sister asks for his help in handling the baby, Arthur feels much better.