Reader's circle

Sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks inherits her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana in 1917 and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war in Europe.

Fifteen-year-old Milly Kaufman is an average American teenager until Pablo, a new student at her school, inspires her to search for her birth family in his native country.

With the kids off at college and her husband enjoying a jump-started career, Elizabeth "Birdie" Shore, feeling lonely, embarks on a search for self, believing that her former passion for life can only be rediscovered outside of her twenty-four-year-old marriage.

Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.

Famous radio talk-show host Nora Bridge calls upon her estranged daughter Ruby for help after being involved in a serious car accident, and is thrilled when Ruby agrees, not realizing her youngest daughter has taken on the job simply to gather material for a tell-all book that will destroy Nora's career.

Laura Bartone, now in her fifties, is forced to face unpleasant truths from the past when her troubled sister Caroline calls on the eve of a family reunion and asks to meet with her and their brother to discuss the abuses she believes she suffered at the hands of their emotionally distant mother.

Blends fact and fiction in a historical novel about the love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and architect Frank Wright, who was commissioned by Mamah and her husband Edwin in 1903 to design a new home for them.

Thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell embarks on an emotional journey into the past when she is the victim of a hit-and-run driver, and in the haze of recovery, believes she is visited by her uncle, the Catholic priest who raised her following the deaths of her parents, and who she had been told died shortly after she was removed from his care at the age of nine following a housekeeper's charge of sexual abuse.

Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.

Azar Nafisi chronicles her life in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on her organization of a group of young women in 1997 who met secretly once a week to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. Includes discussion questions and a reading list.