domestic fiction

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Breaking point

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.

The wedding

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.

All you never wanted

2013
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.
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Mansfield Park

2011
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.
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A common life

the wedding story
2002
The inhabitants of Mitford gather together for the long awaited wedding of Father Tim Kavanagh and Cynthia Coppersmith.
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A new song

2000
Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh, recently retired from service at Lord's Chapel in Mitford, accepts a post as interim priest at a small parish on an island off the Atlantic Coast where he and his wife Cynthia quickly become involved in the lives of a whole new community of people.
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A wedding in December

2007
Seven former schoolmates from Maine's Kidd Academy gather in the Berkshires for the wedding of fellow classmates Bill and Bridget, and learn they are all harboring secrets about a life-changing night in their pasts.

O pioneers!

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Hard times

A retelling of Charles Dickens's novel "Hard Times," in which disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind must reexamine his utilitarian worldview when his daughter's upbringing and loveless marriage lead her to a crisis.

Surfacing

A woman artist, her lover, and another young couple travel to a remote island in northern Quebec in search of the artist's missing father.

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