Moriarty, Laura

In near-future America, the US-Mexico border is closed, and all Muslims are being sent to internment camps. This environment doesn't bother sixteen-year-old Sarah-Mary who has real problems with her strict aunt and Baptist high school. One day, her younger brother Caleb comes across a Muslim fugitive named Sadaf trying escape to Canada, which prompts a journey where Sarah-Mary is forced to confront her own prejudices and intolerance.

Leigh Churchill, the mother of a high school senior, tries to protect her daughter Kara from an angry public who sees her tragic traffic accident resulting in the death of a younger girl as something that should have been severely punished.

"A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"--.

Evelyn Bucknow is happy living with her single mother, Tina, in a small apartment outside Kerrville, Kansas, until Tina's failed romance with her married boss leaves her jobless and desperate, forcing Evelyn to distance herself and turn to her conventional grandmother for help.

College student Laura Moriarty's life takes an unexpected turn when her parents divorce, leaving her longing for a home that no longer exists, and trying to manage her own problems while dealing with the realization that her mother--her rock--has difficulties of her own.