Alice McDermottElizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor’s, but isn’t quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world—of real struggles,...

Dana ReinhardtYou can tell what really makes Simone different just by looking at her: she doesn't resemble anyone in her family. She's adopted. She's always known it, but she's never...

Liza Palmer Grace Hawkes has not spoken to her previously tight-knit family since her mother's sudden death five years ago. Well, most of the family was tight-knit--her father walked out...

Molly Wizenberg March 23, 2010 by Simon & Schuster

Anne Tyler   "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon..." This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks...

Dr Ron Wolfson A guide to meeting the needs of those who mourn and those who seek to provide comfort in times of sadness. While this book is written from...

Julie Buxbaum The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of The Opposite of Love, delivers a haunting, gloriously...

Emma Straub AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!"In a time when all we want is hope, it’s a beautiful book to reach for." -Jenna...

Anne Fine Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen, holding down a responsible job, taking care of his elderly mother, and trying to keep his family together. But no...

  Ruth Ozeki Yumi Fuller hasn’t set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho—heart of the potato-farming industry—since she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal...

Elizabeth KellyA dazzling debut novel about the family that puts the personality in disorder.Apologize, Apologize! takes us into the perversely charmed world of the Flanagans and their son, Collie (who...

Mary Beth Keane A gripping and compassionate family drama set between neighbours in suburban New York.Gillam, upstate New York: a town of ordinary, big-lawned suburban houses. The Gleesons have recently...