Anne Tyler Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle...

Anne Brener “It is hard to work through one’s grief when there are so many cover-ups and so many different kinds of denial at work within the culture. And that...

Yehidus Samet So many books about parenting. Finally - a book about our parents.Everyone knows the importance of kibud av va'eim. Honoring parents is one of the Ten Commandments, something...

Janice Harris Lord Excellent for counselling purposes and individuals. Provides self-affirming skills of emotional expression that will help get survivors well again. Publisher: Pathfinder Publishing of CaliforniaYear: 2000

Carol Clewlow Riley Gordon would not go as far as her best friend, Magda, who has decided to have the full wedding ceremony and celebrations. So far, so traditional. But...

Barbara Delinsky When Susan Tate's 17-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as...

Zadie Smith One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2012Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals—Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan—as...

Elizabeth Strout NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve...

Elizabeth Strout An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy BartonOlive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge...

Mameve MedwedAll men have mothers . . .It's a truth that the newly unhyphenated Maisie Grey has learned the hard way. After getting rid of her mama's-boy husband, she happily...

Caolinn Hughes Orchids are liars. They use pheromones to lure wasps in to become unwitting pollinators. In nature, such exploitative systems are rare. In society, they are everywhere.Gael Foess is...

Judy BlumeSheila hates swimming. And dogs. And ghosts. And thunderstorms. She'll do anything to avoid them all - except admit that she's scared.Her new friend Mouse Ellis, yo-yo champion of...