Sinead Moriarty Can a mother be true to her children if she cannot be true to herself?Lucy dreamed of having a successful career after college. But when she found herself...

Penelope Lively Passing On is the eighth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and...

Barbara Kingsolver Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover...

Alice Munro WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013This acclaimed, bestselling collection also contains the celebrated stories that inspired the Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta. Runaway is a book of...

Jennifer Wilson A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia "We can look at this in two ways," Jim...

Shilpi Somaya Gowda “Moving and thought-provoking and informative and imaginative and beautifully executed.  What a wonderful story!”—Mary Jane Clark “This book is a must for anyone touched by adoption, or India,...

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha A controversial, idea-driven book that challenges everything you (think you) know about sex, monogamy, marriage, and family. In the words of Steve Taylor (The Fall,...

Ann Packer 'Songs Without Words' explores the inequities between close friends, the unspoken roles, hidden expectations and deep resentments that can be violently exposed by a true crisis, and the...

Tony Parsons This is the story of how we grow old - how we give up the dreams of youth for something better - and how many chances we have...

Lisa Genova Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph....

Mary Robinson Paige Deveaux, poet and Harvard professor, trails her husband Raf to a seedy bar in Houston where she enlists the aid of Raymond and Pru, a stripper, to...

Judy BlumeFrom Judy Blume, bestselling author of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing!Fans young and old will laugh out loud at the irrepressible wit of Peter Hatcher, the hilarious antics...