Tyler, Anne

Cody, Jenny, and Ezra, deserted by their father and raised by their angry mother, go their separate ways but meet again for their mother's funeral.

Having married quickly during World War II after falling in love at first sight, a mismatched couple discovers that their different personalities and approaches to life are taking a toll on their relationship and their family.

When she is taken hostage by a bank robber, Charlotte Emory finds that her experience provides her with a new perspective on her past life and the future she hopes to make for herself.

A chance encounter between two families--the Donaldsons, and the Iranian-born Yasdans--at the Baltimore airport prompts an examination about what it means to be an American.

In 1965 the Bedloe family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore. Seventeen-year-old Ian has dreams for the future, until the night when he meddles in his older brother's life--and from that careless moment on, nothing can ever be the same.

Sixty-one-year-old fifth-grade teacher Liam Pennywell, having been forced into retirement, is attacked shortly after moving into his new condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore, and embarks on a mission to recover memories which he lost during the incident, which results in an unlikely friendship with a woman half his age.

Delia Grinstead, a forty-year-old wife and mother, walks away from her family one day and begins a completely new life.

When middle-aged Morgan needs new friends and activities, he attaches himself to a young couple and disrupts their lives.