domestic fiction

"Tells the story of Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother in Honduras along with her four year old twin brothers. Her mother is sending money home from Texas where she's trying to make a better life for her family, but she only has enough to bring one son to her. When Carla's grandmother dies, Carla decides to take her fate into her own hands and embarks on a dangerous journey across the border with Junior, the twin left behind."--Provided by publisher.

Presents the last novel written by Marjorie Rawlings, first published in 1953, about farmer Ase Linden, a man who lives his life with integrity and a sense of wonder for the world.

"When World War II comes to their doorstep, a German family is torn between doing their duty for their country and doing what's right, esepcially for those they love"--Front flap.

In the early twentieth century, a small town is rapidly transformed into a bustling, money-making nest of competitors overrun by a group of greedy men.

When a sweet old lady disappears, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford come out of retirement to find out what happened to her.

Alice Adams, a middle-class girl with charm, looks, and ambition, embarks on a foolish quest to impose herself on high society in a small midwestern town in the early twentieth century.

"...two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage..."--Provided by publisher.

Three months after Lily found her sister, Alice, cutting herself in the bathroom--an event Lily names The Night on the Bathroom Floor--Alice is about to come home from her treatment program, calling up fears and feelings she had tamped down since that time. With Alice comes Micah, a boy from her same treatment program, who recognizes Lily is hiding secret compulsions of her own. To help, Micah joins Lily on an art project for school, where she must find the courage to speak and write the words and poetry she has been concealing in her heart.

Illustrations and text celebrate the colors brown and black, demonstrating the many positive assocations with these two colors.

"Indigo McCloud's sister Peaches is every adult's favorite child: pretty, golden-haired, polite and charming. But the children of Blunt know better: Peaches and her three sisters are a gang of bullies who will stop at nothing to get their way"--OCLC.