domestic fiction

The three Lovejoy sisters are reunited in their hometown of Mulberry, Georgia when their mother dies, and vow to bury years of anger and pain along with their hateful parent.

Charts the lives of two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, who come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom on a desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California.

In 1923, African American Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia, settles in Philadelphia, marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment, loses her first-born twins, and raises her next nine children to face a world that will not love them.

After her parent's divorce, Lizzy and her mother move to upstate New York to live with Lizzy's grandparents, and Lizzy tries to adjust not only to a new city, but to the physical and emotional changes she is experiencing.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

Presents Dickens's 1853 novel which tells the story of several generations of the Jarndyce family who wait in vain to inherit money that is tied up in a legal dispute in England's notoriously slow-moving Court of Chancery.

Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love, and their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters, and true love finally triumphs.

After suffering a fainting spell while visiting her boyfriend at college, twenty-year-old Franny Glass comes home to recover and sort out a number of personal conflicts.

Western New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents??? destructive dance of loving, hating, and drinking. Terrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children about the natural world: they listen to the heartbeat of trees, track animal footprints, sleep under the star-filled sky. Despite these lessons, he doesn???t show them how to survive without him. And when these seasons of trying and failing to quit booze and be a better man are over, Terrance is gone. Alone with their artist mother, Catrin, the Thurber children are left to grapple with the anger they feel for the one parent who deserted them and a growing resentment for the one who didn???t. As Catrin withdraws into her own world, Jamie throws herself into painting while her brothers smash out their rage in brutal, no-holds-barred football games with neighborhood kids. Once they can leave???Jamie for college, Lewis for the navy, and Connor for work???they don???t look back. But Terrance does. Crossing the country, sobering up, and starting over has left him with razor-sharp regret. Terrance doesn???t know that Jamie, now an academic, inhabits an ever-shrinking circle of loneliness; that Lewis, a merchant marine, fears life on dry land; that Connor struggles to connect with the son he sees teetering on an all-too-familiar edge. He only knows that he has one last try to build a bridge, through the years, to his family.

Just when she thought her crazy life was settling down as she married handsome Dr. Cavin Lattimore, Tara discovers Cavin has been having secret meetings with his ex, Sophia, and at the same time Sophia has been off-and-on dating Cavin's son, Eli. At the same time, handsome Eli has been making advances towards Tara hard to resist. Then, Tara's younger sister, Melody, suffers a marital breakdown, and Tara worries that her brief dalliance with Melody's husband years ago has come to light. All the misdeeds of Tara's sexually charged past finally seem to be catching up to her.