domestic fiction

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.

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.

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.

Seventeen-year-old biracial Avery Anderson's life is turned upside down when she and her parents move to Bardell, Georgia, to live with her terminally ill grandmother, Mama Letty. Avery's mom and Mama Letty have a strained relationship, but they won't tell Avery what caused it. Fortunately, Avery befriends Simone Cole, her Black next-door neighbor who she begins to fall for, and Jade Oliver, the White daughter of the town's most prominent family. As Avery begins to unpacks Bardell's racist past, she learns more about her own family's tragic connection to the town and about the unsolved murder of Jade's mother.

The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.

Ginny Rose and Peggy became best friends when Ginny Rose's family came to work as pickers on Peggy's family's peach farm. Ten years later, Ginny Rose's family returns to town, and the two reconnect despite their class differences. Peggy's wealthy best friend, Lisette, threatens to get in the way of their friendship, but an unexpected adventure brings the girls together.

Dominguita helps Mr. Fuentes by taking his food order for his granddaughter Leni's upcoming quincea?era to the butcher shop. But when the order goes missing, Dom steps in to investigate. She and her friends Pancho and Steph uncover evil plans of the Bublassi brothers to ruin Leni's day. The three friends vow to stop the brothers and save Leni's party.

When Archie's grandfather's Alzheimer's disease worsens, he devises a role-playing game to play with his grandfather based on his diary entries, as a way for his grandfather to connect with his memories. But when he comes across a diary entry that details a horrific piece of his grandfather's past, Archie begins to question the man he idolized his whole life.