Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the...
Domestic fiction
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Author:Allende, IsabelSummary: - Author:Corbeil, CaroleSummary:
After experiencing the disintegration of their parents' marriage, Claudine and Janine Beaulieu's lives are further complicated when their mother Odette remarries an Anglophone and they are forced to "turn English." Now, years later,...
- Author:May, NikkiSummary:
"Utterly winning...brings to mind Sex and the City but feels more modern, more real. When I closed Nikki May's delicious, hilarious novel, I felt I was returning to joy. I knew it was time to call my friends...time to get into some good...
- Author:Birdsell, SandraSummary:
One chilly spring morning, Joe Beaudry and his wife Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge a saint. They are on the lam in a stolen motor home on the edge of a Wal-Mart parking lot in Regina, Saskatchewan. Joe is trying...
- Author:Anna, Threes, Fasting, BarbaraSummary:
India, 1995. Charlotte Bridgwater lives with her father, a former British general, and just one loyal servant in a stately old mansion in the town of Rampur. Money is scarce and the once grand estate is crumbling. In a desperate bid to...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
Originally published in 1941, Wakefield’s Course begins in the spring of 1939 at Jalna. Renny Whiteoak is keen to sail for Ireland with his small daughter, Adeline, to buy a racehorse, but he’s more eager to see his younger cousins,...
- Author:Beattie, Ann.Summary:
"He'd tell me anything, anything, as long as the information went unattributed, as long as no one knew he and I had even met." Such is the deal Jane, Harvard valedictorian fresh out of college, strikes with Neil, the...
- Author:James, HenrySummary:
Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the century, Washington Square is the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations.
- Author:Sherrard, ValerieSummary:
"I knew one thing – I wasn’t going to be rotting in that place for the rest of my life. I was getting out of there. That place turned people into the living dead. In that neighbourhood, it was hard to hear anything that didn’t...
- Author:Keyes, MarianSummary:
On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire Walsh's husband James tells her he's been having an affair and now's the right time to leave her. Right for who exactly? Exhausted, tearful and a tiny bit furious, Claire can't think...
- Author:Dobson, KitSummary:
Playful, witty, and sharp, We are Already Ghosts is a summer book, a family story, a meditation of the persistence of place, and a chronicle of a time only just passed into memory. The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside...
- Author:Pride, ChristineSummary:
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "[A] propulsive, deeply felt tale of race and friendship." - People " We Are Not Like Them will stay with you long after you turn the last page." -Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of...
- Author:Lange, TraceySummary:
In the vein of Mary Beth Keane's Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Lange's We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame--and the redemptive power of love--in an Irish Catholic...
- Author:Bartels, ErinSummary:
"We Hope for Better Things has it all: fabulous storytelling, an emotional impact that lingers long after you turn the last page, and a setting that immerses you. I haven't read such a powerful, moving story since I read To...
- Author:Jones, AmySummary:
Winner of Northern Lit Award. Finalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour. Quill & Quire "Books of the Year 2016." Globe & Mail "Best Canadian Fiction of 2016."
A woman goes over a waterfall, a video goes viral, a family...
- Author:Wall, AimeeSummary:
A remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikeliest of places, We, Jane explores the precarity of rural existence and the essential nature of abortion. Searching for meaning in her...
- Author:Dalvay, HopeSummary:
Welcome to Camp Fill-in-the-Blank is about a fourteen-year-old girl named Page (without an "i"), who lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where her Canadian parents work. Page's perfectly organized life turns upside down when her parents send...
- Author:Roe, LisaSummary:
After years of struggling to make ends meet, Ginny, a single mom from Queens, falls for sweet divorced Jeff and relishes the idea of moving with her quirky eleven-year-old daughter Harri to his home in an upscale New Jersey suburb. Even...
- Author:Hill, NathanSummary:
New York Times Bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - An NPR Best Book of the Year - The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people...
- Author:Pate, Alexs D.Summary:
Edward and his family have escaped the heat and violence of inner-city Philadelphia every summer for the last 5 years. Staying at his Aunt Edna's house in West Rehoboth -- the black side of town -- Edward has the whole summer to have...
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