Focusing on the unique psychological needs of women who must deal with the pain and devastation of a mother's breast cancer while repressing their fears for their own health, Tarkan profiles a wide range of women who have witnessed the effects of breast cancer.
Returning home in the wake of his brother's death, a successful man must grapple with his coal-town rootsFor four generations, Colonel Tom Owen's family has been defined by the coal business.
New York Times-bestselling author Jacqueline Briskin's steamy romantic saga about two generations of a privileged California family that chases the American dream, from the post-World War II boom years to the turbulent, psychedelic 1960sThe year 1946 in America is a time for seizing opportunities and the best way for a woman to get ahead is to marry well.
Hilma Wolitzer's acclaimed first novel-a powerful portrait of a family coming to terms with griefAt night, Sandy feels the pain of separation most deeply.
Silver revisits Paulette and Howard, the couple introduced in In the Flesh, and a marriage, once miraculously mended, faces its end againPaulette has decided to leave her husband.
Pregnant, recently widowed, and hoping for transformation, a young woman moves to Los Angeles with her teenage stepdaughterLinda has known only a few worthwhile men, and the good ones have a nasty habit of dying young.
The arithmetic of marriage is never easy to understand-as time passes, the variables constantly changeCaroline is set adrift in 1950s Rome when she meets Ivan.
The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life-a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen.
Barbara Pym's early novel takes us into 1950s England, as seen through the funny, engaging, yearning eyes of a restless housewifeWilmet Forsyth is bored.
A professor kindles passion, but hides his true motives, in this enticing drama about the chances we take for loveNoble McEntire is the perfect excuse for Emily Becket to change her straitlaced ways.
"e;This crazy, gorgeous family novel"e; written at the end of the Great Depression "e;is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century"e; (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times).
A novel about a father's emotional custody battle by a New York Times-bestselling author-the basis for the hit movie and "e;a great read"e; (Dave Eggers).
Approaching the very middle of middle age, Doug Gardner finds that life still holds plenty of surprises on the other side of the hillDoug Gardner isn't afraid of aging.
A novel about a father's emotional custody battle by a New York Times-bestselling author-the basis for the hit movie and "e;a great read"e; (Dave Eggers).
Maynard's captivating novel of four teenage girls, bound together by early motherhood and forever changed by the arrival of two women in their small New England townIn their New Hampshire community, Sandy, Jill, Tara, and Wanda are different from other teenage girls.
From the author of The Keepers of the House, a "e;beautiful"e; novel following a black mother and daughter through the Great Depression and Civil Rights era (The Boston Globe).
As a city worker and former war hero tumbles into alcoholism, his wife fights to hold on to her newfound freedom Owney Morrison has walked the catacombs underneath New York City since he was eleven.
Touched by madness and haunted by a secret past, Paul and Elsa's relationship reveals that there can be no normality for people who witnessed the worst of war In 1970s New York, Paul and Elsa are like many other well-off middle-aged couples, worrying over their apartment and psychoanalyst bills by day, and meeting friends at restaurants by night.
A novel of midlife motherhood and the basis for the TV movie starring Carol Burnett-from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Gentleman's Agreement.
In the shifting social landscape of America in the 1960s, a mother struggles to understand-and accept-her son's homosexualityTessa Lynn considers herself independent and progressive, a liberated woman of the 1960s.
A woman must find out who killed the sister she hated-or face jail herself-in this suspenseful tale by the New York Times-bestselling author of Swimsuit Body.
Nearly five decades after they were swapped at birth, two women change each other's livesSylvie Rosenthal is dying, and one great mistake still weighs on her soul.
A divorced woman revisits a life-changing decision and confronts her church in this novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of Stranger in Paradise.
Romance, gossip, and murder upend a California town in this "e;intelligent, page-turning read"e; from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Diary (Booklist).
A woman fights to free herself from a heartless husband in a novel that "e;delivers romance, a variety of relationships, and suspense in one appealing package"e; (Library Journal).
New York Times-bestselling author:Three sisters come home for their parents' anniversary to find their father dead-and their mother accused of murder .
A southern senator's daughter reveals a secret that will shake her family and their town to its core, in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling author.
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Color Purple: A "e;moving, tender"e; novel of a Deep South tenant farmer's quest for a new life (Publishers Weekly).
A family of intellectuals comes apart at the seams during the 1968 student revolts in ParisThe Parisian student revolts of May 1968 shook the country and the European continent to its foundations.
In the final installment of Rebecca West's Saga of the Century trilogy, family, marriage, and love alter the sisterly bonds that have seen them through poverty, war, and scandal In the years after the war, Mary and Rose Aubrey have found success as accomplished pianists.
A new era for women-and the Aubrey sisters-dawns in the trilogy that proves "e;what an extraordinary, and extraordinarily honest, writer Rebecca West was"e; (The New York Times).
