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To escape her demanding family, Robyn Caldwell visits her aunt Lillian in Santa Barbara. While spending time with this woman who's like a mother to her, Robyn will see herself, and the people she loves, with more clarity.

Australia, 1960s. For thirteen years Odette raised her fair-skinned granddaughter Sissy without drawing notice from the authorities who remove fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. But the arrival of a new policeman with cruel eyes and a rigid by-the-book attitude throws their lives off-kilter. It will take all of Odette's courage and cunning to save Sissy from the authorities.

Paris, 2015. An American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her charge. The mother believes the caretaker is to blame, but it is unclear who is at fault--the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself.

Lizzie finds solace in Vista Mar Community Gardens, but when a neighbor brings the outside world in, the very existence of Vista Mar is threatened. The gardeners must fight to save their urban oasis.

Hannah's whole life has been on the road with no explanations. Then, on her seventeenth birthday, she wakes up transformed. Hannah must unearth her family's secrets in order to break the curse.

Empty-nester Anna McNichol is ready for a new life direction, but disaster strikes when her husband dies and secrets surface. Facing challenge after challenge, she must look for support from an unexpected source.

Widowed mother Libby worries about her handsome son, Chase. Chase is going to marry Liam, but both men resist including their traditional parents. Libby surprises them all after she joins a support group for women.

Sara thought teaching philosophy at Kuwait University was temporary, and yet inertia kept her there. Then she's accused of blasphemy for teaching Nietzsche, and must reconcile her place in the world.

Eleven-year-old Ellis Johnson has the summertime blues. He dreamed of spending the summer of 1976 hanging out with friends, listening to music, and playing his harmonica. Instead, he'll be sleeping on a lumpy pullout in Dad's sad little post-divorce bungalow and helping bring Dad's latest far-fetched, sure-to-fail idea to life: opening the world's first chocolate chip cookie store.

A son's relationship with his divorced father has disintegrated over the years. But when the father enters a bodybuilding competition, he asks his son's help to fit in with his antiquated notions of manhood.