Domestic fiction

  • If I had your face

    Creator

    Cha, Frances

    Abstract

    A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania. “Absolutely stunning... If I Had Your Face marks the entrance of a bright new voice in fiction.” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. One of Time’s Must-Read Books of 2020.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • The book of two ways

    Creator

    Picoult, Jodi

    Abstract

    #1 New York Times bestseller. From the author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes a “powerful” (The Washington Post) novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives. Named one of the best books of the year by Marie Claire. Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • The summer kitchen : Blue sky hill, book 2

    Creator

    Wingate, Lisa

    Abstract

    From the author of A Month of Summer, an inspiring new novel in the Blue Sky Hill series about one woman's effect on a struggling Dallas neighborhood. With her adopted son missing and the rest of her family increasingly estranged, Sandra Kaye Darden is drawn to the little pink house where her Uncle Poppy once provided security. What begins for Sandra as a simple painting project, meant to prepare the house for sale, becomes a secret venture that eventually changes everything. Cass Blue is having trouble keeping food on the table since she ditched foster care.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified
  • Grown-up pose

    Creator

    Lalli, Sonya

    Abstract

    A delightfully modern look at what happens for a young woman when tradition, dating, and independence collide, from acclaimed author Sonya Lalli. Adulting shouldn't be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knit community to get married at a young age to her first serious boyfriend, Anu Desai is now on her own again and feels like she is starting from the beginning. But Anu doesn't have time to start over. Telling her parents that she was separating from her husband was the hardest thing she's ever done—and she's still dealing with the fallout.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified
  • All adults here

    Creator

    Straub, Emma

    Abstract

    An instant New York Times bestseller. A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year. A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club pick! "In a time when all we want is hope, it’s a beautiful book to reach for." —Jenna Bush Hager. “Literary sunshine.” —New York Times. “The queen of the summer novel.” —Entertainment Weekly. "Brimming with kindness, forgiveness, humor and love and yet (magically) also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub's absolute best and the world will love it. I love it." —Ann Patchett. “An immensely charming and warmhearted book.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified
  • Stay where I can see you

    Creator

    Onstad, Katrina

    Abstract

    Does good fortune always change things for the better? The Kaplan family has just won 10 million dollars in the lottery. But haven't they always been lucky? Gwen thought so. She's carefully curated a perfect suburban existence with a loving husband and two children. For over a decade, she's been a stay-at-home mom, devoted to giving her kids the quiet, protected adolescence she didn't have. But the surprise windfall suddenly upends the family, allowing them all to dream a little bigger and catapulting them back to the city that Gwen fled years ago.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperCollins

    Not specified
  • A Russian sister

    Creator

    Adderson, Caroline

    Abstract

    In this witty and colourfully peopled novel, Caroline Adderson effortlessly plunges the reader into a nineteenth-century Russian tragicomedy. Aspiring painter Masha C. is blindly devoted to Antosha, her famous writer-brother. Through the years Antosha takes up with numerous women from Masha's circle of friends, yet none of these relationships threaten the siblings' close ties until the winter he falls into a depression.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperCollins

    Not specified
  • The company we keep

    Creator

    Itani, Frances

    Abstract

    On Tuesday nights in the backroom of Cassie's café, six strangers seek solace and find themselves part of a "Company of Good Cheer". Hazzley is at loose ends, even three years after the death of her husband. When her longtime friend Cassandra, café owner and occasional dance-class partner, suggests that she start up a conversation group, Hazzley posts a notice on the community board at the local grocery store.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperCollins

    Not specified
  • The Light a Body Radiates

    Creator

    Whitty, Ethel

    Abstract

    The Light a Body Radiates Ethel Whitty Eileen MacPherson is a child of eight when her beloved sixteen-year-old brother, Francis, leaves home after a violent family episode. Over the next 25 years, everything she understands to be true changes but she never wavers in her yearning to understand the forces that have torn her family apart. The Light a Body Radiates tells the story of Eileen’s passionate search for explanations in whispered fragments of conversation she overhears whenever she can slip into a room unseen.

    Publisher (Source)

    Halfmoon Bay, BC

    Caitlin Press

    Not specified
  • Blaze Island

    Creator

    Bush, Catherine

    Abstract

    "For those who loved Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior comes a new climate-themed, Shakespeare-inspired novel from bestselling author Catherine Bush. The time is now or an alternate near now, the world close to our own. A mammoth Category Five hurricane sweeps up the eastern seaboard of North America, leaving devastation in its wake, its outer wings brushing over tiny Blaze Island in the North Atlantic.

    Publisher (Source)

    Fredericton, New Brunswick

    Goose Lane Editions

    Not specified