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Beard, Philip. Dear Zoe
After the loss of her younger sister Zoe, Tess’s relationship with her mother and stepfather deteriorates, prompting a move across town to live with her unemployed father. She becomes involved with a neighborhood bad boy and learns about his connection to her father as the anniversary of her sister’s death approaches.
Beck, Martha. Expecting Adam (Memoir)
After learning that the baby she is carrying will have Down Syndrome, Beck must confront the prejudices of her colleagues at Harvard while preparing for the changes to her life that her new baby will bring.
Binchy, Maeve. Tara Road
An Irish woman and an American woman, both suffering from recent losses, exchange houses for a summer, only to be drawn into each other’s lives and secrets although they don’t meet face-to-face until the summer is over.
Carey, Lisa. Every Visible Thing
Teenager Lena and her 10-year-old brother Owen are coming of age in the years after their older brother’s disappearance. Lena pursues a dangerous search for clues to her brother’s fate by becoming involved with his friends, while Owen struggles with sexual attraction to his best friend Danny and becomes fixated on the idea of his older brother as a guardian angel.
Fletcher, Susan. Eve Green
A young woman pregnant with her first child recalls her mother’s suicide and her subsequent move to Wales to live with her grandparents, where she tries to learn the identity of her father and one of her schoolmates is abducted.
In the 1950’s Bronx, 7-year-old Anthony Amadeo witnesses a tragedy that has repercussions for three generations of his family.
Hughes, Kathleen. Dear Mrs. Lindbergh
After a couple in their 80s do not return from a solo flight, their grown children seek clues to their disappearance in a crate of letters Ruth wrote to Anne Morrow Lindbergh years before.
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees
This coming-of-age story of motherless Lily Owen is set against a backdrop of 1960s racial unrest. When her nanny Rosaleen has to skip town after insulting three white men, Lily follows her to Tiburon, South Carolina where they are taken in by a trio of beekeeping sisters.
A rich story of one working-class family’s secrets, including mental illness and domestic abuse, centered around Dominick and his schizophrenic twin brother.
When Cat’s youngest daughter suffers from a mysterious illness, her doctor begins to think that Cat is deliberately making her ill. At the same time, she begins receiving postcards from Berlin that threaten to expose secrets from her difficult childhood.
In 1943 Mississippi, Jewel gives birth to her sixth child, a girl with Down syndrome. The blessings and challenges of raising her daughter make for an inspirational story of mother-daughter relationships.
When her son is killed in a car accident, Naomi and her widowed daughter-in-law move to South Carolina to be with Naomi’s family. Though they haven’t seen her in decades, they welcome both women with open arms, but Naomi’s newfound happiness is darkened by events from her past.
Witt, Martha. Broken As Things Are
Teenage siblings Morgan-Lee and Ginx are so close that they even have their own secret language. But Ginx suffers from a mental illness that causes his jealousy to turn to violence when Morgan-Lee falls in love with a childhood friend.