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Living in the present as well as the past, Montserrat de la Rosa plans a grand escape from her assisted living community, banking on the help of her deceased husband.

Though the conditional, erratic love she finds amidst the aisles and in the stockroom of a MaxRight grocery store is better than anything she's had before, Anna knows that if she wants to change her life she needs to start by changing her relationship to her married boss.

Maxine Whitshaw, a middle-aged copyeditor frustrated with her humdrum existence, wins a lottery for a trip to the moon alongside the rich and famous. But once she leaves her husband in charge of their two boys in order to take flight, she lets go not only of gravity, but of the rules and expectations that have been guiding her all along.

As Marnie disappears into dementia, her daughter finds solace in an unexpected place. A rawly moving look at loss, identity, and the strength we draw from being allowed to care for another person.

Ann's baby sister, Lynne, was the beautiful one, the lucky one, the one who grabbed at whatever better life she thought she could get. But when Ann is awakened one night by the unexpected arrival of her young niece, Deena, she's faced with the fact that she may be the one to live out the consequences of her sister's choices.

After her husband Simon is killed by a teenaged drunk driver, Dana moves to a new city with her two young boys. Stunned by the newness of everything around her, Dana finds familiarity in an unexpected place.

Helping her girlfriend dig through a hoarder's garage, an unnamed narrator with an inimitable voice ushers us into a world that is somehow both shadowy and vivid, tragically dark and life-affirmingly funny - a psychological funhouse full of tricks and sleights of hands. As she peels back the layers of three lives lived in fear, she's forced to decide how much to let her past determine her future.

Forty years after her son's tragic death, Betty tells the story to a fellow traveler in Ireland. Interspersed with her version of events, we hear her son, Stephen, telling us his own story of longing and loss and about the lunge at life that became his undoing.

After running away from her drug kingpin boyfriend (and turning him in to the cops), pregnant Amber hides away in her friend Higgins' house. Higgins works at a convalescent facility and writes morbid short stories, but she feels safe - until both her body and Higgins start to change on her. On Halloween night, it becomes clear who is wearing a disguise and why.

A neighborhood scold and avid dog walker, Melanie has had to deal with her absconding husband, her empty nest, and now the neighborhood's teenage speed demon. When their paths cross - for better and worse - she comes to see what she's really been trying to control.

Dragged to a speed dating event by her best friend, newly separated Tacie finds herself learning more about the reasons for her own failed relationship than she bargained for.

Though they are both classmates at the same high school and live in the same town, Rick and Steve have grown up in difference families with different values and religions. Brought together through water polo, they find themselves attracted to each other and one night, let go of everything they've both been taught about love. Set in the late 1990's California suburbia, Where I am Now depicts the issues that young people face when confronting their sexuality and sexual orientation. Told through the points-of-view of not only Rick and Steve but their parents, we see the story unfold for both ...

What do you do when you have a secret so big you can't tell a soul, not even your sister. Kate Phillips has a secret this big, and only when she is forced to, does she tell her sister Taylor--but then no one else. Not a soul. Until it is almost too late. Her Daughter's Eyes is a novel about this secret and then about how the two sisters, their family, and their neighbors learn to live with it. A story of decisions made--for better or worse--and promises kept. A story about two teen-aged sisters who are able to navigate an adult world in a way they never thought possible.

The Mapps, a fiercely independent Native American family, fight back as government agencies ignore treaty agreements and try to exert control over Mapp family land. Nick Delgado, a young wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management, searches for his own place in a world that teeters between alien and achingly familiar. Faced with the driest fire season on record, the Mapps must place their trust in a government less than honorable, while Nick struggles with regulations and familial expectations to become the man he needs to be.