Books, Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction, Domestic Life

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Richard Yates
Revolutionary Road
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 1989-05-14)

Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife
by MacAdam/Cage (Hardcover)

Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

Ann Patchett
Run
by Harper (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2007-09-25)

Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children—all his children—safe. Set over a period of twenty-four hours, Run takes us from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to a home for retired Catholic priests in downtown Boston. It shows us how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include people you've never even met. As in her bestselling novel Bel Canto, Ann Patchett illustrates the humanity that connects disparate lives, weaving several stories into one surprising and endlessly moving narrative. Suspenseful and stunningly executed, ...

Jodi Picoult
Harvesting the Heart: A Novel
by Viking Adult (Hardcover)

Now with a child of her own, Paige is still haunted by memories of her own mother, who left when she was five, and plagued by constant self-doubt. By the author of Songs of the Humpback Whale. 15,000 first printing.

Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
by HarperCollins (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1999-02-02)

Jodi Picoult
Mercy
by Putnam Adult (Hardcover)

Two cousins are driven to extremes by the power of love, as one helps his terminally ill wife commit suicide at her request, and the other becomes involved in a passionate affair with his wife's new assistant. 17,500 first printing.

Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
by Harper Perennial (Paperback) (Release Date: 1998-05-06)

Emily Giffin
Baby Proof
by St. Martin's Press (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2006-06-13)

From the author of the smash hits Something Borrowed and Something Blue comes a novel that explores the question: is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love? First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes . . . a baby carriage? Isn’t that what all women want?  Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying, child-free marriage. Then the unexpected occurs: one of them has a change of heart. One of them wants children after all.  This is the witty, heartfelt story about what happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things. It’s about feeling that your life is set and then realizing that nothing is as you thought it was--and that there is no possible compromise. It’s about deciding what is most important in life, and taking chances to get it. But most of all, ...

Virginia Woolf
To the lighthouse
by L. & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press (Unknown Binding)

From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life, and the conflict between male and female principles, in what is probably her most popular novel.

Nicholas Sparks
At First Sight
by Grand Central Publishing (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2005-10-18)

Nicholas Sparks brings back two characters from his beloved bestseller, True Believer, in this continuing saga of extraordinary love. There are few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple's marriage.

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