"The scion of a family of rapacious timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his firecracker sister Cynthia are mostly left to make their own way, and often play parent to their dissolute elders. Over thirty years of reckoning with the destruction of the Upper Peninsula woods and his own father's more personal violations, David looks so close at...

Horseman, Pass By is a post-World War II classic first published in 1961 and later made into a feature film. Cattleman Homer Bannon is a walking advertisement for traditional, old-frontier morals-in contrast to his stepson, Hud. Homer's grandson Lonnie is torn between emotions for his father and grandfather as he struggles to define his own identity.

"Believing herself to be an Ogbanje-a spirit that plagues a family with grief by dying repeatedly in childhood and being reborn-Kambirinachi fears the consequences of her defiant decision to stay alive. Her worst fears come true when Kehinde experiences a devastating childhood trauma that fractures the family in seemingly irreversible ways. Kehinde moves away to Montreal to heal and build a life of her own. Taiye flees to London and attempts to number...

"Now a college sophomore, Alex falls in love with Ellen, a girl who's his total opposite. And Mallory falls for Nick, a junkyard sculptor who's her intellectual equal! But it's young Jennifer who feels off-balance, as she grows closer to mom Elyse but more distant from dad Steven now that she's becoming a teenager. But even with their older kids changing, and as baby Andrew's diapers still need changing, the Keaton parents know their four kids will...

"Three generations of dads, playing traditional roles in each other's lives, arrive simultaneously at significant crossroads. The decisions they make and the actions they take will directly--and eternally--affect each other. After a life of hard work and raising children, Robert is enjoying his well-deserved retirement when he discovers that he has an illness he might not be able to beat. At 19, Jonah is sprinting across the threshold of adulthood...

"Adults haven't been doing a very good job of running the world. The solution? It's time for the kids to be in charge! The kids have some excellent ideas: turning the Grand Canyon into a ball pit, replacing all the sidewalks with trampolines. But running the world is a tough job. After the kids build a massive house of candy and then immediately eat all of their furniture, they begin to have second thoughts. Will the kids give the adults one...

"A tale of family secrets, forgiveness, and reconciliation in the story of three generations of women: Kathleen, her mother, Eleanor, and her grandmother, Fiona. Each woman left home to escape her family's past and to start a new life"--Provided by publisher.

"Kyoto, Japan, 1948. 'Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.' Such is eight-year-old Noriko 'Nori' Kamiza’s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents’ imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin. The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African...

"In New York City winter never seems to loosen its hold and for South Carolina transplant Maggie (born Magnolia after the fairest summer flower) the balmy beach weather of April back home on Sullivan’s Island feels like a distant memory. Until a phone call from her sister, Violet, changes everything. Gran, the treasured matriarch, has fallen into a coma after a car accident caused by Maggie’s troubled mother, Lily. But once Maggie returns, she...