Living in harsh poverty during a brutal Idaho winter, Jack searches for the drug money that sent his father to prison in order to keep his brother out of foster care, while Ava, under the control of her merciless father, makes a wrenching choice to help the brothers survive.

When her mother's boyfriend Eli, a gunrunner, shatters fourteen-year-old Pearl's world, she starts on a dangerous path.

As Iris and Lily scrape their way through puberty to adolescence, outside forces begin driving a wedge between them. The favoritism of an aunt, the shame of sexual abuse, the socioeconomic shifts and eruption of the women's movement of the 70s become the catalysts that lead to the disintegration of what little security was once offered by their family. Desperate for love, Iris and Lily naively take refuge in marriages that push them worlds apart,...

Follows a returning war heroine and pilot who leaves World War II far behind when she reinvents herself as "Kit Rogers" and ventures onto movie sets and into romances, fame, and backstabbing during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Raised in America, the multiracial daughter of a mother from Johannesburg struggles with her mother's terminal cancer and her own need to find love and a place to belong, quests shaped by losses, changes in her sense of identity and unexpected motherhood.

A heartbreaking celebration of love in all its forms gradually reveals a fallout between two longtime friends and Oxford students over the course of a decade marked by the marriage of one and the disappearance of the other.

When their boot-stitcher father loses his job after a debilitating injury, the Turner sisters and their mother support themselves by performing on the vaudeville stage, where they confront dangers and turns of fate from the seamier side of the business.

Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnes, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnes escape ten years ago. Now, Agnes is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnes on an epic trajectory...

Sleepwalking through life, Margaret Lydia Benning is shaken out of her funk when she begins a relationship with Ben Adams, a visiting professor at the university, but when Ben disappears with no explanation Margaret sets out to find him.