Transcendent kingdom —Gyasi, Yaa, author.

"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscien...

The country guesthouse —Carr, Robyn, author.

PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE BEST OF US, ISBN 9780778351306. This fifth 'Sullivan's Crossing' novel is about the romance between a young woman, who is unexpectedly raising her best friend's child, and the wounded man, wh...

Two —Otoshi, Kathryn.

"TWO's best friend is ONE ... until THREE jumps in between them. A powerful story of friendship, loss, letting go, and self-discovery."--Publisher.

All my mother's lovers : a novel —Masad, Ilana, author.

"Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause-despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss-until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom, Iris, dies in a car c...

The king of Staten Island

Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, living with his mother, spending his days smoking weed, hanging...

The thing about jellyfish —Benjamin, Ali.

Twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson wades through her intense grief over the loss of her best friend by investigating the rare jellyfish she is convinced was responsible for her friend's death.

A new hope —Carr, Robyn, author.

"After losing her child, Ginger Dysart was lost in grief. But since moving to Thunder Point, a small town on the Oregon coast, and with the help of her cousin Ray Anne, Ginger is finally moving forward. Her job at the fl...

Piece by piece —Bradford, Laura, author.

The lost man —Harper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth), author.

Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The...

Hamnet & Judith —O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author.

"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the producti...

In the unlikely event —Blume, Judy, author.

After a series of planes crash in a three month period in 1951, the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey is left stunned and confused. This follows them coping not only with grief but with first love, estranged parents, difficu...

Coming home for Christmas —Thayne, RaeAnne, author.

Elizabeth Hamilton has been lost. Trapped in a tangle of postpartum depression and grief after the death of her beloved parents, she couldn't quite see the way back to her husband and their two beautiful kids -- until a ...

The Lost and Found Bookshop : a novel —Wiggs, Susan, author.

Heartbroken Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming, cash-strapped bookshop and finds herself the carer for her ailing grandfather Andrew. She thinks it's best to move him to an assisted-living home to ensure his c...

Everything I never told you —Ng, Celeste, author.

"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; thei...

Night. Sleep. Death. The stars : a novel —Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers. A gripping examination of contemporary Am...

Daddy's girls a novel —Steel, Danielle.

After JT Tucker's wife died, he built the biggest ranch in California, but when he dies suddenly, the ranch is inherited by his three daughters who struggle with their differences and moving on from the loss of their dad...

Cold pursuit

An action thriller infused with irreverent humor that stars Liam Neeson as Nels Coxman, a family man whose quiet life with his wife is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels' search for justice turns i...

Middle school : the worst years of my life —Patterson, James, 1947-

When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

The summer that made us —Carr, Robyn, author.

For the Hempsteads, two sisters who married two brothers and had three daughters each, summers were idyllic. The women would escape the city the moment school was out to gather at the family house on Lake Waseka. The lak...

Dance away with me : a novel —Phillips, Susan Elizabeth, author.

At long last, the legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with a heartfelt novel of womanhood, a wild heart, and the healing power of love. Run, run, as fast as you can! When life throws her one setback too m...