Miss Malarkey is behaving very strangely, giggling in the halls and teaching lessons about marriage customs, as her students worry that she is quitting teaching.

William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...

"In 1920s New York, a young Irish woman must choose between her new life and her husband back home in Ireland"--

An all-knowing little girl teaches her friends how to get married, from picking the right mate to getting engaged to dancing at the wedding.

"An emotional novel about motherhood--about a woman who has never thought she wanted to become a mother, and how she does or does not decide to go ahead and have a child"--

A progressive New York couple with an autistic son move to a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb and immerse themselves in the local community only to have their bond tested by an invitation to become an open-marriage couple.

When her husband, the town marshal, dies suddenly, 25-year-old Dara Rose Nolan, a seamstress with two young daughters to care for, agrees to a marriage of convenience with the town's new marshal, Clay McKettrick.

Escaping the busy confusion of his homeland and moving to an almost-uninhabited lakeshore where he plans on living simply and raising a family, a man descends into rage, obsession, and an abstract sense of reality when his wife suffers multiple miscarriages.

"Rich Manning and Jamie Warren have always been friends - and nothing but friends. However, that changes when Jamie asks Rich to father the child she so desperately wants. Rich agrees - if she'll marry him. Because he thinks that their marriage of convenience could become a real marriage instead."--Publisher description.

In a look at mental illness that weaves togther three timelines, Greyson Todd leaves his successful Hollywood career and wife and young daughter to travel the world, giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he has been forced to keep hidden for almost twenty years.