"A young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother's death, even as unearthed family secrets become increasingly inextricable from her own"--

"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--

There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller's mother, Rain, didn't live with her. Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix's life. Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain's unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation. Struggling with the loss, Phoenix comes across her mother's suitcase, a memory box Rain had brought from home. Inside, Phoenix finds two old photographs and a decorative...

"At the turn of the new year in 1948, Amil and his family are trying to make a home in India, now independent of British rule. Both Muslim and Hindu, twelve-year-old Amil is not sure what home means anymore. The memory of the long and difficult journey from their hometown in what is now Pakistan lives with him. And despite having an apartment in Bombay to live in and a school to attend, life in India feels uncertain. Nisha, his twin sister, suggests...

"After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of her cruel grandfather, young Caroline Bryer navigates a bleak life in the forbidding Sutherland mansion. Her only companion is her enigmatic cousin, Simon, who may be a wolf in sheep's clothing, and is not to be trusted. When Caroline's father suddenly resurfaces with a new wife and stepchildren in Hawaii who she'll finally be allowed to visit, Caroline dares to...