The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping...

Crossroads is the first novel in Jonathan Franzen's A Key to All Mythologies. The trilogy tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s-- It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless―unless...

Katie is known in the community as just "Emma Raber's daughter." And that's not a compliment. Emma is considered "strange" and unapproachable by most who know her, having withdrawn from community life after the death of Katie's daett. There is one man, however, who believes in Katie's mamm--and that's widower Jesse Mast. But when he asks Emma to marry him, she refuses. Now Katie must consider abandoning all hopes of ever changing her mamm's bitterness...

Over multiple generations, different families make changes to a house in order to make it a home.

"A family saga of pain and reconciliation set behind the closed doors of an Amish community. Spanning three generations, the story follows the life of Will McGruder, who having fled as a young man, seeks to heal the past by bringing his new family to

A Kansas retiree hitchhikes to California to see an old flame, accompanied by a young woman visiting her ailing father.

"A mother and daughter struggle with grief and forgiveness. Will they allow God's spirit--and God's people--to bring true healing...and a future filled with love?"--Provided by publisher.

The year is 2042, and a long-predicted tipping point has arrived: the feeble old now outnumber the vigorous young, which intensifies a battle between competing cultural agendas.

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.