It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. Returning...

Follows three high school friends--dubbed "The Supremes"--as they weather life's highs and lows, but always gathering each Sunday at the same table at Earl's diner in Plainview, Ind., to talk it all out.

In the tradition of Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping" and Elizabeth Strout's "Olive Kitteridge" comes a dazzling debut novel about the family bonds that remain even when they seem irretrievably torn apart.

Working as a birdwatching guide to scrape together enough money to survive, Nathan Lochmueller performs nature research in backwater Indiana, where he falls in love with a heartbreaking free spirit named Lola and confronts the accidental turns of his life.

Grieving the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak reluctantly accepts a case from a suspected murderer who may or may not be innocent. Florida investigator Markus Novak's life derailed when his wife, Lauren, was killed in the midst of a case the two were working together. Two years later, her murderer is still at large. Novak is sent to Garrison, Indiana to assess a cold case that he's certain his boss has no intention of taking. Ten...

In the wake of World War I, Alice Adams finds herself being pursued by a gentleman of higher social class. She and her family try various schemes to keep their inferior status a secret.

Maggie is at the hospital visiting her sister who has just given birth to twins when she overhears a conversation that might be about a murder that might happen. Now she just has to figure out if her guesses are correct and how to stop the killing, that is, if the killers haven't already carried out their plan.

When award-winning journalist Caitlin Bergman is invited back to campus to receive an honorary degree, she finds an opportunity for a well-earned victory lap--and a chance to face the trauma that almost destroyed her as an undergrad. But her lap becomes an all-out race when a student begs her to probe an unsolved campus disappearance: Angela Chapman went out one Friday night and never came back. To find the missing woman, Caitlin must join forces...