It's just too much
Jean Davies Okimoto
When her mother remarries, 12-year-old Cynthia faces two major changes at the same time: stepbrothers and junior high school.

by Crystal Green (2010)
"Thunder Canyon golden-girl Holly Pritchett had come home--abandoned, alone, and pregnant! The last thing the mother-to-be wanted was for her condition to be broadcast all over town. That's when sexy rancher Beauregard Clifton made her an offer she should have refused. Now that he was running for mayor, Bo needed a wife. And Holly needed a husband and daddy for her baby. But from the moment he said 'I do,' Bo was finding Holly--and her impending motherhood--absolutely irresistible! Stay tuned, loyal readers, and find out whether Thunder Canyon's former playboy will turn a temporary arrangement into a permanent union--and an instant family!" -- p. [4] of cover.
Jean Davies Okimoto
When her mother remarries, 12-year-old Cynthia faces two major changes at the same time: stepbrothers and junior high school.
Katherine Center
Sarah Harper isn’t sure if the stupid decisions she sometimes makes are good choices in disguise—or if they’re really just stupid. But either way, after forwarding an inappropriate email to her entire company, she suddenly finds herself out of a job. So she goes home to Houston—and her sister, Mackie—for Thanksgiving. But before Sarah can share her troubles with her sister, she learns that Mackie has some woes of her own: After years of trying, Mackie’s given up on having a baby—and plans to sell on eBay the entire nursery she’s set up. Which gives Sarah a brilliant idea—an idea that could fix everyone’s problems. An idea that gives Sarah the chance to take care of her big sister for once—instead of the other way around. But nothing worthwhile is ever easy. After a decade away, Sarah is forced to confront one ghost from her past after another: the father she’s lost touch with, the memories of her mother, the sweet guy she dumped horribly in high school. Soon everything that matters is on the line—and Sarah can only hope that by changing her life she has changed her luck, too.
Javier Marías
«No he querido saber, pero he sabido que una de las niñas, cuando ya no era niña y no hacía mucho que había regresado de su viaje de bodas, entró en el cuarto de baño, se puso frente al espejo, se abrió la blusa, se quitó el sostén y se buscó el corazón con la punta de la pistola...» Así comienza esta novela magistral de Javier Marías. Pero «eso fue hace mucho tiempo», según añade el narrador: ahora es él quien está recién casado, con Luisa, y en su propio viaje de novios, estando en La Habana, ve desde el balcón de su hotel a una mujer desconocida que espera en la calle y que durante unos segundos lo confundirá con la persona con quien se ha citado. A partir de entonces el narrador sentirá un creciente e inexplicable malestar («presentimientos de desastre») ante su recién inaugurado matrimonio, e intuirá que la explicación tal vez esté en el pasado y por tanto en su propio origen, ya que su padre, Ranz, hubo de casarse tres veces para que él pudiera nacer. Lejos del investigador, el narrador de esta novela es, por el contrario, un hombre que prefiere no saber, consciente de lo peligroso que resulta escuchar y de que, una vez oídas las cosas, ya no pueden olvidarse. La vigorosa e hipnótica prosa de Javier Marías configura en espiral esta extraordinaria novela en la que están presentes los grandes temas de su narrativa: el secreto y su posible conveniencia, el matrimonio, el asesinato, la instigación, la sospecha, el hablar y el callar, y los corazones que poco a poco se van tiñendo y acaban sabiendo lo que nunca quisieron saber. Editada en 44 países y traducida a 37 idiomas, con 2.300.000 ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo, Corazón tan blanco fue premiada internacionalmente, suscitó la aclamación de la crítica más exigente y el entusiasmo de los lectores, sin distinción de lenguas, para convertirse en un clásico de nuestros días.
Polly Williams
Stevie Jonson is thirty-four. She's broody. And she's set to marry not-quite the-man-of-her-dreams in two weeks' time. Just as the reality of her marriage sinks in, Stevie's path collides with that of Katy Norris, a thirty-six-year-old narcissist with an inside knowledge of fertility indicator home kits and a desire to get her boyfriend to settle, at any cost. As Stevie lurches further into a life that never should have happened, she meets a man who reminds her that she's more than just the sum of her ovaries.