Black and Blue
by Anna Quindlen | 
Every Last One
by Anna Quindlen | 
Alternate Side
by Anna Quindlen | 
Memoir from Antproof Case
by Mark Helprin | 
May We Be Forgiven
by A. M. Homes | 
Morgan's Passing
by Anne Tyler | 
The Clock Winder
by Anne Tyler | 
The Ice Storm
by Rick Moody | 
The Sands of Time
by Sidney Sheldon | 
Affliction
by Russell Banks | 
Mohawk
by Richard Russo | 
Celestial Navigation
by Anne Tyler | 
Room Temperature
by Nicholson Baker | 
Aloft
by Chang-Rae Lee | 
The Steep Approach to Garbadale
by Iain Banks | 
If Morning Ever Comes
by Anne Tyler | 
Vinegar Hill
by A. Manette Ansay | 
Atmospheric Disturbances
by Rivka Galchen | 
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult | 
Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver |
Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard home on the Blessing estate and leaves a box. In that instant, the lives of those who live and work there are changed forever. Skip Cuddy, the caretaker, finds a baby girl asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep the child . . . while Lydia Blessing, the matriarch of the estate, for her own reasons, agrees to help him. "Blessings" explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present; what makes a person or a life legitimate or illegitimate and who decides; and the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community. This is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and personal change by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about whom "The Washington Post Book World" said, "Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family."