The Wise Women by Gina Sorell

When Clementine finds out that her husband, Steve, took the money she thought was for house payments and used it to help his start-up business (AquaVeg), she kicks him out. Clementine has enough to worry about with their young son Jonah's anxiety--and now she has to possibly find a new place for them to live. Meanwhile, her older sister, Barb, suspects her girlfriend, Jill, is cheating on her, while Barb is trying to stay at the top of her field as an architect in Brooklyn. Although Clementine and Barb are close, they haven't seen their mother, Wendy, a well-known advice columnist, in a while. Wendy has actually lost her job at the magazine she worked for, has moved to Florida and married her boyfriend, Harvey, without telling either of her daughters. Wendy, bored in forced retirement, senses that Clementine and Barb need her and travels back to New York to make things right and mend her relationships with both her daughters.

What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline

The Bennett family suffers an horrible tragedy when their teenage daughter, Allison, is killed during a carjacking that occurs when they are coming home from one of  Allison's field hockey games. Jason, his wife Lucinda, and their thirteen-year-old son, Ethan, are then put in the witness protection program because the culprits are part of a criminal organization. The whole family is reluctant about joining the program because it means giving up the lives and friendships they have built, as well as not being able to attend Allison's funeral. Emotional, and with a lot of time on his hands, Jason discovers that everything that they've been told about their situation is not correct. Angry, he takes matters into his own hands to find out the truth and to get justice for Allison.

The Sign for Home by Blair Fell

 Cyril Brewster and Arlo Dilly meet when Cyril is hired as one of Arlo's sign language interpreters for a writing class that Arlo is taking at the local community college in Poughkeepsie. Arlo is deaf and legally blind, so Cyril is interpreting in Tactile ASL, in which he does not have much experience. Arlo lives with his uncle, Brother Birch, who expects him to follow the strict commands of their Jehovah’s Witnesses religion. In addition, as Arlo’s guardian, Brother Birch does not allow Arlo much independence and makes most of the decisions about Arlo's life. When Cyril and his best friend, Hanne, discover that Arlo longs to meet with his friends from the deaf school he attended and also find out what really happened to the love of his life, they are compelled to break the rules. The Sign for Home is a heartfelt, sometimes humorous, look inside the DeafBlind community.