Books like Close to Home by Lydia Weaver

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

In the orderly suburb of Shaker Heights, a new family’s arrival and a custody dispute ignite tension, revealing secrets, art, and the complex pull of motherhood in a tightly knit community.

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

A prequel to The Maze Runner series, introducing Mark in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by a deadly virus.

A mother who lost her daughter ten years ago meets a single father and his mysterious daughter, whose resemblance to her lost child forces her to confront unsolved questions about disappearance, secrecy and identity.

Ann Fay becomes the family's head while her soldier father is away, battling personal loss and the 1940s polio outbreak in North Carolina.

After a brutal war, mountain cats struggle to survive amid a blood‑stained landscape, a fragile truce, a rogue threat, and a spreading disease. Only the legendary Blazing Star can unite them.

Ava embarks on a dangerous mission to save Earth from a deadly virus while stranded on a strange, otherworldly planet with no memory of her past.

Big Bird rushes to visit his ill friend Snuffy, hauling gifts from fellow Muppets and tacking the sniffles onto his own adventurous day.

The young hero's quest to uncover the truth about his past and destiny in the mysterious country of Imagine Nation.

In 1952, eleven‑year‑old Georgie moves to a new Indiana neighborhood and learns about resilience when her teenage neighbor is confined to an iron lung due to polio.

When the Soviet Union invades its tiny neighbor Finland in November 1939, Marko volunteers to help the war effort. Even though his leg was weakened by polio, he can ski well, and he becomes a messenger on the front line, skiing in white camouflage through the forests at night. The dark forest is terrifying, and so are the odds against the Finns: the Russians have 4 times as many soldiers and 30 times as many planes. They have 3000 tanks, while the Finns have 30. But a tank is no help in the snowy forest--a boy on skis is. And the Russians don't know winter the way the Finns do, or what tough guerrilla warriors the Finns are. Marko teams up with another messenger, Karl. Gradually Marko learns that Karl's whole family was killed by the Russians. And Karl has a secret--he's really Kaari, a girl who joined up to get revenge for her family's deaths.From the Hardcover edition.

At fourteen, Lydia starts an alternative school paper and campaigns to let girls try out for football, drawing varying support from her three sisters.