Fiction - Family Life - General

Winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize One of Vanity Fair's Best Books of the Year A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town. Billington, Texas,...

The 20th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by readers the world over, with a new afterword by the author The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant,...

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act--intertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town...

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door.A lighthearted whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio of amateur sleuths. Think: Gilmore Girls, but with murder."Mother-Daughter Murder Night is the perfect mix of family drama and murder mystery." -- Kellye Garrett, award-winning author of Like...

"Love blooms in the darkest days... It's 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the second world war rages on. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her...

A captivating historical novel set in Gilded Age New York City about an immigrant daughter's ascent from a miserable tenement to the heights of haute couture, driven by an insatiable hunger for a place in society and secrets she must not betray.When Rivkah Milmanovitch...

Henry Gauthier: Bassist. Gorgeous. My brother's best friend. And my first love.He's also the man I grew to hate after a one-night stand went horribly wrong.I've spent the last three years successfully dodging him like a bullet.Now, fresh out of a bad relationship and...

An easy to read, lightsome story for young or old. Written with a humorous sense about life, seen from a cat's perspective.I told him to go home, that he was in my spot.The dog just looked at me, "No " he said."What? Do you...

Sometimes going home is just the beginning...'Vivid and beautifully written, Liz Fenwick is a gifted storyteller' Sarah Morgan, Sunday Times bestselling author'Atmospheric, emotional and full of mystery - an absolute pleasure from page one' Veronica Henry, Sunday Times bestselling authorBoskenna, the beautiful, imposing house...

A father; a husband; a lover; a friend; a rabbi. This is the story about the making of a modern rabbi, his coming of age, and how he finds his place in in a confused and confusing world. Michael Kind is raised in the...

Texte intregral. Ouvrage pessimiste, roman noir ou se deploient dans leur hideur un univers cruel, une jungle hantee par des fauves inquietants, Le Cousin Pons nous presente un monde criminel, en haut comme en bas, du salon a la loge de concierge. Au beau...

IndieReader Best Books - June 2018Featured in the New York Review of BooksAspiring engineer Hank Galloway wants two things in life: to snag a coveted position working for NASA and to get an accurate diagnosis of his mental illness.Hank doesn't realize how serious his...

From the bestselling author of Just Remember to Breathe and The Last Hour, a shocking and poignant story of a family on the brink of destruction and the transformational events that could bring them back together--or tear them apart. Every day, Cole Roberts reminds...

History has proven that the poor fight the battles for the wealthy. The wealthy finance the wars to protect their property and lifestyle, but little is written about the real warriors of time who were the families left behind to survive on their own....

When Tracy's brother Aaron commits suicide, she inherits his dogs: two dog-aggressive pit bulls and the French mastiff Stella. As Tracy navigates her grief, she also has to learn how to care for her new dogs - who come with issues of their own....

Fall into the passions of a love triangle as a mother and daughter find themselves in love with the same woman in this romantic and chic tale of addiction in multiple forms. Lindsay Brennan is a Portland architect whose devotion to her work takes...

The stories in I'm Here dramatize life in the Alaskan interior, describing the difficult lives of people in Fairbanks, Alaska as they move through the long, brilliant days of summer into the deep winter months. These are characters living on the tenuous edge of...

Award-winning author Eric Schlich's Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife isan accessible and big-hearted novel that explores belief and forgiveness as a boy grapples with his faith and sexuality on a rollicking family road trip to Bible World. When Eli Harpo was four, he...

Beloved author Jill McCorkle delivers a collection of masterful stories that are as complex as novels--deeply perceptive, funny, and tragic in equal measure--about crimes large and small. McCorkle, author of the New York Times bestselling Life After Life and the widely acclaimed Hieroglyphics ("One...

The new novel from Number 1 bestselling author Louise Douglas.1968, Sicily. Just months after a terrible earthquake has destroyed the mountain town of Gibellina, Enzo and his wife Irene Borgata are making their way back to the family home, Villa Alba, on roads overlooked...

This collection is comprised of a wide array of stories that explore elements of the writing craft. Each varies in voice, theme, point of view, and style. They branch across multiple genres from fantasy and historical fiction, drama and suspense, to epistolary war letters...

Roscoe started playing in a boy band at age fifteen. He met a fan, and after a one-night stand, Roscoe left with the band. She, however, had to start a nine-month journey of motherhood, but a run-in with cancer ended her life. Liz started...

This novel will not be what you expect. The Love Letters is a heartwarming story about the depths of love. This is a contemporary and refreshing story about hurt and healing, but mostly about family, forgiveness and friendships. In Danielle's quest to live her...

Married as a child bride to Nathan, a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the fields with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With fortitude and courage, she fights...

'That shadow will burden our children for all time. They'll remember this night for the rest of their lives.' Few farming communities thrive. Most simply endure, sourcing sustenance from a strong family and community ethos that dominates their lives. When Jack and Liz Campbell...

Are the voices in Cassie's head real or just added mayhem?Cassie MacLean has been under siege since that cold January night when her mother, Rose Owens plowed into a group of pedestrians killing five and critically-injuring many others. The town's pent-up fury explodes when...

From the untamed wilds of Iceland's far north comes a deeply heartfelt tale, inspired by the author's own midwife ancestors...After the death of her sister to a preventable childbirth complication, Sveig P騁ursdtir is determined to not only do better for women, but to rise...

RaineI thought it was all over and just when I believed things couldn't get any worse in Riverside, they did.That was the last straw for me. I started to spiral and didn't know how to stop.What I didn't know at the time was that...

"When their daughter joins a cult 3,000 miles away in Bishop, California, Bill and Penelope set out on a harrowing journey across the hollowed-out remains of America to save her, and even though the world has changed, their hopes and fears remain the same"--Author:...

A woman never knows which decision she makes is the one that changes the trajectory of her life. Will the life she lives be the one society chooses for her or the one she chooses for herself? In 1946, twenty-two-year-old Genevieve Ryder knows that...

From a National Book Award winner comes a masterful novel set in the 1940s about a woman finding a new life for herself and her grown children after her husband's death.Author: Robb Forman DewISBN-10: 0316013307ISBN-13: 9780316013307Publisher: Back Bay BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2006Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize:...

In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powerful novel by the bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow and The Ragged Edge of Night.Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in...

Chapel Hill college student Maria finds herself in a predicament--unexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. Still reeling from the fresh discovery of her mother's diagnosis with cancer, Maria's decision to give her daughter up for adoption is one that seems to be in everyone's best interest,...

Losing a loved one is beyond difficult. Author Larry Pickett, lost a little sister who was only a few days old, when he was very young. In his book The Two Lives of Shirley Mae, he gives insight into the feelings of anyone going...

Have you ever thought about what you'd do if you won the lottery? I mean, like an astronomical figure north of two hundred million dollars. Who would you tell? Who would you trust to manage your money? What would you buy? And, how much...

'I'm sorry, Sam's not available, ' says the woman who answers my husband's phone. I can't place her voice, so I politely ask who she is. Her answer sends my world spinning out of control: 'I'm his wife.' I know I want to marry...

Lord, Have Mercy is about a woman named Grace, who is a very loving and devoted mother and wife to her family. She is well respected throughout her community. Only her family knows that she's gifted (physic). Her seemingly perfect life began to quickly...

A book of history, heritage, loyalty, religion, feminism, families, and the Armenian genocide The Book of Queens is a family saga that spans four generations of women caught up in the tragic whirlwind of turf wars and suffering in the Middle East--from the Armenian...

In a country where the precarious rights of women and children can be reversed in an instant, legacies of enslavement and quiet resistance still reverberate across time. Present-day Casablanca, Morocco: Nadine Alam, a physician by training and housewife by choice, has reached her hour...

Author: Jennifer WeinerISBN-10: 1638088764ISBN-13: 9781638088769Publisher: Center PointLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 500Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.69w x 0.92dLarge Print

"A rich, emotionally-nuanced story about a woman's deeply held connection to her family and her past. With an evocative setting and finely-drawn characters, Corporon creates a beautiful world you won't soon forget." -- Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling authorOn a beautiful Greek island,...

As the sun rises on a hot summer's day, four lives are about to be changed forever...Brand new from the bestselling author of What If?, What Now? and One Day In Summer.Today, Maisie McTeer decides to track down the ex who jilted her at...

Teenage film ing駭ue Tatiana Engleberg is on the cusp of stardom, even as her family is on the brink of breaking down. This is a refreshing and forthright perspective on coming-of-age in the modern world.Author: Norma KleinISBN-10: 1590772806ISBN-13: 9781590772805Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

"'One step at a time, one breath, one life ... one destiny.' These were my mother's famous words. She called them the steps of life."Zohra grows up believing that her destiny is written in the stars, that Maktoub will guide her step by step...

As a father of four children, I have seen the importance a father has on their children's lives. Unfortunately, some children do not live with both parents. As a non-custodial parent, it is important that my children understand that just because mom and dad...

Second in the USA-Today bestselling PACIFIC HORIZONS series!In these interconnected romantic novels, characters facing tragedy, heartbreak, and painful family secrets are drawn to the wild beauty of the natural world. Breaching whales and howling wolves refresh their spirits, but only human love can heal...

'The Scarlet Pimpernel' is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy. It is a timeless novel of adventure, intrigue, and romance sparked by one man's defiance in the face of authority. The novel is set during the Reign of...

Author: Ruth HamiltonISBN-10: 1447287665ISBN-13: 9781447287667Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2015Pages: 402Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d

Eleanor H. Porter published the children's book Just David in 1916. Ten-year-old violinist David is unnamed and has no idea what his last name is. He and his father have a happy life in the highlands until his father develops a serious illness. The...

Life can sometimes be a collection of random storms that we must weather, like ships at sea. Families maneuver these storms throughout their lives. Ian and Dee Conner share the storms their family members experience in this third book of a series. The Conners...