Fiction - Family Life - General

Yellow Lights: Pause for Progress follows a high-achieving professional living life in the fast lane. While rushing to the office, Carter Wilson's normal merge onto the highway is halted forcing him to slow his pace and re-evaluate many aspects of life.Carter's recovery is full...

This summer, Dublin's O'Mara clan are embarking on a family holiday of a lifetime when they travel to the stunning Santorini in the Greek Islands for a destination wedding. Patrick O'Mara is about to marry Cindy, the woman of his dreams, and his family...

The familiar cast of characters from The Lake Champlain series return to solve a third mystery.Bray Sanderson has just received a strange insurance settlement from a distant relative. As he returns to the family island he uncovers several dark secrets from the past. As...

Cult Keeper will drag fans along the arduous journey of FAITH with the Montgomery family. Believing in what you cannot yet see sounds easy, but being faced with mountains that just won't move can prove more than difficult and less then desirable. In this...

A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, about an artist on a journey of self-discovery--navigating a family secret, racism, and the conflict between marriage and career. "Skillfully evokes the mood of a decade when social change seemed not...

Is he her protector...or her captor? Seventeen-year-old Evie and her uncle Jim have just moved to an isolated cabin in a remote beach town--a far cry from their hometown of Melbourne. But Evie isn't her real name. And Jim isn't really her uncle. Jim...

Arthur King has lived in New York for all his adult life when his wife commits suicide one afternoon while he's away. Left alone with two teenage children, overwhelmed by the prospect of city life without his wife, Arthur decides to move the family...

The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in this captivating, beautifully written drama involving family, friendship, secrets, sacrifice, courage, and true love for fans of Jojo Moyes, Elin Hilderbrand, and Nancy...

A totally brilliant, escapist and uplifting read that will break your heart and put it back together again, perfect for fans of Cathy Kelly, Jill Mansell and Debbie Macomber.I always thought I was going to be a girl who did something. I was going...

The searing and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changes the course of a young man's life. In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl--a loner, a dreamer, a lover of music and words--meets and is quickly infatuated with Tina, the new...

We leave shadows, not footprints. Newlywed Danny McKenna's honeymoon ends abruptly when he learns his father has died, uncannily, on the same day as his hero, Frank Sinatra. Returning home to his knotty Irish American family, Danny is confronted with a painful truth--while he...

Kilteegan Bridge, Ireland 1974 For each member of the O'Sullivan family there are turbulent times ahead. Eli's need to do his best for his patients is a cause for a bitter divide in the community. Emmet seems hell bent on going down a path...

What if your parents shared a huge family secret and told your daughter, "Don't tell your mom!" Would you confront the elephant in the room or do nothing?As the world battles a raging pandemic, three generations of women face a challenge that will forever...

'Perfect for fans of 'A Man called Ove' by Fredrik Backman. Funny, moving, clever, mysterious and challenging, with a fabulous central character who always remains one strong-willed and whimsical man standing against the world.Dominic likes anonymity, his local Drumcondra park, his neighbour's cat, Boris,...

"Pete and Alice in Maine is a tender, big-hearted, clear-eyed portrait of a marriage, and a family, in crisis--set during the plague years when the entire world was in crisis. As she investigates the insidious effect of lies, betrayal, fear, and anger, not to...

From 1966 to 1996, France conducted 193 nuclear weapons tests in the Polynesian islands of the South Pacific, only ending the tests after particularly fierce protests from the locals. The full impact of radioactive fallout in the region is still being uncovered after decades...

A man who thought he put his shattered past behind him embarks on a reflective journey home in a heartfelt novel by the bestselling author of The Singing Trees and A Spanish Sunrise.Haunted by a tragic decision he made twenty years ago, veterinarian Dr....

When Lin, Josie and Minnie left Miss Hamilton's class at Middleton Ferris County Primary School, sixty years ago, they could only dream about what the future had in store for them. The one thing they knew for certain was that their friendship would thrive.Years...

Veterinarian Nate Holub takes a job in his father's Texas hometown, wondering if a city boy has what it takes to be a country vet. As he struggles to adapt, Nate reconnects with his family and discovers that his father's accidental death thirty years...

In this heart-wrenching exploration of unconditional love, what a mother finds in the aftermath of her son's death could put her family back together--or tear them apart for good.In the wake of her son's sudden death, Margaret Dobrescu struggles to keep it together in...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon "Tom Perrotta is...one of the great writers that we have today. I love this book." --Harlan Coben An "engrossing and mordantly funny" (People) novel about ambition, coming-of-age in adulthood, and never really leaving high...

Is she losing her mind or finding herself for the first time? Swapping her corporate laptop for a meditation mat, one woman embarks on a reluctant journey to find out.Author: Khristin WiermanISBN-10: 1684632161ISBN-13: 9781684632169Publisher: SparkpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2023Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x...

They say marriage is a spiritual mirror that shows us who we really are.Ryan and Sarah think they've found the perfect marriage.But can happily-ever-after survive the truth?At thirty-one, Ryan thinks his biggest problem is hiding a few shady business dealings from his wife long...

After New York attorney Will Ross gains acquittal for a child abuser and the child is subsequently killed, he resolves to abandon law and become a children's entertainer. Will's change of heart and career is a catalyst for his lover, Clara, who quits her...

The Mother at Number 5 by Jill Childs: An utterly gripping psychological thriller with a shocking twist I told her my darkest secret. Then she moved next door... Once you find our perfect little town nestled between the gorgeous hills, you never want to...

Lazare Mir, a young Parisian journalist, wanders through the night in the suburbs, tired of his life and looking for meaning. To rest and change his mind, he decides to spend a few days' holiday in the south, in Collioure, where he had gone...

After 40 years of marriage, Olivia's husband unexpectedly passes away. But when Ben's will reveals a life-altering secret, she suffers a blow no widow should ever experience.Olivia learns that she gave birth to a baby who later died in the nursery. Instead of telling...

Erin Miles has reached a personal and professional milestone--she's "Doctor Miles" at last Expecting teaching offers to fill her inbox, she's soon trolling through The Chronicle of Higher Education for a position, any position. Somehow, though, what few jobs there are would take the...

Set in the South Carolina Sea Islands, Nicole Seitz's second novel follows the stories of two sisters. One is seeking to recreate her life yet again and learns to truly live from a group of Gullah nannies she meets on the island. The other...

Victorian Grace knew all too well that all your actions have consequences, but she never thought to do a favor for a friend in trouble, could not only cause a ripple in her world, but could change an entire community. Arriving at their new...

The fifth book in the Eastern Kentucky Girl series, This Little Light looks in on Emily Conn as a somewhat more mature girl, and she becomes a teenager before the book's end. The challenges she faces in this volume are no longer childish adventures...

Emily Conn is seven years old and in second grade. She has finally accepted the idea that she must go to school and get an education, but then her world is suddenly shaken when her family moves from her beloved Mare Creek in Floyd...

All summer long, Emily Conn dreads starting school. Finally, the time comes for her to join her older sister Laura as a first grader in the little one-room school by the side of the dirt road in front of her home on Mare Creek...

The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber....

"Hole " said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: "'Ole " He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. "Oh Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole " He was sitting on a...

The first book in the Eastern Kentucky Girl series, The Soup Bean War relates the escapades and antics of five-year-old Emily Conn during the summer of 1957. Emily is the next to youngest child in a family of five girls growing up in Floyd...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Inspired by the true stories of the forgotten orphans of World War II, this heart-wrenching and moving tale about fighting for loved ones when all hope is lost will be perfect for fans of Kelly Rimmer, Shirley Dickson, and Natasha Lester. Agnes was running...

In this heart-wrenching exploration of unconditional love, what a mother finds in the aftermath of her son's death could put her family back together--or tear them apart for good.In the wake of her son's sudden death, Margaret Dobrescu struggles to keep it together in...

The internationally bestselling novel-a daughter's portrait of her WWII veteran father, assembled from shards of memory. We called him Vati, Dad. Not Papa. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with...

A beautifully unconventional love story. It's the summer of 2008, and thirty-five-year-old Ursula Tunder, reeling from the breakup of a bad marriage, has abandoned her career as a botanist and moved home to the family farm to start a wholesale garden-plant greenhouse, and, perhaps...

From the author of the international bestseller The German Heiress, a gripping historical drama about a woman determined to avenge the crimes against her family, set at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair."The magnificent Anika Scott has written a lush and beautifully rendered novel that...

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers."Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." --The GuardianIn the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters...

Three Roses and a Thorn is the stunning debut of an innovative storyteller. It is the story of three generations of Latina women coming to terms with addictive behaviors, dysfunctional traits, and the representational similarities of being fatherless daughters. Rebecca M. Elizondo writes from...

A year ago, he gave her his heart. Now he wants it back.Meg never expected to find the love of her life sitting in a coffee shop. It wasn't like life was good right then, and she knew she wasn't any great catch. But...

Acclaimed author Susan Wilson brings us a touching yet unblinkingly authentic tale of loss and rediscovery, of true friendship and learning what's truly important in life. One note. Three words. And Adam March's well-ordered life and well-laid plans are shattered. The very definition of...

Over the course of one year, in a charming cottage by the sea, eight people will discover love and remembrance, reconciliation and reunion, beginnings and endings in this unforgettable sequel to Georgia Bockoven's The Beach House and Another Summer.Alison arrives at the beach house...

Don't miss the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick that's sold 3 million copies strong--now an Apple TV+ limited series starring Jennifer Garner! The "page-turning, exhilarating" (PopSugar) and "heartfelt thriller" (Real Simple) about a woman who thinks she's...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKIn this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers."Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more."--Ann Patchett"One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and...