Fiction - Family Life - General

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award This intimate family novel that follows the rise and fall of a great love is also a moving tribute to the generation that struggled to survive in Spain after the Civil War. In Open Heart, Elvira Lindo tells...

A mesmerizing, poetic autofiction about the quest to find meaning in family tragedies, and a sense of self after loss. In 2012, Theseus heads east in search of a new life, fleeing the painful memories of his past: the suicide of his older brother,...

Until I See StarsBy: Marisa ReckerKarina and Dan think their marriage is unshakeable... until the strains of long-distance test their loyalties.Kayla and Bethany believe that the bond of sisterhood is unbreakable... until a shocking betrayal creates lasting damage for their friendship.Until I See Stars...

SynopsisNo one knows where life takes you, yet everyone has a path. For Kevin McGregor, a seminal moment that alters his course is the night he meets Liz Hampton. Their meeting is truly episodic as neither are searching to find someone. Nevertheless, they quickly...

"Wallflower in Bloom is absolutely, hands-down, Claire Cook's best novel to date. Cook's characters are delightful and quirky, and the storyline is fast paced and lively with just the right touch of humor and romance. Slip on your dancing shoes and enjoy a few...

A sweeping family drama spanning both the centuries and the continents. This inspiring epic tale, follows the lives and loves of the Le Britton and O'Dowd dynasties, culminating in the charming love story between Lewis and Dorothy. I challenge anyone not to be moved...

Renate Edler loves to visit her grandmother in the house on Schellberg Street. She often meets up with her friend Hani G dde who lives nearby. This year, though, it is not to be. Just a few weeks after a night when synagogues are...

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.A novel of love, lies, and deceit from the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Everything series.Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed between the sheets, and every socialite who eyed...

Lucas shares his daily greetings and learns Spanish along the way in this fun bilingual family book. Lucas comparte sus saludos diarios y aprende Ingl s tambi n en este divertido libro biling e para la familia.Author: Winda Mulyasari, Monica Roman-TiplinISBN-10: 1699844615ISBN-13: 9781699844618Publisher: Independently...

The inspiration for these poems was drawn from the impact of a father's love. The great leader we had as our dad. Throughout life's journey, we face many experiences, joys, sadness, love, and laughter. The constant support and strong bond he gave us will...

A toy can come, a toy can go with every passing whim. But we take a pet forever more, it's just one of those things. So if you know it's what you want and commit to what it takes, you won't regret the special...

Before history there were infinite possibilities. The year was 1989 - the year everything unexpected happened: the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was the beginning of the end of an era, but Professor...

For two women generations apart, going home will change their lives in this funny, poignant, and life-affirming novel about family, secrets, and broken hearts by the author of For the Love of Friends.Four years into her marriage, Jenna is blindsided when her husband asks...

Opposites attract in this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about a free-spirited lawyer who is determined to find the perfect match for the grumpy bachelor at her cousin's wedding. After a devastating break-up, celebrity-obsessed lawyer Zara Patel is determined never to open her heart again. She...

A story of betrayal, desire, and family drama, written by a giant of Egyptian popular fiction who shocked readers in the 1950s when this Lolita-esque novel first appeared and whose work has never before been available in English Sixteen-year-old Nadia had been raised by...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - "Fortified with wit and tenderness . . . Gun Love potently illuminates a puzzled land."--O: The Oprah Magazine NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME - SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS...

From #1 bestselling Irish author Cathy Kelly comes a witty, warmhearted novel about friendship, forgiveness, and second chances...They say you can't go home again, and truth be told, Eleanor Levine never planned to. Yet here she is, back in Ireland after a lifetime in...

The story of two sisters and the boy next door... The acclaimed author of Firefly Beach and other New York Times bestsellers, Luanne Rice explores the powerful bonds that connect old friends, and the joy of life's unexpected second chances. Now, returning once more...

After leaving the college she'd attended to escape her religiously conservative parents, Iliana, a first-generation Dominican-American woman, returns home to Brooklyn to find that her family is falling apart: one sister is careening toward mental collapse, another sister is living in a decrepit building...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep...

Acclaimed for her insightful depiction of the magic and mystery in everyday life and relationships, Luanne Rice is one of today's most gifted novelists. Now the author of eight consecutive New York Times bestsellers delivers her most powerful book yet--the story of a man...

Author: Stacey HallsISBN-10: 1432896334ISBN-13: 9781432896331Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/27/2022Pages: 475Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dLarge Print

Brutal and overwhelming, Confession wrestles with the legacy of Argentina's past and the passions of one young girl.When Mirta López looks out the dining room window, she sees a slim, self-possessed older boy on his way back from school. It's 1941 in provincial Argentina,...

Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters-Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia-at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent school's beautiful seaside campus, over which Honor's sister-in-law, mother superior Bernadette...

A grieving Hector Peterson and his estranged father Winston Telemacque arrive on the lush island of Dominica in 2017 to spread his mother's ashes when Hurricane Maria strikes. Amid the devastation, the fragile peace between father and son is tested as long-buried family secrets...

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...