Fiction - Family Life - General

A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times! From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women--at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time...

"Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she's astounded--and horrified. The windfall threatens to expose a shameful mistake from her youth. Desperate to keep the secret, Bindu quickly spends it on something...

From Northern Ireland to Southern California and back--a mother and daughter confront the violence of the past in an enthralling novel about the possibility of love and redemption during the most transforming and unsettled times.It's the final years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland,...

"Noelle Salazar captures the hazy, liquor-soaked days of the Jazz Age in this mesmerizing tale . . . of family, ambition, love, and self-discovery." --Entertainment Weekly"Beautifully written and vividly drawn . . . [a] dazzling and sexy, dangerous and inspiring journey through the speakeasies...

Fulton Books Presents"The Saga of Diversion Lily"Featuring Domestic LilacThe Saga of Diversion Lily featuring Domestic Lilac is a psychological suspense-thriller that will take you to the edge of your seat. Lilac was unwittingly pawned by her drug-addicted mother to her grandparents in California. Will...

Dearest E. I thought of you today, like I do every day. I hope you are safe. I'm scared that you are not. And that it's all my fault. But know this forever - I love you. R. x It is summer 1939 and,...

As 14-year-old-Katria watches her father, Ivan, step-by-step sweep his spray of poison brew back to front over the lawn, she imagines the little creatures beneath the fall of his steel- toed boots curling up dead the minute he passes. She imagines his poison percolating...

The idea of My Inspiration is about a personal experience i had as a new mom, while going to school and catering to my husband and daughter i often felt depleted however, looking over at my new born she smiled at me giving me...

Meet Harvey Edmund, a fifteen-year-old boy who was born with a rare condition known as normality, which means no flaws. To Harvey, it's a serious disease because he wants to have what everybody has: flaws. Perhaps moving and meeting a fourteen-year-old girl and joining...

Periwinkle-blue flowers spill over the picket fence, framing the simple wooden sign that reads Hydrangea House. But Molly's eyes fill with tears. Her grandmother Beverley used to stand right there in the doorway, ready to welcome guests. Now Beverley is gone, will the inn...

One was a player, a sex addict who charmed his way into the pants of more men than he could count; he didn't need love, just the taste of sweat and skin. The other was a lonely man, a tired soul whose only happiness...

Strange things happen in Ballybeg when three distant cousins come together as the summer solstice approaches.In the spring of 2016, newly retired Kara leaves her home in Canada on a genealogical quest to rediscover her grandfather's ancestral village on the north coast of Ireland....

A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 A new novel from National Book Award nominee Daniel Gumbiner about a California grape-grower, his family, and the climate disaster that upends their quiet lives. Since his release from prison after serving an eighteen-month sentence for growing...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this thrilling novel from Danielle Steel, a small community is tested when their children go missing while exploring a dangerous local peak, forcing them to band together during the crisis. Fishtail, Montana, is home to Anne and Pitt...

"If I could only read one writer from now until the end of my life, it would be Dorothea Benton Frank." --Elin Hilderbrand, the New York Times bestselling authorImmerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina...

A Southern saga of family lost and found from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Sisterhood books. Fern Michaels thrills us, once again, with the story of an unforgettable young woman who was stolen as a toddler from a poor but loving...

One of Southern Living's Most Anticipated 2023 ReleasesOne of Today's Most Anticipated 2023 Releases An unforgettable pairing of a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman on the run from the law in this story full of tremendous heart, humor, and wit from the USA...

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A suspenseful and poignant tale from an award-winning writer about a girl navigating chaotic family life in a close-knit small town. On a June afternoon in a small city, a wild-eyed girl named Francie dashes...

The third title in Roxane Gay Books' inaugural list, Hot Springs Drive is an urgent, vicious blade of a novel about a shocking betrayal and its aftermath, asking just how far you'll go to have everything you wantJackie Stinson's best friend is dead, and...

Daejeon, South Korea. 1980. At twenty-four, Insuk falls in love with her college classmate, Sungho, and with her father's blessing, they marry. But then, as the military dictatorship, martial law, and nationwide protests bring the country precariously to the edge, Insuk's father disappears. In...

Shayne won't get out of the car. It's the summer of 1972 and the whole family has come up to Grandpa Murphy's cottage for their annual trip. Three generations are out on the property, swimming, wandering through the forest, fixing up the clubhouse, getting...

Spanning generations and crossing continents, this is the sweeping story of one American family facing ordinary challenges amidst extraordinary events. Through every trial, they are continually drawn back to a single location, Crystal Lake. This family saga takes readers to the shores of Normandy...

Death doesn't scare me; I'm just terrified by the prospect of not being alive.Clark Whitaker needs a break. His kids are driving him batty, his marriage has hit a rough patch, and his job as a children's book author and illustrator is a creative...

Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel, To the Lighthouse, draws from her own life and experiences. Hailed as one of the greatest works of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's semi-autobiographical novel about the Ramsay family explores the themes of perspective, interpersonal relationships, and the complexity of...

What happens when one's illusions unravel? This is the question that animates Patricia Horvath's debut story collection, But Now Am Found. A young man experiences heartbreak for the first time when his girlfriend rejects him on religious grounds. One woman fixates on a crossword...

A single mom with two teenagers, a small picture-perfect town, four best friends, and a busy local newspaper office provide the setting for Rumor 1, 2, 3. When our perky community news editor inadvertently starts a rumor, she can scarcely imagine that the entire...

Discover an often-overlooked corner of American history. Kitchen Stories: A Key West Recollection tells the tales of multiple generations of a single Key West family and throws light on the origins of the southernmost city's unique mixture of cultures. Meet Franz, the accidental German...

"Karma Brown keeps delivering knockout after knockout. She is an auto-buy author for me!" --Taylor Jenkins Reid If you want to transform, you can't be tentative. --Eddie Callaway, Wild Women Handbook (1975) An aspiring contemporary screenwriter, a 1970s socialite-turned-feminist, and the camp in the...

After one too many questionable decisions, Anthony Romano has lost his job and entr馥 to his favorite watering hole. At a crossroads, Anthony seeks professional help. But when his psychiatrist suggests his issues stem from his tumultuous childhood, Anthony realizes he must return to...

Had they known how fasttime was going to pass by, maybe they wouldn't havetaken it all for granted.On her daughter Harper's twentyfirst birthday, Katherine Dawson gives her the one thing she has ever wanted: the journal Katherine kept when she was Harper's age, detailing...

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...

Mr. Sparkles is a real cat, and this is the story of how he came to live with his real-life family. He came to us as a thin, scared cat that hid under our barn and has turned into a purring, lovey housecat that...

Breea Anderson, an eighteen-year-old female, who was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, has just learned that her father, Lance, was involved in a plane crash up in Wilmington, Ohio. Her and her adoptive mom soon rush up to Wilmington, Ohio to discover the...

In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock and is on the...

While Miriam was still a preschooler, the family court of Georgia left her in the sole custody of her neglectful mother, an undiagnosed mental case. When bullied at school for her shabby appearance, Miriam stuffed her pain as deep inside herself as possible. Young...

Edward Schwarzschild is the author of Responsible Men and The Family Diamond. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Believer, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Yale Journal of Criticism, among other publications. At the University at Albany, State University of New...

A family in transition is moving to a strange new concept of life. From isolation and freedom, to small town living, the children are used to wild animals, snakes, hills to climb and no close neighbors for miles. They will soon be confined to...

The book is an adult fictional novel, based on a young man's struggle with sadness, tragedy, complicated romances and family life. He attempts to bring up twin girls and an older stepdaughter as a single parent through their middle school years. He encounters all...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A twist you won't see coming. A love story you'll never forget. From the acclaimed author of The Notebook comes a powerful novel about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. We...

"Introducing the little-known story of the daring women who rode through war-torn Europe, carrying secrets on their shoulders ... An orphan who spent her youth without a true home, Marion Hoxton found in the Great War something other than destruction. She found a chance...

Athena Brkovich believes in true love.Born into a blue collar family in 1968, young Athena and her sisters are sent away when their mother is hospitalized and their father is unable to care for them. The beginnings of trauma, separation, denial and suffering set...

Bad New Age mother seeks miracle cure in Germany but encounters her past with an aloe plant instead.Author: Coco PicardISBN-10: 163628051XISBN-13: 9781636280516Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2022Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.80d

"The show must go on" takes on a whole new meaning for one single mom in a witty and emotional novel by the USA Today bestselling author of I Thought You Said This Would Work.It seems lately that Poppy Lively is invisible to everyone...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE QUARANTINE STATION.THE SEASONS OF BELLE READING ORDER: The Summer of Everything (#1)To Autumn, With Love (#2)The Colour of Winter (#3)The Spring Farewell (#4)After enduring a long-distance relationship for three years, Belle and Andre are finally reunited. Now, blissfully...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter...

The BRAND NEW instalment in the bestselling Harpers Emporium series!London Spring 1920Harpers is beginning to flourish once more after the end of the war but for Sally Harper the problems continue.Husband Ben is moody, sometimes distant, and she feels he is shutting her out...

"Published in 2022 by arrangement with Harlequin enterprises ULC"--Title page verso.Author: Phaedra PatrickISBN-10: 1432896466ISBN-13: 9781432896461Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/27/2022Pages: 503Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 1.02dLarge Print

DescriptionOne of the most prosecuted and banned books in history. The classic novel of a young girl's exploration of physical pleasures. Young Fanny Hill is tricked into a life of prostitution, but she quickly learns the power of her own body as she learns...

Tom Ryan Jr. is locked up in the Alzheimer's Unit of Peaceful Harbor Nursing Home. His father, Tom Ryan Sr., died on the 8-by-10-foot Astro Turf in the recreation room of the same nursing home. Sadly, Tom Sr. passed along the Alzheimer's gene to...

It's in that moment, I realise - I have nowhere to turn. If my precious daughters and I are going to have a roof over our heads, we have to return to my childhood home. The one I've not felt welcome in since my...