Fiction - Family Life - General

A coming of age story with roots in child abuse during the depression era. This book hit me hard as I could relate with the main character so easily. I read it in one sitting because it swept me away. Have tissues handy! Pauline...

This book is the story of a family of 10 children as remembered by the youngest child. The children were all very different as noted. It was the second marriage for both parents. Each brought children into their marriage but none of the children...

For fans of the Cake series by J. Bengtsson comes a funny, heartwarming companion novella featuring the Cake characters in lockdown. Just like the rest of the world, the McKallisters find themselves struggling to conform to a new way of life after the virus...

Tyrell and Chloe are the typical boy-meets-girl, boy-marries-girl kind of couple. Except they're not.Being in an interracial relationship comes with its stigmas but the two have learned to remain unfazed. Except, when Tyrell's best friend, Chance, finds a woman of his own it stirs...

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith. The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon. The diary begins on 3 April of an unstated year, and runs for approximately 15 months....

Set in a rural, dusty, Pennsylvania town in 1979, Remember Ruby Gentry follows a thirteen-year-old girl as she struggles to survive her lonely environment while careening towards young womanhood. Things have never been easy for Parker Louise Petty, awkward and slightly overweight, she has...

On the day I was born we bought six hair-bottomed chairs, and in our little house it was an event, the first great victory in a woman's long campaign; how they had been laboured for, the pound-note and the thirty threepenny-bits they cost, what...

Where's Stephanie? Is a faith-filled story about a grandmother placing clues in unlikely places, hoping her granddaughter, who was placed for adoption, will one day follow the clues and find her. When her granddaughter Stephanie was born, Anna Weber got to hold her before...

Author: Tara MantelISBN-10: 1604891335ISBN-13: 9781604891331Publisher: Livingston Press at the University of West AlLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2014Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d

From bestselling Irish writer Anna McPartlin, Waiting for the Miracle is an uplifting novel about how good friends can help you see the funny side of life, even in the darkest of days. Perfect for fans of Sheila O'Flanagan and Marian Keyes. 2010 Caroline...

Night weaning can be particularly difficult on both parents and children.There are a lot of emotions involved, and everybody is tired.No More Milk is a beautifully illustrated storybook from author Rhiannon Henderson, that helps your little one understand that if we all sleep through...

In Can't Look Away, Carola Lovering "delivers another winner...a propulsive page-turner about young love and second chances. You won't be able to put this down." --Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me. "Fans of Gillian Flynn...

A startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one's selfWhen the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of...

As long as Carmel stays in London, nothing can happen to shatter her perfect life. But something is pulling her home. Should she resist?She has a wonderful marriage, a rewarding career and a great bunch of friends. As far as she's concerned, the sadness...

This book is fictional, and it is based on a special area of Haiti called St Louis du Nord before the new age of development. The town is way different than the period that this book is about. The book is a prelude to...

The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie--about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself--a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence--until...

From No. 1 bestselling author Beth Moran comes a story about family, friends and facing your fears.Thirty-three-year-old Ruth Henderson and her daughter Maggie have some hard choices to make. Following the tragic death of Maggie's father, they are left with a mountain of debt...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Danielle Steel, a stirring novel about a woman striking out on her own after loss as her adult daughters try to find their own independent paths in life. Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from...

Elsie wants to ride a rollercoaster. Thomas has an embarrassing secret. Frank and Douglas find love. Shirley launches her stand-up career. Millie organises a protest. Alexander wants them to get his name right. Not Dead Yet is an eclectic collection of fiction about nursing...

Stevie is a typical teenager with two loving parents. But when her dad dies, she and her mom find themselves suddenly living a life they never expected. When Stevie decides to drown her sorrows at a beach party, she wakes up on the beach...

David Cooper is a happy man. The former professional basketball star and eligible bachelor has won the love of his life, the lovely violin teacher, Dr. Julia Crane. Now married, the newlyweds are living in a beautiful new home as they await the birth...

"An insightful, riveting study of marriage." --People From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful and "absorbing" (The New York Times) novel about a couple in a small town navigating the complexities of marriage, family, and longing. Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious...

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...