Fiction - Family Life - General

The Homegoing: A Novel by Michael Olin-HittAuthor: Michael Olin-HittISBN-10: 1933964588ISBN-13: 9781933964584Publisher: Bottom Dog PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2012Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d

Happy People in Tears is an award-winning tale of diaspora that takes the reader on a voyage through five worlds--the island home of São Miguel, mainland Portugal, California, New England, and Canada--experienced and suffered through the obsessive search for happiness of a poor Azorean...

Steven Lindsay, a university lecturer, is suddenly released from a Soviet labour camp after serving only part of a sentence for what he believes were false charges.With a burning sense of injustice, he returns home to find his family life has changed beyond all...

In these twelve tales, good friends go on an unexpected journey of discovery to Sweden at Midsummer, a young girl explores her love of the dark, a group celebrates an unusual anniversary and a woman is faced with past trauma attending her best friend's...

- Acclaimed short story collection published in the US for the first time - Author has international profile: event appearances include PEN World Voices; Library of Congress; Hay, Berlin, Jaipur & Edinburgh festivals - The Whispering Trees was long-listed for the Etisalat Prize for...

Put on your running shoes and get ready to go on a marathon through Macy's tumultuous life Macy works hard and loves harder, all while enduring the whelms of life, that are a bit foreign to some. As time transcends, witness the likes of...

Indian immigrant family drama set in Malaya from colonial era through to the present.-chronicles the triumphs and defeats of sibling rivalry and the pursuit of happiness in material world.Author: Penny SinghamISBN-10: 1792135084ISBN-13: 9781792135088Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2018Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Can friends become lovers? Since the tragic death of his wife, Dr. Frank Brannigan has focused on raising his two daughters and furthering his medical practice, but now he's lonely. Maybe it's time to get married again, but how? He doesn't want to follow...

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway,...

The war is over, but there's heartbreak ahead... Liverpool, 1945. As the war draws to a close, Alice and Terry Lomax are building a new life with their young daughter Cathy. After years away fighting, Terry is a stranger to his daughter and must...

May 1940. Ghosts haunt the woods and fields of Norfolk, as Europe descends into full-blown warfare. William Abrehart, a strange, nature-loving boy who hasn't spoken since the mysterious death of his father, struggles to keep the promise he made to look after his withdrawn...

Set in Crete, Cally's Way explores the relationships between sex and love and the historical horrors that shape our identities. Cally is a twenty-five year old business graduate. Her mother, who was born in Crete but has always refused to talk about it, has...

A month before her wedding on Maui, Trish Walsh's dream life falls apart when her fianc , Michael, calls off the wedding, and she loses her job at a prestigious CPA firm. Heartbroken and jobless, she leaves her Colorado home and goes to Maui...

When her husband abandons them for another woman, Jane Winston is left to raise their teen-aged daughter as a single mother. She loves Emma more than anything in the world and would do anything for her-no matter how high the cost. Emma, on the...

Ten years after Little Men, the boys that Jo raised are all grown-up. But that certainly doesn't mean that they no longer need her help and advice. Emil, now as sailor, must survive shipwreck and disaster. Dan's attempt to make his fortune ends in...

" Seaburn] does a good job of tracking the myriad ways that the different players react to the tragedy." -KIRKUS REVIEWS"I don't know how, and I don't know why, but I think I died today."So begins the complex and mysterious journey of Gavin Goode...

Growing up in a household with two other siblings should be great, except when you live with parents from hell. After years of mental and physical abuse, Zoe Reed has had enough. Now, with her sisters on board, they pay their parents back for...

A pleasant tale about a little girl named Leela who had lost her tooth. Leela desperately searched through her home and the valley she lived in so she can recover her tooth to give to the tooth fairy. Throughout her adventures, she incorporated the...

Texas rancher Flynn Bradshaw has his work cut out for him. His sister-in-law, Sunday, is finally home after the car crash that killed her husband and left her critically injured. But Flynn still has to get her failing ancestral farm up and running while...

Catastrophic downfalls Heroic rescues Daring catnappings William and Tibby Forever depicts these and many other fur-raising events in the lives of William and Tibby, two cats who live with their beloved Second Mom and her hon in a small gray house on a hill....

While living in New York City, George Huntington's fianc e Laura was involved in a car accident that left her in a deep coma. Knowing how devastated George was, George's grandfather sent George a letter saying he might be able to help. Before George...

Jason Audley has had a colorful past (see author Craig J. Hansen's other Jason Audley titles, The Skeleton Train and Winter Lake). Once a whimsical drifter, we find Jason now with a job, a girlfriend, and a faithful dog. But, things unravel with a...

A divorced mother of two gets an app on her phone that lets her be in more than one place at the same time.Author: Kamy WicoffISBN-10: 1631529765ISBN-13: 9781631529764Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2015Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews...

Lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mom Sarah Shaw is struggling to find a steady happiness after the death of her infant daughter, when she meets a young homeless mother and toddler she can't get out of her mind. Rescuing them becomes her mission-one that takes her on a journey...

When privileged Southern woman Valeria Vose discovers her husband's infidelity through his lover's attempted suicide, she turns to an Episcopal priest for direction and solace-and spins into a clandestine, ill-fated love affair that forces her to confront all her preconceived values and expectations.Author: Alice...

For fans of Elizabeth Berg's TALK BEFORE SLEEP and the novels of Jodi Picoult comes the provocative new novel from Barbara Ferrer. In grief, they find each other. Through loss, they find love. They meet in a hospital corridor. Libby is there for Ethan,...

When Greg and Rene Garrett get the news that every couple dreads to hear, life as they know it is suddenly ripped apart. Will their strong faith in God be enough to carry them through the rough road that lies ahead? When death comes...

Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for fifteen years, they have a wonderful daughter, successful careers, and a beautiful house. They also have a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs. Denise and Derrek attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings. But...

Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott, depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society. It is Alcott's sequel to Eight Cousins.Author: Louisa May AlcottISBN-10: 1618954008ISBN-13: 9781618954008Publisher: Bibliotech PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2019Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited...

Like most Wharton novels, The House of Mirth examines the conflict between rigid social expectation and personal desire. Lily Bart is adept at playing society's games, which expect her to achieve an advantageous marriage. Yet, torn between her desire for luxurious living and a...

"A powerful, poetic, bawdily funny, and tenderly sad novel about class, about love, about drink, about poetics, about land, and about money--a few of the salient things that life and history are made of."--O, The Oprah Magazine In his highly acclaimed debut novel, Colin...

"A lovely look at a version of life as we know it. The characters are well written and the bird is a hoot. Most lives are not perfect, but most have those special moments. Read this book for a peak into those moments." -Memory...

The Surgeon's Daughter is part of Chronicles of the Canongate which is a collection of stories by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1827 and 1828 in the Waverley novels series. They are named after the Canongate, in Edinburgh. After his financial ruin at the...

"A Generation X call-to-arms about facing mid-life on our own terms with the unique heart that beats inside us all . . . Poignant, honest, and funny as hell." --The Huffington Post When his bicycle is intentionally run off the road by a neighbor's...

Keeping up with the Joneses isn't all it's made out to be. In this intriguing novel full of drama and plot twists, one family tries to hold on to their "perfect" life before their secrets, lies, and scandals are exposed. On the outside, the...

After his parents' marriage and finances collapse, high school junior Kyle Donovan must move in with his no-nonsense grandfather in the city and discover whether football can help him overcome ethnic and socioeconomic obstacles. Kyle Donovan, a seventeen year old star football running back...

It is 1998. In the safe haven of her London office--a room her husband jokingly calls "The Delivery Room"--therapist Mira Braverman listens to the stories of her troubled patients, including an aristocratic woman going through an intense infertility drama, an American journalist who is...

Praise for Strube's previous novels: "Smart, eccentric prose."--The New York Times"Strube's comic sense is like a perfectly mixed martini: exceedingly dry and potent."--The Toronto StarMilo doesn't quite have it together. His acting career has stalled. His girlfriend dumped him. His miserable father has vanished....

For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale comes a World War II novel that spans generations, crosses oceans, and proves just how much two young women are willing to sacrifice for love and family.1940: As the Germans advance upon Paris, young seamstress Estella...

In this 3-volume epistolary novel, title character Evelina is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, thus raised in rural seclusion until her 17th year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of...

The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. It is generally considered to be the second novel in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, following O Pioneers (1913) and preceding My ntonia (1918). The book tells the story...

The story begins when Rose returns home from a long trip to Europe. Everyone has changed. As a joke, Rose lines up her seven cousins to take a long look at them, just as they did with her when they first met. The youngest,...

California is suddenly rocked from top to bottom by two catastrophic earthquakes that bring the state to its knees. These are the gripping stories of a handful of struggling survivors and their life and death experiences. You'll be spellbound on the edge of your...

The Session is about the birth, death, and rebirth of relationships. Characters find themselves in cycles of destruction, sinking in the darkness of the ego. Dr. River Meadows, a marital therapist, finds herself working with a couple she has an unnerving attraction to. There...

A hardworking and loving family in Poland is uprooted and separated by World War II. The mother and her four children are able to reach the United States prior to Hitler's invasion of Poland. The father and youngest son choose to remain in Poland...

This Way Madness Lies (originally Published by Warner Books January 1992) What do you get when you mix fact, fiction, fantasy, history, deception, decadence, ego, affluence, and ambition? You get madness In this case-Thomas William Simpson's remarkable novel This Way Madness Lies, a literary...

A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start to finish -- in which no sexual adventure is...

11th Annual Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards, FinalistOne June night, on a dark country road, two worlds-one of privilege and wealth, one modest and plain-collide, and tragedy forces two families together, causing both to question the lives they...

The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a novel by E. Nesbit. First published in 1899, it tells the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. O.) Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes...