Fiction - Family Life - General

Out of the fear and chaos following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, emerges an evocative story of one family and how they cope with tragedy and loss, and how their labors and loves alternately bind and sunder them. The choices they make, often...

Ann Beattie, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Bausch, and twenty-one other celebrated American writers contribute to this moving anthology of fiction, compiled by the editors of the Glimmer Train literary quarterly. In the ten-plus years since Susan Burmeister-Brown and Linda B. Swanson-Davies founded Glimmer Train,...

A woman learns to be the heroine of her own life in this heartfelt novel inspired by Anne of Green Gables by New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra. She believed life could follow a plotline--until the story she was living unraveled. Anne Gallagher...

"The World After Alice is a lovely debut novel that glimmers with fine writing and notes of human insight. There's a quiet beauty to Lauren Aliza Green's work, and I am now a fan."--Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful "A...

Catherine has lived a cloistered life dominated by the choices of a tormented mother and an overprotective grandmother. But life is about to change for 17-year-old Catherine when her mother Brenda insists she take a summer job in Kings Cross. Sydney has just opened...

For fans of Jojo Moyes's Me Before You comes a beautifully written, heartwarming novel about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives. The Day We Met asks: Can you love someone you don't remember falling in love with? A gorgeous husband, two beautiful children, a...

Addie Bundren, a gravely ill mother of five--Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman--voices her wish to be laid to rest with her birth family in Jefferson, the capital of Yoknapatawpha County. William Faulkner examines the complexities of grief and ingeniously portrays the emotional...

Author: Rachel LawrenceISBN-10: 1964726298ISBN-13: 9781964726298Publisher: Quill & Flame Publishing HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2025Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d

Author: Angela TomaskiISBN-10: 1668094649ISBN-13: 9781668094648Publisher: Scribner Book CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2026Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.59d

Author: Tom PerrottaISBN-10: 166808063XISBN-13: 9781668080634Publisher: Scribner Book CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2026Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Ashley WinsteadISBN-10: 1668024667ISBN-13: 9781668024669Publisher: Atria BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2026Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d

Author: Mary BerelsonISBN-10: 1647049903ISBN-13: 9781647049904Publisher: Blue Pierre PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2025Pages: 466Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.04d

"When legendary sheriff Burton Steel summons his son Buddy home from LAPD Homicide, a reluctant Buddy agrees. Burton is debilitated by ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. While Buddy is to cover his back, not an assignment he wants, the clincher is it's his last chance...

Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction. The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic...

A wise and subtle work that explores the refractive power of memory, and what it means to exist in the lives of others-from one of the most highly regarded writers working in Germany today. When Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst in the middle...

In this "rare feast" of a novel, a young Indian American book editor inherits her estranged family's ancestral home-and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy). It is the summer of 2015, and Lila De is on the verge of a...

Cleverly written. Powerful, shocking, totally believable. 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bestselling author Sheryl Brown.The perfect daughter...Jess Harper has spent her whole life trying to make her mum, Abigail happy and proud. And everything Jess does, from the clothes she wears, the job she has, the men she...

How far would a mother go to regain control?Vivien is a master manipulator. She inherited the behavior from her own mother, Joyce, who endured a problematic childhood creating emotional issues that grew stronger and more challenging as she aged.Vivien had always been desperate to...

An electrifying first novel from one of Britain's most celebrated young writers, the story of two women circling one another--working side-by-side, sleeping with the same man, inching toward friendship--until an unplanned pregnancy reveals the true nature of their connection. Jules has been divorced from...

It is the summer of 1968. In the small farming community of Willow Creek, Iowa, the Mitchell family, who lives on a small farm, is still trying to cope with their loss. The oldest son (Brian) was killed in Vietnam. The youngest daughter (Becky),...

A collection of linked stories. Jesus walks the city streets once again, interacting with the people He loves so dearly. Funny, heartfelt, and inspiring. A cast of characters centering around a young man in the hospital encounters Jesus as their stories intertwine. Jesus spends...

A BRAND NEW heartfelt historical novel from BESTSELLER Rachel Sweasey Paris, 1940: Marie-Claire steps into the Gare de Lyon, not knowing it will be the last time she'll see her husband and son. Fleeing occupied Paris, she travels into the countryside of Normandy, and...

"Skye waited in the airport lobby for her husband, Gary. She'd hidden a surprise under her oversized coat. This bulge will make a happy surprise for Gary."That surprise puppy eventually grew to be a full-size Golden Retriever, Quincy. The town of Riverview, especially those...

The All-NEW escapist read from bestselling author Kate Frost as she transports us to the beautiful island paradise of Sardinia. When the beginning of the end is just the start... Newly single Lola Wild has had her fill of well-intentioned matchmaking friends. Her best...

What I'm about to say is going to blow our lives apart. But there's nothing else for it. I've tried so hard to keep it from you, not wanting to cause you pain. But I can't hide it any longer. You deserve the truth....

It's 1970 and Augie Cumpton has just survived a year in Vietnam. When he returns home from the war, his life is upended when he offends some very ruthless members of organized crime. But when the Mob is duped by Augie's family into thinking...

This stand alone novel is a prequel and a sequel to 'Suffer the Little Children'. It is the story of two boys, born to identical twin sisters. One of them is born in Saltburn in the north east of England, and the other in...

A stirring novel from the author of I Couldn't Love You More and Hideous Kinky: the story of two sisters who couldn't be more different and the great love that holds them together throughout a tumultuous youthFor as long as Lucy can remember, she's...

Welcome to Crescent Hills, where beauty only runs so deep. Scandal lurks below the surface behind the McMansions, designer clothes, and fancy cars. When the town is shaken by the disappearance of journalist Ivy Fields, whispers of betrayal and intrigue begin to unravel the...

In 1960s Reading, ten-year-old Billy McCarty's life changes when his aunt arrives from America with an unexpected gift: a denim jacket stitched with the name Billy the Kid.Sharing the same name with the legendary outlaw sparks something in Billy, inspiring him to lead his...

The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in predictable tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil that threatens to tear the family apart. In the wake...

A father's silence. A mother's memory. A brother's grief. In seventeen unforgettable stories, Donald Carreira Ching offers a powerful and deeply intimate portrait of contemporary life in Hawai'i.On the Windward side of O'ahu, change moves fast--developers buy up neighborhoods, locals move away, and families...

Praise for Judith McCormack and BackspringNominated for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel Award"A well-written and smart novel that unfolds many moments of profound and subtle beauty. McCormack's treatment of details and prose are refreshing, confident, and attentive."--The Winnipeg Review"A joy to read."--Nino Ricci"A wonderfully...

A Quill & Quire Best Book of the YearA Globe & Mail Best Short Fiction TitleA National Post Best Short Fiction TitleA January Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2014 Ethel Wilson Fiction PrizeLonglisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award "Complicated, passionate,...

"If Colette Maitland were a musician, you'd say she had perfect pitch."--Isabel Huggan A soldier's wife struggles to reconnect with her daughter after her husband is killed overseas. A baby abandoned at the rectory door inflames a town with gossip. A dog is shot....

The BRAND NEW hilarious, feel-good read from #1 bestselling author Fiona Gibson Is it ever too late to bloom? Meet Celia. Life hasn't worked out quite how she'd planned. Since her son left for university, Celia has felt stuck at home - battling with...

A moving saga about love and forgiveness from a bestselling author. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Sheila Newberry and Rosie Goodwin. Abby Reed, grieving after the loss of her mother, finds an unexpected source of comfort exploring the rugged, snowy countryside with the...

In 1837, a young Henry David Thoreau sets out to lead an extraordinary life in Concord, Massachusetts, combating formidable obstacles. He struggles to find work as a teacher, to discover his voice as a writer, and to realize true friendship and romantic love, battling...

From the author of The Deepest Lake comes a gripping novel of psychological suspense that unravels a mother's worst fear--that her son played a part in two murders. Over one terrible weekend, two teenage girls are found dead in a wealthy Chicago suburb. As...

John and Erica Mason-Grey are hard-working artists and loving parents--but when John dies, their teenage daughter Mona's casual drug use spirals into heroin addiction. She and her mother soon begin an anguished game of hide-and-seek leading to countless arguments, arrests, thefts, rehabs, and relapse,...

From the award-winning author of The Book of V., an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontier When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a...

This is the story of Ruby Wilson whose beauty was something startling. She was born somewhere and brought up in the back of a hat shop owned by her Aunt Carrie. Men always slipped in and out of Aunt Carrie's life. Ruby was never...

Seventeen-year-old Alice Marie Krayenbraak is beautiful, witty, a star student, and a gifted athlete. On the surface, she has it all. But in Alice's hometown of Dutch Center, Iowa, nothing is as it seems. Behind the façade of order and tidiness, the family farm...

From the author of book club favorite The Salt House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of home. Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives...

How do you cope when your husband of more than 30 years announces he's leaving -- and you didn't see it coming? Ellen is blindsided by her husband's request for a divorce and the news that everything she thought they jointly owned is in...

Aristotle "Aris" Thibodeau is 12.5 years old and destined for greatness. Ever since her father's death, however, she's been stuck in the small town of Kanuga, Georgia, where she has to manage her mother Diane's floundering love life and dubious commitment to her job...

Edna Ferber's "So Big" is a powerful story of family relationships set against the backdrop of early 20th-century farm life. This literary classic explores the complexities of the mother-son relationship and the challenges of rural existence. The story champions determination in the face of...

"The Children of Alsace," originally titled "Les Oberlé," is a powerful family saga set against the backdrop of Alsace's turbulent history. This meticulously prepared edition allows readers to immerse themselves in a story deeply intertwined with French history and cultural identity. René Bazin's work...

When his best friend is murdered in a fit of jealous rage, Izzy Schneider is compelled to reconstruct the relationship and exhume a hidden past that tests the authority of truth and weighs the burden of history. In A Good Man, critically acclaimed novelist...

Julia Franck's German-Book-Prize-winning novel, The Blindness of the Heart, was an international phenomenon, selling 850,000 copies in Germany alone and being published in thirty-five countries. Her newest work, Back to Back echoes the themes of The Blindness of the Heart, telling a moving personal...