Fiction - Family Life - General

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...

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...

Harry Banks is a successful entrepreneur who adores his wife, Elizabeth, and sons, Preston and Drew. Every summer, he enjoys escaping the heat of Midhurst and heading with his family to their cabin in Haliburton, Ontario. But everything is about to change when they...

After teaching a summer session abroad in London, Charlie Ames is looking forward to having some downtime, flying back to California, and seeing her boyfriend, Sam. Before she leaves London, she's notified that her cousin and her cousin's husband have died in a plane...

"The Little Lady of the Big House" is a 1915 novel by American writer Jack London. His last novel ever published, the story revolves around a love triangle including the protagonist, Dick Forrest, his wife, Paula, and an old friend named Evan Graham. Unable...

Big city mailman Jess Thornton has transferred to the small city of Kachuda, Wisconsin in the picturesque driftless region of Wisconsin. In this, the second book in the series, Jess introduces you to his family, more of his fellow small town mailmen, and the...

When Emma Gibb was thirteen, there was no one more fascinating to her than her folk-healing, superstitious. Ukrainian baba. Fifteen years later, Emma tells her baba she is pregnant, and those superstitions she used to find so fascinating, come back to haunt her. On...

Love and Mr. Lewisham is an 1899 novel set in the 1880s by H. G. Wells. It was among his first outside the science fiction genre. Wells took considerable pains over the manuscript and said of it that "the writing was an altogether more...

The holidays are always hard--especially for families that still fight their ancient battles every Christmas. This year, Tom is determined not to let his parents ruin his trip to visit them both by spending all their time condemning each other. His parents, though, might...

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...

t was one of those afternoons in late April which are as mild and balmy as any June day. The air was full of the chirps and twitters of nest-building birds, and of sweet indefinable odors from half-developed leaf-buds and cherry and pear blossoms....

Kevin was nine years old, and a very bright nine years at that, but for the life of him he could not understand why he was supposed to be Irish, and why his parents were supposed to be Irish, and the whole blooming district...

"My take on life is this: stand up for yourself, be courageous and loyal to those you love, and never pass up a chance to consume good human food. I want the world to know that I AM DACHSHUND-the guardian, the sentinel, the keeper...

From Eliza Maxwell, the bestselling author of The Unremembered Girl, comes a gripping novel about the mysteries that haunt us and the twists of fate that can unravel them...Living in the shadow of a decades-old crime that stole his children from him, reclusive Lars...

Lili and Goli have argued endlessly about where their mother, Bibijan, should live since the Iranian Revolution. They disagree about her finances too, which remain blocked as long as she insists on waiting for her son--still missing but not presumed dead yet--to return from...

#1 Amazon bestseller from award-winning author Aimee Alexander.An uplifting novel of love, tough choices and the triumph of the human heart.Jenny Dempsey has exchanged life in the fast lane for freelance journalism and being a mum. She doesn't look back. Why would she? A...

At the turn of the Twentieth Century a young girl, Millie, is caught between her mother's needs, her father's expectations, and a secret that she will need her entire life to recognize. The secret will motivate her towards her most profound yearning and her...

Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden great aunts, the matriarchs of...

The setting is picturesque Lexington. A small, quiet, rural community in the upper Midwest, surrounded by a lake, a quaint church, two old lakeside bars and an old lively dance hall. It is the home of Betty, Edward, their families and friends. Where everyone...

The Golden Bowl, by Henry James, is a complex, intense study of marriage and adultery and completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective...

A young boy quickly finds out the gritty reality of what it means to grow up, which includes witnessing death, deferring dreams and evolving relationships. A charming picture is painted of a small Louisiana town and the characters that live there. Each character has...

This book teaches about coming together and sharing as a community family. The Monkey Bread Soup story demonstrates much love and unity. Love is a universal language, so share the love. Enjoy How this book came about, I was given an eight-week old dachshund...

Janelle Marshall's life is finally going according to plan. Her perfect, upscale career-and her perfect, successful boyfriend-will make her future as secure and predictable as her childhood never was. And with luck, Little Bill, the grandfather who raised her, will someday understand why she'd...

A little girl learns about the true meaning of Christmas in the most unusual way when she discovers an old purple box wrapped in a pink shiny ribbon nestled underneath the Christmas tree.Author: Mikhaella P. Gonzal, Zsamantha P. Gonzal, Angelito R. GonzalISBN-10: 1492216577ISBN-13: 9781492216575Publisher:...

In the early 2000s, Canada became among the top western destinations for desperate Sri Lankan Tamil civilians who fled death and destruction at the height of the civil war in their country. For many who came as refugees, the cost of freedom began to...

Sebastian is the story of a young man who, due to an unfortunate accident, has his leg amputated shortly before World War I. When his father is drafted to the war it falls to him to run the family grocery store in Vienna, to...

In this first novel in a series, David sees his father's ex world war 2 ex soldier macho behavior as being destructive and abusive. When his father gives up alcohol he sees that he could change himself too, and be a more sensitive man...

Author: Kathryn WalterISBN-10: 148368072XISBN-13: 9781483680729Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/2013Pages: 118Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

After an evening tornado devastated their town of Vilonia, Arkansas, the Mabry family would face a different kind of storm when Margie learned of her husband's infidelity. Cliff Mabry, a small-town preacher resentful of his lot in life, finds solace in the arms of...

Lena can't seem to filter her thoughts. Whatever she thinks comes directly out of her mouth. After giving this problem serious thought, she concludes that she needs to have a 'thought filter.' When she accidentally lands a job at a TV station, she is...

A woman hears a voice guide her for almost seventy years. She survives abuse and tragedy. In the year 1988 she wants her story to be told. But the interviewer is a skeptic, convinced at first that she is just a mentally imbalanced harmless...

The Happy List is something we all have but have not taken the time to put together. You have your own Happy List and this short book will help you realize where your list begins. By the time you finish reading you will have...

Glory Goodman lives with her family, the Bairds, on Stinking Creek, in Northeastern Tennessee. The family, like many families who've lived in this Appalachian conclave for centuries, is tight-knit, and fiercely devoted to a life that features one another. Like her mother and her...