Fiction - Family Life - General

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover's romantic, emotion-packed debut novel unforgettably captures all the magic and confusion of first love, as two young people forge an unlikely bond before discovering that fate has other plans for...

All the coffee in the world can't keep Stephen Millburn from floundering at his new job as an early-morning radio host. With a new baby at home and an irate boss at work, Stephen is barely holding it together. Trying to balance his parental...

A secret from a tragic past meets the longings of a lonely present. When Reverend David Wilder gets a letter from the daughter he's never known, he realizes that an old promise is a debt he might not be able to repay. His quiet...

What does an old man do when he finds a baby washed on the shore? What does he do when a single young woman blarneys her way into his life? The intrusion, the baby & woman, causes all kinds of disturbances in the symmetry...

The dual challenges of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that threatens the world and the unexplained loss of parents that threatens a family are the driving forces behind the lives of two boys and their grandfather.Willie, Denny and their grandfather, Pop, have lived together...

The Earthquake Child is the story of an adoption, told through the voices of an adoptee, his desperate young birth mother, and his loving but grieving adoptive mother. How can Joshua's behavior be explained? This question is all-consuming for his adoptive family. Joshua was...

Becoming One as Husband and Wife is the story of three couples at different stages of life, yearning to find harmony and unity in their broken marriages. Each of the couples find themselves dealing with struggles that are beyond their ability to solve on...

After losing his grandfather, the last male role model in his life, 12 year-old Mike finds himself the the lone male in a house full of women - an absent mother, a financially-strapped grandmother, and a doting great-grandmother. Without his hero around to guide...

The acclaimed author of Broken Glass Park brings her "warmth, humor and sharp observational eye" to a disfigured teenager's coming of age in Berlin (Kirkus Reviews). Once a handsome teenager, seventeen-year-old Marek is left badly disfigured after a Rottweiler attack. Now his mother sends...

An act of passion reverberates across continents when Visma Sen decides to remain in Calcutta when his family migrates to Canada. Sabyasachi Nag evokes the rising heat of Calcutta in the early morning as masterfully as he depicts the calmness of a snow-lit evening...

Winner of the 2014 CLASS Reunion Kudos Book Award, fiction category.After the tragic death of Butch Browning's wife, Jenny, four families begin to realize how precious--and fleeting--their time together is. Each is at a different stage in life: Butch is facing single parenthood. The...

Fletcher Dukes and Altovise Benson reunite after decades apart--and a mountain of secrets--in this debut exploring the repercussions of a single choice and how an enduring talisman challenges and holds a family together. On a routine trip to the Piggly Wiggly in Albany, Georgia,...

A prison escape, a bear on the loose, botched lyrics. What more could go wrong with Crow Valley's most anticipated night of the year? A year after forest fires ravaged the town of Crow Valley and claimed the life of Dale Jepson--karaoke legend, local...

Shoe on the Road is a collection of short stories examining the origins of deserted footwear. Inspired by real events, the stories deal with real-life issues-everything from drug abuse to poverty to physical and sexual abuse-that eventually lead to a shoe being abandoned in...

Darcey Steinke's first novel, now back in print, is an unusually assured and lyrical debut. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, it tells of summer people and islanders, mothers and sons, women and men, love and its dangers. It is the...

What if you could ask God anything? What would you ask, and how would He answer? Chelsea Chambers is on her own. After a public split from her NFL superstar husband, Chelsea takes a bold step out of the limelight and behind the counter...

2020 After she finds her husband in bed with someone else, Anna thinks she's through with love until she meets Jeremy; he's kind and mature but twelve years younger. It can't work...can it? 2022 Jeremy and Anna are still going strong; it's just Anna...

What if the one you want is bad for you? Trouble follows Charlotte 'Charlie' Danvers. When an impossibly hot millionaire reluctantly helps Charlie, she finds herself in more hot water than ever. The sparks between them are unmistakable, but Jake's a renowned play boy,...

I am meeting this woman for one reason and one reason only. And that officially makes her off-limits. I want the one woman I cannot have. Again.The second I lay eyes on Naomi Kent, I know I want her. And not just for my...

An Australian Outback Story (Book 1) A single mother desperate for a second chance. A man that needs her more than he can admit. One teenager out of control, a daughter terrified of anything that makes a sound, a dead end job - how...

A woman on the run from an abusive husband returns to the island she abandoned over twenty years ago.Amy Archer Ashwood is the younger sister of Holly and Rina Archer and twin sister to Randy. Like her siblings, she has little, if anything, to...

The Cold Hard Light is a spare and bracing literary debut that tells the story of a new father who falls into the grip of obsession.The novel begins when the man who assaulted Andrew Harrison's sister is released from prison. Benjamin Williams was barely...

A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man finding strength in his familial identity, from a stellar new voice in fiction. Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever...

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she...

The seventh novel by the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, Rachel Cusk's The Bradshaw Variations is a lyrical, subversive tale of a marriage unraveling.Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy enough...

Juline feels that she has achieved the ultimate - marriage to Bernard Hemmings. He is tall, brown and handsome, and has curly hair. He lives on the hills and has a massive house surrounded by lush greenery. Juline is now rubbing shoulders with the...

Dickens is class apart when it comes to creating some of the masterpiece epic novels that have been cherished and celebrated since the time, they have been written in the 19th century. Bleak House is the story of people who are fighting for an...

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Having been forced to leave his father, sister and home town of Rome at the age of seven, Francesco De Luca grows up in England, never fully understanding why he was parted from his family. Twenty-six years later, Francesco's wife, Lauren, dies in circumstances...

Women in Love follows lives of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula a schoolteacher, and Gudrun a painter. They meet two men who live nearby, school inspector Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, heir to a coal-mine, and the four become friends. Ursula and Birkin begin a...

Das Gl ck der Familie Rougon, Erstausgabe 1871, ist der erste Band in mile Zolas monumentalem zwanzigb ndigen Rougon-Macquart-Zyklus. Die Geschichte basiert teilweise auf wahren Begebenheiten. Sie beschreibt Ereignisse um den Staatsstreich Napoleon III im Dezember 1851 in der fiktiven Kleinstadt Plassans in S...

Ludwig Thoma (1867-1921) war ein bayerischer Schriftsteller, der durch seine ebenso realistischen wie satirischen Schilderungen des bayerischen Alltags und der politischen Geschehnisse seiner Zeit popul r wurde. Ludwig Thoma bem hte sich in seinen Werken darum, die herrschende Scheinmoral blo zustellen. Ebenso prangerte er...

The second book in John Reinhard Dizon's Generations series tells the story of Teodulfo Dizon: a teenager from Bical, the San Pedro District of the Philippine Islands.Son of a decommissioned Spanish officer, Teodulfo works as a house boy in the U.S. military sector and...

After the death of his twin brother, Catholic priest Rupert Brown gains guardianship of his fifteen-year-old niece, Neti.Burdened with grief and questioning his faith, Rupert tries to recreate a family home for Neti, made more difficult by the sudden return of her mother after...

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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural...

2023 Book of the Year - Fiction (Independent Publishers of New England)2023 Best in Literary Fiction (Independent Publishers of New England)2023 Finalist in Women's Fiction (National Indie Excellence Awards)2023 Reviewer's Choice Award, gold winner (Feathered Quill Books)2023 Adult Fiction/Animal theme, silver winner (Feathered Quill...

The night my mom died I couldn't sleep for the fun. So begins Raymond Shackleford's confused odyssey, with the news he receives on the very first page of this novel. I Am a Prayer is about loss and it's about gifts, and the efforts...

The author of Mermaids reunites the unforgettable women of the Flax family decades later: "Its plot twists will make you laugh--after you wipe away tears." --Sally Koslow, author of The Real Mrs. Tobias Now in her early forties with a grown son and two...

A teenager follows along as her mother moves from town to town--and man to man--in this coming-of-age novel: "Both hilarious and tragic . . . a radiant debut." --The New York Times Book Review The inspiration for the cult-classic film starring Winona Ryder, Christina...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions--a "smart, sophisticated, and fun" (Oprah Daily) novel from the author of Eligible, Rodham, and...

Opposites attract when a free-spirited American singer-songwriter with ADHD teams up with a charming Irishman to revitalize his family's pub in the next heartfelt romance from the author of Luck and Last Resorts. Raine Hart is used to the challenges of living with ADHD....

"...Sublimely ties together the drama of high school football, gender politics, and the impact of war on a small town in Texas." - Sports Illustrated A 2019 One of the Best Books So Far--Newsweek.comA cross between Friday Night Lights and The Atomic City Girls,...

This is a story that could be heard and believed only through the voice of this author. Nickey Knighton's debut novel Sisters by Heart recounts the story of sorority sisters, Shondra and Cydne, ten years after graduating from their Historically Black College and University...

Jane, Frank and Mia is about three people who cross each other's paths through some unforeseen event. Jane and Frank are seemingly opposites. Jane is a Korean woman who came to the Netherlands to marry Mia's father but is now divorced and raising her...

USA Today Bestselling author Brooke O'Brien takes you back to Carolina Beach with A Rebels Havoc in this brother's best friend, rock star prequel romance.Kyla Cole is my best friend's sister, which makes her completely off limits.She's sassy, sweet, and has a body made...

Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Fiction. Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher's No God Like the Mother follows characters in transition, through tribulation and hope. Set around the world--the bustling streets of Lagos, the arid gardens beside the Red Sea, an apartment in Paris, and the...

Growing up in London with Tunisian parents, wayward Nessie finds herself caught between cultures. Her parents don't want her becoming too English, while at school she doesn't feel ' white enough' or ' African enough' to fit in with any group. She even has...

A relatable story of life on the front line of parenting with a slow burn Irish mystery at its center, from the author of Three Little Truths and Grace after Henry Their school is about to be taught a lesson... Beverley Franklin will do...

The second book in a brand-new WWI saga series, inspired by the Saward family, who ran the station at Wolferton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through this family we get a glimpse into all walks of life - from royalty to...