Fiction - Family Life - General

An Amazon Charts bestseller.From bestselling author Mary Ellen Taylor comes a story about profound loss, hard truths, and an overgrown greenhouse full of old secrets.Adrift in the wake of her father's death, a failed marriage, and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though...

Over a century after C zanne's death his art still obsesses and enraptures. And for the characters in this multifaceted novel, the painter's work is of crucial significance. In Hong Kong, will billionaire art collector Walter and his son ever be reconciled? In Liverpool,...

Suffolk, 1925: after the death of her father, a much-loved Punch and Judy man, May Moon packs her bags and moves to the seaside in the hope of continuing his legacy. Already tasked with looking after her younger sister, May little imagines her summer...

A beautiful Cornish village, a shocking turn of events... Tremarnock is a classic Cornish seaside village. Houses painted in yellow, pink and white, cluster around the harbour, where fishermen still unload their daily catch. It has a pub and a sought-after little restaurant, whitewashed,...

1950s Liverpool: in the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up. One is motherless--and hated by the cold woman who is determined to take her dead mother's place. The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare...

How do you say goodbye to your children? A mother battles cancer in a heart-wrenching sequel to Poppy Day .How do you say goodbye to your family for the last time? Poppy Day is looking forward to her best year yet. She's 32, married...

This gripping follow on from The Four Streets finds the community alive with rumours and gossip after the murder which rocked it to the core.Author: Nadine DorriesISBN-10: 1781850089ISBN-13: 9781781850084Publisher: Head of ZeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2014Pages: 432Format: Paperback

Estranged from her abusive parents as a teenager, Taraneh Pourani overcame poverty, isolation and self-hatred to build a happy home with her loving husband and children. Triggered by her young sons' annual visit with their grandparents, Taraneh becomes psychologically distressed. She begins to doubt...

Delia Buckley hasn't seen Daniel Wolfe in twenty-two years, ever since he'd abandoned her and their unborn child. But now here he is, knowing all about Delia's family troubles and wanting to employ her to nurse him in his terminal illness. Desperate for money...

Maggie Wilson was only 33, but life in the teeming streets of Walworth was not that easy in 1908 - not if you were a widow with four young daughters. It was pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence, and without the lodger Maggie really wouldn't...

When they were growing up, Dana, Harper, and Tawny thought of themselves as "sometimes sisters." They connected only during the summer month they'd all spend at their grandmother's rustic lakeside resort in north Texas. But secrets started building, and ten years have passed since...

When struggling novelist James Hernandez meets poet Louisa "Lou" Bell, he's sure he's just found the love of his life. There's just one problem: she's engaged to his oldest friend, Rob. So James toasts their union and swallows his desire.Author: Camille PagaanISBN-10: 1683245679ISBN-13: 9781683245674Publisher:...

An artist and her perfectionist mother unpack a lifetime of secrets while on vacation in Paris in this moving novel--perfect for fans of One Italian Summer. A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes--with a giant Pattersonian...

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and divinely funny novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times). Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to...

In this delightful and heartwarming novel, an orphaned baby brings together an unlikely couple who learn the true meaning of family. When Hannah Eicher discovered sweet baby Grace in her barn last spring, the adorable infant seemed like the answer to her prayers. The...

An Amish seamstress and a single father have a chance to make a fresh start in this heartwarming novel about finding love when you need it the most. Spirited, forthright, impulsive -- everyone told Greta Eicher she'd have to change her ways if she...

Ten-year-old Sara Campbell has strict rules to follow at home ever since her mother died from Double X--a lethal virus that affects only women and has now killed 96 percent of the world's female population. Sara, like every other surviving female, is permanently confined...

Blake Harrison is rich, titled, and charming . . . and in need of a wife by Wednesday. Blake turns to matchmaker Sam Elliot, who isn t the businessman he expected. Instead, Blake is faced with Samantha Elliot, a beautiful and feisty woman with...

How far would you go to save your family? Every morning, as her husband Mike straps on his SIG Sauer and pulls on his heavy Magnum boots, Jamie Anderson tenses up. Then comes the call she has always dreaded: there's been a shooting at...

Mary Hogan's powerful and poignant debut novel about two sisters -- opposites in every way -- and their mother and the secrets and lies that define them all. One family, two sisters, a lifetime of secrets . . .Author: Mary HoganISBN-10: 1628991577ISBN-13: 9781628991574Publisher: Center...

A social satire and a richly nuanced love story of Southern newlyweds who settle in privileged Mountain BrookKatherine Clark's The Harvard Bride begins with the lavish Mountain Brook wedding of Daniel Dobbs and Caroline Elmore, college sweethearts introduced in Clark's second novel, All the...

Anna swore she would never go back to her hometown of Assisi; but a serendipitous encounter with a book draws her back to walk the Italian Camino of St. Francis. There, she meets a mysterious stranger who may hold the key to healing her...

At 41, single professor Sara Leader decides to create a family by adopting a child. After the adoption agency asks for details about her background, Sara reluctantly begins to probe her father's secret history -- in particular, his flight as a 17-year-old Holocaust refugee...

From a masterful storyteller, comes a Midwestern epic that illuminates the majestic in the commonplace.When David Rhodes burst onto the American literary scene in the 1970s, he was hailed as "a brilliant visionary" (John Gardner), and compared to Sherwood Anderson and Marilynne Robinson. In...

Moving from character to character, perspective to perspective, Homesick is a complex and moving portrait of parallel lives and failing love in a time of permanent war.Author: Eshkol NevoISBN-10: 1564785823ISBN-13: 9781564785824Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2010Pages: 374Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.25dReview...

The renowned Israeli author "once again captures the culture of modern-day Israel with provocative deadpan humor" in a novel of wealth, war, and family (Publishers Weekly). Mandy Gruber, matriarch of a wealthy Israeli family, is beholden to her mother's legacy and the pajama factory...

First published in 1953, in The Whiteoak Brothers, the Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt Augusta's friend, Dilly Warkworth, arrives at Jalna and tries to snare the...

In the fictional village of Rocky Point, Cape Breton, just after WWII, the Briar family keeps a secret. Locked in his room, Joseph Briar, a child with visible and non-visible disabilities, is hidden from the community. And what Alfie Johns discovers through Joseph's window...

A hilarious and totally relatable book about the adventures of a single mum, for fans of Catastrophe and Motherland. Readers of Why Mummy Drinks, Unmumsy Mum and The Single Mum's Wish List will love this debut novel from parenting blogger Slummy Single Mummy.'You'll end...

Secrets can't last forever in this heartfelt debut novel, a UK bestseller and contemporary Philomena story. In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan, live alone in Roscarbury Hall with their secrets, memories,...

Tensions between three sisters, divided by life and love, are about to spill over into all-out conflict.It is 1942 and the world is at war. The eldest of the Redcliffe sisters, Isobel, impulsive and ideological, strives to make herself heard in a world distracted...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this captivating novel from Danielle Steel, a wildly successful, unmarried wedding planner leads her clients to happily ever after. Faith Ferguson is New York's most in-demand wedding planner, an arbiter of taste for elegant affairs, lavish ceremonies,...

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried, beer-battered, cream cheese-frosted love that feeds them all--from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses "Riveting...the feel of extremely good gossip told across a hightop table over...

In 1939, Maggie Doud married Garfield Maguire. Now, fifty years on, she's Margaret Maguire: a widow and a grandmother, unable to ignore the consequences of having married a cruel and arrogant man. Her daughters are strangers to each other, past hope of reconciling. Margaret's...

The gift I was blessed to keep is worth the fight. When I hold my Lil King in my arms at night. I know I can make it to the morning light. He took my breath away at first sight. My heart flutters when...

The book titled "The Girl Child Ordeal" is about a girl who suffered some ordeals in the hands of her father who do not value her girl child but loved and prayed for a male child. The gods did not honour his request because...

Cosmo has been living in Rawr County for the last 10 years because he hates himself and wants to be miserable. Dragon Isle was no good for him. Everyone there was too happy and joyful. A dragon like him deserves to be unhappy. When...

A family's old, beloved dog takes a final road trip to help his humans find forgiveness and healing. Meg Gorton finds herself alone and lonely in Florida. Three years earlier, she packed what she could fit into her sister's car, told her husband, Gary,...

Author: Lauren HolmesISBN-10: 8200000281ISBN-13: 9798200000289Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2015Format: CDWeight: 0.30lbs

The Years is the story of three generations of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century. Growing up in a typically Victorian...

A sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow, this novel of D.H Lawrence again, makes a daring departure from traditional English novels. This controversial novel is set in the British society during the First World war and it depicts the tragic love live of...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this riveting novel from Danielle Steel, a gifted young woman must grapple with the legacy of a troubled childhood in order to pursue her dreams. Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between an aspiring...

The Finley family have been in Charleston for almost twenty-five years and are looking to mark the date with a celebration. They came from Liverpool England to open an office of their family business in Charleston. They've been very successful in business and the...

The Finley family have been in Charleston for almost twenty-five years and are looking to mark the date with a celebration. They came from Liverpool England to open an office of their family business in Charleston. They've been very successful in business and the...

The Perfect Arrangement is based on a true story, which, unfortunately, did not have a happy-ever-after ending in real life. This book is written for young and middle-aged women and is a delightful read. The story follows women's lives as they become involved with...

In his late twenties, Allan - divorced with two young children to support - decides, after a failed business venture, to return to the Middle East where he previously worked. However, all was not as it seemed and he reluctantly became embroiled in ongoing...

"My parents, all of them, are beautifully flawed."Life for Ariana is not a ribbon floating through time collecting happy memories; it is a rope she clings to that transforms into a noose when she becomes a foster child. Not every child born is given...

"My parents, all of them, are beautifully flawed."Life for Ariana is not a ribbon floating through time collecting happy memories; it is a rope she clings to that transforms into a noose when she becomes a foster child. Not every child born is given...