Fiction - Family Life - General

A stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Moving from Pakistan's sophisticated cities to its most...

Oprah's Book Club Pick for Summer 2024"An extraordinary journey that brilliantly interweaves history, philosophy, adventure, and mysticism to explore the meaning of love, friendship, and living your life's true purpose."--Oprah WinfreyThe follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Best friends Kyler and Mark both led busy lives. Between their jobs and endless dates, hoping to find their forevers, they instead found something else on their annual guy's trip-a new business venture. Eighteen months and a dozen cabin renovations later, they finally open...

This is a collection of stories, some fact, others fiction. The author has written them all during the many years he has been a member of the El Castillo Writing Group. He is a 95-year-old resident of a Life Care Retirement community in Santa...

Social Workers: overworked, under-resourced, misunderstood. Still showing up.Have you ever wondered what it might be like to work with some of the nation's most vulnerable children and families?Jenny Hurst is a Child Protection Social Worker entrusted with the Season children. Can she support this...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change--or even make our peace with--the path we've taken. "Sparks is superb at what he does. The...

Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853. The novel has many characters and several subplots and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly...

The Spence Women is the contemporary story of three women - Pearl, Audrey, and Maegan Spence.Pearl at 82 is the matriarch who holds the family together. Before the story begins, she has migrated with her husband from Ozark country to a small desert town...

Promoted to the position of foreign war correspondent by The Illustrated London News, Brandon Jonathan Stewart has moved his family to the seat of the Civil War-Charleston, South Carolina-in the summer of 1861.In this second novel in the Absence of Light series, the Stewarts...

We are all surrounded by darkness. And we are all drawn to the light.The Orkney Islands north of Scotland are steeped in stories of selkies, seal folk who swim in cold ocean waters and shed their skins to sing and dance on land. One...

Serious and quiet, Silas hardly seems like the kind of man who would be out drag racing in the wee hours of the night. Unwilling heir of her family's multimillion dollar ranching operation, Gladys Lefrak is a daredevil who vows to never settle down....

From the Four Winds by John Sinjohn is a poignant tale of resilience and displacement. Set in a world of shifting fortunes, it follows a young man's journey through hardship, love, and self-discovery. With lyrical prose, Sinjohn crafts a timeless story of longing, identity,...

"A spirited romp on the Caribbean seas, Salty is an upstairs-downstairs tale with Kate Myers' signature colorful characters and a setting to die for. For fans of Below Deck and beyond, Salty belongs in your beach bag this summer. A fun and frothy treat!"--Rachel...

Experience the raw and powerful emotions of the human journey through this collection of poetry. With intimate poems and evocative drawings, the author explores themes of abandonment, abuse, rejection, and loss. Each piece is a window into their soul, offering heart-wrenching tales of love...

The past has a tendency to catch up to us in the blink of an eye. It's no different for Brooke Altman, a 17-year-old girl who is graduating from a local high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with big dreams of becoming an interior designer....

In this fearless novel from the award-winning author of Girls Burn Brighter, a couple from India--so different from generations of white colonialists who came before them--move to Montana, only to discover how brutal and unforgiving hubris can be. Janavi and Sagar were never meant...

Rediscover a timeless gem with "Cloudy Jewel" by Grace Livingston Hill, a captivating tale of love, resilience, and transformation. Once lost to the sands of time, this enchanting novel has been lovingly restored and republished by Alpha Editions, making it a must-have collector's item...

Tuned to the rhythms of the soap operas that air on Thai television each night and written with the consuming intensity of a fever dream, this novel opens an insightful and truly compelling window into the Thai heart.This is a melodrama about a ship-wrecked...

A novel about fatherhood, grief, unanswerable questions, and the small, magical moments that make up life.Keith has always striven to break rules as he navigates full-time parenting and supports the career of his successful photographer wife. Her unexpected illness and death leaves both him...

A Gripping Psychological Thriller that will keep readers Hooked.Compelling Characters and Twisting NarrativesThe novel's strength lies in its deeply flawed yet compelling characters. Carol's internal battles, . Glen's quest for redemption, and Jean the elusive Chatter create a gripping web of motives and emotions.The...

Third-generation apple farmer Will Parson must find a distributor and laborers for his harvest-and a way to placate his wife, who yearns for luxury. How can he hold on to Applewood Orchard amid the Great Depression?Eighteen acres separate Will's farm from the estate owned...

Having escaped with his family to Western Sydney in the 1970s from a military dictatorship in Uruguay, Juan is in his seventies and a widower. He misses his wife, does not know how to be alone and has become dependent on his daughters, particularly...

From the bestselling author of Worn Out Wife, Seeks New Life, comes a funny and heartwarming story about the highs and lows of parenting.Can she really have it all?Ambitious, successful, attractive, and newly married, Bella Browning is determined to Have It All. She wants...

I gaze into my fiancé's eyes as I toast to our love, relieved that tomorrow we'll be married. After we say 'I do', no one from my past will ever be able to find me.On our wedding day, I wake with a smile. Today...

A Perilous Life, this novel originally published in French in 2017, is a must-read. The award-winning author, Lociano Benjamin, paints with maestria the life journey of an unfortunate soul who left his birthplace behind to settle in New York City where he would find...

Inspired by True Events Mama didn't want me. In fact, she would've traded my soul back for someone different if God would've let her, but he didn't, so she was stuck with me.For eighteen-year-old Lacey, life at home is a rollercoaster. She doesn't think...

Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip and incident, capturing a Germany now lost to time. Gabriele Tergit's Effingers is a novel both...

A startling mystery and a longing for love link two women, a century apart, in a haunting novel about family secrets by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Lost Letters of Aisling.Jewelry designer Lindsey McKenna is thrilled to be working at an antique...

A struggling family-man's tale with satirical wit "straight out of Catch-22 and an unsung genius who might have wandered in from A Confederacy of Dunces" (Ben East, author of Sea Never Dry). On the day of his firing, Sam Bennett packs his things, smokes...

The U.S. demographics are changing. It is increasingly getting minority, in particular Latino. They are actually 53 million estimated Latinos in the U.S., making the 2nd most country in the world, only after Mexico with most Latinos. In addition the U.S. is the 5th...

When Ava was pregnant with her second son, her first son was diagnosed with autism. She still hadn't cracked the code, yet she knew dignity had to have something to do with the code. There was a time in her life when she believed...

The word atavism, coined by a botanist and popularized by a criminologist, refers to the resurfacing of a primitive evolutionary trait or urge in a modern being. This inventive collection from Lydia Millet offers overlapping tales of urges ranging from rage to jealousy to...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven, a novel about America's favorite TV family, whose perfect façade cracks, for fans of Lessons in Chemistry and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy...

"Round the Corner: Being the Life and Death of Francis Christopher Folyat, Bachelor of Divinity, and Father of a Large Family," by Gilbert Cannan, offers a compelling look into the complexities of family life in the early 20th century. This domestic fiction explores the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this inspiring novel from bestselling author Danielle Steel, the life of a Parisian woman changes in a heartbeat when she's trapped by wildfires in Napa Valley. Born to a French mother and American father, graceful Dahlia de Beaumont...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Mckenna Grace, Mason Thames, Allison Williams, and Dave Franco.From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of...

Infidelity is a very heartbreaking experience when discovered.Many find it difficult to move on with life or forgive their spouse .Infidelity is one of the most common factor of a broken home. It is difficult to overlook such occurrence but healing from it is...

Author: Christi PopeISBN-10: 1977282997ISBN-13: 9781977282996Publisher: Outskirts PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2025Pages: 326Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d

Author: Kate FrostISBN-10: 1836039026ISBN-13: 9781836039020Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2025Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.84d

Author: Lorin Lee CaryISBN-10: 1549726676ISBN-13: 9781549726675Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2017Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d

Jacquelyn Pajot is a nine-year-old American girl whose excitement over a solo visit to her grandmother in Paris is soon diminished by the discovery that the grandmother is far more devoted to dragging her to church every day than she is in showing her...

Author: Carol Ann MartinISBN-13: 9798349336676Publisher: Rowanwood ArtLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2024Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

Author: Carol Ann MartinISBN-13: 9798349330483Publisher: Rowanwood ArtLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 144Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

A woman embarks on a cross-country search for meaning that takes her exactly where she needs to be--with those she needs the most. When Charlotte "Charlie" Hasting's father dies, she knows her life will never be the same. Since her mother left after her...

Author: Calvin HillISBN-13: 9798231676804Publisher: Calvin HillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2025Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d

Peek behind the frosty curtain of Santa's Workshop in this hilarious and heartwarming collection of short stories, told through the personal diaries of Santa, Mrs. Claus, the elves, and even the reindeer. From mishaps with glitter explosions to reindeer yoga sessions gone wrong, The...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the beloved classic of girlhood with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, and a silk ribbon bookmark. "Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another." The four March girls live together, as different...

A Gripping Psychological Thriller that will keep readers Hooked.Compelling Characters and Twisting NarrativesThe novel's strength lies in its deeply flawed yet compelling characters. Carol's internal battles, . Glen's quest for redemption, and Jean the elusive Chatter create a gripping web of motives and emotions.The...

The Campbells have been part of Sullivan County for as long as anyone can remember-a family built on hard work, love, and a little bit of stubbornness. Their land holds stories of generations past, their brewery produces beer as familiar as an old friend,...