Fiction - Family Life - General

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Life under Brazil's brutal "cordial racism" comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons.How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for himself in the objects his father left behind: the layers that make up...

Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize"This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear the attention away. Energy and inventiveness distinguish every...

Josephine Daudry: the story of a woman who has had a somewhat rough start in life...not unlike many of us. She wants to be special - she daydreams of being a super person... 'Lacey MacClean'. This is the story of how she finds her...

Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer's Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster, is returning home at last, ready to reckon with her violent past.As a rebellious...

Four friends, one big secret... and the journey of a lifetime.It's nineteen years since they stopped speaking to each other, but now Morgan needs to contact her three best friends from school: Paige, Emily and Tiff.Her teenage son wants to meet his dad and...

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve.Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life...

Welcome to England's beautiful Lake District, where a reluctant reunion forges a new bond between a daughter and her wayward mother . . . Abby Rhodes is just starting to get her life on track. After her fiancé's unexpected death, she returned with her...

Author: Suzanne BerneISBN-10: 1476794278ISBN-13: 9781476794273Publisher: S&s/ Marysue Rucci BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2024Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.68d

From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unexpected rewards that come from life's detours. Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful...

Eve is a frustrated sixteen-year-old who uncovers a dark family secret. Muriel is trapped in managed care by the son who stole her fortune. Taking advantage of a twisted moment, this unlikely pair embark on a murky mission to rectify their wrongs. Together they...

It is 1999, the year of the Millennium. Meet six unforgettable characters in this gripping, emotional novel and immerse yourself in their struggles, dilemmas, and dreams.How will sheltered young wife Louisa cope with her alcoholic husband while raising their rambunctious twins? Can aging rocker...

Poppy Banks would rather be writing mysteries than writing listicles for her dead-end job at Thought Buzz. But after a series of rejections, she's ready to accept life on the sidelines as a plus-size woman. Her aunt Margot is the one person unwilling to...

In the heady days before a New Year's Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil's Copacabana Beach, a family reckons with a matriarch's long-awaited return, causing old secrets to come to light in this infectiously vibrant debut that explores the heartbreak and hope...

A heartwarming novel about a loving dad who drags his eleven-year-old daughter to "father-daughter week" at a remote summer camp--their last chance to bond before he loses her to teenage girlhood entirely. After his daughter, Avery, was born, John gave it all up--hobbies, friends,...

Habits of the Heart is a moral adventure based on a real family's saga. A story within a story, it opens in the chaotic days of 1967 when Jim, a sophomore in college confused by the times, finds a respite from the storm at...

What happens when a person who is supposed to guide you is lost herself? Would you continue to forgive someone you loved when they persisted to hurt you repeatedly through the years? Darrius McMillian loves his mother, Adrienne, but after years of hoping she...

From a village in Nova Scotia to the trenches of France, P. S. Duffy's astonishing debut showcases a rare talent emerging in midlife. When his beloved brother-in-law goes missing at the front in 1916, Angus defies his pacifist upbringing to join the war and...

Months after a tragic accident, Ella O'Hanlon flees to London in an attempt to escape her grief, leaving behind the two people she blames for her loss: Aidan, the love of her life, and Jess, her spoiled half-sister. Taken in by her beloved uncle...

Bright, witty, and covered in homemade play-dough, Jennifer Bradley has traded her fabulous job at a New York auction house for the life of a stay-at-home mom. No one said it would be easy. Between the alpha moms all around her and a backstabbing...

October Rain by J.W. Dunn is a historical novel relating the story of Thurston Knox and his family as they struggle to survive and prosper on his eighty-acre farm in North Louisiana in 1906. Beset by weather, a son's rebellion, sickness, and death of...

The tenth child of a fantasist mother and an absent millionaire, Matty Crickholme is growinginto a sexually bewildered, neurotic young man. Through the collected paraphernalia of anunconventional childhood, Alex Kovacs creates a quirky, kaleidoscopic rumination on family andhow it shapes us--for better or worse.Sexology...

Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when...

From New York Times bestselling author Laurie Frankel...Not all adoption stories are filled with pain and regret. A propulsive, sharply funny and strikingly tender novel. India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards (which, torn into...

The Past is a novel written by Ellen Glasgow. The story revolves around the lives of two sisters, Laura and Lavinia, who live in Virginia during the early 20th century. Laura is a successful writer who has moved to New York City, while Lavinia...

Pete is content in his simple life in a remote Montana town, but elderly widow Wilma is busy meddling in Pete's life to make up for past wrongs. When the sister Pete was separated from as a child shows up, Pete must confront a...

"I have no doubt that it will stand the test of time and become a classic in its own right." -Behind the BookshelfIt's Christmas Eve in western Kansas and a snowstorm is gaining strength as Bear Bailey, a devoted Great Pyrenees, tries to comfort...

Their love will ignite a war in this Romeo and Juliet retelling from gripping New York Times bestselling author Chantal Fernando. Romeo I was born to rule the Devils MC. Every decision, every move I made was to further that goal--until I met Julianna....

Author: Lola Akinmade AkerstromISBN-10: 8885795420ISBN-13: 9798885795425Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2024Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20dLarge Print

A Real Simple Must-Read Book of Summer 2023 "Mai Nguyen has proven herself to be a real standout." --Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will do whatever it...

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literatureOver the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and...

A debut novel sparkling with wit and insight about a young woman whose reluctant return to her Jersey Shore hometown gives her the second chance she didn't know she needed. Caroline Kline isn't ready to strike out. In New York City, newly single Caroline...

"Beautifully written and vividly drawn . . . [a] dazzling and sexy, dangerous and inspiring journey through the speakeasies of the jazz age to the glamour and darkness of Hollywood." --Jillian Cantor, USA Today bestselling author of Beautiful Little Fools The discovery of a...

Julie Mercer donated her eggs to help her brother and sister-in-law conceive via in-vitro fertilization, never expecting a few years later, she would have to take full responsibility for those children after they lose their parents in a car accident. Julie never wanted kids...

In this engrossing novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a top Hollywood executive seeks a new beginning when his career takes an unplanned turn.As the head of a prestigious movie studio for nearly two decades, Andy Westfield has had every conceivable...

"Well-written tension and forbidden longing. The angst in this was incredible! Loved every second!" --Penelope Douglas, New York Times bestselling author of Credence When I was five years old, I told Toren Grace we were going to get married someday. He'd been my closest...

Natalie Hope takes over the reins of the Sugar and Spice bakery and café with the intention of injecting some Christmas spirit. Something her regulars badly need.Newly dumped Rebecca is stuck in a job with no prospects, has lost her home and is struggling...

The Birthday Picture and Other Stories is a collection of genre-bending short fiction written by Alaskan author Caitlin M.S. BuxbaumA publication of Red Sweater PressThese stories are the results of an imagination at work over a span of 10 years, from 2010 to 2020....

Do you love to talk as much as Karsyn? In this story you'll meet a fun, energetic, spunky five year old who loves to talk. Girls and boys will be drawn to the illustrations and the fun repetitive words throughout the story. This fun...

Jeff Lockler is a happily married banker, with an incredibly bright sound future. When one night tragedy strikes and Jeff's future, faith and life is put to an incredible test. Almost giving up something amazing happens and Jeff is tested with something he will...

Hermann Stehr (1864-1940) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller aus der Grafschaft Glatz. Das Erscheinen seines Bestsellers "Der Heiligenhof" 1918 befreite ihn aus seinen finanziellen N ten, und er stieg zu einem gefeierten Dichter auf. Aus dem Buch: "Das westf lische M nsterland wirft gegen den...

"Maybe we live our lives constantly becoming and rebecoming. Maybe we're always in the process of metamorphosing into something new."In her journal, writer Piper George notes the change of seasons. Each entry marks the passage of time since she became a teen mother and...

A New York Times BestsellerA #1 Indie Next PickA National Book Award-winning AuthorRunning into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything -- until it wasn�t. For August...

FREEDOM WORTH FIGHTING FOR. LOVE WORTH WAITING FOR Escape this summer with the unforgettable wartime love story and Richard & Judy Bookclub pick 'The French House is a beautifully wrought exploration of love of all kinds. It's utterly gorgeous, convincingly written and completely captivating....

No one has ever felt sorry for Genevieve Beaumont. After all, she has everything money can buy. That is, until she discovers her fiancé has been two-timing her and she's left with two choices: marry the philanderer to please her controlling father or be...

JohannaJo Mueller quits her awful job to accompany her grandmother to Ireland to visit her lifelong friend. Although money is tight, her grandmother's friend comes up with a solution: work as a paid companion for her grandson, Ian while she's in Ireland. Jo's remit:...

Step into the groundbreaking drama of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in this beautifully designed edition. This play follows the story of Nora, a woman who must confront the societal expectations placed upon her as a wife and mother. With a new introduction and...

Can the entire course of a life be traced back to a single moment?On a coveted two-week beach vacation, working mom Kate Baker's nine-year-old daughter, Olivia, vanishes suddenly among the waves--a heart-dropping incident that threatens to uproot her entire reality. But in the next...

Perfect for fans of Mary Kay Andrews, Susan Mallery and Brenda Novak, The Seaside Sisters will delight and charm you as easily as an ocean breeze. One summer can change everything. Brooklyn-based Hannah is a bestselling author struggling to write her second book after...

She believed those on the other side were able to contact the living. The man she cared about deeply did not. Kate has had many experiences in her life that caused her to know loved ones can reach out to us from the afterlife....