Fiction - Family Life - General

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...

Unfazed by chaos and bad luck, Melvin Scott knows, Some things a man must do himself. No matter how dumb that man is. His wife disagrees. In debt over his head, he learns that a penny will grow to over $10,000,000 in thirty days...

Nebraska, 1885. The McIntosh family is struggling to make ends meet at their farm on the Great Plains of Nebraska.Slavery has ended and the country is in turmoil. Their family roots grow deep, focusing on the family patterns passed down to each generation. Each...

Nebraska, 1885. The McIntosh family is struggling to make ends meet at their farm on the Great Plains of Nebraska.Slavery has ended and the country is in turmoil. Their family roots grow deep, focusing on the family patterns passed down to each generation. Each...

Nebraska, 1885. The McIntosh family is struggling to make ends meet at their farm on the Great Plains of Nebraska.Slavery has ended and the country is in turmoil. Their family roots grow deep, focusing on the family patterns passed down to each generation. Each...

Nebraska, 1885. The McIntosh family is struggling to make ends meet at their farm on the Great Plains of Nebraska.Slavery has ended and the country is in turmoil. Their family roots grow deep, focusing on the family patterns passed down to each generation. Each...

Nebraska, 1885. The McIntosh family is struggling to make ends meet at their farm on the Great Plains of Nebraska.Slavery has ended and the country is in turmoil. Their family roots grow deep, focusing on the family patterns passed down to each generation. Each...

A new love story from the best-selling author of AFTER. Packed with Anna Todd's trademark tension, THE FALLING is page-turning slow-burn romance at its best. Twenty-year-old Karina is proud of the independent life she has created for herself in Fort Benning, Georgia. And like...

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize Selected as One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2022! In this New York Times bestseller and Today...

I thought I knew my husband. I was wrong... I have the perfect life: a loving marriage, and an adorable little daughter, Mia, who is always full of smiles. But when my husband Keith is hit by a car, my whole world is turned...

Liverpool, 1911. The life of young Cari Maddox is already complicated enough. Holding together her fractious Welsh family...her suffragette's struggle for women's rights...her guilty secrets. And that's before the arrival of her deranged 'cousin', Tom Priddy. Then the plight of African Kru seaman, Amos...

I love my family. But can I trust them?Walking down an airport corridor I see her. My mother's sister. There is no mistaking we're related; we have the same long, black hair and brown eyes. But my aunt is the one person in the...

Two mothers at war with the elements. And each other...]'Poetry in prose. Astutely observed' Fiona Erskine]]Rachel, a trainee vicar struggling to bond with her flock in the coastal town of Holthorpe, learns the terrifying power of the North Sea when her six-year-old daughter goes...

A newly married young couple decides to take a Detour in life, from fast-paced Chicago to a small town in central South Dakota. On a year-long journey, with a cast of unique characters, they come to discover one of the basic tenets of living:...

A heartfelt novel about self-discovery, grief, and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to start over.Rose Zadeh pleases everyone, except herself. Memories of her late Iranian-immigrant father, who valued hard work and family, keep Rose in a dead-end job as a Silicon Valley copywriter, and tethered to...

A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls.Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer's affinity for books extends beyond the...

From the internationally bestselling author who combines the warmth of Maeve Binchy with the emotion of Kristin Hannah comes a heartwarming novel about a mother and her daughter caught in an intricate web of secrets. When Briony McAllister takes a trip to visit her...

A feel-good story about new beginnings, letting go, and the adventure of a lifetime for one unforgettable dog and his human... When her cuddly canine companion Boomer is diagnosed with a rare heart condition, Jennifer Westbrook decides to take a leave of absence from...

THE HEART OF A WINNER Confined to a wheelchair after a devastating injury, former NFL star Jake Masters has exiled himself behind the imposing gates of his lavish home. But his twin sister, Beth, has no intention of letting him languish there forever. After...

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unrealized dreams, the enduring bonds of female friendship, and love's capacity to surprise us at any age. In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without interruption, an actor in...

Kasey Phillips thought her biggest problem was deciding whether to photograph Cody Tuggle's honky-tonkin' tour, until an accident on Route 58 claims the life of her husband. Hurricane Ernesto threatens the region. In a desperate race against time they search for Kasey's three-year-old son...

"Dazzling...as funny as it is poignant, nostalgic as it is sharp." --Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After A book editor spends one last summer on Fire Island in this sparkling and surprising new novel from the author of A...

Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. Jones Award for FictionA Best Book of the Year: BookPageA Must-Read: The New York Post and The Christian Science Monitor"A story of love, loss, and the enduring power of hope. I was transfixed from page...

David Elginbrod is a novel giving a vivid depiction of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen. The chief characters are upright and righteous, a dignified and pious Scottish peasant, and his daughter. The novel interweaves the story with a strand of mysticism...

Anna MacRae is only five years old when her mother dies in childbirth in 1940. She is left with twin sisters and a father fighting somewhere in Europe. Over the years, her twin sisters become bullies and turn to stealing, then worse. Anna must...

May, 1831, and on a tiny island off the Isle of Man a lighthouse provides a harsh living for an unusual family. Lucy and Diya, husbandless and with three children between them, watch over the ancient light on Ellan Bride. Meanwhile the Scottish engineer,...

Ireland, 1971, John Egan is a misfit, 'a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant who insists on the ridiculous truth'. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records and faith in his ability...

My family keep telling me I'm safe. But why don't I believe them?I stand at the very edge of the cliff face, looking at the roaring ocean below my feet. I'm in no danger, in fact my husband and his sister talk just feet...

Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Barbara Delinsky and Nancy Thayer, The Godmothers is a heart-warming exploration of family, friendship and female bonds.In order to find out who her father is, Eliza has to discover who her mother truly was . . .As the...

A page-turning novel of suspense about the perfect family, and the perfect lies, by the bestselling author of When I'm Gone and The Waiting Room.Adopted by her controlling foster mother at the age of eight, twenty-year-old Tara has seen little of the outside world....

This fun and humorous children's book follows the life of a father who is always on his phone. All the little boy wants is for his dad to be happy and spend more quality time with him. Learn how he helps to teach his...

This book is about my personal life and trying to help my fellow friends who have the same sickness, as I do. I hope and pray you all will get well, and I'm doing the same thing as well. I know its tough dealing...

Doctor Thorne begins to establish a medical practice, while Henry seduces Mary Scatcherd, the sister of stonemason Roger Scatcherd. When Scatcherd finds out that Mary has become pregnant, he seeks out Henry and, in the ensuing fight, kills him.Anthony Trollope was one of the...

Goodin beautifully poses the notion that maybe life isn't defined as fact or fiction, perhaps it can include truth, lies, and everything in between.Meg is growing up in a lovely world of food-filled fantasy; where her first tooth was so sharp her mother used...

'Sometimes I think that if I'd found a way to talk, we'd be together now...' When Helen finds a bundle of unsent love letters, tied with a red ribbon, and signed only 'the love you wished I could be', she wonders who they could...

"It's a wonderfully emotional, heart-warming journey of what it really means to be a parent" --The Los Angeles Times In this magical, bewitching debut, Molly and Gene Myers' marriage is on the brink of collapse. Then a child arrives, with a remarkable appearance. Will...

Harry's world is changing. He's sixteen with a job and a bank account, which is just as well as he needs the dosh to buy more Thomas the Tank Engine DVDs and kit kats. But how will Harry cope with the daunting prospect of...

Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe's new novel brings readers to 1960s Montreal & features a nosy would-be child detective searching for the truth about her mother. It's 1967 in Montreal, the Expo is in full swing, and Audrey Parker has just moved with...

She lives outside the village, in the woods, near the river, with her sister. Or her mother. She doesn't really know. Her life is simple, but nothing ever stays the same. Her body is changing; life around her is changing, too. And there aren't...

Gathering the best twenty stories from Cynthia Flood's career, these spare, stylistically inventive stories explore subjects ranging from the domestic to the political.In this collection, Flood navigates a wide range of subject matter with a writing style which gradually becomes more intense, tighter, and...

The Little Lady of the Big House By Jack LondonAuthor: Jack LondonISBN-10: 1978273177ISBN-13: 9781978273177Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2017Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.26d

Lying in bed, I put in a request for sweet dreams for my girls, adding a mention of one for me.Who'd of thought I would receive such a gift.The dream was simple and easy, much to do with one country selling what they had...

Lying in bed, I put in a request for sweet dreams for my girls, adding a mention of one for me.Who'd of thought I would receive such a gift.The dream was simple and easy, much to do with one country selling what they had...

This is the continuing saga of the trials and tribulations of the Shearer family of Appleton. William Shearer, the family patriarch, died a wealthy man. He left his fortune chiefly to his family; generally a benevolent gift, but a disaster for the Shearers. The...

When big city cousin Parsifal comes to endure his summer vacation with his hick country cousins there could develop a dislike similar to the Hatfield's and McCoy's. But Love uses the usual hit-and-run tactics and Parsifal tumbles head over heels in love with the...

I may only be in fourth grade, but I know more than most adults. I take notes every day and read all kinds of books, so I have a solid grasp on the world around me. But suddenly, there are penguins in my town!...

Mark Stone, a middle-aged man who runs a small business, and his second wife, Kathy, enjoyed a simple, quiet life raising chickens at their new home in rural Ohio. But the peace and tranquility of their new life is disrupted when Kathy-a Biology professor-shows...

It's okay for men to make bad art. There's no price on their head for doing it ... Nothing for men is pre-determined, except their chance at great success. Los Angeles, 1978. When Romy, a gifted young artist in the male-dominated art scene of...

A modern-day Wuthering Heights from the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. Two families, one devastating secret, and an epic story of forbidden love. Eight years have passed since Stella last saw Ivo, but when he returns, the reunion of their unconventional family...

"Raphaela Edelbauer's impressive debut novel is a subtle allegory of historical memory and collective guilt, combining a dreamy, gothic strangeness ..."--The Guardian "A village that officially does not exist and that seems to be disappearing more and more ... Anyone who embarks on this...