Fiction - Family Life - General

Dark Roux is the story of a family simmering on the verge of burning to ruin. The delicate nature of this sauce depicts how Cajun culture survives Americanization along parade routes and swamps in South Louisiana. The Mouton family approaches Mardi Gras 1999 expecting...

An island. An artist. A secret. In June of 1985, Caroline Painter's uncle whisks her away from her island home at Painter Place to film an art video in the harbor village of Mevagissey. But the trip to help the young artist clear her...

In his debut collection, Marston Hefner brings a unique voice and playful style to meditations on self-acceptance, the folly of youth, and how love can lead to actualization and destruction. Through moments of family intimacy, work presentations, vacations, doomed relationships, or businessmen chasing the...

He will need courage, resilience, and a bit of magic... to survive fatherhood.Artist Matthew Sugiyama finally has a location to start his search for his birth family, but no one prepared him for the turbulence of a scowling, unhappy child. Not only is the...

Second chances...and the secrets that sabotage them.At 48 years old, Margie Clifton never expected to be starting her life all over again. But when her brother gifts her a property on San Juan Island, that's exactly what she decides to do. After all, it's...

Family Matters examines the disjunct between upward-mobile successful technocrats, living in viable suburban comfort, and their nearby blue-collar counterparts, many haunted by a sense of personal insignificance as lifelong jobs are eliminated or disappear altogether. From computer-savvy Barry Byrnes, forced into early retirement, to...

50 Shades of Spay: No Litters, Baby.That's the sign in front of the Chelsea Veterinary Clinic on the lower west side of Manhattan, where I'm currently standing on what is clearly another crappy Saturday morning.I'm at a vet clinic.It's not even my dog -...

COULD A LUCKY CHARM SHE NEVER KNEW SHE NEEDED BE THE KEY TO TRUE LOVE? It's always been high school drama teacher Lisa Fleming and her Nana against the world...until the rebellious retiree reconnects with her first love online and brings Lisa across the...

Despite being young and romantically inexperienced, Sophie Woods is an old soul who believes in true love, working hard at her bar, and always trusting her instincts. And from the moment she meets Nico, she knows without a doubt that he is her one-and-only....

Book 19- CATITUDE is a family friendly coloring book full of cats, or rather, the backside of cats, by doodle artist and cat lover, Patricia Burke. An admitted servant to her cats, she created this delightful coloring book to celebrate their lovable, sometimes cuddly...

Charlie Dawson is a co-owner of a successful design-build firm in his historic hometown of Plymouth, Massachusetts. More important to him is his happy marriage to Juliette, the girl he fell in love with in tenth-grade French class ... the one he married right...

Drew Nemec may not want to be back home in the suburbs of Flint, Michigan, but home is where even the best of us wind up when we're heartbroken and drifting after graduating college. In the late 90s, a solid economy and relative peace...

How much will the McCalls be willing to sacrifice in their pursuit of big gas money-and who will lose it all when the bust comes? Lew and Johanna McCall are third-generation Oklahomans in the oil industry whose three children want nothing to do with...

Gone. . . but not forgotten?Amy loved everything about her mom: her smile, her smell, her gentle laugh. On the day her mom died, it felt as though the sun went dark. Her dad bought a house with wheels and they started moving, but...

In a world where the past refuses to stay buried, a child psychologist must confront her own dark history to save a girl who has done the unthinkable. But in the shadow of a shared trauma, can she unravel the truth without losing herself?...

2023 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Long List2023 Book of the Year, Southern Literary ReviewNamed a 2023 Great Group read, Women's National Book AssociationA South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow of a nuclear...

When fifty-something Naina Mehta's husband dies of a heart attack, she transforms herself from a suburban wife into a bold woman thirsty for new experiences. A far cry from the classic image of the aging Indian widow who dresses in subdued colors and focuses...

Zac Taylor and his crew are at the end of their last summer together before senior year of high school. Unsure of where each is headed after graduation, they know three things: time is fleeting, the pool where they all work as lifeguards is...

In the backyard of a the bride's grandparents' Southern California home, a group of family, friends and strangers come together to celebrate the wedding of two people in love, but each brings with them conflicts they can't leave behind. The bride's brother Ian brings...

Sof? is thirty-five and her husband has left her. Her father died the year before, and her mother is living in the Canary Islands with a new partner. Sof? flees the city with her young son, seeking refuge in her father's house on the...

Kin Patterson is One Sorry Individual.He sorry he is the last Patterson; sorry that at 27 years of age all he has to show for his life is failure; sorry that the best part of any day is getting plastered with the other pitiful...

Maria stood above the harbor aimlessly watching the activity on the water. Skiffs were moving back and forth preparing a merchant vessel, the Portsmouth, to sail the next day. Watching the crew and the native longshoremen lifting bale after bale of goods onto the...

Four stories twine together in this novel set in both contemporary and 1950's Maine. Kiya, a Portland hair stylist in her early 20's, becomes unexpectedly pregnant and determined to keep the baby as she struggles to recover from her brother's suicide. Peter, the baby's...

Gem is mourning her grandmother and baby boy, losing one to cancer and the baby by the hands of her abusive husband. She was raised by her grandmother when her hippie mother abandoned her; she never knew her father. Gem's only desire is to...

From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins comes a funny and surprising new novel about losing it all--and getting back more than you ever expected. Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only child left for college,...

Queen Elizabeth II was best known for two things--as the longest reigning monarch in British history and her love for corgis. Now, in this elegant gift book, we have a beautifully illustrated tribute to the final days of QEII, told from the poignant point...

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful...

She's the key witness to a drive-by shooting. But what happens when her duty to justice threatens the most important thing in her world-her family?Reagan Ramsey--mother and middle school teacher extraordinaire--knows how to hold it together in the face of adversity. In the aftermath...

Arylk, Judich Pam and Shirley were all childhood friends. They had been through a lot together, and as life takes them on a journey of ups and downs it takes them a while to get it right. Atylk especially reflects quite often on the...

Arylk, Judich Pam and Shirley were all childhood friends. They had been through a lot together, and as life takes them on a journey of ups and downs it takes them a while to get it right. Atylk especially reflects quite often on the...

Herb has a secret: he's not quite the man he once was. And when his children learn of this, they decide it is time to move him and his wife, Susan, who is slipping into early Alzheimer's herself out of their Key West home...

Life is hard, but friends make it better. Jackie Turner has never felt so invisible. As a top performer, the forty-eight-year-old is shocked when she's passed over for a promotion at work. Has she become irrelevant? It's a bitter pill, but she vows to...

For three middle-aged women in the suburbs of Cleveland, the issues seemed compelling but relatively conventional: sending a child off to college, dealing with a marriage gone stale, feeling "invisible." But changes were coming . . . and not the predictable ones. Because Margie,...

In the third volume of the Quinn family saga, Ansel Quinn is caught in an international scandal with reverberations across two world wars. In 1916, the world waits with bated breath to see if the United States will enter the Great War raging in...

A young man journeys from rural Mississippi to the battlefields of WWI to discover his family's bloody legacy in this sequel to By Accident of Birth. On May 7, 1915, the passenger ship RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat. Among the many...

From the Civil War to the Cuban independence movement to WWI, this historical epic follows the incredible life of a woman tragically bound to bloodshed. War brings about many strange events, but none stranger than the bullet that impregnated sixteen-year-old Annielise Quinn at the...

Author: Emma HarcourtISBN-10: 1489249168ISBN-13: 9781489249166Publisher: HQ FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2023Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.16w x 1.18d

"This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. You'll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page."--Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick) A lost young woman returns to...

The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie--about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself--a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence--until...

Named a Best Book of the Summer by Harper's Bazaar and ELLE - Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award Winner - HONOLULU Magazine's Book of the Year About Hawai i"Stunning . . . An intricately built novel that spans decades, moving in and out of a...

"Gripping."--Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls"Shetterly's debut achieves a subtle grace, a quality of light and shadow worthy of a Bergman film."--Allegra Goodman, New York Times Book Review"Pete and Alice in Maine is a tender, big-hearted, clear-eyed portrait of a marriage, and a family,...

"Both a heartbreaking and heart-warming story, Melody Razak's debut transports the reader into the home of a Brahmin family in 1940s Delhi. . . . The character portrayal is so intricate that as the plot twists and turns, you'll truly care what happens to...

Author: Jess WalterISBN-10: 0062868128ISBN-13: 9780062868121Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2023Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d

Louisa May Alcott's beloved children's classic, Little Women, has captured the hearts of many generations since its original publication in 1868. Join sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy as they find their feet in this charming coming-of-age story. Each of the March sisters has...

In The Prices We Pay, discover the truths of the world told through the eyes, hearts, minds, and experiences of nature and the animal world. Fly with the vulture and learn her mythology. Run with the coyote as she finds her self. Experience rebirth...

I'll bet every public librarian of my era remembers the shelf full of books in the Jalna series. (They're still available in my library system; not at my library but scattered throughout with a title here and there.) That's what made us curious to...

For readers of Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone and David Vann's Legend of a Suicide, C. B. Bernard's debut novel shows a father and a daughter fighting toward hope through a traumatic past.In the town of Disappointment, Oregon, washed-up boxer Lewis Yaw makes ends...

As Melbourne celebrates New Year 2101, trainee doorkeeper, Emma, 71, lies sleepless and alone. Her lover Cal is trapped in a prison cell for illegal importation of foodstuffs, forcing a postponement of their planned partnership ceremony.Emma suspects that Cal's sister-in-law Sonya is behind his...

As Melbourne celebrates New Year 2101, trainee doorkeeper, Emma, 71, lies sleepless and alone. Her lover Cal is trapped in a prison cell for illegal importation of foodstuffs, forcing a postponement of their planned partnership ceremony.Emma suspects that Cal's sister-in-law Sonya is behind his...

As Melbourne celebrates New Year 2101, trainee doorkeeper, Emma, 71, lies sleepless and alone. Her lover Cal is trapped in a prison cell for illegal importation of foodstuffs, forcing a postponement of their planned partnership ceremony.Emma suspects that Cal's sister-in-law Sonya is behind his...