Fiction - Family Life - General

Burdened by personal tragedy and estranged from his grieving partner Fae, London-based architect Boyd Petersen has lost sight of his purpose and dreams. When an echo from his abandoned, secret past takes him back home to Australia, he is confronted by a series of...

An exciting new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers.Author: Danielle SteelISBN-10: 0593973089ISBN-13: 9780593973080Publisher: Delacorte PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2026Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.72d

A mother and daughter go on the trip of their lives, to the chagrin of the husband who considers the trip too dangerous. Mother and daughter are kidnapped in Mexico and taken awa to a remote location and kept tied and blindfolded but mother...

An unexpected letter sends a man and his wife into their pasts - and offers them both a shot at redemption After an involuntary retirement from his high-flying Hollywood career, Stafford Hopkins has retreated to a luxury estate on Maui, along with his wife...

LOVE IS ALL tells the story of Jayne Thompson-a devoted wife, mother, and part-time librarian whose life takes an unexpected turn. After receiving a shocking cancer diagnosis, Jayne makes a daring choice to keep her illness a secret and embarks on an unforgettable two-week...

A mesmerizing new novel from the author of Evening the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from...

Winner of the 2015 LOCUS AWARD for Best First Novel"...A SUPERB FANTASY NOVEL." -- The Chicago TribuneIn a beautifully written tale woven together with magic and mystery, flowers and food, Bay Singer finally discovers the secrets her mother has been hiding.Bay Singer has bigger...

READER'S CHOICE BOOK AWARD SILVER WINNER - Adult FictionLITERARY GLOBAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - Historical FictionAMERICAN WRITING AWARDS FINALIST - Fiction & Women's FictionLITERARY TITAN BOOK AWARD - Literary Fiction READERS' FAVORITE FIVE STARS AWARD - Fiction & Literary In 1951, wife and mother...

A heartwarming new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers.Author: Danielle SteelISBN-13: 9798217294046Publisher: Random House Large Print PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2026Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsLarge Print

Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize From Booker Prize finalist and "the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have" (Esquire), a "captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic" (The Baffler) novel about a man whose life veers off course due to a series of unforeseen circumstances. Teenaged István lives with...

A darkly funny, life-affirming "joy of a debut novel" (David Mitchell) that follows five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down. The women of the Valiat family are in crisis. Elizabeth, the regal matriarch,...

In this "gem of a book that sparkles with longing and hope and healing" (J.C. Cervantes, New York Times bestselling author), estranged siblings find themselves competing to inherit their father's Vietnamese sandwich franchise and unravel family mysteries. Duc Tran, the eccentric founder of the...

From the New York Times bestselling author of City on Fire, an intimate epic that plunges us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, betrayal, and redemption "Beautiful and daring." --Nathan Hill, author of Wellness...

"An absolutely fantastic debut novel."--Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called OveA deeply atmospheric debut novel about three young people testing the boundaries of intimacy that is being hailed as "the love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited."When Hugo takes a room in...

An anti-war military child who longs for freedom. A career-Army father who can't imagine being anything else. A long war bound to change them. Fourteen-year-old Annaliese Pechman has always been a military child, but no one knows how she resents the frequent relocation or...

""A gripping journey through time, Mrjoian brings readers deep into the heart of the Armenian Genocide and its ripples across generations. . . . Waterline is a must-read--intense, moving, and unforgettable."--Morgan Talty, national bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit""A...

A woman receives an unexpected gift from the man she loved and lost--a year of books, one for every month--launching a reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love again in this glimmering and heart-stopping novel. Twelve books. Twelve months. One chance to heal her...

**Shortlisted for the Not The Booker Award** At twenty-one, Tallulah Park lives alone in a grimy bedsit. There s a sink in her bedroom and a strange damp smell that means she wakes up wheezing. Then she gets the call that her father has...

Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life. Howards End is considered...

In the early 1970s, during a time when their families lived in separate cities, Cary and John kept in touch with each other through letters that were kept secret from their wives and daughters. Forty years later, those daughters, Gloria and Cathy, still the...

When college sophomore Tessa Wilde visits her Alzheimer's-stricken grandmother Esther, a shocking secret slips out, one that threatens Tessa's identity and raises old feelings of betrayal and rejection. The only way to pursue the truth, though, is to explore those unreliable memories.But can she...

From the award-winning author of Denial comes a novel about a New Age writer whose life is irrevocably changed when a devastating climate disaster forces him to confront his belief in the existence of God.What if God spoke to you? Would you hear Him?...

From award-winning author Corinne Demas comes a moving story about the sometimes volatile but ultimately unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.When Meredith flies home to New England, daughter Eloise in tow, she leaves her husband and a life back in LA. A heartbreaking loss...

No Safeguards, the first in a trilogy, follows Jay and his brother Paul from childhood to young adulthood. We witness the destructive impact of fundamentalist Christian beliefs on their mother and father, opposition to those beliefs by the boys' grandmother and each boy's very...

An irresistible modern fairy tale about a British princess who must decide between her duty to her family--or to her own heart It's New Year's Day in Tasmania and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely: she's in the second...

Margaret Oliphant's novel 'The House on the Moor' was first published in 1861. Susan and her brother Horace live a lonely life on Lanmoth Moor in Cumbria. Their mother died long ago, and their father is a bitter, controlling recluse who shows them little...

Looking for a heartwarming and engaging read? Look no further than Book #3 in the Flyover County Series!In this delightful novel, readers follow the last three months of Fred Weber's Navy career as he navigates the uncertain waters of post-military life. With no wife,...

Lisa and Matt can't believe their luck. They have a dream house and a dream marriage, and very soon they'll have a dream family too. But life is rarely that simple. When their beautiful life is rocked by tragedy, they are forced to make...

The twistiest murder mystery you are ever likely to read? A story about a family that does the unthinkable?Both? Or something else altogether?You think it will never happen to you.The doorbell. The policeman. The words that turn your world inside out: I'm afraid there's...

"How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband;...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! "A riveting exploration of midlife yearning." --PeopleThe Last Thing He Told Me meets Fleishman Is in Trouble in this page-turning story of a couple who flee winter in the Midwest for Palm Springs, where they find their relationship at a crossroads....

'One of the greatest twists I've ever read' CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD 'An addictive, immersive, incredibly poignant page-turner - I flew through it' ANDREA MARAIt's every parent's worst nightmare. But there's no waking up from this . . .On board a cruise ship in the...

"The Able McLaughlins" by Margaret Wilson offers a sweeping family saga set against the backdrop of early 20th century rural America. This meticulously prepared edition brings to life a timeless story of Scottish American heritage. Exploring themes of family life and cultural identity, this...

Win Brady and his fiance Ginger witness a violent drug bust that almost kills Win's best friend Bray. In the middle of concerns about Bray's life and the pressures of their upcoming wedding, Win and Ginger each find themselves playing major roles in the...

In a neighborhood on Chicago's outskirts, Fabio and Lucia Comingo have built a new American life--and struggle to comprehend the influences that distract and change their restless young sons. Through this masterful evocation of a time and place, Tony Romano, the acclaimed author of...

Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall's pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me. Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter,...

"Southern bestselling sensation" (Katie Couric Media) Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with a "heartfelt and dramatic" (Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author) novel about mother-daughter relationships, small-town drama, and the unexpected strength that comes from leaning on a community of women when life gets...

What if your family's future depended on a choice you never expected to make?Brendan O'Shay has built his life around certainty. As a high-performing Wall Street trader at the peak of his career during the 2008 financial crisis, he's no stranger to high-stakes decisions....

Ireland, 1920. 'Please. Don't take her from me. Have some mercy, Sister. Just a moment longer.' She clutched the bundle to her chest even tighter. But she couldn't stop them. Hearing her baby's cries echo in the hallway, she swore that one day they...

Something deadly this way comes . . . 1999, Arkansas. High school senior Raven is attending her mother's funeral when a mysterious stranger called Orion appears. He hands a feather to Raven's grandmother, then disappears. Raven discovers that Orion is the leader of a...

Allan Isaac's world teeters on the edge of chaos. Haunted by a family legacy of addiction and mental illness, he stubbornly clings to the hope of a normal life. But when his most inspired effort to attain that ideal turns sideways, Allan finds himself...

About the AuthorFrank Arjune was born in Guyana, South America on November, 1949. When was eighteen years old, his father was murdered in 1967. He became the sole breadwinner for his mother and five younger siblings. Despite the hardships, he enrolled for night classes...

We seem like perfect families. But our secrets must never come out... I trust my best friend Lydia with my life. We share everything, even the things we can't tell our husbands. So when we go on a beach holiday together, it's a dream...

## Preorder a BRAND NEW utterly heartbreaking read from Sheila Norton **You'd know if something was wrong... wouldn't you? But danger doesn't always wear a mask - it can hide in plain sight.** After a difficult break-up, my six-year-old Daisy is finally settling into...

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Recovering Maurice follows rumpled sixtyish professor Maurice, who believes he has a good life-wife, home, job-until a chance encounter with a mysterious woman reading a book about trauma. From that moment, Maurice begins to examine the trauma that has shaped his life-his brother Emil's...

Step into the luminous, aching territory of transformation in this exquisite novel about buried longings cracking through the careful surfaces of a life lived too quietly. Evelyn Winters is suspended in the aftermath of her mother's death, her marriage to Charlene Foster dissolving into...

A BRAND NEW historical read from Lindsey Hutchinson A legacy of lies, a promise of love... Orphaned at a young age, Rose Hamilton can barely remember a mother's warmth or a father's protection. Instead, she has endured the cold, loveless rule of her embittered...

A BRAND NEW historical read from Lindsey Hutchinson A legacy of lies, a promise of love... Orphaned at a young age, Rose Hamilton can barely remember a mother's warmth or a father's protection. Instead, she has endured the cold, loveless rule of her embittered...

Four houses. A dozen people. All behind one ostentatious façade.The inhabitants of Hollywood Parade range in age from an infant to a pair of nonagenarians, and from the wealthy to welfare recipients. The actions of each affect the others as they try to navigate...