Fiction - Family Life - General

Run It OutBy: Tom DoughertyWhen John receives a diary from his mom, he's skeptical of its value at first. After all, what's a 12-year-old boy got to write about anyway? But he sticks it out. Mom says it will help; and things really haven't...

JC's imagination runs wild. His dreams take on a life of their own. Everyday tasks turn into quests with Roman soldiers and escapades with wild creatures. Where will the adventure take them today?Author: Rebecca StaabISBN-10: 168526185XISBN-13: 9781685261856Publisher: Covenant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2022Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize:...

Tail 1 follows MICE-Driver on a quest to reap the wisdom of his fellow Mousepotamians in the skill of driving to share their wisdom with the students in his driver's education class. What follows is an adventure story both refreshingly unique and entertaining. Driver...

Everybody loves Stacia. She's smart, charming, and successful in the hospitality world. She's a popular Philadelphia socialite who knows how to put together beautiful, successful charity events, and can work a room like nobody's business, making everyone feel special and valued. Years ago Stacia...

Everybody loves Stacia. She's smart, charming, and successful in the hospitality world. She's a popular Philadelphia socialite who knows how to put together beautiful, successful charity events, and can work a room like nobody's business, making everyone feel special and valued. Years ago Stacia...

This unique family saga, structured as a fictional memoir, chronicles the fascinating life experiences of Ellen Greene from childhood to her senior years. Ellen grows up in a dysfunctional environment with a mean, angry father, and a passive mother who compensates by giggling and...

Just a Mile More is yet another masterpiece from famed storyteller Inyang E. Ekwo, who has unleashed his latest thriller onto the literary terrain.This novel is a refreshing addition to the ever-expanding horizon of literature. Ekwo has carved a niche for himself with a...

A 19th-century Russian masterpiece about love, politics, family, and the tension between the new generation and the old world. Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Children is a book full to bursting with life, both comic and tragic. At the heart of this novel about love,...

Thirty years after From Rockaway ("A great first novel", Harper's Bazaar), Jill Eisenstadt returns with a darkly funny new work of fiction that exposes a city and a family at their most vulnerable. When Sue Glassman's family needs a new home, Sue relents, after...

The landmark new novel from award-winning author Claire Keegan It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order...

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...

Entangled in her life's most difficult journey, ER nurse Elizabeth Barclay is facing an unknown challenger. Baffled? Yes. Embarrassed? Absolutely!Unable to face coworkers, she seeks peace in the solace of a graveyard.Meeting a cemetery caregiver with a heart for the hurting, Elizabeth is captivated...

Julie Foley is sixteen when she and her family are evicted from their humble mountain dwelling in the Mayo town of Attymass. Their crime is rental arrears. It's 1847 and the potato famine has impoverished Ireland. Corpses of men, women and children lie strewn...

Reminiscent of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, although it's aimed at an adult readership-Kirkus ReviewsAbandoned at birth, raised by her nan, and shunned by polite society, Celia Canterberry is a force to be reckoned with. Between being on the lookout for a...

For fans of The People We Meet on Vacation and everything K-Pop comes a hilarious and thoughtful story of fame, family, and love."Hilarious and relatable." --Talia Hibbert, USA Today bestselling author for The Stand-InAriadne Hui thrives on routine. So what if everything in her...

Book 6 in the Penny series finds Ben Pollock (aka Ben Matthews) recovering from the aftermath of an eventful birthday party. Revelations about his past life come in the guise of Austin Prentice and Ben's ex-girlfriend, Mona, who is now married to Prentice. Their...

The story of Julia Cloud, family drudge, and her rejuvenation, results in an exquisite romance and a cheerful story as heart-satisfying as a fresh-blown rose. Review Selfless, caring Julia Cloud finds herself "adopted" as a guardian to her headstrong niece and nephew. It seems...

A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational...

Fans of Susan Mallery and Mary Alice Monroe will fall in love with this gorgeous, heartwarming second-chance summer romance about two childhood sweethearts from the USA Today bestselling author of The Summer House. For Sydney Flynn, Starlight Cottage is her sanctuary. And now, her...

This "winsome story with charm to burn about second acts and second chances" (Jennifer Weiner, New York Times bestselling author) from the New York Times bestselling author of Good Grief asks us how soon is too soon to fall in love again? Rudy never...

From the award-winning author of Easter Island comes a powerful, "unputdownable" (Vogue) novel of love, loss, and redemption amid the ruins of war-torn Italy. 1943: When seventeen-year-old Juliet Dufresne receives a cryptic letter from her enlisted brother and then discovers that he's been reported...

"Brenner tempers the weighty emotional aspects of the sisters' journey with the fluffy frivolity of wedding planning, a contrast that fans of Emily Giffin and Lauren Weisberger will adore. Mixing high society and high drama, this one is witty, heartfelt, and fun." - BooklistMeryl...

Twelve-year-old Roberto Morandi and his siblings work hard to keep their family afloat as their parents, Maria and Giovanni, struggle to survive financially in post-war Italy. When the financial stress threatens their parents' marriage, a family friend, Salvatore, becomes their saving grace. However, a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Danielle Steel comes an uplifting novel about an author who--to her surprise--inherits a grand estate near London. Sabrina Brooks is a wildly successful bestselling author of gripping thrillers. Unlike her fictional characters, Sabrina lives a quiet life in...

In this riveting, heartfelt debut, a young woman assumes a new name to escape her dark past and find the redemption she desperately seeks. "It's impossible not to root for this strong, willful girl as she finds her place in the world and for...

In these eight darkly comic stories, Tom Howard explores the instincts for violence and tenderness that mark his character's lives. A brother and sister wander the pier after a deadly plague destroys most of humanity. A high school bully struggles to overcome his demons....

The Pendulum Trilogy: when life gives you second chances"Emotionally complex and deeply involving, this is the story of a woman dealing with impossible challenges-and finding grace and humanity in the journey." -SUSAN WIGGS, #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorLiz Tanner has spent her life...

The Adoption: An international coming of age story in a world where borders are collapsing and Ethiopian children beg pennies from eco-tourists to use at internet caf s to FB their cousins in Las Vegas. Tracking the coming of age of brothers and sisters,...

Author's Preferred EditionFrom the best-selling author of The 13th ValleyThis is the story of two young men, one white, one black, who grew up in the 1960s, who were best friends-their high school's Salt 'n' Pepper running backs. One went to Vietnam, the other...

Waikiki Wedding (Aloha Series Book 8) Two Weddings. Two Strangers. One Romance In Hawaii for a destination wedding, bridesmaid Amy Pratt is thrilled to finally reconnect with her long lost brother. But paradise has a few surprises for the serious young woman with a...

Los Angeles Times Summer Books Preview selectionLos Angeles Magazine Now Read This: The Best of L.A.A Jane's Addiction Pick, W MagazineSouth Florida Lifestyle Summer ReadZoe Report Best Summer Beach ReadHelloGiggles Summer Guide to Truly Spectacular Reading "Famous Baby is inventive, hysterical, and touching. Karen...

Summer 1977. As the Son of Sam and a scorching heat wave plague New York City, Laila Levin, a Jewish sociologist from Long Island, meets Dr. Eduardo Quintana while giving a speech on the epidemic problem of teenage pregnancies. Laila is relationship-shy after a...

Empty-nester, Cherie Johnson, a fifty-something menopausal high school English teacher with a grown-up family and a hankering to retire from the North Carolina public school system, thinks she has it made, until a triple whammy hits her on Valentine's Day. Hope, Cherie's older and...

Every night, after the kids have gone to bed, he searches for their shoes. They might be anywhere: under the family room couch, in the middle of the kitchen floor, on the basement landing, or if it's warm enough, out on the lawn, growing...

Winner of the 15 Bytes Book Award"Richly drawn and complex, these stories challenge the intellect."--15 BYTESThe stories in The Legend's Daughter inhabit present-day Idaho where fires, streams, and landscapes ask--even demand--that individuals reconsider and reorient their lives. An award-winning playwright, David Kranes infuses this...

A KISS cover-band leader pondering a fertility-driven criminal act, a boy watching his hair-metal dad search for love on reality TV, a quiet teenage metalhead stumbling into her own voice while trailing her former roadie father--these are the characters seeking resolution, tempering expectations, and...

As they travel from cage to bars to glass, over all the fake landscapes of the zoo, Jonah wonders about his parents, what they've done and haven't, and what he has and hasn't done in return. He realizes, as he goes, the complexities of...

Can we ever truly know another person, however well-loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman's family and his closest friend possess quirky and compelling interior lives that they reveal to no one else. Nothing Can Make Me Do This, David...

Here is a collection of 10 stories by seasoned writer Robert Flanagan. The title story "Story Hour" takes you into the life of an older man seeking to reconnect with his life after his wife's passing. These are human portraits, tough and real, from...

It's the summer of 1966. Family camping is the rage. Boomer kids are everywhere. Star Trek is brand-new. Smartphones and social media haven't even been dreamt of yet. So summer crushes happen the old-fashioned way: young face to young face.While scoping out sites for...

In this poignant first novel, a woman returns to the home of her estranged, domineering father to face family secrets of the past -- and present.Author: Karen HarterISBN-10: 1931722609ISBN-13: 9781931722605Publisher: Center StreetLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2006Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.14w x 0.81dAward: Christy Awards...

Will a mother's love save her family or destroy it? Addie finds the fairy tale life she's dreamed about: loving husband, two amazing children, satisfying career. She has what every woman wants, yet something isn't right. That something starts small, but over the years...

Haughty Boys of Ngoroke Agoyi's afterschool argument with his step-mother sets off an unpredictable series of intriguing misadventures. The subsequent meandering journey is one of the choices between what is morally right and the lure of the 'attractive". Always a balancing act between what...

You'll never see a wasp in the same way again ...When Beth's marriage ends, she's determined to build a new life in the country for herself and her children. A quiet life lived closer to nature. She thinks she's achieved the impossible - a...

Jayden lives with his father on the edge of a small country town. He stutters and is addicted to video games.His best friend Shannon knows how to handle a rifle. When her mum is released from prison, the town waits to see whether her...

Pull the pin, hear the ping, silver ball bounce and ding... Abel Jackson Marvin is in a coma reliving the pinball game of his life - the bumps and ricochets of bushfire, family breakup, heroic rescues, disabling and fatal accidents, marriage, fatherhood - while...

A family saga of love and loss, war and turmoil.A world at war and the ancient land of Ireland makes a thrust for independence from the fading British Empire.Bridie struggles to find her place and break the boundaries of her class and gender.Danny is...

Five hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy vacationers, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Verica, returning after living in Mexico City, ready to understand herself and the place she came from.San Andr駸 rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia...

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and named among the 50 most notable new books from Africa, Castles from Cobwebs follows one girl's transition from youthful innocence to understanding as she navigates questions about family, identity, and race."I'd always known that I was Brown....

"Oh Romeow, Where Art Thou?" is the story of Romeow, a lovable cat who lives with his family. After a bad twist of fate, he is left behind by his family, leaving him lost and frantic. When trying to find his family a discovery...