Fiction - Family Life - General

In this collection's richly imagined title story, our brutal and resourceful protagonist is determined to protect her family from a murderous, shark-ridden world--at any cost. Elsewhere, an old woman uncovers a sinister plot while looking after a friend's plants ("Orchids"), and a girl in...

An unforgettable novel about a Greek American family and its enigmatic patriarch from a significant new voice in contemporary literature. "Hilarious yet rich...This debut by Annie Liontas will touch you" (The New York Times). Stavros Stavros Mavrakis, Greek immigrant and proud owner of the...

Coming soon The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen will be available Oct 02, 2018.Author: Helen CullenISBN-10: 1432858394ISBN-13: 9781432858391Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2019Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.00dLarge Print

Fans of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette and and Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You will delight in Annie Hartnett's debut, Rabbit Cake, a darkly comic novel about a young girl named Elvis trying to figure out her place in a world...

In this New York Times bestselling psychological thriller, "a gripping morality tale that raises questions about race, conscience, and the responsibilities of parenthood" (People), a happily married man makes a split-second decision that sends his life into a devastating tailspin. Life can change in...

A luminous, tenderly rendered novel of a woman fighting for her family's survival in the early years of the Dust Bowl; from the acclaimed and award-winning Rae Meadows.Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in...

'Grab a box of tissues because this beautiful story will make you cry' Amazon reviewer, 5 starsWhen Rachel and Aidan fell in love, they thought it was forever.She was a brilliant, high-flying scientist. He was her loving and supportive husband.Now she's gone, and Aidan...

An intense debut novel that's "compulsively readable and stunningly written," (Jodi Picoult), Lies You Wanted to Hear is hard-hitting story about a family torn apart from the inside out, and what happens when the mistakes you make cost more than anyone would expect.Alone in...

A bright June day. A split-second distraction. A family forever changed. Life is good for Maura Corrigan. Married to her college sweetheart, Pete, raising three young kids with her parents nearby in her peaceful Chicago suburb, her world is secure. Then one day, in...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes comes a tender, riveting book of two sisters and their complicated relationship. Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who yearns for a good...

Coming soon Bringing Emma Home by Stella MacLean will be available May 8, 2018.Author: Stella MacLeanISBN-10: 1335449248ISBN-13: 9781335449245Publisher: Harlequin Special ReleasesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2018Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 6.50h x 4.20w x 1.00d

Eighteen-year-old Dakota Buchannan is determined not to be the messed-up, orphaned teenager with an over the top imagination the media describes her as. After her father's accidental death at Jennings oil refinery, she finds out that she has a much older half-brother and moves...

An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013Romain was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land rather than his family's wealth. l na flees a house of...

New from National Book Award-winner Gloria Whelan, stories that explore the unexpected and sometimes amazing ways we live together. We all have to live together, whether we do it with enthusiasm or grace, reluctance or despair. In this skillfully drawn collection, National Book award-winning...

"Tuck packs a small universe and decades of emotional history into each story."--Stephan Lee, Entertainment Weekly Lily Tuck's The House at Belle Fontaine brings together ten of the award-winning author's most exquisitely-wrought and captivating stories. These intimate tales traverse time and continents, revealing apprehensions,...

Includes reading group guide with discussion questions.Author: Marie BostwickISBN-10: 1496709233ISBN-13: 9781496709233Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2018Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family's dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he...

Winner of the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary FictionWinner of the 2023 IAN Book of the Year Awards for Outstanding Multicultural FictionWinner of the 2023 IPPY Awards Bronze Medal for Best Regional Ebook (Fiction)Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 NYC Big Book Award for...

In the previous book in the series, A DIFFERENT VIEW, Dot speculates to her friend Sally that when Oliver, in his wilder, footloose days, was out in the Mediterranean, he had an affair that turned sour on him, and that his famous round-the-world trip...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - The masterly debut novel from "an exquisitely astute writer" (The Boston Globe), about growing up in--and out of--the suffocating constraints of small-town America. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD - "Compact and beautiful . . . This...

Four modern families aboard a passenger train hurtle into the night. One hundred and seventy years earlier their forebearers make their way in a young nation built on grand promises. Each family follows their own path, only to find that their destinies are linked...

A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in a country in crisis A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction....

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

doxxing (noun): to search for and publish private information about someone on the internet, typically with malicious intent. to ruin someone's life. Clearwater is a town that has forgotten that every great teacher is first a great liar. All of that changes one day...

Is love essential to a happy marriage? Is marriage essential to a satisfying life? Night and Day, Virginia Woolf's second published novel, follows four Londoners-Katharine Hillbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney-through a period of their intertwined lives as they grapple with questions...

William Collins has achieved everything he set his mind on, not without a lot of failures and redos, but he never gave up. To the outside world it seemed as if everything he touched turned to gold. But it was because of his resistance...

A child, a dog, sleeping parents and ketchup - What could go wrong? A delightful and fanciful tale of the special friendship between a young boy and his dog, one very fine morning.Author: Eli BirnbaumISBN-10: 8849814011ISBN-13: 9798849814018Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2022Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize:...

Have you ever met someone that was different? You could not put your finger on it but something was different with bout them. They had mannerisms that set them apart. Did this person suffer ridicule because they were different? I challenge you to come...

Book #2. A fiction yet factual book series to help overcome the maze of the mind. Overtly labeled REBELLIOUS and living through the consequences because she took a stand for the truth. The past she escaped ALONE has again become her reality. SKEPTICAL because...

The silver silence out in the forest refreshes Lily's spirits after being housebound with her family for the last three weeks. Hoping for mushrooms, instead Lily finds... something else. Something unidentifiable.Something with the power to remind Lily of everything truly important in her life.A...

Turning off the winding coastal road and seeing the old farmhouse surrounded by cranberry vines ahead, Lily's breath catches in her throat. It's just how she remembers it. But pushing open the wooden front door for the first time in decades, it's clear everything...

*Margarita Saona's sparse, clinically precise yet mysterious prose casts a spell upon her readers. Nothing says post-anthropocentric like Saona's stories. Her characters, resisting gender and other labels inhabit cities that while existing in the real world, refuse to be pinned down on a map....

I WANT TO BE is an engaging and motivational book for children of all ages designed to spark career interests and confirm the belief that you can be whatever you want to be! Parents and children will fall in love with this powerful book...

Author: Allyson Johnson, Anna Jean MayhewISBN-10: 1665129883ISBN-13: 9781665129886Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/26/2019Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbs

Patrick Allen Mohn became interested in creative writing in high school in southern California, and his first college major was Creative Writing. After moving to Cerrillos, New Mexico, and thus into the Galisteo Basin, Patrick pursued his interests in writing and outdoor photography. Several...

A brilliant feat of storytelling, Red Light Run is the radiant and stunning debut from Best New American Voices writer Baird Harper.When two cars collide at an intersection in a leafy Chicago suburb, Hartley Nolan is not the person police expect to find behind...

In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock and is on the...

Author: Jean E. PendziwolISBN-10: 1432855816ISBN-13: 9781432855819Publisher: Large Print PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2018Pages: 443Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90dLarge Print

High school sweethearts Lauren and Rory are a golden couple. They marry after college just as Rory, a star hockey player, earns a spot in the NHL. Their future looks bright when Rory shocks everyone by enlisting in the U.S. Army. When he dies...

Zadie Anson and Emma Colley became best friends while navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they're happily married wives and working mothers -- Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Then the return of Nick...

'Warm, wonderful and very wet at times! I LOVED it!' FAITH HOGAN, author of The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club The start of something new... When Kate is faced with an 'empty nest' when her youngest daughter, Ella, leaves for university, she starts to wonder:...

A former prodigy who refuses to believe her best years are behind her and a young virtuoso searching for his passion both get an unlikely shot at their dreams in this sparkling debut about second chances, unexpected joys, and the miraculous power of music....

NOW A HULU STREAMING SERIES - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY - Two estranged siblings delve into their mother's hidden past--and how it all connects to her traditional Caribbean black cake--in this immersive family...

Bask in the brilliance of the "queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine) with nine captivating stories of summer on Nantucket--and days that last forever--to carry us through when those warm sandy days feel far off. Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand revisits her most treasured...

Instant New York Times Bestseller"Hilarious and big-hearted, The Nest is a stellar debut." -- People, Book of the Week"Her writing is like really good dark chocolate: sharper and more bittersweet than the cheap stuff, but also too delicious not to finish in one sitting."--...

A Children's Book Based on a True Story That Will Warm Your Heart!"Squirt" is a tiny little Yorkie with a huge and loving personality. Go along with Squirt on his journey to show how much he loves his family. This endearing book combines a...

A USA TODAY best-selling book A 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist "Fast-paced and chilling...a brilliant mystery about lies, shame, and secrets."--Apple Books If you don't confront your past...it might confront you first. Dr. Gregory Weber appears to have an enviable life....

Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal - Literary Fiction Featured on PBS NewsHour Named by Good Morning America, New York Post, and Los Angeles Daily News as one of the Best Books of Spring 2023...

She touched her lips with a light shade of light brown and dusted her eyes with light blue eye pencil barely showing. Smiling at the glass mirror, she smiled and her eyes brimmed over with tears as she remembers 25 years ago when the...

The second in the series of five books. Special Agent Robert Tristan Santiago and Robert Travis Santiago are identical twins working for the FBI. Tristan has already made the move to Richmond, VA, while Travis remains in Arizona, finishing up a case before he...