Fiction - Family Life - General

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...

We each have our own song - a compilation of poetry, stories, and tales - narrated by our life. Some are epic adventures, while others are marked simply by their existence. Orphaned before her second birthday, Brenda Miller is an eight-year-old, happy-go-lucky girl with...

Inspired by her own true story, author Erin Spencer explores what happens when you get everything you never knew you always wanted. I wasn't looking for love. Putting down roots in this small, southern town was the last thing on my mind. Ben changed...

The wedding of the year versus the storm of the century. Who will win?Things are finally looking up for the Benson family. After a year of tough choices and big leaps of faith, it seems like love, success, and happiness are right in their...

The Benson family needs a fresh start. Can they find peace and happiness on the beaches of Nantucket?Last summer, a storm blew the Benson family's lives to bits. It's been almost a year since that fateful day, since they learned that life at the...

Nantucket was her paradise--until reality came barging in.Mae Benson was happy--a beloved wife, beloved mother, beloved neighbor. But even she wasn't ready for the tragedy looming around the corner. The accident that claims her husband's life rocks the whole family. And it's not the...

When an editing pen has the power not only to change stories but also to change livesBook editor Emily Bryant finds herself unexpectedly in the charming town of Cascata on California's Lost Coast, holding the keys to her grandmother's rambling Victorian mansion. While sorting...

A hostile mother-daughter relationship stands at the center of this astonishing, blackly humorous novel by the acclaimed author of First Love.Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places, a twice-divorced mother...

In The Porches of 101 North Pine Street, Cody visits the home of his deceased grandparents 20 years after an eventful summer there to discover there was much more to the history of that home, the town, and the life of his childhood friend...

Margaret always dreamed the baby she gave up for adoption decades ago would one day track her down. When she receives an unexpected wedding invitation, she discovers her long-lost daughter has been fed a pack of lies about the circumstances surrounding her pregnancy. What...

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...

The year is 1799, a time when the kingdom is called Denmark-Norway and Oslo is called Christiana. Gertine's happy, well-ordered world is upended when her sister's wedding, only days away, is inexplicably called off by their mother, Mette. Inspired by a runestone she discovers...

A Good Morning America Book Club PickA captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man. Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs sink...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, VOGUE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NPR, ESQUIRE, AND KIRKUS"There's some kind of genius sorcery in this novel. It's startlingly original, hilarious and harrowing by turns, finally transcendent. Watkins writes like an avenging angel. It's thrilling...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'S CARNEGIE MEDALNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY NPR, TIME, AND THE STAR-TRIBUNE "Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows characters across generations and continents...Heart-wrenching." --Entertainment Weekly "An intimate page-turner with a deeper resonance as...

It should have been the best summer of their lives - unfortunately, life doesn't always go according to plan.Summer in the Hamptons should be filled with cocktails by the pool, bonfires on the beach, and sunset clam bakes. Instead, Nora, Megan, and Courtney are...

A tragedy on a cold Adirondack day robbed country doctor Enoch Farrell of his three oldest children. Then all his hopes rested with his son, Martin, who dreamed of becoming a doctor too. Intelligent, gifted Martin could have a brilliant future. All that stood...

This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age story.Meet Justin Cobb, "the King Kong of oral obsessives" (as his dentist dubs him) and the most appealingly bright and screwed-up fictional adolescent since...

Nasir Lassiter is a college basketball star with a promising future-until a murder rap lands him in prison with a life sentence. Without hope, Nasir shuts down. But after five years he's suddenly free and surprised to see how much the outside world has...

The instant New York Times bestseller is "a fun, delightful, un-putdownable novel" about two identical twin sisters who couldn't look more alike . . . or live more differently (PopSugar). Nantucket is only eleven miles away from Martha's Vineyard. But they may as well...

From the "inventive...entertaining and thought-provoking" (Charles Yu) New York Times-bestselling author of Underground Airlines and Golden State, this sweeping legal thriller follows a sixteen-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time--and the team of lawyers, doctors, and detectives who...

"Regret is what stands in the way of happiness," she said then turned and walked away... From award-winning USA TODAY Bestselling Author BETTE LEE CROSBY comes an early twentieth-century family saga of two Southern men who come up against one another. Both are prideful,...

Can the faith of a child inspire forgiveness in the heart of a woman seeking revenge? From award-winning USA TODAY Bestselling Author BETTE LEE CROSBY comes a heartwarming Southern family saga that redefines the meaning of family. Crime is a rarity in the small...

A woman grieving her loss. A boy running for his life. A town defending them both. THIS USA TODAY BESTSELLER is a gritty, small-town, family saga in the tradition of the finest Southern fiction. Midwest Book Review dubs it "A skillfully written tale populated...

Mommy, Who is this lady?Before you were born your mommy had a best friend that she did everything with. That best friend is now the random lady at all your family parties, buying you gifts, and making your mommy laugh really hard.She is your...