Fiction - Family Life - General

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring memory, grief, and long-buried secretsRetired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea. For months he...

A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity's uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row For fifteen years, the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community.Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your life--the mundane, the trivial,...

From the author of Inheriting Edith comes a brave new novel about the intersection of art and grief after the tragic loss of her own husband in 2017.Mia used to be fun. She was the class clown; a member of the mile high club;...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned supermodel's world is torn apart in an instant, sending her on an unexpected journey of discovery in this masterful novel from Danielle Steel. Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the...

Windsor Park Boys Reminisce is a nostalgic collection of stories based on the lives of Henry and Larry as they reminisce about fun times growing up with the Windsor Park Boys during the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Get to know Henry and Larry and...

Laura Murata is a university professor in Japan. She is also a divorced mother of Maya, a seven-year-old girl. Widower Kazu Mori is a dentist. He is raising his son, Max, on his own. The two parents meet at the holiday bake sale at...

Dane Schottmer remembers his father, Branson, as hard, mean, and distant. He promised himself and his wife that he would never turn out like his old man. Still, for years, he held on to the hope for reconciliation, or at least an apology for...

Lisa's grandfather is turning 100, and her family is gathering to celebrate in a sprawling southern Californian apricot orchard. The orchard is both the heart of their family and a reminder of its past.Like many immigrants to America, Joe and his wife, Anna, fled...

The McCall family should be thrilled to be back in California, after what happened to them in Africa. Forced to flee their home in Nigeria by the violence of the Biafran Civil War, they turn up in a small town in the San Joaquin...

Elsie and Maisie live on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Regular letter writers, they tend to boast about their respective families. Over time, the gulf between fact and fiction grows immense, until a letter arrives from Chicago saying that Maisie's granddaughter is coming to...

Original short fiction by a beloved bestselling author on her best topic -- relationships. This charming novella from a masterful writerexpresses the power of family secrets. Nan Ryan lives by herself at 14 Chestnut Road. When builders arrive to fix a deserted house next...

Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of a shipping company, dreams of having a son to continue his business, despite the fact that he already has a daughter named Florence. The book begins when his son is born and Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving...

Funny how life goes along, and Bam! You are swept off your feet by a love in your life, a child born and adopted into your family, anniversaries that bring such joy, deaths of loved ones, accidents, and trauma that you never expected to...

You don't know my sister. I've been thinking about how tough she is. She's tougher than I'll ever be . . .After Theresa Cole finds out she's pregnant with a child likely to be born with a genetic abnormality, an infant she and her...

2023 Book of the Year - Fiction (Independent Publishers of New England)2023 Best in Literary Fiction (Independent Publishers of New England)2023 Finalist in Women's Fiction (National Indie Excellence Awards)2023 Reviewer's Choice Award, gold winner (Feathered Quill Books)2023 Adult Fiction/Animal theme, silver winner (Feathered Quill...

What happens when a daughter's dream and a mother's sordid past collide?New York, 1910. Seventeen-year-old Sylvie and her French-immigrant mother Justine eke out a living doing piecework in a tenement on the Lower East Side, while Sylvie attends school so that she can escape...

In 1970s New York, her innocence is seductive. Four decades later, it's a crime. Living peacefully in Vermont, Ryan Flannigan is shocked when a text from her oldest friend alerts her to a devastating news item. A controversial photo of her as a pre-teen...

After a long run of misfortune, betrayal, and broken hearts, the Livingston family and their soul food empire are thriving. Toussaint is the Food Network darling, Malcolm's BBQ Soul Smoker is the toast of QVC, and Bianca's brainchild, TOSTS--Taste of Soul Tapas Style--is a...

A novel of love, family, and a fight for freedom in Iran featuring a "formidable and hard-to-forget heroine" (Publishers Weekly). In the early 1920s, in the remote Persian village of Ghamsar, two young people dreaming of a better life fall in love and marry....

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee comes the story of two wine enthusiasts who ride the ups and downs of love in the vineyards of Tuscany.Tasting wine is not enough: sommelier Giovanni D'Angelo wants to create it. To put...

A spellbinding novel about an unspeakable secret that could destroy a family, from the New York Times bestselling author of Finding Emma.Elle is a survivor. She's managed to piece together a solid life from a childhood of broken memories and fairy tales her mom...

A young woman travels around the globe in search of answers about her sister's mysterious death in this "tender and intricate meditation on sisterhood and family...an accomplished debut" (Lisa Unger, author of Beautiful Lies). People go traveling for two reasons: because they are searching...

Author: Amy E. ReichertISBN-10: 1410499383ISBN-13: 9781410499387Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2017Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.00dLarge Print

The internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Forty Rooms, which outshines even that prizewinning novel. Totally original in conception and magnificently executed, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and ultimately emotionally devastating. Olga Grushin is dealing...

Family history will never be the same ... Novice genealogist Julie Fincher is learning as she goes. A generous inheritance from Aunt Edwina allows her to open the Greymore Genealogy Research Site, a resource center welcoming everyone interested in family history. This innocent, charitable...

"In a few short pages," writes Francine Prose in her Introduction, "May Sinclair succeeds in rendering the oppressive weight and strength of the chains of family love." Young Harriett Frean is taught that "behaving beautifully" is paramount, and she becomes a self-sacrificing woman whose...

The author of Rain and The Keepsake, Kirsty Gunn has received international acclaim and established herself as a uniquely powerful and significant young voice - a young master, in the words of the Los Angeles Times. Now Gunn gives us a collection of short...

AN NPR AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive...

Manitoba - Immigation"The Secret Journals of Nell Clarke" is a book about love, pain, and memory. Nell's journal paints a portrait of a marriage against the backdrop of the history of farm life on the Canadian prairie.Nell describes an epic journey that moves from...

"Bestor-Siegal switches perspective among a group of characters with tenderness and intimacy. . . . The writing is smooth as honey. . . It's utterly absorbing." -- NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"Thrilling and deeply moving, gorgeously written and intricately plotted . . . bold...

An aspiring feminist and underappreciated housewife embarks on an odyssey to find human decency and goodness--and her high school English teacher--in New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quick's offbeat masterpiece, a quirky ode to love, fate, and hair metal.Portia Kane is having a meltdown....

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning...

A warmhearted story of a family seeking direction, Crumbs from Heaven follows the reminiscing of J.D. Harrison and his family when they visit his childhood home in a small southern town. Humor fills every moment of Crumbs from Heaven as J.D.'s family remember shared...

A successful author. Her lifelong friends. A luxurious birthday weekend at a posh resort. The perfect setting to make memories they can cherish forever. At least, that was the plan. But all is not right with Molly, a terminally ill woman in a less-than-fulfilling...

Seven years ago, she lost her husband. Three years ago, her daughter was taken from her. Today, she's taking back her life.Being taken in by the O'Connells would be a bit overwhelming for some. But for Reine Colbert, the feeling of being on the...

A Guardian Best Book of 2022 * "Clever and surprising." --BuzzFeed * "Brilliantly funny." --San Francisco Chronicle * "Ingenious."--The Millions * "Powerful." --Harper's Bazaar A captivating debut novel about a classics professor immersed in research for a new book on a prophecy in the...

We encounter many coincidences as we travel through life. But are they just random happenings without any causal connection? Might they be destined to happen, or possibly organized and executed without your knowledge? These heartwarming short stories open our mind to how coincidences can...

When approaching Mounts Bay from the east the first thing you will see is the amazing spectacle of St Michael's Mount. It is cut off from the mainland by the tide and can be crossed on foot at low tide via a cobbled causeway....

HAPPILY NEVER AFTERRiley was NOT a fairy-tale princess. She was too bold, too smart, and far too mouthy. The whole town of Ashvale Plains hated her. The only exception was Clark - the tall, quiet loner. He was especially kind to Riley. And he...

First mother, teenage Claire Jordan, enters college in 1965. Intending to be Nebraska's Ideal Coed, she discovers she's pregnant just weeks into her freshman year. Expelled from school and disowned by her family, Claire turns to Child Horizons adoption agency. They'll help her and...

An anthology of gospel messages outlines in honor Joyce Ann Ritch's journey from birth into poverty and neglect, abandonment as a child, and betrayal as an adult to a Christian role model, spouse and homemaker without equal, prayer partner, best friend, supermom, and teacher...

Author: Mary Alice MonroeISBN-10: 1668012162ISBN-13: 9781668012161Publisher: Pocket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2023Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 7.54h x 4.31w x 0.95d

On a frigid night in Toronto, Dara Walsh's life changes in an instant. A devastating accident takes the life of his beloved Elle and his father. After a lifetime of spinning the globe on his father's desktop, a grief-stricken Dara sets out on a...

On a frigid night in Toronto, Dara Walsh's life changes in an instant. A devastating accident takes the life of his beloved Elle and his father. After a lifetime of spinning the globe on his father's desktop, a grief-stricken Dara sets out on a...

Lyndenn Behm draws on personal experience to tell stories set in the world of Prairie farms, small towns and First Nations. Some of the tales are pure in their sincerity; others are comical and may seem far fetched, but people who have lived in...

Back-in-print, a novel about a woman who has difficulty facing up to reality. How well do you know your neighbors? How well do you know yourself? Caroline, thrown back on her own resources when she loses her job, focuses her attention on the street...

A piercingly original debut about the limits of forgiveness, from an award-winning Scottish poet * A Scotsman 'Best Book of 2023' * From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgiveness How far would you go to overcome the limits...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood"A love letter to the power of music, this thoughtful, humorous exploration of what constitutes living versus mere survival sees Chen (Light Years from Home) at the top of his game." --Publishers Weekly starred...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood"A love letter to the power of music, this thoughtful, humorous exploration of what constitutes living versus mere survival sees Chen (Light Years from Home) at the top of his game." --Publishers Weekly starred...