Fiction - Family Life - General

"Unique and beautifully done...an enriching experience from beginning to end - deep, emotional, and moving." -Sacha T. Y. Fortuné, Discovery Book Review"[Nercessian] is so skilled at creating characters vulnerable and real that we can feel their pain and deeply-set regret...a truly satisfying journey" -...

Shortly after their wedding, instead of heading for Israel as their families expected, a young Orthodox Jewish couple takes on new identities. They leave a note with no forwarding address and move to a small town in the Midwest. The woman finds a job...

Everyone has a story and as I tell mine, I have hopes that my success and failures will help someone else's life. Trials and tribulations may come but you have to weather the storm. When one door closes another one opens. Author Charles Lee...

As a girl child, Ugo wonders why her life is difficult because of her gender. She is intelligent and makes the best of her situation. However, events unfold, plunging her into more trouble, making her take drastic action. Author: Awele OnwukaISBN-10: 8780137709ISBN-13: 9798780137702Publisher: Independently...

Christmas has arrived at Dragon's Gap along with the appearance of the Christmas maze. It appears Santa will not be the only one delivering gifts this year.The small pride lead by Paige and a reluctant Clint have decided they need to arrange a very...

Let the stress melt away as you lose yourself in this beautiful coloring book. Sweet animal moms snuggling with their babies--what could be more relaxing This book is filled with unique, hand-drawn images with a variety of adorable mom and baby animal pairs. Coloring...

ren-e-gade - a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.Clutch Hayes has always been a Rebel, but when an old enemy comes gunning for revenge, he'll sacrifice everything to protect the little girl who holds his heart. Including going...

Does your child love fish? Then this is the perfect gift for him or her size 8.5 x 11 in 45 pagesAuthor: Coloring Book For KidsISBN-10: 8577167453ISBN-13: 9798577167455Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2020Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.10d

The mother-daughter relationship can be complex, diverse and sometimes difficult. In perhaps no other relationship are the expectations so high and the disappointments so devastating. Are you a mother looking for ways to heal and repair the bond with your daughter? Maybe you're not...

You have not faced love if you found no adversity. In this series of works, this family will face many obstacles before realizing what is most important. Every obstacle will drive them into their God-given purpose. Only wisdom, accountability and love can drive out...

Quinnley, was raised by her abusive mother, in a home where love or any type of affirmation didn't exist. After suffering a tragic miscarriage, Quinnley leaves her childhood home and instinctively decides to never look back, leaving everything and everyone behind. Life goes on...

Two Feuding Families. A City To Control. A Dangerous Love.Bryce Misterro is the eldest of the famous Las Vegas' gangster duo.In an age of old-school mobsters, the brothers head a ruthless gang of hyper-intelligence, technology, and information, making their family millions, yet that's all...

The key to teaching children about important life lessons is relaying it in a way they can understand. This book is a take on what a child may question when introduced to the concept of "boundaries". "Cool lady" acts as your little one's source...

A blind date gone horribly wrong...or horribly right? Adam Schiffman isn't opposed to being set up on a blind date, until the woman in question turns out to be the one he isn't allowed to want. After all, he and her husband had worked...

Grief is a natural process. It may have different emotions, even strong feelings. Sometimes, we are not ready to say goodbye and we need time to process the new reality. Farewell Grandpa presents the experience and perspective of a teen girl who lost her...

Meeting someone unexpectedly can bring tremendous life changing experiences.Amruta, a divorcee, although in love with Rama, decides to adopt a child, going against the norms, traditions and giving up her dreams.Karan adopted to this family realizes the Blessings he has received to be raised...

An emotional standalone romance about finding second chances where we least expect them... Four years ago tragedy hit Helen Larson - hard. But she has her beautiful baby girl, the love and support of her family and a job she's great at as the...

The second book in the Magnolia series is entitled Humble Home: Life in a Small Texas Town. This Christian fiction novel takes the reader from one adventure to another, with surprising results. Sometimes friendships are made and strengthened in the most unlikely ways. Other...

One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists,"...

All it takes is the right book to turn a book hater into a book lover ...That was Elliott's belief and the reason why he started the Book Haters' Book Club--a newsletter of reading recommendations for the self-proclaimed nonreader.As the beloved co-owner of Over...

CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 202349th SHELF EDITORS' PICK FOR JUNE 2023When a family is forced to return to the mother's childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the violent beauty of the...

A richly rewarding novel about family bonds, the power of words, and the resilience of mothers and daughters in 1930s Appalachia.The folks in the Kentucky Appalachians are scraping by. Coal mining and hardscrabble know-how are a way of life for these isolated people. But...

A funny, warmhearted novel about falling in love, falling apart, and pulling it all together again by the bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners.After three marriages and a lot of living, resilient Billie Slate knows exactly what trouble love can bring. Now she's reinvented...

From author Annette Chavez Macias comes a heartfelt novel about a woman who embarks on an emotional journey when she meets her biological father on the day of her mother's funeral.No one expects to meet their father at their mother's funeral. But for Gabby...

"Bursting with humor, banter, and cringeworthy first dates, Sonali Dev's The Vibrant Years is a joyful and fun read, but it's also very much a timely tale about a group of underestimated women demanding respect and embracing their most authentic selves." --Mindy KalingLiving on...

A heartfelt story that spans continents and generations, about a young woman who searches for answers about a mother she barely remembers.Sophie Shah was six when she learned her mother, Nita, had died. For twenty-two years, she shouldered the burden of that loss. But...

Heartwarming, funny and bold, Natalie K Martin's Unplanned asks: what if the unplanned moments are what life's all about?Travelling the world for eleven years, Zoe and Sam have been living the dream--Sam's dream. But when Zoe discovers she is pregnant, she decides it is...

A daughter's return home opens old wounds in a novel of family, love, and emotional rescue by the author of Paper Doll Lina.After three disastrous marriages, a series of bad dates, and a tumultuous relationship with an emotionally abusive mother, psychology professor Nancy Jewel...

An inheritance that comes with a warning.Ashley Brooks's life isn't working out as planned. After years of struggling to make it in Hollywood, she's still waiting for her big break. When fate leads her to the doorstep of legendary casting director Louisa Lake George,...

In this heart-warming story from million copy bestselling author Amanda Prowse, Nora has given up on finding happiness. But has it been waiting for her all along?As Nora and her British Army officer husband, Gordy, pack up yet another home and leave the sun...

Unlikely road trip companions form an unexpected bond in an uplifting novel about the past--lost and found--by the New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author.Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care...

Sundara Ramaswamy's modern classic, translated from Tamil, is a simply stunning reflection about shared histories, loss, an affinity for nature, and a near-mythic center of life in a village in India.While it lived, the tamarind tree stood at the crossroads of a small village...

A young man seeks redemption from his past in the third novel from the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.After serving six months in a juvenile detention center, Lucas Carson returns home irrevocably changed by what...

Winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. From one of China's most celebrated authors comes a masterful novel about modernity and tradition, love and obsession, and economic change and quixotic dreams--all set against the backdrop of a rapidly urbanizing China.In post-Cultural Revolution China, in...

The forced proximity of one wild road trip brings two childhood friends back together in this delightful romantic comedy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hook, Line & Sinker and It Happened One Summer. Leaving Belmont Clarkson is the hardest thing...

Opposites attract in this steamy romantic comedy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hook, Line & Sinker. By day, Aaron Clarkson suits up, shakes hands, and acts the perfect gentleman. And at night, behind bedroom doors, the tie comes off and...

In this heartwarming summer read for fans of Susan Mallery and Mary Alice Monroe, a grieving woman returns to a childhood haunt as she searches for a new beginning and along the way finds love--and family--where she least expected it. When her gram passes...

Scarborough, 1880 Jeannie spends her days in the town's teeming fishing port, waiting for Ethan Wharton to return on his father's trawler. She had always expected to marry the loyal and dependable Ethan, but when she meets Harry, a handsome stranger from Hull, Jeannie...

A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show"If you like Practical Magic... you will love Black Candle Women." --Jenna Bush HagerNamed a Best Book of the Month by: Shondaland, MS. Magazine, TODAY.com, Reader's Digest, Katie Couric Media, AARP Sisters,...

One woman. Two childhood loves. The dazzling place where it all began. "An exciting, emotional page-turner." --KRISTIN HARMEL, New York Times bestselling authorA CBS New York Book Club Pick!When Emma Jansen discovers that the grand Long Island estate where she grew up is set...

A scammer as alluring as she is elusive irrevocably upends the lives of two strangers in this gripping novel from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People. "The genius of Zoe Whittall's writing is her clear-eyed understanding of human nature, which she...

How can a shattered ex-cop follow the rules when he's no longer sure of them?For sixteen years, Ben Shepard loyally served the Long Beach Police Department. Then he took a bullet to the head, and his life was shattered. No one expects much of...

When globe-trotting coffee buyer Amy O'Hara, assures her husband--who stays at home to watch the kids--that it is He Who Has it Harder...she doesn't really believe it. That is, until the day she gets laid off, her husband locks himself in the garage to...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another "fun, feisty" (The Washington Post) novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind. When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the...

For fans of Mary Kay Andrews and Elin Hilderbrand, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin sweeps readers to the Maine seaside in this touching story of three sisters--and one summer filled with revelations . . . When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured...

"Beautifully written. . . . I'm still thinking about the women who inhabited these pages, the choices they made, and the love between them." -Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women "I fell in love with this jewel...

Author: Marie BostwickISBN-10: 1496729994ISBN-13: 9781496729996Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2015Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d

This new 10th anniversary edition includes content that covers the story of the men of Courageous ten years later.As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, and their partners willingly stand up to the worst the world can offer. Yet at the end of...

The spellbinding RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK about a mysterious house and an old family secret . . . 'Wonderful storytelling. I loved it' Rachel Hore 'A mystery spanning generations, evocative and beautifully written' Tracy Rees 'A mesmerising debut novel, lush and gorgeous, with...

'I absolutely lovedit - what a wise, brilliant book - so well observed on families and love and the secrets we keep.' RACHAEL LUCAS, author of The State of Grace ***** 'I wish I could buy a ticket and visit Polperran . . ....