Fiction - Family Life - General

They've been trying to avoid each other.But this town has other ideas... When Berkley Carr opened The Love Shack Animal Haven, she thought she'd finally put her past behind her. But sometimes she feels the sting of the scandal from her youth, especially when...

Frightened that the grippe will steal away the life of her beloved cousin Marija, the only family she has in New York, Karolina steps out into the cold and unforgiving city streets to buy chamomile flowers, a tried-and-true remedy from her old life in...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic comes a "memorable...striking"(Village Voice) novel that vividly portrays an American family shattered by tragedy. Ivan and Polly Farrell have two bright and talented children. Eight-year-old Charlie has his father's scientific mind. Amanda,...

"Compelling. . . . What Miller offers. . . is a distinctive sensibility--a candid exploration of the frail and gritty truths about trying to love without harm or reprisal."--Boston GlobeIn this riveting collection of short stories, bestselling author Sue Miller writes compellingly about a...

Being the youngest child in a family of six, Lilly was reared alone in a small rural Mississippi community by her widowed mother, after the death of her father and the marriages of all her siblings. Having grown up without her father or any...

A whimsical and visually stunning tale celebrating human potential.Author: E. F. WintersISBN-10: 1940531012ISBN-13: 9781940531014Publisher: Kenspeckle Productions, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2014Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 8.50w x 0.09d

Mothers-in-law are famous for being difficult but when Nell marries Andy it's her father-in-law, Hal, who is the problem. A corrosive force in his own family, Hal is a truly ugly Australian who spreads his corruption whenever he gets the chance. Surviving Hal takes...

First in the USA-Today bestselling PACIFIC HORIZONS series!In these interconnected romantic novels, characters facing tragedy, heartbreak, and painful family secrets are drawn to the wild beauty of the natural world. Breaching whales and howling wolves refresh their spirits, but only human love can heal...

The life of Niels Larsen, a gifted young cellist, is unfolding as it should. He's about to complete his music studies at the University of Toronto, and is ready to commit to Aude, his long-time love and soulmate. His world is shattered when a...

She wants everyone to think she's got it together. So where did it all fall apart? Providence, RI. Amara Leventis craves validation. So when her best friend and roomie gets engaged, the twenty-five-year-old single girl fears she's losing her soulmate... and her apartment forever....

The life of Niels Larsen, a gifted young cellist, is unfolding as it should. He's about to complete his music studies at the University of Toronto, and is ready to commit to Aude, his long-time love and soulmate. His world is shattered when a...

An emotionally rich novel about family and secrets from the acclaimed author of Chance Harbor. The Bradford sisters are famous in Rockport, Massachusetts: for their beauty, their singing voices, their legendary ancestors, and their elegant mother, Sarah, who has run the historic Folly Cove...

A woman returns to her family's Hamptons beach house for a final time--and a final chance at the love she's lost before, in this contemporary retelling of Persuasion, perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Rebecca Serle. Olivia Taylor's marriage is in a death...

Your boyfriend is cheating on youYou will be passed over for the promotion5-8-12-24-39-43Your soulmate is a royal princeAnd your time is up a week from MondayWhen Lilah Goodluck saves the life of Good Witch Willow as they're crossing a busy LA street, the last...

Escape into a world of fresh starts, new friends and the opportunity for love...When Molly Wilson and her two children are forced to leave their old lives behind, will a small rundown shop in the middle of Payton-On-The-Water, a quiet village in the English...

The Rowan Tree is the second book of The Family Tree series. When 12-year-old Iris Gibson met her grandparents as a result of a 7th grade genealogy assignment, she discovered a family tree as big as a Scots pine. She also discovered the strange...

Author: Sarai JohnsonISBN-10: 0063294435ISBN-13: 9780063294431Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 400Format: Hardcover

Until We Are Stardust: A Second Chance for Love. Thirty years after leaving love behind, a chef and author decides to seek out the woman whose heart he never should have broken. Will she forgive him? Will her children accept him? Can they rekindle...

In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owner's son from Flushing, Queens, in the throes of a major quarter-life crisis. Cut out of the family business, he gets a Hail Mary job as a night doorman in a storied Park Avenue apartment...

'Angelica had always known her lack of high birth, fortune or influence debarred her from being presented as an eligible young woman worthy of marriage. To cap it all, being an actress assured she was utterly beyond the pale of respectability.'Nightly at the Covent...

Ricardo and Dorothy are a young couple who live an irresponsible life, but they are happy. Their happiness is soon shattered when little Ricky appears in their life. Little Ricky doesn't filter his comments, causing one incident after another in both families. Ricardo and...

The greatest short stories by Padraic O' Conaire. Greatly influenced by Maupassant Padraig himself has had an immense influence on all Irish writers. He was the only creative writer in Irish in his time and is considered to have been the greatest. Though his...

What if everything you knew about your life was wrong? Years ago, Juliet Clark gave up her life in California to follow the man she loved to Mexico and pursue her dream of being an artist. Now her marriage is over, and she's alone,...

Author: Joy WilliamsISBN-10: 0679726195ISBN-13: 9780679726197Publisher: Knopf Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/19/1990Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.52h x 5.54w x 0.61d

An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble "Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how...

Filled with compassion, humor, and tenacity in the face of almost insurmountable odds, here is a rich, inspiring tale of friendship and family, sisterhood and mother love . . . and of finding grace where you least expect it. Canaan Creek, South Carolina, in...

Author: Ann HazelwoodISBN-10: 1604602775ISBN-13: 9781604602777Publisher: C&T PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2015Pages: 2Format: HardcoverWeight: 6.30lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.60w x 5.00d

The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Familiaris is the stirring origin story of the Sawtelle family and the remarkable dogs that carry the Sawtelle name.It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has...

She could hear the house calling her before they even turned the corner and saw it. An old, beautiful, empty house. Little did she know that she, her husband and their dog Ralph would rent the house in just a short time. While they...

, 'Outstanding. Heartstopping. Brilliant. A story that scorches the page, searing in its honesty and profoundly moving in its emotional impact. The characters reach out to you and challenge your preconceptions in this testament to a tragic chapter of history that moved me to...

A dangerous secret. A suspicious death. A mother determined to find answers. A gripping story of a mother's courage and devotion by the number one bestselling author of The Girlfriend Michelle Francis. Getting pregnant as a teenager was never part of Kate's plan, but...

The Brand New Instalment in the Coronation Close Saga from Lizzie Lane.There's talk of war and dark clouds fester on the horizon...Bristol 1938A shadowy presence overshadows Coronation Close, watching and waiting. Jenny Crawford is the first to notice the stranger and wonders why his...

An emotional novel about a small-town Texas family, forgiveness, and coming to terms with the past by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.Angela Marie has spent all of her thirty-five years on Meadow Falls, the farm that's been in her Texas family for...

When Bob Thompson asked his granny years ago why she continued to create so many of her beautiful quilts, she said it was the only way she could reach across time, touching and giving her descendants her energy. And just like his granny, Thompson's...

These four sisters who are not close due to family issues, but soon find their way back to one another with the help of Auntie Marg but Marg is hiding a huge secret from the sisters but has been hoping and praying that one...

This is a coming of age book based off the author's childhood. The reader is taken on a journey through the imagination of a small boy, and how he learns the importance of family, and how to overcome adversity.Author: Dallin D. BirdISBN-10: 109159113XISBN-13: 9781091591134Publisher:...

Casey (KC) Howards, an All American kid from Idaho, loves playing baseball. He constantly daydreams about playing in the Big Leagues. However, KC struggles with telling the truth and his lying leads to BIG problems with his friends. His lying and love of baseball...

From the Foreword: The COODLE Society is a work of fiction, at least in part. It is another matter entirely in regard to the events described. Many actually came right from the daily headlines. These things were occurring with alarming frequency as the book...

A priest struggling with temptation moves back into his working-class childhood home in this "suspenseful, illuminating, and highly readable saga" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Let me begin today, illumined by Thy light, to destroy this part of the natural man which lives in me in...

A woman's ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secrets and self-discovery by the bestselling author of The Candid Life of Meena Dave.Raised by her mother and grandmother and tutored in the healing wonders of spices, Tulsi Gupta is expected...

Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she...

"A family secret, a DNA test, a journey as rich and colorful as the early-day circus itself. Through Cecily Larson's hidden life, Ellen Baker tenderly examines personal determination, lost love, family ties, and our innate need to discover our own truth." -- Lisa Wingate,...

Fletcher Dukes and Altovise Benson reunite after decades apart--and a mountain of secrets--in this debut exploring the repercussions of a single choice and how an enduring talisman challenges and holds a family together. On a routine trip to the Piggly Wiggly in Albany, Georgia,...

"Kilt Trip left me with an incredible book hangover and lots of internet searches for plane tickets to Scotland." --Sarah Adler, author of Mrs. Nash's Ashes Addie Macrae has always followed her wanderlust. As a travel consultant, she jet-sets around the globe, which means...

A dangerous life. A forbidden relationship. Is freedom worth the price?The first book of The Guild series is a gripping and suspenseful thriller that delves into the dark and twisted world of a teenage girl trapped in a cult. Obedience is the only currency...

Two women wrenched apart by a family member's disappearance must find a way back to each other in this haunting page-turner by the author of A Crooked Tree. Nessa Garvey's sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time,...

'A heady mix of thrills and heartbreak . . . I enjoyed it so so much' GRAHAM NORTON 'What [Macmanus has] managed to do with London, and what London means to different generations of Irish people, is terrific, and deeply moving' RODDY DOYLE I'm...

As the small town of Hideaway Bay prepares for the wedding of Alice Monroe and Colonel Jack Stirling everything that can go wrong, does.Meanwhile, Della Rossi, the owner of the Hideaway Bay Olive Oil Shop, is busy with her social club and their genealogy...

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...

"Gripping."--Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls"Shetterly's debut achieves a subtle grace, a quality of light and shadow worthy of a Bergman film."--Allegra Goodman, New York Times Book Review"Pete and Alice in Maine is a tender, big-hearted, clear-eyed portrait of a marriage, and a family,...