Fiction - Family Life - General

*A COSMOPOLITAN SUMMER 2021 TOP PICK!* 'If you loved Fleabag, you'll love this' LAURA KEMP Hannah is twenty-eight when the worst happens. Her first instinct? To call her mum. The problem is, her mum having an accident, being rushed to hospital and never waking...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Ford's "Love's Sacrifice." People who read this version first will find the original play much easier to read and understand. According to Charles Lamb, "Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not...

In the latest Harlequin Medical Romance by Sue MacKay, will the nurse be able to steal the heart of a single mom by granting her wishes this new year? Swept off her feet... ...and into his arms! Single mom Claire will do anything for...

Will this vet find her new home with a gorgeous paramedic and his equally gorgeous pup? Find out in Tina Beckett's latest Harlequin Medical Romance. Is home a place... ...or a person? Vet Jessie Swinton wants one thing: to forget her ex the minute...

In this electrifying Harlequin Romance debut by Suzanne Merchant, temperatures soar under the heat of the African sun when this couple meet again, but will their sizzling chemistry be enough to make her stay? Returning home... ...to a dream come true? Stepping into the...

Escape to Iceland in Sophie Pembroke's latest Harlequin Romance novel, where Hollywood's dream couple are unexpectedly reunited and the press is watching! A second chance... In a far-flung place? Winter and Josh were the most envied celebrity couple in Hollywood. But the world didn't...

The billionaire's heart begins to melt when he gets snowed in with the beautiful Jacey. Find out what happens in this heartwarming Harlequin Romance novel by Cara Colter. A blast from the past... An unexpected future? Two years ago, billionaire Trevor lost his wife...

One night in Rome could lead to a family for Christmas...but only if Marco is brave enough to risk his heart! Find out what happens in the next installment of A Five-Star Family Reunion by Harlequin Romance's Susan Meier. Can what happened in Rome......

"Bell brings the diverse world of competitive rodeo to life with vivid details and enhances the slow burn, opposites attract romance with chemistry and banter. Readers will be captivated." Publishers Weekly, starred review.The rules of being a rodeo queen: no creases, no boyfriends, no...

The enemy of her ex is her friend...or her lover. Revenge takes a passionate turn in this next installment of Katherine Garbera's The Image Project. Her idea for revenge is foolproof. But this billionaire has a plan of his own. Why did CEO Nolan...

Keeping a low profile is tough for Texas's Sexiest Bachelor. Could a pretend relationship solve the problem? Find out in the first Devil's Bluffs novel by Stacey Kennedy! "Yeah, cowboy, we've got a deal." And a very real fake engagement! Being named Texas's Sexiest...

"This two-in-one romance starts a new series that Mallery's many fans will devour like a Christmas cookie."--Booklist Susan Mallery, author of the Fool's Gold romances, cheerfully invites you to Wishing Tree, where Christmas comes to life...The Somerville sisters believe in love, but they've lost...

"Major's charming small town is packed with salt-of-the-earth people readers will embrace, and each sister's journey is beautifully imagined. Readers will eagerly await their next visit to this idyllic community."--Publishers Weekly This Christmas the Carlyle sisters will rediscover the gift of familyFor some families,...

Discover the lasting power of love in these two reader-favorite MacGregor stories! The Winning Hand Dazzled by the Las Vegas lights and desperate to take a chance, Darcy Wallace spends her last three dollars at a hotel casino and wins the jackpot. When casino...

The King of Jordan is turning 60! How better to celebrate the occasion than with his favorite pastime--fencing--and with his favorite sparring partner, Gabriel Hamdan, who must be enticed back from America, where he lives with his wife and his daughter, Amani.Amani, a divorced...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceNamed a Michigan Notable Book for 2023Finalist for the 2022 Heartland Booksellers Award A gorgeous, unflinching love letter to Flint, Michigan, and the resilience of its people, Kelsey Ronan's Chevy in the Hole follows multiple generations of...

For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook's debut novel If We're Being Honest is the snappy, smart, heartwarming story of the Williams family, and the sweltering summer that rewrote their history. When...

A community's past sins rise to the surface in New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain's The Last House on the Street when two women, a generation apart, find themselves bound by tragedy and an unsolved, decades-old mystery. 1965 Growing up in the well-to-do...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE" "A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent...[Chilean Poet] broadens the author's...

From the author of the international bestseller The German Heiress, a gripping historical drama about a woman determined to avenge the crimes against her family, set at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair."The magnificent Anika Scott has written a lush and beautifully rendered novel that...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Lost and Found Bookshop brings readers a can't-miss tale of friendship, hardship, redemption, and love between a San Francisco baker and a barbecue master from Texas."Susan Wiggs understands the tender dramas of everyday life, of friendship...

"Frank...writes with genuine adoration for and authority on the South Carolina Lowcountry from which she sprang.... Her] stuff is never escapist fluff--it's the real deal."--Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionReturn to Tall Pines in the long-awaited sequel to Dorothea Benton Frank's beloved bestseller Plantation. Lowcountry Summer is the...

It is the first day of school for Maddox who is a fun and energetic little boy. He is excited about school but there are challenges he has to face. Young readers are welcomed to come along on this adventure geared to nurture and...

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...

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...