Fiction - Family Life - General

It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant...

An ambitious podcaster and her reclusive interviewee embark on a life-altering journey to uncover long-lost truths in this immersive story about love, travel, and family secrets.Forty years ago, aspiring writer Ann Fawkes left the United States for a Mediterranean adventure that opened her heart...

From the Man Asian Literary Prize-longlisted author, the story of a middle-aged man in contemporary India discovering that neither his life nor his country are as stable as he thought. Alif is a middle-aged, mild-mannered history teacher, living in contemporary Delhi, at a time...

This Christmas, Hope Jensen has a goal to place 1,001 jars of spare change with families in need. Her Christmas Jars ministry--headquartered in the famous Chuck's Chicken 'n' Biscuits diner--is the same place Hope was discovered as a newborn and the same place she...

It is 1990 and, while the country stands on the brink of war with Iraq, Kirby Russo is finally at peace with the world. At seventeen years old, he's figured out some important lessons: how to stay out of trouble with the authorities; how...

A dazzling collection of fifteen short stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. Margaret Atwood has established herself as a beloved cultural icon and one of the most visionary and canonical authors of her generation....

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them Mariel Prager needs a...

"So funny, smart, sophisticated, and captivating, you just want to spend your whole life with it."--Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians In this modern reimagining of Jane Austen's Emma, Delhi's polite society is often anything but polite. Beautiful, clever, and more than a...

Set amidst the tatters of post-Katrina Gulf Coast Mississippi, Waveland is a brilliantly observed portrait of our times from one of the most incisive novelists at work today. Partially retired architect Vaughn Williams does what he can to remain "viable." Battling the doldrums of...

Before Downton Abbey, there was Abingdon Pryory, the elegant country home of the Grevilles--a titled English family who, along with their servants, see their world turned upside down when England goes to war. Once their well-kept lawns and whirling social seasons give way to...

Don't miss this utterly gripping and emotional thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Lewis!Secrets lie at the heart of every family...When the unthinkable happens...Hanna's world is crumbling.An unimaginable crime has been committed, and everyone's looking for someone to blame. Her loved ones are...

The "sweeping" (Parade) and "superb" (People) Fairmile series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in 17th-century England. It is 1685, England...

"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...

Author: Michelle MajorISBN-10: 8885782485ISBN-13: 9798885782487Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2022Pages: 699Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 1.02dLarge Print

A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town. Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four...

At their milestone high school reunion, a group of friends make a pact to finally achieve their high school superlatives one way or another, in the lively new novel from the acclaimed author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel. In 1997, grunge is...

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...

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...

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...

In this thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a small community is tested when their children go missing while exploring a dangerous local peak, forcing them to band together during the crisis.Fishtail, Montana, is home to Anne and Pitt...

It's summer on Nantucket -- and Alana Copperfield is in for the shock of a lifetime.Twenty-seven years ago, Alana Copperfield was the beauty queen of Nantucket High and girlfriend of Jeremy Farley, the handsome and successful football quarterback. Back then, Jeremy's football scholarship to...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Ford's THE LADY'S TRIAL. People who read this retelling first will find the original play much easier to read. This book has a happy ending.Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give...

A reluctant Filipino migrant takes a savage journey of life in Australia, working two jobs and surviving on a diet of weed, booze and little else Tony is one of millions of Filipinos scattered across the globe, working to send money back to his...

A best friend could be her best chance at love. For as long as she can remember, Hayley Donovan has had a crush on Jace Hammond, and she always hoped that maybe one day, he'd feel the same. She never said anything until one...

Named a Best Book of 2022 So Far by The New Yorker! "Cultural clashes, political satire, Oedipal conflicts, elegant prose--they're all here in this romp of a book." --Oprah Daily A Phenomenal Book Club Pick and a New York Times Book Review Group Text...

Amy Poeppel brings her signature "big-hearted, charming" (The Washington Post) style to this wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between. In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby--belonging...

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this "marvelous debut" (Alice McDermott, National Book Award-winning author of The Ninth Hour) follows a Washington, DC, artist as she faces her past and the secrets held in the waters of Florida's lush swamps and wetlands. Loni...

A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother's secret life in an emotional and immersive novel by Zhang Ling, the bestselling author of A Single Swallow.There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller's mother, Rain, didn't live with her. Even when Phoenix...

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...

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...

A sweeping, emotional tale of hope and perseverance, Swan Light weaves together the stories of two people separated by a century but connected by family, purpose, and one extraordinary lighthouse.1913. Eighty-three-year-old Silvestre Swan has dedicated his life to the care of his Newfoundland lighthouse....

A sweeping, emotional tale of hope and perseverance, Swan Light weaves together the stories of two people separated by a century but connected by family, purpose, and one extraordinary lighthouse.1913. Eighty-three-year-old Silvestre Swan has dedicated his life to the care of his Newfoundland lighthouse....

When a mysterious preacher arrives at their ranch in the Rocky Mountains, Genesis watches as her pious mother becomes enamored by him and then must fight to keep her sister, Isiah, and the ranch out of his grasp. Steadfast Genesis and defiant Isaiah are...

How do you stay alive when everybody wants you dead? The Devil Hound, set in mid-eighteen century Europe and the Americas, as an evil priest dedicates his life to destroying two innocent Romani (Gypsy) brothers because of their ethnic origin and because they are...

A novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming from Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Andrew KrivakRooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War...

Entrancing and sentimental, told with wit and sharp insight, The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos examines the joys and traumas of the Latinx American experience through the lens of a young man awakening to the nuances of identity, love, colonization, and home. As Gregorio...

Ezra Magee has worked hard to make a good life for himself as a professor, husband, and father. He's even made peace with the fact that he can't remember any of his childhood in the small town of Folly, Alabama, before a traumatic event...

Richard Quinn welcomes his readers with a warm portrait of southwest New York State's majestic landscape, which is home to Ben Bowden, his wife Angela, and their two children. The Bowden family is likable, imperfect, and relatable. Their story is a personal and poignant...

REVENGE MAY BE A DISH BEST SERVED COLD, BUT JUSTICE TASTES SO MUCH SWEETER. Party girl, socialite, and granddaughter of the former Don of the Marchesi crime family, Anna Barrichello lived a charmed life. But on The Day of the Dead, she found herself...

REVENGE MAY BE A DISH BEST SERVED COLD, BUT JUSTICE TASTES SO MUCH SWEETER. Party girl, socialite, and granddaughter of the former Don of the Marchesi crime family, Anna Barrichello lived a charmed life. But on The Day of the Dead, she found herself...

In one minute, delivering a not guilty verdict at the end of a trial for a disturbing murder of a child, Matthew Rice's life begins to unravel. The very structures his life is built upon collapse. He finds refuge, if not security when he...

Danah Calsely was only nine when her mother abandoned her. Years later, as a promising Sociology Ph.D. candidate, Danah appears largely unaffected by this traumatic loss -- until she finds a letter that she's convinced is from her missing mother. The truth about Jane...

For the first forty-one years of his life, Norman made many mistakes. He went on trial at the Old Bailey, was deprived of his corporal stripe innumerable times, went AWOL twice, was handed a twenty-eight-day detention, three days under close arrest and charged with...

Siblings have a very special bond!Someone to laugh and play with, someone to share new exciting memories with and best of all someone to love! Well, here is delightful story about a young boy, who longed for a sibling for many years and one...

Dreaming of Shooting Stars tells the story of a middle-class family one year after the tragic death of their eldest son, Robert. The family of four, which is made up of a younger brother named Alex, a teenage sister named Beth, along with their...

"If GILMORE GIRLS and FRIED GREEN TOMATOES made a book, this would be it." - Sharon Marie on Goodreads "Savannah writes in such a captivating detailed way that keeps you turning the pages." - Joyce Stewart Reviews "This story was so good, it explored...

Pam Wheeler checked every box: Happy marriage? Check. Fantastic kid? Check. Booming career? Check. So when her husband dies in a freak accident and their DIY empire goes on life support, Pam must fix the relationship with her troubled and grief-stricken daughter and save...

Ministering to troubled youth can easily tarnish a person's reputation.Mr. Bones, always striving to reach those falling through society's cracks, often finds his head on the chopping block.He isn't stupid; he knows all too well that it only takes one false allegation to ruin...

A girl, set adrift by the impact of a sudden death, struggles to gain control of herself while confronting the lack of choices before her. Beth Lawrence, a teenager of the 60's and product of a large Catholic family has grown up with a...

Gbaelay could not wait to be in the second grade. She has waited all these years and finally, she was going to be in Mrs. Boatwright's class. It is the first day of school and Gbaelay just found out that the meanest teacher in...