Fiction - Family Life - General

Author: Ellen UllmanISBN-10: 1250023963ISBN-13: 9781250023964Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2012Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.85dReview Citation(s): New York Times Book Review 01/27/2013 pg. 24

A gorgeously uplifting story about memories, storytelling, love and friendship, about the journeys we take and the people we meet, what we remember and how there are some things we can never forget.Alex would like to believe she's a woman who has it all....

We make hundreds of choices a day. Some seem of no consequence, and yet . . . are they really?A strange man goes around town delivering unusual invitations. The recipients are invited to visit an odd-sounding place called the Discovery Room. Why? So they...

The island of Key West located on the Southernmost Point of the United States has always been a place known for its uniqueness and mystery. Many people that don't know the island, perhaps, believe it is a place to just have fun, relax, and...

Amelia Riley and Ben Lawson have something in common - fathers who have kept secrets.On the day of his father's funeral, Ben's life changes forever when a woman he's never met shows up claiming to be his sister. As he investigates the past, Ben...

Dear Edie, I wanted you to know so many things. I wanted to tell you them in person, as you grew up by my side. But it wasn't to be...When Jess gives birth to Edie, it's the happiest day of her life. She knows,...

The brand new novel from the #1 bestselling author, Maddie Please! The Old Ducks are back and they are naughtier than ever'I've loved all of Maddie Please's books but this is my favourite so far - superb characters and a warm, wonderful story. Bravo!'...

A family home, full of secrets.Number Thirty-Two was once a family home. Anna was once a mother and a wife. Now, she is in arrears and alone.With little choice but to sell up, she is forced to confront the memories of the people who...

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them. In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and...

"This book brought me to tears and a greater understanding of my own possibilities." Terresa Cooper Haskew, author of Winston's Book of SoulsAn email from a stranger tells Alison Earley that her natural father, whom she has known for only six years, has died...

The contemporary figure has somewhat similar characteristics to his father, grandfather, and great grandfather; a soul-searching thinker, all the same, departing from the ruinous while conserving the beneficial side of the culture, customs, and manners in which he was raised and the larger generational...

"An audacious, wildly funny, completely unpredictable novel by a writer so singular that it's hard to compare her to anyone else . . . absolutely brilliant." --Kevin Wilson A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, new...

When Mitch Quillen's life begins to unravel, he fears there is no escape. His marriage and career are both failing, and his relationship with his father has been a disaster for decades. Approaching forty, Mitch doesn't want to become a middle-aged statistic. When his...

What choices would you make if you knew you may die soon?From the multi award-winning, best-selling author of four books, including Here, Home, Hope, a gripping and heart-wrenching novel about a young mother who has it all. The only problem is she may be...

Three women, three generations, shifting landscapes. From Pasadena in the 1920s to La Jolla in the midcentury to the Central Coast of the 70s, Molly Wyer tracks the social, psychological and spiritual progress, life decisions and opaque paths of three daughters, three wives, three...

All her life Ellie Enderlin had been known as Lila's sister--until the day Lila, a top math student at Stanford, was murdered, and the shape of their family changed forever. Twenty years later, Ellie is a professional coffee buyer who has never put down...

"An immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &...

One summer, something happened that changed everything forever... Born and brought up in an artists' commune in Derbyshire, Oriana Taylor had freedom at her fingertips in a home full of extraordinary people. The Bedwell brothers, Malachy and Jed, shared their childhood and adolescence with...

Hope never dies... The dramatic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of NOBODY'S GIRL. After losing everything in the Blitz, Hilda Stone and her 14-year-old daughter Ellen are desperate for a miracle. But their world is shattered when a telegram informs them that...

A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter before undergoing heart surgery in this tender and twisty debut novel. Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments...

TWO LIFELONG FRIENDS. Jess loves her work as a high-profile lawyer in Charleston. But when her marriage implodes, she retreats to her childhood home on Cape Cod with her thirty-year-old daughter, Caitlin, hoping to regroup with her longtime best friend, Alison. ONE BOOKSHOP BY...

After their no-strings fling in paradise, Lyric and Devon never thought they'd see each other again. Until they did. Now they have very different ideas about what the future holds... Sometimes you just have to take the leap... What happens in Aruba, stays in...

On the outside, Samantha has it all: money, looks, opportunity, love. But on the inside, Samantha is different. She can't stop making bad choices. She's restless and often reckless. In The Wrong Life, we meet Samantha's family, friends, doctors, lovers, spouse, and her children,...

Six-year-old David learns quickly that life is not always what is expected. He has just overheard a devastating conversation between his parents and his understanding of the world has just been shattered. Because of this, David begins making choices that are not always the...

Is there a recipe for the perfect life? Thirty-two-year-old 'happiness guru' Dr Cooper Hunziker has it all - a dream job as assistant psychology professor at Yale University, a soon-to-be published self-help book, The Happiness Connection, and the perfect man. But there's a problem....

"Riveting from page one to the last breathless word."--Rebecca Makkai, New York Times bestselling author of I Have Some Questions For You "Brilliant, riveting .. an epic mystery, a family saga and a survival guide...I loved this book." --Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York...

Robert's father is in the late stages of dementia, in need of near-constant care. When his girlfriend's caregiver fatigue gets the better of her, she leaves him all alone in the world-except for his son. But while he's living in a trailer in Florida,...

There's an inner strength buried somewhere inside of you, Lizzie. When you find it, it will change your life forever. I wish with all my heart that I was going to be here to see it, but of course here lies the irony: it's...

A novel of a father, a son, and the mayhem a lie can wreak: "Mission is a book that will stay with me. A remarkable debut." -Sarah Haywood, New York Times-bestselling author of The Cactus A five-year-old boy and his father are separated by...

Inspired by the author's ancestry, this epic novel explores love, tragedy, and resilience in the lives of a large family before, during, and after World War Two in Scotland. When a Royal Scots soldier is sent to Hong Kong to help bolster the British...

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve.Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life...

When Brett Lockwood receives a not-too-positive medical report, he gives up his New York law practice to return to his ancestral home in Maine. Unfortunately, the summer residence he used to frequent as a boy was also his evil grandfather's gothic-like mansion that was...

The perfect Christmas story which follows four women who arrive at Nottingham Aircraft Centre during the festive season. They have come to build aeroplanes to help the war effort but there is love and friendship to be enjoyed this Christmas time . . .Author:...

A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in a country in crisis A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction....

Synopsis Lies Deception Treachery Self-centeredness Hypocrisy Clearly, over the previous 10 years, Nhamo had demonstrated in no uncertain terms that he was no longer committed to his marriage. So, the question that begs is, why did Svorai allow herself to be humiliated in this...

Harboring a secret about the day that changed his life forever, eighty-year-old Walter tries to hide his struggles from his family. Suppressing the pain deep down in his soul, it only pulls him further away from them. Choosing to spend his days alone on...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Margaret Wilson OliphantISBN-10: 1978108818ISBN-13: 9781978108813Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Dangerous Hilarity came about because identical twin boys were playful and mischievous. One of them thought it was funny to play practical jokes and once almost lost his own life due to one of his jokes. Follow the Jackson family as they travel across...

Inspired by true events, the story follows one man's fall from grace and into the waiting arms of pride as he administers the deadly blows of offshoring. Corporate bottom lines are spared, but thousands of jobs are executed. He battles with betrayal, alienation and...

Elsie Stone misses her little sister Hannah who died nine years ago while the family vacationed in Maine. Now at fifteen Elsie wants to stand up to her father and take her mother away from the violence that rules their lives. She must take...

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss--and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life--from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth...

From the bestselling author of Daughter of the Reich, an historical drama about a bookshop involved in an espionage network in 1960s London."An utterly atmospheric and completely compelling read!" --Julia Kelly, international bestselling author of The Lost English GirlTwo courageous women. One astonishing secret....

From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unexpected rewards that come from life's detours. Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful...

A spellbinding locked-room mystery about a glamping trip gone horribly wrong when a powerful storm leaves the participants stranded and forced to confront long-held secrets and a shocking disappearance.Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race with their twelve-year-old son to set...

In the summer of 2020, with a heat wave bearing down and a brood of periodical cicadas climbing into the trees, Husha mourns the recent death of her mother while quarantining with her ailing grandfather, Arthur, at his lakeside cabin in remote Ontario. They're...

Audrey and Sharon is inspired by a real crime in 1957 in Upstate New York. A lovely, innocent high school girl named Audrey, raised in an extremely religious, Evangelical family, desires only to be accepted and to fit in. Sharon is the secularly raised...

Click: buy... a French chateau. Condition: 'may require improvement'...It seemed like a good idea. Selling everything we own. Just Mark and I, swapping our tiny little terraced London home - and the heartbreak of not being able to start a family - for an...

Robert's father is in the late stages of dementia, in need of near-constant care. When his girlfriend's caregiver fatigue gets the better of her, she leaves him all alone in the world-except for his son. But while he's living in a trailer in Florida,...

From the author of fiction favorite Sunday Brunch comes an inspirational novel about two bitterly divided sisters struggling to forgive each other and renew their faith in God. Everything is not always sweet on Magnolia Lane, where the Ledoux clan had always gathered under...

A passionate love affair. A happy young family. And a successful 30-year marriage.But which one will be destroyed by the truth? Sophie and her sister, Jess, grow up knowing that a few little lies are necessary: You look great. It was only a joke....