Fiction - Family Life - General

"Caroline knows best." Caroline's mother ran away from her father when Caroline was four years old, and her father and stepmother died fifteen years later, leaving her with a young step-brother and two young step-sisters to bring up. Orphaned, and in the care of...

Set in Rural Montana, LOOKOUT centers on the dual coming-of-age of a girl and her father amid the natural and cultural forces that shape their family. LOOKOUT tells the story of the Kinzlers, a complex working-class family firmly rooted in northwestern Montana. Josiah and...

Arturo DiMartino's Italy is in ruins at the end of WWI. Its politics splintered. Its economy tattered. Its social fabric shredded.Italians blame their weak leaders and demand their overthrow. Mussolini steps onto the political stage and his populist views and spirited charisma captivate the...

A perceptive, moving novel about life and death in the Basque Country, from the author of Nevada Days. Bernardo Atxaga's Water over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a...

Everyone eats but how, when and where we eat makes a difference; thus a moonlight picnic is a heck of a lot more fun than a formal dinner with people who mean nothing to you. Or a cherished seasonal food eaten in the long...

Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed between the sheets, and every socialite who eyed her with envy. The chance meeting with her husband, Damien; their rapid free fall into love; and their low-key, intimate wedding are all...

Meet Anna Hudson in this passionate story of love, confusion, and life in this woman's romantic journey to find herself. Anna realizes that she will never be able to ignore the wonders and carry on like the rest of the world seems to. Enjoy...

Redemption is the story of a man named John Jacobi, who readers first meet as he enjoys the simple pleasures of life as an elderly retired resident of Charleston, South Carolina. The highlight of John's daily routine is his morning visit to his favorite...

Bestselling author Jim Stovall's latest offering and first title of his Homecoming Historical Series, One Season of Hope, is a rare combination of tear-jerking emotion, powerful wisdom, and inspiring hope. Written in Stovall's signature easy and economical style, the story is told through the...

Keely Marie McLaughlin felt there was a secret surrounding her birth. She was keeping a secret from her momma, and she'd told a whopper of a lie, too. She was also about to have the encounter of her lifetime.Keely's story unfolds in the summertime...

What happens when the world's greatest literary icon dies before she finishes the final book in her bestselling series? And what happens when she leaves that book in the hands of her unstable, neurotic daughter, who swears she's not a real writer? Sara Grayson...

Difficult parents and lost children, unfaithful spouses and spectral lovers, mysterious ancestors and fierce bloodlines--the stories, poems, and memoirs in this new anthology tackle everything that's most complicated and thrilling about family and history in the Caribbean. Collecting new writing by finalists for the...

When struggling actor Phillip Stalworth breaks up with his girlfriend, he returns home to the Deep South to care for his ailing mother and unexpectedly falls for a local carpenter. Working through his past with his complicated family, some old high school chums, and...

Lucy can't hold the secret any longer. Twenty-six years ago, her sister did the unthinkable.Portland, Oregon, 1989: Lucy Mustin, living somewhat happily, pumping out wedding cakes for starry-eyed heterosexuals while she, a lesbian, can't legally marry, is called upon to travel to Santa Cruz...

Portsoy Woods is a first novel from the author of Rational Preparedness: A Primer to Preparedness and What I Learned from Daniel. In Portsoy Woods, working at home primarily via the internet, makes it possible for a young Northern Virginia suburbanite husband to raise...

Ramona Strong is besieged from all sides. Still grieving the disappearance of her estranged business partner and lover Nate Ferguson, she's also fighting those who want to claim her land and dealing with her feelings for John Finch, a rival attorney looking to take...

Newly widowed, Ramona Brady Strong finds herself grieving doubly when her beloved father dies. After traveling back home to Williston, North Dakota to attend the funeral, she is caught up in a rekindled old romance while having to deal with pressures unique to an...

Played out against the actual events of the times, Muriel Maddox's novel is an absorbing story of two sisters, Barbara and Annabel Ashford, who grow up in a privileged life in Washington, DC and whose lives take divergent paths. Barbara, the older creative daughter,...

Fifty-two humorous and inspirational short stories from year twelve of Life's Outtakes, a nationally syndicated column by Daris Howard. From the humor of what happens to cologne a loving daughter buys for her father on Father's Day to the inspiration of the friendship between...

Fifty-two humorous and inspirational short stories from year twelve of Life's Outtakes, a nationally syndicated column by Daris Howard. From the inspiration of a high school councilor's love for his students in Looking on the Heart to the humor of a Halloween prank in...

An eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes-a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family-through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout the book....

Sam Brooks didn't like surprises. Unfortunately, that didn't stop the world from sending them his way. His ex-wife was getting remarried. His publisher changed his deadline. He needed some quiet time away from home. Little did he know that the best surprise of his...

Seventeen-year-old Hummingbird Windsor should have known that stealing glitzy clothing in exchange for protection from an ex-boyfriend/bully wasn't a smart move. In legal trouble, she is sent to live with her estranged father in Bellesport, Maine where she must volunteer in the locked memory...

WINNER OF THE BIG MOOSE PRIZEAllie Krane is heavily pregnant when she and her husband flee urban life after a rash of eco-terrorism breaks out in their city. They reinvent themselves as the proprietors of a northwoods fishing resort, where they live in relative...

Never underestimate the power of a woman Saving Elmhurst is based on a true story that has always captivated the author. "It was my great-grandmother who saved Elmhurst by making the orange candy pecans." Thus begins the novel set in 1929 rural Arkansas. As...

An account of an immigrant family's struggle and the lessons learned about diversity from the Wole Soyinka prize-winning author of Everything Good Will Come Writing at the height of her powers, The Bad Immigrant cements Sefi Atta's place as one of the best storytellers...

Anthony Trollope, (born April 24, 1815, London, Eng.--died Dec. 6, 1882, London), English novelist whose popular success concealed until long after his death the nature and extent of his literary merit. A series of books set in the imaginary English county of Barsetshire remains...

Livia is a quiet Midwestern suburb known for its green-thumbed residents and their impeccable yards--but this summer, they'll be digging up a lot more than weeds. . .George and Nan Fremont are renowned among their neighbors for their meticulously manicured backyard. Now that the...

Livia is a nice little suburb in the upper Midwest--but behind the manicured lawns and pristine hedges seethes a ruthless desire to be the greatest green thumb of all. . .George and Nan Fremont have created a paradise in their backyard, complete with semi-hallucinogenic...

After being recently orphaned Rose must live with her aunts, the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family. When Rose's guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, he takes over her care. She becomes happier and healthier while finding her place in her family of seven...

"A stellar collection of stories from one of our best writers. Roorbach's wild imagination combined with his brilliance as a storyteller, his relentless humor, and his tender understanding of humanity make The Girl of the Lake compulsive and essential reading." --Lily King, author of...

Come along on a positive, uplifting, sometimes sad, often even humorous family journey with Alzheimer's. Follow Mom through more than a decade of advancing dementia, through her last inspiring moments. Most of us will deal with dementia, with ourselves or a loved one, at...

The gang are back in the latest book of the feel-good, smash hit comedy 'This is the funniest series of books I've ever read. End-off!' 'You don't need to love bikes or even the Isle of Man TT Races to adore these books. Feel-good...

Days away from a grand openingA long-awaited vision about to come trueIs thwarted by a computer hackerWhen it works, modern technology is miraculousWhen someone knows how to abuse itIt can mean the end of a dreamBrigid and Linc are clueless when it comes to...

JULIA IS THE QUEEN OF SELF-HELP. IF ONLY SHE COULD HELP HERSELF. We've all heard that little voice from time to time. The one that wants something more, better, or different. When that voice that pushes bestselling author Julia Dunham to the edge, the...

Lolita is about to graduate from Kindergarten and is now faced with yet another dilemma. This time her dilemma does not involve leaving anywhere but it might involve leaving someone out and Lolita does not know what to do This book three of the...

Squirrels in the Wall--a novel told in stories by a collection of interspecies voices--presents a unique and darkly hilarious blend of human and animal perspectives in a single setting on a Wisconsin lake. The stories provide a kaleidoscope of heartbreak among both human and...

2019 PenCraft Award Winner - Mystery/SleuthTold through the keen eye of an adolescent, a story exploring the bonds between fathers and daughters, mother and child and how families manage their secrets, big and small.When Madelyn learns her father will be gone for the summer,...

All Rebecca Butler wants is a good home for her young son and disabled father. At first, Waterview Housing Co-op seems perfect. But then she finds the body of the building's manager. When Rebecca discovers that another murder happened in the building twenty years...

Fifty-year-old Karen Anders, a high school English teacher and the adoptive mother of Tiffany, comes to terms with being a single-parent and a clumsy drunk in the multicultural melting pot of Houston, Texas, as she forges an unlikely friendship with Leona Supak, a WWII...

Can these opposites turn up the heat... without burning down the house?House-flipping sensation and YouTube star Maggie Nichols can't wait to dig into her next challenge. Arriving in tiny Kinship, Idaho, with only a cot and a coffeemaker, Maggie is prepared to restore a...

An unlikely souvenir from the American Revolution becomes the unusual focal point of a spur-of-the-moment fly-fishing trip. The coveted relic, an inkwell, spirals from a casual topic of conversation into a wondrous curiosity, a reason for family introspection and a backdrop for a lifelong...

Joe Nelson is dying of colon cancer. He has very little time left, which is why he invites his favorite grandson Jack to visit. Joe's wife died three years earlier, but together, they made a final decision: upon their deaths Jack would inherit everything...

Coming Home is a book about life's unexpected changes, dealing with them, and coming to the realization of what is truly important in life and how to be happy. Justin and Jackie Jacob have just separated, with Jackie taking Jesse, their daughter and heading...

Emeka is an immigrant who has just arrived in America, landing at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. He quickly realizes that he is now in a new world, far from the life he lived in Africa. He's not the only one facing challenges. The values decreed...

Distraught from recent tragedy, Meredith Jaynes takes pity on a young girl who steals from her. Meredith discovers "Bean" lives in a hovel mothering her two younger sisters. The three appear to have been abandoned. With no other homes available, Social Services will separate...

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 - 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).Frances Eliza Hodgson was...

Lia, Lia, Lia She could still hear the chants from the thousands who'd come tonight to see her perform, as Jaycee Williams, her security escort, walked with her back to the dressing room. Emilia Hanson had come a long way as a child living...

Life is filled with disappointments so they tell you to expect nothing from nobody, but we still hold family to a different standard. It's hard when betrayal comes from a friend, but it's even harder when it comes from family.Nakia spent her whole life...

Catherine was recovering from an illness that even their local doctor could not cure. She had the notion that Pastor Roderick T. Kennedy was her son. Catherine looked lovingly at Todd her husband and told him he is like a son to me. Todd...