Fiction - Family Life - General

"A witty, toothy, family saga, unashamedly intellectual . . . that, like youth, seems to have it all--energy, aspiration, and self-delusion." --Catherine Taylor, Financial Times "MEET SWEDEN'S SALLY ROONEY" --The Times of London "A wry bestseller that reads like the effortlessly chic European cousin...

Move over, Dickens--America's favorite storyteller has written a gift, "a delightful Christmas story to be shared by the whole family" (Kirkus), destined to become as treasured as A Christmas Carol. At Christmastime, a family of three are missing someone dear to them. Until unexpected...

Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the...

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...

The New York Times bestselling "master" (Stephen King) of American thriller writing returns with an electrifying new novel about a mother seeking to reconnect with her children after a terrible trial tears their family apart. Nina Morgan's bloodstained car was found a decade ago...

Secrets and lies shadow a woman on the run in the second novel in the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.Jenna Mason's life seems perfect: a successful career as an animator, a town house near the...

Secrets and lies shadow a woman on the run in the second novel in the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.Jenna Mason's life seems perfect: a successful career as an animator, a town house near the...

A woman and her niece are bound together and driven apart by loves, desires, frustrations, and addictions. East Berlin, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eva, a retired nurse, makes it through her day on a combination of stimulants and...

Joni doesn't just like to cook. She loves to cook The trouble is, nobody knows that until she takes matters into her own hands and wages a secret culinaryrevolution. Things are going well until she gets caught, but her punishment is notat all what...

Welcome to Charlotte, hometown of the Coach's Boys romance series. Settle back, put your feet up, and enjoy your visit. Who knows? You may want to stay for a while. Or forever because nothing is sweeter than small town romance.A COACH'S BOYS SPECIAL EDITION...

In a small bar in Studio City, Joe meets the woman of his dreams. Allison is beautiful and sweet, charming. He knows without a doubt, from the moment their eyes meet, that she's it. The one. When his friends take him to Las Vegas...

Jennie O'Malley may seem like she has it all together, but her orderly and stylish life in Florence starts to fall apart when she is unexpectedly called home to Monterey, California to say her final goodbyes to her beloved father, Shaun. A warm and...

In Beneath the Hill, Flora and her siblings, Charles, Louise and Bill, are growing up as the Twentieth Century begins. Flora marries handsome Seth and sets up home.By chance, she discovers that she has the ability to join Ellie Bates, the village midwife, in...

★★★★★ - Bring the tissues!★★★★★ - Emotionally devastating, heart-wrenching.★★★★★ - Death may come, but love never dies . . .Every morning, Nicholi sits alone on his porch gripped by sorrow as he remembers his first love and her untimely death. He is riddled with...

Imagine the look on your in-law's face when they see you reading this book If you're really looking for the top 10 ways to kill your in-laws, stop what you're doing and seek psychiatric help immediately.For the rest of you, bring some dark humor...

For readers of Lisa Jewell and Diane Chamberlain comes another gripping novel from internationally bestselling author Susan Lewis, about an eccentric old woman, the ghostwriter helping write her memoirs, and the destructive secrets binding them together.She's rewriting history, but which version of the truth...

If your loved one has memory or cognitive challenges but still enjoys the calm, relaxing pleasure of reading, this book is for them. It is the first in a series of illustrated senior fiction books, each telling the story of a grandparent spending a...

I thought I was never going to be the same but once finding my path way I realized who I was suppose to become, thanks not only to my life experiences but writing, writing showed me who I was going to become so here...

After tragedy and betrayal, trust comes slowly, love takes work. Lincoln and Kali are finally in a good place. A place of hope.But as Kali starts to accept her present and look to the future, her past gets in the way, forcing her to...

The Columbia space shuttle and its contents rain down on the people of Kiser, Texas, in Kathryn Schwille's imaginative debut novel set six weeks before the invasion of Iraq. What Luck, This Life begins in the aftermath of the space shuttle's break-up, as the...

How did Sam end up in the rescue centre, not once, but three times? Was he responsible for a man's death? In Sixth Sense, find out how a woman somehow knows which dog people will choose. In Helping Bella, a badly treated animal helps...

A compelling story about three sisters who come from a family of wealth--and whose lives are shattered by tragedy, scandal, secrets, and betrayal. The three Houston sisters, Milandra, Noelle, and Kenley, are enjoying a regular day out with their mother, when they come home...

When her son is in trouble, a heartbroken mother finds the courage and faith to save him, in ReShonda Tate Billingsley's powerful family drama--a novel as timely as today's headlines.The breaking TV news rocks Jasper, Texas, to the core: a white police officer is...

A new edition of Philip Child's great Canadian novel of the First World War. A horrifying description of war, specifically embodied in the vain and inglorious futility of the First World War, God's Sparrows is a novel rich in compassion and firm in its...

Julie and Anna Martindale have both married artists - but they embark on a reckless spiral of deceit, rivalry and betrayal that ends on a fateful voyage to New York. Handsome, freewheeling Clive Cavendish marries Julie after a whirlwind seduction - and when his...

Ellie's absence abroad is disastrous for her daughter, Diana, when her husband is attacked by intruders and left for dead one night. It falls to Ellie's next-door neighbour, Susan, to reluctantly pick up the pieces and take in Diana's children. But was Evan's death...

Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was published in four parts, though a fifth and sixth part were planned. The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his (second) cousin...

Author: Jonathan EvisonISBN-10: 1665135867ISBN-13: 9781665135863Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.70lbs

As a little girl, Yves Zoe Trieste's first experiences were magical, opulent, and dazzling - living in one of Japan's protected and exclusive enclaves reserved for Foreign Diplomats and their families. The change was sudden when the family boarded one of the last evacuation...

The River Flows On is a story of two places-Guyana and Brooklyn, US. It sets out the tale of the main character, a young man born into a riverain family with a rich heritage, who is conflicted about his family and the river and...

Full of cryptic twists, philosophical quandaries, and fabulist turns, J. C. Hallman's stories elucidate an intuitive understanding of the human condition. An alienated young man discovers the meaning of love in the pages of the biology textbook The Conjugal Cyst, and in the arms...

His wig - imposed upon him by necessity, not fashion lay on the table amid a confusion of dusty papers, and on his little fat nose, round and red as a cherry at its end, rested the bridge of his horn-rimmed spectacles. His bald...

Sunny Miller enjoyed a top paying business career in New York until she received a letter letting her know her momma, Tessa, needed her. She got on a plane and rushed back to her home town of Monroe, North Carolina. She had no idea...

Without a Home is the second novel in a trilogy of books that follow a boy named David, and his experience with abuse-and the ways in which he survives it. Without a Home chronicles David's teenage years as he navigates the many sides of...

Set against the backdrop of North Dakota's oil boom, two very different mothers form an uneasy alliance to find their missing sons in this heartrending and suspenseful novel from the Edgar Award-nominated author of Garden of Stones. The booming North Dakota oil business is...

Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty's The Husband's Secret and Linda Holmes's Evvie Drake Starts Over."A touching novel charting two women's parallel lives, tied together by mysteries, transformation, and a cabin." -BookLife"Chrysteen Braun creates a masterpiece with smooth storytelling that juxtaposes the serenity of...

Mia Rabbit Hayes is one of the lucky ones. She loves her life, ordinary as it is, and she loves the extraordinary people in it: her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colorful, unruly family; and the only man in her big heart, Johnny Faye. Rabbit...

With this collection of stories, Anthony Giardina takes his place among the finest writers of short fiction in America. The Country of Marriage is a window into the lives of men as they confront the darkness at the heart of domestic existence. Giardina looks...

For fans of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison--a haunting debut novel that lays bare the universal truths that bind all families. Brian Keith Jackson's acclaimed debut novel treads the same rich literary soil as the work of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison--with equally memorable...

"One of the sharpest observers of human behavior around."--Booklist (starred review) BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIRACUSA, coming in trade paperback on June 6, 2017!Tracee is a runaway bride and kleptomaniac. Lana's an audacious beauty, a recovering alcoholic. Rita is a...

In the tradition of The Good Mother and The Deep End of the Ocean, Anne D. LeClaire delivers a heartbreaking-and breathtaking-novel of two very different but equally loving mothers who face the most painful of losses and then find the courage not only to...

A "shamelessly funny" (Kirkus) and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol. An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capital of Chalazia, to conduct research for an...

One of TIME magazine's best summer reads, a "wise" (Entertainment Weekly) and "resplendent" (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut that follows a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage. After the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear...

Two teenagers struggle with a horrific family legacy in the sequel to Chase Novak's novel, Breed. Thirteen years ago, a radical fertility doctor helped bring Adam and Alice Twisden into the world. The treatment came at a great cost: it turned the twins' parents...

Almost overnight, Arthur Wise has become one of the wealthiest and most powerful attorneys in America. His first big purchase is a simple beach house in a place called Bluepoint, a town on the far edge of the flexed arm of Cape Cod. It's...

A searing, poignant, darkly comic novel set on Cape Cod by the author of the bestselling true crime story Invisible Eden. Young Alden Warren's husband has vanished without a trace. Her daily routine -- working for the National Park Service at the Cape Cod...

Charlie Baker is a neurotic but charming 50-year-old workaholic CEO of a major Chicago ad agency who seems to have it all: an impressive house in an upscale suburb, an equally impressive salary, the requisite pretty wife and accomplished son. All of this comes...

In this charming novel, Darrin Doyle paints a captivating portrait of the all-American family--if the all-American family's youngest child ate an entire city in Michigan with a smile, that is. Doyle has a flare for writing about family dysfunction with a twist. With a...

A People Magazine Get Set for Summer Pick One of InStyle Magazine's Top 5 Beach Reads Blessed with beauty, talent, and a loving family, the Aschers seem to have it all. Joe and Laura are the toast of New York--a wildly successful playwright and...

Avery Benjamin Clarke is a shy and demure boy, raised in the upper middle classed home of his maternal grandparents from the day he was born. He's a straight A student and a model child who has never given his family an ounce of...