Fiction - Family Life - General

For the first time in paperback, here is the bestselling novel by "a writer of extraordinary gifts" (Tobias Wolff). Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known only as the Aleut,...

Posthumously published in 1914, Vandover and the Brute is probably Frank Norris's first complete novel, much of it written when he was a student at Harvard in 1894-1895. The subject matter made it unacceptable to turn-of-the-century taste, and when the book finally did appear...

From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist Bethany Ball comes a biting and darkly funny new novel that follows a set of privileged, jaded Connecticut suburbanites whose cozy, seemingly picture-perfect, lives begin to unravel amid shocking turns of fate and revelations of long-held...

"Haunting, incisive . . . King is brilliant." -- ElleAn absorbing, insightful story written in cool, polished prose right to the last conflicted line." --Washington Post"Spellbinding . . . You won't be able to stop reading this book, but when you do finally finish...

An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the...

Author: Elizabeth JeffreyISBN-10: 0749957875ISBN-13: 9780749957872Publisher: PiatkusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2013Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.30w x 1.10d

Only Willoughby Tetford, the American self-made millionaire, was shrewd enough to have any misgivings when his beautiful daughter, Willow, married the handsome English aristocrat. Willow herself, seventeen, innocent and deeply in love with her new husband, Rowell Rochford, had complete trust and confidence in...

As she washes her laundry in the Rio Minho, Kelithe is startled from her daydreams by women's screams. It is not until she sees a small body in the shallow water that she realizes what has happened. Her young son has drowned. The Women...

Featuring a WSP Reading Group Guide Purvis, Mississippi, 1974: Willem Fremont has just returned to his childhood hometown to come to grips with his past. He has spent his adult life held tight inside the clenched fist of panic disorder -- the stagnation produced...

Half siblings Gina Chambers and Larry Langley were once close, but as adults they have nothing in common. Gina and her husband, Steve, are farmers in rural Indiana, where they have a hard time paying their bills, much less realizing their dream of opening...

As the fourth, and final, novella in The White Sails Series, CHRISTMAS AT GILLY DOWNS jumps forward ten years to see what the beloved characters from The White Sails Series are up to as they prepare to reunite for Christmas at Gilly Downs. Seamus...

As the fourth, and final, novella in The White Sails Series, CHRISTMAS AT GILLY DOWNS jumps forward ten years to see what the beloved characters from The White Sails Series are up to as they prepare to reunite for Christmas at Gilly Downs. Seamus...

Under one roof, there are lots of wonderful things. Including games, family and fun! Join the characters of Under One Roof as they discover all that their home has to offer. What will you find under one roof?After looking for a book her son...

Be swept into this epic story about a real family and their struggle for liberty and a better life. For 16-year-old Micajah McElroy, life in Wake County, N.C., revolves around managing his inherited plantation and winning the hand of pretty Sarah Campbell. But then...

The insightful, audacious, and deeply romantic story of a woman whose life turns upside down after she meets an enigmatic chef on vacation in Italy, from a New York Times bestselling author "Delicious."--People - "Smart, sexy and funny, full of joy in simple pleasures."--Minneapolis...

War. Heartbreak. How much can one family lose?The McKay family's idyllic life in Iowa is about to implode. A mysterious rosary found by soldier John McKay in war-torn Iraq foreshadows an obscure prophecy. As the rosary's mystique grows globally, his sister, Janey McKay, is...

Set in 1979, The Destiny of Salmon is the story of the unforgettable summer 16-year-old Peter Kristiansen spends as a crew member on his dad's commercial fishing boat in the dangerous waters of the Alaska Panhandle. Torn between his separated parents' different ways of...

Lincoln Memorial High takes pride in offering camaraderie and fun for its students. Leonard Kellison isn't convinced. A social outcast interested in heavy metal and the Goth aesthetic, Leonard has much more to deal with than he lets on. At school, it's a hostile...

Robbie Young is an ordinary twelve-year-old boy about to drop a bombshell that will devastate his small town family. One day he rides his bike home after school, finds his mother in the kitchen making dinner, and speaks aloud the secret he's been keeping...

Winner of the 2023 NYC Big Book Award for the "Death and Dying" categoryOne phone call upends Sara Austin's world.Out of town for a company conference, Sara gets a call that her mother is in the hospital. As her reluctant Health Care Proxy, Sara...

Moving between colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England, The Last Life is Claire Messud's "masterly" (Wall Street Journal) sophomore novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. When shots from a grandfather's rifle shatter the LaBasse family's quiet integrity, long-hidden shame...

In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society. Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to...

Whisper Mama opens in Harrisburg, Oregon, on an August evening in 1925 in the aftermath of a train crash that kills nine-year-old Evelyn Castle's family. Although shattered, left alone to navigate the world on her own, she finds a way to survive.Part II takes...

Harvest of Fear is a gripping historical novel that brings to life a family, a farm, and a racial war - in Africa. Johan Steenkamp brings ardent, impetuous Marie home to his flourishing farm in Rhodesia. There is a leopard roaming the bush and,...

Frankie can catch a perfect wave but in real life she gets dumped - over and over again. Frankie's future seems known - happiness with Charlie her childhood sweetheart and living in a small coastal town in southern New South Wales with extended family...

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. "Ultimately, the mystery at the center of The Final Case...

In three interconnected scenes, Hiroko Oyamada revisits the same set of characters at different junctures in their lives. In the back room of a pet store full of rare and exotic fish, old friends discuss dried shrimp and a strange new relationship. A couple...

"[T]he actor's first novel is a quintessential New York story: A teenager moves from Queens to Manhattan, discovering a world populated with drugs, sex, a witch, and Lou Reed. It's like a vivid walk through the city and adolescence, reveling in their grit and...

A moving novel of family and forgiveness and of hope and healing by Rochelle B. Weinstein, the USA Today bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends.When Avery Beckett is proposed to by Jude Masters, a widowed father and the man she loves,...

A moving novel of family and forgiveness and of hope and healing by Rochelle B. Weinstein, the USA Today bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends.When Avery Beckett is proposed to by Jude Masters, a widowed father and the man she loves,...

What if all you inherit from your mother are her secrets?Isla knows her family kept things from her. When she inherits the cliffside cottage where she spent her childhood, she must face dark shadows of her past--the mother who rejected her in favour of...

What an unexpected delight. The concept is fresh and original, the writing solid, the story - well, I'm still smiling.Thomas Locke, Bestselling AuthorWhen high school teacher Myles Bradford wins the Powerball lottery, he decides to do something truly unexpected: run for President of the...

Author: Heidi W. DurrowISBN-10: 1665164514ISBN-13: 9781665164511Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/10/2010Format: CDWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 6.77h x 6.06w x 1.18d

Coco and her trusted "cheer-me-up" bag have been known for spreading joy by colouring her world and the lives of others with her beautiful smile and vibrant personality. Today, Coco sees a sad, young girl, and doesn't hesitate to pass along some of her...

'Beguiling and astute' Sarah Winman 'Astoundingly good' Deborah Moggach 'Wonderfully redemptive' Sarah Haywood 'I was delighted and surprised by this textured, fascinating and most moving book' Chris Ware A life-affirming novel about broken but loving families, people making mistakes but doing their best, grief...

The Blaine children don't have grandparents of their own, so with their mother's help they invent a game where they spend a week of summer vacation with a carefully chosen-yet unwitting-set of grandparents. This is now their third year of playing The Family Game....

Waiting for Butterflies is an achingly tender portrait of a mother whose love reaches beyond the possible. When tragedy strikes, Maggie discovers a mother's love never ends--not even when her life does. Longing for her family after her sudden death, she becomes a lingering...

From the award-winning author of Ishmael's Oranges comes a searing novel with a profound moral conflict at its heart. When a heart attack kills his father, young architect Nick abandons his comfortable London life to volunteer abroad for a year - a last chance...

Washington Square by Henry James. Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet...

In her previous works, including "The Best of Us," "rising star" ("Library Journal") Sarah Pekkanen captivated readers by penning "refreshingly introspective, sharply realistic, and tenderly humorous" novels (Booklist). Now, in "Catching Air," Pekkanen turns an unflinching eye on the tangled relationships of two pairs...

It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse--the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays....

At the end of World War II, twenty-year-old Vera is brutally raped by an unknown assailant. From that rape is born a boy named Fred, a misfit who later becomes a talented boxer. Vera's young son, Barnum, forms a special but bizarre relationship with...

2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2015 -- Short-listedAs she comes into adulthood, Grace confronts the mystery of her own identity and the story of her birth mother in this sprawling, large-hearted novel. Growing up on the Caribbean island of St. Chris, Grace Carpenter...

It's 1962, and Dusty Fairchild, daughter of a self-made millionaire and oilman, wants to go to college. Instead she is sent to a private finishing school in East Texas. Although she's never wanted for material possessions, Dusty longs for independence and adventure. The only...

A poignant novel about going home again--and how the most complex relationships can yield the most rewarding surprises. Ten years ago, Nicole Hunter left her troubled home behind her, unable to cope with the demands of a life with her disabled sister, Jenny. Though...

We know that romance among students is typical in high schools. Their teachers are not immune to the love bug, either. Ditto the secretaries and janitors and the other adults. It is a wonder any work gets done! Does the overnight crew find love?...

"Must Love Dogs has already been a major motion picture, and now New York Times bestselling author Claire Cook's hilarious and heartwarming book series is begging to hit the screen again."-New York Journal of Books If you live in Marshbury, Massachusetts, that picture postcard...

For fans of, Khaled Hosseini, Anita Diamant, and Isabelle Allende comes a sweeping story of love, loss, and the power of loyalty in the face of conflicting ideologies and religious beliefs. The story begins in 1940s Palestine where twins Rasheed and Rasheeda Dinar work...

A deadly accident puts a cowboy on the wrong side of the law in this romantic suspense novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of the Calder Saga.She can't forget him. The born rancher who stole her heart, her ex-husband, the tough, tender father...

In a small unaffected village outside of the city, the townsfolk of a close-knit community rarely leave and they even more rarely have any visitors. So when a young man named Adam arrives, the village is feverish in welcoming the newcomer. It's not long...