Fiction - Family Life - General

Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads. It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a...

"Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion." - The Washington PostAn unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread...

*** Now a USA TODAY BESTSELLER ***She's 43 years old......and starting over from scratch.How did this happen? She had it all together. A stable marriage of two decades. Two grown daughters. And now she and her husband, empty nesters, were moving to a beach...

The final masterpiece from the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot... This extraordinary novel, Dostoyevsky's last and greatest work, tells the dramatic story of four brothers--Dmitri, pleasure-seeking, impatient, unruly . . . Ivan, brilliant and morose . . . Alyosha, gentle,...

In this short story enhanced with beautiful illustrations, the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, Beartown, and Anxious People delivers an insightful and poignant tale about finding out what is truly important in life. A father and a son are seeing each other...

Although both time and origin separate them, this story is of lives that fate and circumstance have tied to Pakistan. Aasiya slips away from watchful eyes to meet her lover at a teashop in the same city her grandparents, Suraiya and Iqbal, once moved...

An Amazon Charts bestseller.A deeply moving story of carrying on even when it seems impossible.Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she...

Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko...

What does it take to come back to life? For Jessa-Lynn Morton, the question is not an abstract one. In the wake of her father's suicide, Jessa has stepped up to manage his failing taxidermy business while the rest of the Morton family crumbles....

What if the person you thought you'd lost forever walked back into your life? A warm, uplifting novel about the unshakable bond between siblings, and what happens when a sister discovers her long-missing brother in the most unexpected place, from the author of Little...

The first book in the Art of Hearing Heartbeats series, this is a passionate love story, a haunting fable, and an enchanting mystery set in Burma. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia...

"The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . If you don't yet know Molly Bolt--or Rita Mae Brown, who created her--I urge you to read and thank them both."--Gloria Steinem Winner of the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award Winner of...

Humourous Southern Fiction set in North Georgia Mountains in Railfan B&B. Carolina is barely surviving the family's move to a small town in Georgia, where they opened a Railfan B&B. She misses her Atlanta suburbs and is finding out holidays are different in a...

The New York Times bestselling author of Falling and Sister Stardust presents a charming transatlantic take on trading places... Being director of Poise! magazine affords Vicky Townsley a glamorous London life. She has everything she wants--except marriage, children, and a house in the country....

Learn why Holly Miller has five people living inside her head in this "remarkable debut novel."(Kemble Scott, author of SoMa) Though she doesn't remember the trauma that caused it, Holly Miller has Dissociative Identity Disorder. Her personality has fractured into five different identities, together...

New York Times bestselling author Lee Smith offers her signature mix of wit and heartbreak, as well as her "unerring ear for the lyrical and the down and dirty," (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) in this superb collection of stories.Author: Lee SmithISBN-10: 0425247686ISBN-13: 9780425247686Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage:...

Elizabeth Spencer presents a vital, moving story set in the deep South--the Delta and Mississippi Hill Country. Amos Dudley was a farm boy in the Delta at the turn of the century until he started working for his brother Ephraim in the store by...

A family of estranged Vietnamese women--cursed to never know love or happiness--reunite when a psychic makes a startling prediction.Everyone in Orange County's Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed.It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true...

For readers of Jenny Offill, Deborah Levy, and Olivia Laing, an exquisite debut novel about a classics academic researching prophecy in the ancient world, just as the pandemic descends and all visions of her own family's future begin to blur.Covid-19 has arrived in London,...

From an author whose writing has been praised as blistering (The New Yorker), virtuosic (The Washington Post), and brilliant (The New York Times) comes a provocative and entertaining novel about a woman who desperately wants a child but struggles to accept the use of...

Love is in the salty sea air in this smart and steamy ensemble romantic comedy set in a tropical paradise, from the author of the sparkly and entertaining (Oprah Daily) It Had to Be You. This is one island you won't want to be...

What happens when the man you love most in the world, who may be lying about everything, unexpectedly disappears into thin air--or deep water--and takes your small child with him? A riveting and powerful debut about the fierceness of first love and how far...

From the author of the funny, sexy, and absurdly entertaining (Marie Claire) Playing with Matches, a sweeping love story in the vein of Rebecca Serle and Chloe Benjamin about a woman who knows the date she'll meet her true love--only he isn't quite as...

Astonishingly timely and clever, it's also utterly gripping. --Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vaughan has done it again. Superb. --Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author The bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal--now a hit Netflix series--returns with a...

Parade's 20 Most Anticipated Books of Early 2020 SheKnows' 10 of the Most Anticipated Books Coming in 2020 Mary Kay Andrews' Reading Challenge Women's Fiction Pick Working Mother's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2020 for Working Moms From "the next major voice in Southern...

From the award-winning author of Together Tea--a debut novel hailed as "compassionate, funny, and wise" by Jill Davis, bestselling author of Girls' Poker Night--comes a powerful love story exploring loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate. Roya is a dreamy, idealistic teenager living in...

The second holiday love story in New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans's Mistletoe Collection. At thirty-two, Kimberly Rossi--a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership--has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two failed engagements, a divorce,...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner takes readers into the heart of women's lives in an unforgettable, timely tale. Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior on a full scholarship who plans on selling her "pedigree" eggs to help save her father from...

Who Does She Think She Is? is a richly evocative multigenerational story of three irrepressible women from the bestselling author of Good Hair and The Itch. Aisha Branch is in the midst of planning her elaborate wedding to a White man from old-line wealth...

The fatal and desperate politics of Eastern Europe collide with the comparative innocence and complacency of suburban Australian life in this powerful and disturbing love story about two families and the madness that invades their lives. Terry Delaney's comfortable life is upset when he...

"If you liked Big Little Lies, you'll want to crack open this new novel by Nicole Baart." --Southern Living An engrossing and suspenseful novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Amy Hatvany about an affluent suburban family whose carefully constructed facade starts to come...

Aren't Small Towns supposed to be Boring? Overnight, a shiny new business opens on Chancey, Georgia's Main Street, with a manager straight from New York City, who doesn't find the South charming, at all. Carolina's bookstore is also opening on Main Street. If she...

A gripping and vividly told story, regarded as startlingly frank when it was first published in 1956, about life on a cattle ranch near the Colorado-Wyoming border in the late nineteenth century. A novel that is genuinely true to the life and people of...

This story takes place in the city of Lackawanna during the 1930s. It is a story dedicated to the men and women of Lackawanna, a small steel city in upstate New York. It is loosely centered around the life and times of one of...

Named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year: The explosive debut novel about family, power, and privilege from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men. Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made...

Nina Chickalini has been waiting all her life to get out of Queens, but something always holds her back. If it isn't the four siblings she raised almost single-handedly, it's the neighborhood pizzeria she's running so Pop can take it easy. At last, she's...

She was taught to submit, to obey . . . but she dreamed of an empire.The sole heir to the House of Omura, a venerable family of Kobe sake brewers, nineteen-year-old Rie hears but cannot heed her mother's advice: that in nineteenth-century Japan, a...

A poignant, heartwarming, and charmingly funny debut novel about how a discovered box in the attic leads one Bengali American family down a path toward understanding the importance of family, even when splintered.Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his...

"A wonderful exploration of the past and the future and, most importantly, of what it means to be present in the here and now. Full of the love of words, the love of family, and the love of falling in love, The Lost and...

From the beloved author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most critically acclaimed novel yet--a stunningly original tale of love: love between a man and a woman, between an artist...

'Smile, nod, and don't breathe a word of what happens here. Or I'll put you on the next train to Auschwitz myself.'Four years later. Hanni Winter shivers in her thin coat as she hurries through the empty Berlin streets to her job. Despite the...

Turgenev's timeless tale of generational collision, in a sparkling new translation When Arkady Petrovich returns home from college, his father finds his eager, na?e son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has...

As seen on TikTok, Daniel Black's Perfect Peace is the heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family's attempt to grapple with their mother's desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have--"a complex, imaginative story of one unforgettable...

Imagine, if you will, a conspiracy to take over the United States government. However, this was no ordinary plot. The date was set, January first, right after dropping the crystal ball in Times Square. The Wilson family, from Manhattan, Kansas, of all places, inadvertently...

Aren't dreams meant to be pursued? Are dreams worth the pain and dedication it takes? The ups and downs of life, for your dream. Eric and his friends, Jeremy, Jacqueline, and Angelo, all have dreams they are seeking. Basketball, acting and modeling, comedy, finding...

Finalist, International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction.These twelve short stories dive deep into imaginary worlds where everyday life is marked and marred by war. They speak of wounded love, captured women, confinement, talismans, borders, wolves. They give expression to the voices of Afghan women...

A powerful family drama about fractured lives, secrets, addiction and ultimate reinvention. In 1995, sisters Adrienne and Cass unravel the mystery behind their father, Dr. Alexander Muir, a doctor during World War 11's Italian Campaign and later a psychiatrist. As children they barely recall...

What happens when the man you love most in the world unexpectedly disappears and takes your small child with him? Emma Fedor's "wonderful, haunting, and original" (Katherine Faulkner, author of Greenwich Park) debut explores the fierceness of first love and how far one woman...

Melissa Makepeace poured herself into running the family farm when her boyfriend, and head beekeeper, vanished on an early spring day, silently absorbing yet another man disappearing from her life. But three months later Beck Wise reappears - thin, pale, with no idea what...

Aren't dreams meant to be pursued? Are dreams worth the pain and dedication it takes? The ups and downs of life, for your dream. Eric and his friends, Jeremy, Jacqueline, and Angelo, all have dreams they are seeking. Basketball, acting and modeling, comedy, finding...