Fiction - Family Life - General

Minnesota, 1956Unknown human remains are discovered deep within the mosaic of rugged forests and interconnected waterways once home to the native Ojibwe people.More than 30 years later, fresh news of the cold case reopens old wounds for an Arizona family, from a time when...

A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational...

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very...

Pearl Winter hasn't been outside in forty-three years. Since she arrived on Dartmoor as a girl, an isolated family cottage has been her whole world. A place of safety. But now fifty-nine-year-old Pearl is utterly alone - except for the postman, the local crows,...

Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime. Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the...

In a matter of minutes, I gained two kids, a house, a dog . . . and a hot doctor-farmer guy for a neighbor.I never anticipated being a single mom, but I did expect to get pregnant first. Never in my wildest dreams would...

At twenty-one, Suzie has withdrawn from a world she finds alien and confusing. Ability is not the problem, nor is interest - many things fascinate her. But, she has Asperger's Syndrome and high anxiety. To her, the world is a harsh, scary place where...

When Martina Keane's horse returns home to the family farm without her, the entire neighbourhood goes into action to search the surrounding area. Plans are drawn up, maps are made, and the police are brought in to investigate the disappearance.But in Martina's shocked and...

Gift shop owners, Roy and Lola Ambrose suddenly disappear during a hot air balloon ride in the Canary Islands, off the northwest coast of Africa. When search and rescue teams find personal belongings but no bodies, Roy and Lola are declared dead. Their four...

As if he is coming from a different planet, the best player in the English Premier League, The world's most powerful league scorer of his first season, The top scorers of the five major leagues are ahead of Messi and Ronaldo. He became the...

A young 12 year old, Effie Bradley, discovers that she is the only one in her family who recognizes that her grandfather who has had a massive stroke is able to communicate by blinking and no one believes her. What she learns from her...

Author: Kimber AdamsISBN-10: 1441517979ISBN-13: 9781441517975Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2009Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Richmal CromptonISBN-10: 1509826033ISBN-13: 9781509826032Publisher: Policy PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2017Pages: 476Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.19d

Author: Richmal CromptonISBN-10: 1509859470ISBN-13: 9781509859474Publisher: Policy PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2017Pages: 350Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d

With pitch perfect emotion and a beautiful portrayal of the relationship between a father and son, Stephen Metcalfe has drawn a rich and layered portrait of what it means to be a family and what it means to be truly loved. Michael Hodge has...

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...

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door.A lighthearted whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio of amateur sleuths. Think: Gilmore Girls, but with murder."Mother-Daughter Murder Night is the perfect mix of family drama and murder mystery." -- Kellye Garrett, award-winning author of Like...

When Lin, Josie and Minnie left Miss Hamilton's class at Middleton Ferris County Primary School, sixty years ago, they could only dream about what the future had in store for them. The one thing they knew for certain was that their friendship would thrive.Years...

A Manhattan photographer finds inspiration and new possibilities in a Gothic Rhode Island beach house in this uplifting fall-set read from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble. Dani Campbell is the latest darling of the Manhattan art scene. As a self-taught photographer, Dani...

A Manhattan photographer finds inspiration and new possibilities in a Gothic Rhode Island beach house in this uplifting fall-set read from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble. Dani Campbell is the latest darling of the Manhattan art scene. As a self-taught photographer, Dani...

Once upon a time, Donnie Nelson was a bestselling author of fantasy novels. He had the fame, money, and career he had always dreamed about, but fame led to temptation, and Donnie surrendered to it, destroying his family. Then his mother died. Writer's block...

Jackie is torn between two lives, the one her parents have planned for her and her secret life as amember of a gang, the Hoods. When her parents find out about her double life, Jackie's two worldscollide, and she must choose which path to...

A single dad, a nanny, a baby, and a fake engagement...it's all baby business!When the hot single dad next door asks me to babysit one morning in a pinch, I figure I can help him out temporarily. I'm supposed to be the resident baby...

Just when she thought she'd gotten far enough away . . . a life-changing phone call throws an antisocial scientist back into her least favorite place--the spotlight. A hilarious and insightful new novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of...

Five-year-old Sousanna lives in a small but love-filled home in Pirgos, Greece. For her, life is a family that dotes on her, play at being a rich and heroic American, a community that watches out for her. Though often cold and always hungry, she's...

In a landscape dominated by refinery smoke and rumors, Delia Arco spends her workdays counseling teenagers as outcast as she once was, and her nights caring for the baby daughter she loves fiercely. Searching furiously for the mother in herself, she struggles to understand...

A young girl sheltered from everything, including her own name, by her unusual and distant mother wishes that their lives would change. But when that wish comes true, she loses everything that was once familiar, leaving her regretting that she had ever made that...

From David Cristofano, the Edgar Award-nominated author of The Girl She Used to Be, comes a poignant, darkly witty story about the ties that bind us together . . . and the choices that rip us apart. No loose ends. It's the Bovaro family...

Raleigh Bishop's perfect life in rural St. Mary's County, Maryland, has just come to a shattering end. Her naval test pilot husband, Grant, has been killed in a flight accident, and Raleigh is left to pick up the brittle shards of that life. She...

Science raises questions only hope and faith can answer in this instant New York Times bestselling "tale of forgiveness and love" (Woman's World) from Karen Kingsbury. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Sarah Fisher.Andi Allen is shaken to the core when she...

Overnight, in a small town, careers, friendships, reputations, and futures are all on the line in a razor-sharp novel about scandals, secrets, and hard-earned dreams coming true.A small-town campus is rocked by scandal. Suddenly, four women find themselves in the crosshairs of an investigation...

A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Teenage sisters Eve and...

Just in time for the much-anticipated royal coronation of 2023, the charming story of a family's madcap quest to witness Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation, from the beloved author of Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. Coronation Day, June 2nd, 1953. A humble, working-class family...

Sara's childhood was a living hell. This is her story of the tremendous abuse she suffered and her fight to take back control. A first-person account of her life and healing journey.Sara's Rising is a Firebird Award winner for 2023.*Please see the author's note...

Jim Orton has a secret. He tries to lead a simple, good life with the guilt of a horrible crime he committed shadowing his existence. He was thrust out of Montana in the late 1930s and landed in a small Midwestern town. He is...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door."I just loved how intriguing the mystery is but also the dynamics between a grandmother, a mother, and a teenage daughter." --Reese WitherspoonThink: Gilmore Girls, but...

Imagine losing the love of your life to a self-serving egomaniac she will marry in less than one week, and your dream job in one day.Despite his slave-driving boss plucking his long, hard-fought, world-renown professional wrestling career from his grasp in Tallahassee, Florida, Richie...

Winner of the 2019 Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award, short-listed for the 2019 JQ Wingate Literary Prize, and a Finalist for the 2019 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of Entertainment Weekly's 20 Books to Read in March and one of...

There are no secrets that time does not reveal...Bristol 1937The year is 1937 and the country is still reeling from the abdication of King Edward the Eighth the year before.His brother, the Duke of York has become King George the Sixth and will be...

Adam Masters has lived a long and difficult life. Having spent his formative years under the thumb of an abusive father, he understands all too well how childhood traumas can shape choices made in later years. He has experienced firsthand the ways in which...

Suddenly widowed with no means of support, Evelyn Peerbaugh hangs a "for rent" sign in front of her large Victorian home and her life changes in ways she never dreamed of.In a matter of days she becomes the owner of a busy boardinghouse and...

Man and Wife was Wilkie Collins's ninth published novel. It is the second of his novels (after No Name) in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics tends...

In Together Forever, the author tells us that if we are patient and endure the trials we encounter along our life's path, we will become stronger, braver, and wiser.Instead of growing weaker, we will learn to create our own magic and our own wonders...

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...

Sent to a "therapeutic community" for autism at the age of eleven, Todd Aaron, now in his fifties, is the "Old Fox" of Payton LivingCenter. A joyous man who rereads the encyclopedia compulsively, he is unnerved by the sudden arrivals of a menacing new...

What better way of encouraging healthy eating? Most children love all kinds of animals and will be delighted to learn in this book, that many animals eat the same healthy foods that kids eat Healthy food is FUN and gives us energy, is a...

A novel of literary fiction, set in rural Ireland and London and Berkshire in England, between 1972 and 1996. A tale of romance, the hero and heroine searching for incompatible dreams, a tale of activism, love, loss pain and eventual atonement.Author: Fran BradyISBN-10: 1517377412ISBN-13:...

Marrying the sharp insights of Jenny Offill with the dark humor of Maria Semple, Motherest is an inventive and moving coming-of-age novel that captures the pain of fractured family life, the heat of new love, and the particular magic of the female friendship --...

Hattie gazes at her husband's empty green-and-white-striped deckchair, the fabric blowing in the breeze. Blinking away tears, she clutches her own chair's wooden frame with trembling hands. 'What will I do without him?' Olivia's heart breaks watching her mother Hattie withdraw after her husband's...

From award-winning author Siobhan Daiko, comes a hauntingly epic read that will sweep you away to the beauty of the Italian Riviera. A story of heart-wrenching loss, uplifting courage, and secrets untold.When Gina Bianchi returns to the beautiful Italian resort of Portofino to attend...