Fiction - Family Life - General

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...

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...

Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this intelligent and tender novel. At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of the eighteenth-century...

FAMILY. Everybody has one. In 2022, families come in all shapes and sizes: blended, same-sex parented, nuclear, chosen. Some are estranged, strained, and some merely strange. Some run on love and some are fueled by resentment. Some are constructed through painstaking perseverance and acceptance;...

With love in their eyes and hope in their hearts, a couple begins the joyous journey of parenthood and finds themselves drawn into the tumultuous waves of postpartum. People live within the ebb and flow of life - among the changing seasons of circumstances...

Down to the River is a family saga set in the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Twin brothers, Nash and Remi Potts, have grown up as entitled, Harvard-educated, golden boys, heirs to an old, but dwindling family...

From the author of The Longest Ride and The Return comes a #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the enduring legacy of first love, and the decisions that haunt us forever. 1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away...

Fifteen-year-old Gale is desperate to get out of Whitehorse, a fact that is immediately clear to counsellor Helen Cotillard when Gale walks into her office with her reluctant stepmother. It's 1995, and one counselling agency for kids and families serves all of the Yukon....

From award-winning author Laura Trentham comes an emotionally layered novel about redemption, second chances and discovering that life is worth fighting for. At thirty, Greer Hadley never expected to be forced home to Madison, Tennessee with her life and dreams up in flames. A...

When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah's mother Veronica, about having the...

For those who care about the future of America, When Life Was Still provides thought-provoking fictional historical narratives. The trilogy is written for people who value the character and integrity of a nation. It is for those who recognize and resist abuse of power....

Beginning in the early years of this century, Number 11 follows two friends, Alison and Rachel, as they come of age. As the narrative progresses from the aftermath of the Iraq War to the present day, its scope broadens to include others who are...

Twenty-two years have passed since Beth Cappadora's three-year-old son, Ben, was abducted. By some miracle he returned nine years later, and the family began to pick up the pieces of their lives.Now, in this sequel to Mitchard's beloved bestseller The Deep End of the...

Against a backdrop of stunning natural beauty, and in the shadow of a mysterious family legend, one woman is about to discover that to find your way home, sometimes you must travel far away.... An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah Connolly suddenly finds herself adrift in...

In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that has stifled [him] since [he] was born, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring novel of loss and unshakeable love.A critical sensation in France, The Ghetto Within...

A mesmerizing, panoramic story of one man's search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades before When the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even as his memory seems to...

Both a heartbreaking and heart-warming story, Melody Razak's debut transports the reader into the home of a Brahmin family in 1940s Delhi. . . . The character portrayal is so intricate that as the plot twists and turns, you'll truly care what happens to...

Both a heartbreaking and heart-warming story, Melody Razak's debut transports the reader into the home of a Brahmin family in 1940s Delhi. . . . The character portrayal is so intricate that as the plot twists and turns, you'll truly care what happens to...

In this brilliant new novel by from Emiko Jean, the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Tokyo Ever After, comes a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, daughterhood, and love--how we find it, keep it, and how...