Fiction - Family Life - General

Lydia Wienewski has opened her Polish-American cafe and bakery on the shore of Lake Erie, but her idyllic new venture is shattered when the low tide leads to a terrible discovery.July, 1982. Lydia Wienewski's dream has finally come true: Lydia's Lakeside Cafe and Bakery,...

There are two sides to every story. Joshua is getting ready to graduate from his final year in high school. He has always lived in a small colonial town in New England and looks forward to new adventures in a university in Illinois. Autumn...

Our need for identity can jeopardise what we hold most dear. In a Yorkshire Dales village in the nineteen-seventies, best mates Michael, a boy with a strong sense of tradition and family loyalty, and Jack, a boy drawn to new horizons, are there for...

Margaret Heller has everything she ever wanted in life: the perfect husband, adorable kids, a wonderful job with great friends. Her days are filled with t-ball practices, dance recitals, and bonfires with friends and family. Just as Margaret is basking in the glow of...

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...

This book is fictional, and it is based on a special area of Haiti called St Louis du Nord before the new age of development. The town is way different than the period that this book is about. The book is a prelude to...

When young naive anglo, Abby Baker, fell in love with second generation Mexican American Mauricio Arias, she didn't expect the passions and history of his family. Meeting his beautiful sensual sister Renan, the quiet dark Pedro and the youngest brother, Oil Boy, cause her...

For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath. It's...

In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful...

"Refreshing.... Asks urgent questions about female ambition. Fans of Lab Girl have found a worthy successor."--Real SimpleA powerful debut novel--a wonderfully engaging infusion of Lab Girl, The Assistants, and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine--that pits the ambition of scientific discovery against the siren call...

"Periodically a writer captures the pattern of comedy and tragedy that peppers office life like alternating colors of carpet squares. . . . As smart as Medoff's critique of corporate inanity is, it's tempered by compassion for these people, who are ultimately tender with...

"Van Booy's great triumph comes in using a family secret to underscore the message that family is as much a choice as a blood tie. Although any reader will find something to love here, someone who has benefited from a perfectly imperfect family will...

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller In the tradition of Kristin Hannah and Susan Wiggs, Mary McNear introduces readers to the town of Butternut Lake and to the unforgettable people who call it home.It's summer, and after ten years away, Allie Beckett has...

A heartbreaking story of family secrets from the USA Today bestselling author of Gracie's Secret. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult and Diane Chamberlain.I know you. I know you in a way you can't even imagine. I have been searching for you in the...

Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi, the main character in this most recently translated Mahfouz novel, is guided by his motto, "let life be filled with holy madness to the last breath." He narrates his life story to a friend during one long night in a...

Describes the two-hundred year involvement of a small English Family Firm in a Worldwide profession. Namely Felling and converting trees into sawn lumber.Author: David W. ShoplandISBN-10: 1698711573ISBN-13: 9781698711577Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2022Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 09/19/2023

Describes the two-hundred year involvement of a small English Family Firm in a Worldwide profession. Namely Felling and converting trees into sawn lumber.Author: David W. ShoplandISBN-10: 1698711565ISBN-13: 9781698711560Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2022Pages: 122Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of Ian McEwan, Elena Ferrante, and Julie Orringer, the spellbinding, internationally bestselling, multigenerational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria. Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, a moving tale of forbidden love and extraordinary courage in the face of disaster. Eighteen-year-old Niri and his family live a modest but secure life working in the villa of the wealthy Benzes....

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award This intimate family novel that follows the rise and fall of a great love is also a moving tribute to the generation that struggled to survive in Spain after the Civil War. In Open Heart, Elvira Lindo tells...

A mesmerizing, poetic autofiction about the quest to find meaning in family tragedies, and a sense of self after loss. In 2012, Theseus heads east in search of a new life, fleeing the painful memories of his past: the suicide of his older brother,...

Until I See StarsBy: Marisa ReckerKarina and Dan think their marriage is unshakeable... until the strains of long-distance test their loyalties.Kayla and Bethany believe that the bond of sisterhood is unbreakable... until a shocking betrayal creates lasting damage for their friendship.Until I See Stars...

"Wallflower in Bloom is absolutely, hands-down, Claire Cook's best novel to date. Cook's characters are delightful and quirky, and the storyline is fast paced and lively with just the right touch of humor and romance. Slip on your dancing shoes and enjoy a few...

A sweeping family drama spanning both the centuries and the continents. This inspiring epic tale, follows the lives and loves of the Le Britton and O'Dowd dynasties, culminating in the charming love story between Lewis and Dorothy. I challenge anyone not to be moved...

Renate Edler loves to visit her grandmother in the house on Schellberg Street. She often meets up with her friend Hani G dde who lives nearby. This year, though, it is not to be. Just a few weeks after a night when synagogues are...

Lucas shares his daily greetings and learns Spanish along the way in this fun bilingual family book. Lucas comparte sus saludos diarios y aprende Ingl s tambi n en este divertido libro biling e para la familia.Author: Winda Mulyasari, Monica Roman-TiplinISBN-10: 1699844615ISBN-13: 9781699844618Publisher: Independently...

The inspiration for these poems was drawn from the impact of a father's love. The great leader we had as our dad. Throughout life's journey, we face many experiences, joys, sadness, love, and laughter. The constant support and strong bond he gave us will...

A toy can come, a toy can go with every passing whim. But we take a pet forever more, it's just one of those things. So if you know it's what you want and commit to what it takes, you won't regret the special...

Before history there were infinite possibilities. The year was 1989 - the year everything unexpected happened: the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was the beginning of the end of an era, but Professor...

For two women generations apart, going home will change their lives in this funny, poignant, and life-affirming novel about family, secrets, and broken hearts by the author of For the Love of Friends.Four years into her marriage, Jenna is blindsided when her husband asks...

Opposites attract in this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about a free-spirited lawyer who is determined to find the perfect match for the grumpy bachelor at her cousin's wedding. After a devastating break-up, celebrity-obsessed lawyer Zara Patel is determined never to open her heart again. She...

A story of betrayal, desire, and family drama, written by a giant of Egyptian popular fiction who shocked readers in the 1950s when this Lolita-esque novel first appeared and whose work has never before been available in English Sixteen-year-old Nadia had been raised by...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - "Fortified with wit and tenderness . . . Gun Love potently illuminates a puzzled land."--O: The Oprah Magazine NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME - SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS...

From #1 bestselling Irish author Cathy Kelly comes a witty, warmhearted novel about friendship, forgiveness, and second chances...They say you can't go home again, and truth be told, Eleanor Levine never planned to. Yet here she is, back in Ireland after a lifetime in...

The story of two sisters and the boy next door... The acclaimed author of Firefly Beach and other New York Times bestsellers, Luanne Rice explores the powerful bonds that connect old friends, and the joy of life's unexpected second chances. Now, returning once more...

After leaving the college she'd attended to escape her religiously conservative parents, Iliana, a first-generation Dominican-American woman, returns home to Brooklyn to find that her family is falling apart: one sister is careening toward mental collapse, another sister is living in a decrepit building...

Acclaimed for her insightful depiction of the magic and mystery in everyday life and relationships, Luanne Rice is one of today's most gifted novelists. Now the author of eight consecutive New York Times bestsellers delivers her most powerful book yet--the story of a man...

Brutal and overwhelming, Confession wrestles with the legacy of Argentina's past and the passions of one young girl.When Mirta López looks out the dining room window, she sees a slim, self-possessed older boy on his way back from school. It's 1941 in provincial Argentina,...

Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters-Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia-at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent school's beautiful seaside campus, over which Honor's sister-in-law, mother superior Bernadette...

A grieving Hector Peterson and his estranged father Winston Telemacque arrive on the lush island of Dominica in 2017 to spread his mother's ashes when Hurricane Maria strikes. Amid the devastation, the fragile peace between father and son is tested as long-buried family secrets...

Winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize One of Vanity Fair's Best Books of the Year A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town. Billington, Texas,...

The 20th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by readers the world over, with a new afterword by the author The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant,...

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act--intertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town...

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...

"Love blooms in the darkest days... It's 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the second world war rages on. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her...

A captivating historical novel set in Gilded Age New York City about an immigrant daughter's ascent from a miserable tenement to the heights of haute couture, driven by an insatiable hunger for a place in society and secrets she must not betray.When Rivkah Milmanovitch...

Henry Gauthier: Bassist. Gorgeous. My brother's best friend. And my first love.He's also the man I grew to hate after a one-night stand went horribly wrong.I've spent the last three years successfully dodging him like a bullet.Now, fresh out of a bad relationship and...

An easy to read, lightsome story for young or old. Written with a humorous sense about life, seen from a cat's perspective.I told him to go home, that he was in my spot.The dog just looked at me, "No " he said."What? Do you...

Sometimes going home is just the beginning...'Vivid and beautifully written, Liz Fenwick is a gifted storyteller' Sarah Morgan, Sunday Times bestselling author'Atmospheric, emotional and full of mystery - an absolute pleasure from page one' Veronica Henry, Sunday Times bestselling authorBoskenna, the beautiful, imposing house...

Texte intregral. Ouvrage pessimiste, roman noir ou se deploient dans leur hideur un univers cruel, une jungle hantee par des fauves inquietants, Le Cousin Pons nous presente un monde criminel, en haut comme en bas, du salon a la loge de concierge. Au beau...