Fiction - Family Life - General

"Sizzle Factor: SPF 50. A secret marriage, lies about affairs . . . even sex on the day of the divorce party" (USA Today) a novel by the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, The Last Thing...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Country Living's 20 New Books You Don't Want to Miss This Spring One of Bookstr's 8 Most Anticipated Reads of 2021 One of Frolic's 12 Most Anticipated Books of 2021 One of BookTrib's Most-Anticipated Reads of...

Both a family history and an exploration of the complications of women attempting to tell their stories, We are the Kings follows Marcella as she grieves the death of her grandmother, unearths family secrets, and refuses to settle for a predictable life or a...

In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who chooses to save a baby's life, and risks her own in the process, exploring the ties of motherhood and the little-known history of Coney Island...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In Danielle Steel's riveting novel, three women raised by their father on a sprawling California ranch now confront difficult truths about their past. Decades ago, after the death of his wife, Texas ranch hand JT Tucker took his three...

"Readers of Liane Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and Ruth Ware will love." --Library Journal (starred review) "Jewell's novel explores the space between going missing and being lost....how the plots intersect and finally collide is one of tAuthor: Lisa JewellISBN-10: 1501154605ISBN-13: 9781501154607Publisher: Atria BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/2018Pages:...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of the international sensation Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, here is the trilogy's uproarious conclusion. - "A memorable, laugh-out-loud Asian glitz fest that's a pure pleasure to read." --USA TodayWhen Nicholas Young hears that...

In August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy's father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Sasa Stanisic's Where You Come From is a...

A Vintage Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's beloved and influential story of the March sisters, which is once again a major motion picture. First published in 1868, and based on Louisa May Alcott's own unusual family, the novel brought to life some of...

Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges, directed by Azazael JacobsA Recommended Read from: Vanity Fair * Entertainment Weekly * Vulture * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * EsquireFrom bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY - "Make sure you have tissues handy when you read [this] sure-footed tearjerker" (NPR) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy, from the...

"Colm Tb匤's beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James's inner life" (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Who's really following you on social media? The scam of a lifetime brings together two wildly different women in this page-turning thriller about greed, legacy, and betrayal from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear. An...

The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl's fantastical sea voyage to rescue her fatherThe House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadhrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNow a Hulu original series "If three characters were good in Big Little Lies, nine are even better in Nine Perfect Strangers." --Lisa Scottoline, The New York Times Book Review From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little...

In Lisa Genova's extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer's disease--only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK With its countless epiphanies and surprises, Oona proves difficult to put down. --USA Today By turns tragic and triumphant, heartbreakingly poignant and joyful, this is ultimately an uplifting and redemptive read. --The Guardian A remarkably...

#1 New York Times Instant Bestseller In Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature. Alaska,...

An unforgettable fable about a father's journey and a timeless guide to life's many questions--from Ethan Hawke, four-time Academy Award nominee, twice for writing and twice for acting. A knight, fearing he may not return from battle, writes a letter to his children in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge comes a "poised and moving" (Vogue) novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown--and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even...

This book is based on my own experiences in life. It is a book of fiction, but the characters are all based on other people I knew and still know. The woman's father was a carpenter and had his own business. My mother's father...

Chosen as the Library of Congress's "Great Reads from Great Places" Michigan selection for 2023 "Moving and brave." --People Set against the wide open beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a wise, big hearted novel in which a young single mother and her ten-year-old daughter...

An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastrophe To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami...

In this smart, tender, insightful novel, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin introduces two very different women who, over the course of two unforgettable weeks, learn about unbreakable bonds, unshakeable love, and the chances that come once in a lifetime--and change us forever... When Elizabeth Caldwell...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A twist you won't see coming. A love story you'll never forget. From the acclaimed author of The Notebook comes a powerful novel about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. We...

Don't miss the captivating new page-turner from internationally bestselling author Susan LewisYou think you're safe.You think you know your neighbours.But can you ever really know who's telling the truth?Jeannie Symonds is a force to be reckoned with - an eccentric, award-winning publisher, spending lockdown...

"There's humor and action aplenty, but Four Corners is also a warmhearted look at how we love and forgive. Five hundred and forty-four pages never seemed so short"--People, 4 stars, People PickThe Four Corners of the Sky is master storyteller Michael Malone's new novel...

In the year after her mother Katherine ("Kat") Hudson's death, Charlie thought she had learned every secret her mother had. How could she have been so wrong? When Charlie discovers her mother's diary, it's as if Kat is right there, telling Charlie her story....

The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize-winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large commercial upper middle-class English family, similar to Galsworthy's own....

I'll Love You All the Same is a children's book by Dr. Johnoson Crutchfield, an African American Dad who writes and sings to his children about life, his hopes and dreams for them, and in hopes to inspire other parents to do the same....

When Willow Trudeau is given her dead mother's diary on her tenth birthday, she learns a hard truth: her mother chose Willow's life over her own. Years later, at loose ends over her identity and abandoning college, Willow journeys to a deteriorating ethnic neighborhood...

On the verge of returning to the wearisome job he had never wanted, David discovers that he must earn his doctor's medical release by spending six weeks at a Vermont wedding venue. He is stunned when he discovers that it is run by his...

A sudden departure. A story decades in the making.The chaotic but happy equilibrium of the Nightingale family is thrown into disarray when Cecily--whose children can't remember her ever being remotely spontaneous--disappears to a Greek island with no warning or explanation.Her reasons for doing something...

Based on a true story. This is not a religious book but rather a story with religion inside it. An integral marital message for educating, discussing and understanding. Paola, 33 years of age, chooses to become a Muslim. Eight months after her conversion to...

Was She Adopted or Kidnapped?A young woman's search for her biological family opens up a mystifying twenty-year old cold case of a mother and her baby daughter disappearing while on a walk, a development that arouses interest and surprise from a couple of television...

The Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city's wastewater. Her brother,...

Moses and Jorge will never leave the maximum security prison. Outside its walls, Gina, Shell, and Ellen will never escape its influence, or the way it tethers them to one another. When Jorge dies in his cell, lives within and beyond the prison walls...

From the Academy award winning screenplay writer of Burnt by the Sun, Solar Plexus is a compelling saga of family and friendship, love and betrayal, set against the backdrop of Azerbaijan's rapidly-changing capital, Baku, as the country struggles with the transition into a post-Soviet...

Sarmada, Arabic for "perpetuate" or "the eternally-not-changed," is the novel's fictitious setting. In the title, Fadi Azzam creates a new word (a derivative female form of noun-verb, which does not exist in Arabic) and in so doing immediately lets the reader know that women...

They have the whole summer ahead of them. Is it enough to rekindle the friendship they once shared?Harriet Greenleaf dreams of spending the summer in a beautiful ancient priory on the Somerset coast with her two best friends--but her dream is bittersweet. On the...

A deeply touching Southern story filled with struggle and hope. Emmalee Bullard and her new baby are on their own. Or so she thinks, until Leona Lane, the older seamstress who sat by her side at the local shirt factory where both women worked...

New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. The Bodyguard is absolutely, unequivocally delightful!--JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here She's got his back.Hannah Brooks looks more...

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this powerful debut novel, set amid the lush landscape of the Florida wetlands, delves into past crimes, old memories, and the eloquent, limitless expanse of parental love. Loni Mae Murrow's life as a bird artist at the...

Phil Ochs has his troubles. His adult son is a failed artist who's targeting him in a terroristic poetry campaign, his wife has developed an addiction to As Seen On TV gadgets, and a professional rival is poaching managers from his seventeen Fry Buddy...

When a daughter goes missing... It's time to go hunting.Lilac is a sixteen-year-old girl climbing the ladder of success one step at a time. She's found social fame on the internet and has even patented her own bluetooth earbud earrings. A teenage influencer with...

Despite Femi Cole's philandering ways, Ajoke still goes ahead to marry him. And just as the leopard who does not change its spots, Femi continues in his infidelity, resulting in the collapse of the marriage. Years later, their daughter, Kikelomo Cole, is planning her...

He will need courage, resilience, and a bit of magic... to survive fatherhood.Artist Matthew Sugiyama finally has a location to start his search for his birth family, but no one prepared him for the turbulence of a scowling, unhappy child. Not only is the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, adult siblings find their way back home--and back to each other--after loss. Preston and Constance Whittier have built a happy life together, with a brood of...

Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel of feminism, existentialism, and self-realization is an essential read for all lovers of classic literature. Virginia Woolf's classic novel centers around Clarissa Dalloway, a married high-society woman in post-World War I London who is preparing for a party at her...

How can you belong when you don't know who you are? Gina Reid is surrounded by people getting married or having babies. She's under pressure to settle down but how can she do that when she doesn't even know where she came from? Since...