Fiction - Family Life - General

Author: Wiley TraylorISBN-13: 9798201891312Publisher: Wiley TraylorLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2022Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d

Alice: guapa, amable, manipuladora, mentirosaClare: inteligente, leal, paranoica, celosaClare piensa que Alice es una mentirosa manipuladora que intenta robar su vida. Alice piensa que Clare está celosa tras su regreso tras una larga desaparición y la nueva situación en la familia.Una de las dos...

Threads of Childhood reimagines folklore through quiet rebellions and unspoken debts. These short stories are formed by the collision between the myth and harsh realities; they contain tales of broken relationships, the inheritance of burdens, the subversive acts looming over the breakdown of families,...

Sara, 34 and a mother of three, never understood her father, Paul. He had left her, her mother, and her sister after returning from the war. Years later, after Sara grew up and moved away with her husband and children, her father reunited with...

In A Broken Window, Anne Leigh Parrish gives us Sam Clark, a poet haunted by the shadows of her past. Sam channels her emotions into verse, hoping to find peace and strength, but when she falls into a new relationship with Steven-a professor, seemingly...

2023 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Long List2023 Book of the Year, Southern Literary ReviewNamed a 2023 Great Group read, Women's National Book AssociationA South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow of a nuclear...

In this Indian modern classic, roofs are a special place; they are meant for wild things, for romance and for play. They are realms of freedom--freedom from the male gaze, sexual freedom, and freedom from society. Chachcho and Lalna use their roofs to build...

Manchester, 1940. War is raging and these girls will do everything they can on the home front - but is a happy ever after possible in such uncertain times? The minute war was declared, best friends Sally and Deborah volunteered for the home guard....

The BRAND NEW hilarious, feel-good read from #1 bestselling author Fiona Gibson Is it ever too late to bloom? Meet Celia. Life hasn't worked out quite how she'd planned. Since her son left for university, Celia has felt stuck at home - battling with...

Growing up in the valleys of South Wales, Bryn Ellis's childhood is ravaged by the 1984 miners' strike. Thirty years on, he is a Detective Chief Inspector based at New Scotland Yard with a difficult case to solve. The ramifications force him to revisit...

The BRAND NEW hilarious, feel-good read from #1 bestselling author Fiona Gibson Is it ever too late to bloom? Meet Celia. Life hasn't worked out quite how she'd planned. Since her son left for university, Celia has felt stuck at home - battling with...

A young family is devastated and left reeling by the loss of their grandparents and parents in a tragic accident. Exploration of Grandfather Ramsay's attic uncovers the 1796 diary of Grace Ramsay. The handwritten pages offer a fantastic tale of ghosts, lost treasure, and...

"Morgan's writing is clean and crisp, catching her readers unprepared for the emotional roller coaster of finding love again, only to ponder the risk of heartbreak." -Barbara Conrey, USA Today's best-selling author of Nowhere Near GoodbyeIf Lora Hamilton was ever going to live a...

An epic love story unfolds in a heart-stirring prequel to the Red Mountain Chronicles by Boo Walker, the bestselling author of An Unfinished Story and An Echo in Time.In Washington State's Red Mountain wine country, Otis and Rebecca's bond was one for the ages....

Renowned--albeit washed-up--author Peter Zemeckis's new neighbor, Dr. Nancy Chu, has just been fired as director of IBM's Silicon Valley lab. She retreats down the coast to La Jolla to lick her wounds, moving into the home of her late ex-husband and evicting their estranged...

A finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, Thin Places is a gothic and atmospheric collection from the national bestselling author of The Bog Wife. This beautiful reissue includes four additional stories. A not-quite-human proprietor menaces guests at a hotel on the edge of a...

Over 50,000 sold From the author of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree (soon to be a major motion picture) Shades of Willa Cather, Sinclair Lewis, and Conrad Richter."--Publishers Weekly, starred review Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio, in...

Edward Darby has everything a man could hope for: meaningful work, a loving wife, and a beloved daughter. With a rising career as a partner at an esteemed gallery he strives not to let ambition, money, power, and his dark past corrode the sanctuary...

The story concerns a family who move from London to "The Three Chimneys", a house near the railway in Yorkshire, after the father, who works at the Foreign Office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The children befriend an Old Gentleman who...

Autobiographical novel of growing up in the South.Author: Thomas TorransISBN-10: 1516872142ISBN-13: 9781516872145Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2015Pages: 440Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.89d

Accused of "promiscuity" in 1940s North Carolina, a young woman unjustly incarcerated and subjected to involuntary medical treatment at The State Industrial Farm Colony for Women decides to fight back in this powerful, shockingly timely novel based on the long-buried history of the American...

Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family in exchange for handing over Singapore...

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

"The story of the Miltons engages not just with history and politics, but with the poetry of the physical world. This novel sets out to be more than a juicy family saga--it aims to depict the moral evolution of a part of American society....

In 2014 Alexandria, Egypt, history professor Omar El-Mohammedi is shattered when his once-promising son, Nasser, returns-not alive, but wrapped in silence and unanswered questions. Was Nasser truly a terrorist, radicalized by faith, or a casualty of a fractured world that rarely seeks to understand?...

"Madame X, a story of motherlove" explores the devastating consequences of hidden family secrets and the agonizing complexities of motherhood. Written by J. W. McConaughy and Alexandre Bisson, this powerful legal drama unfolds during a gripping murder trial, laying bare the raw emotions of...

In the new novel from the author of Losing Me, one woman is about to discover what happens when you take the "grand" out of "grandma." Recently widowed, Judy Schofield jumps at the chance to look after her two grandchildren for six weeks while...

Upon learning that her college sweetheart husband has been seeing another woman, Mira Serafino's once perfect world is shattered and she wants no one, least of all her big Italian family, to know. She takes off--with no destination and little money--heading north until her...

Watch a video The fiction debut of the New York Times bestselling author of My Fair Lazy. Told in the uproariously entertaining voice readers have come to expect from Jen Lancaster, If You Were Here follows Amish-zombie-teen- romance author Mia and her husband Mac...

Author: Harriet EvansISBN-10: 0063471981ISBN-13: 9780063471986Publisher: HarperviaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 448Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own. The...

Standing on the cliff above the wild Irish sea, Hannah wipes a tear from her eye and thinks about the man she called 'Da'. She was never his daughter. Hannah has been lied to her whole life by everyone she loved. Will she ever...

Emily is a writer, a mother, and a woman who knows heartbreak all too well. Still carrying the weight of her divorce, she's spent the last few years rediscovering who she is-quietly rebuilding a life on her own terms.Lucas is a devoted father, an...

Author: Devin HorneISBN-13: 9798895535240Publisher: Page PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2025Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.'I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the...

Author: Leah DawkinsISBN-13: 9798897667642Publisher: Whisperwood Holdings, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2025Pages: 398Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d

The Harvester is a tender story of love, resilience, and the restorative power of nature. Set in a vividly described rural landscape, this inspiring novel follows a man's journey of self-discovery and his unwavering commitment to a dream of love.Geneva (Gene) Stratton was born...

The BRAND NEW instalment in Freya Kennedy's brilliantly uplifting series. Your forties just got fabulous... Becca Burnside is going to make this the year she turns her forties around, and creates a life her 16-year-old self would be proud of... A smidgen of romance...

Louis Bromfield's "The Green Bay Tree" paints a vivid portrait of early 20th-century life in Mansfield, Ohio, exploring the complexities of family and the sweeping social changes transforming small-town America. Through a compelling narrative lens, Bromfield delves into the heart of family dynamics against...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher's "The Home-Maker" explores the complexities of marriage, family, and shifting gender roles in the 1920s. This thought-provoking novel delves into the dynamics of spouses and domesticity amidst a period of significant social change. Through compelling fiction, the book offers a nuanced...

The BRAND NEW instalment in the uplifting Escape to the Lakes series from MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Jessica Redland Melanie knows she's been running away... For the last seven years Mel has been hiding; from life, from her friends and from those who love her...

In this thrilling next novel from the acclaimed author of Alys, Always, and Her, a chance encounter draws two women from different worlds into an increasingly toxic friendship. "I look. I can't stop looking. That's the deal, isn't it? We all know that's how...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved author of Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband's Secret comes a moving novel of love, marriage, family, and trying to find certainty in a fragile world. "The premise is irresistible--a woman on...

"A small-town novel of epic proportions" (Tom Perrotta), this captivating story weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century. In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of...

#1 bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand teams up with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham, to deliver a dishy, page-turning novel following an intertwined cast of characters over the course of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school. It's move-in day at Tiffin Academy and...

On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love, and the writer's endgame. Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory,...

Rediscover the heartwarming charm of Grace S. Richmond's "The Second Violin," a timeless exploration of family, romance, and the enduring power of love. Set against the backdrop of domestic life and intricate relationships, this classic work of Christian fiction delves into the complexities of...

A stunning new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers.Author: Danielle SteelISBN-13: 9798217169801Publisher: Random House Large Print PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2026Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.97dLarge Print

I remind myself that I wanted this break. For the first time in years, I am completely, blissfully alone. But as the days pass, I begin to realise a painful truth. For years I've been telling a story about my life - a story...

A gripping and thought-provoking novel from bestseller Caroline Finnerty that asks the question: How far would you go, to protect your child? When Charlotte Daly wins a scholarship to the prestigious St Thomas's school, her mother Ali - who has struggled to bring Charlotte...