Fiction - Family Life - General

Over the span of 50 years, different tenants come and go. A silent observer sees it all. This emotional tale of grief, joy, and longing tells a story of the human experience from a new and unexpected perspective. While the setting may not change,...

An exquisite new literary voice--wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout--depicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss. "Full of nuance and humor and strangeness...[Polzin] writes beautifully about...

A BEST BOOK OF 2022 (CrimeReads)Based on a true story, an urgently told psychological thriller and the fierce portrait of a woman in all her frailty and courageIrina's life with her husband and her twin daughters is orderly. An Italian living in Switzerland, she...

From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes an evocative dual-timeline novel detailing one woman's journey to discover the hidden stories of her family's seaside resort.When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow.Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale's hometown of...

The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Missing.Author: Susan LewisISBN-10: 0099525682ISBN-13: 9780099525684Publisher: Arrow BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2011Pages: 532Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 6.80h x 4.30w x 1.40d

The author of this novel, Don Betts, knows a lot about old Florida. No, he was not one of the first settlers. But he knew Manatee County and Sarasota county when they were still sparsely populated. He was born in 1932 on the far...

It's the summer of 1982 in Blacksburg, Virginia--seven years after the suspicious death of a son and sibling--and the Sobel family is hungry. Francie dresses in tennis skirts and ankle socks and weighs her grams of allotted carrots and iceberg lettuce. Her semi-estranged husband...

Willow Adair has a picture-perfect life--or so it seems. A stunning model-turned-wife-and-mother, she lives in a beautiful home with her husband and two kids in historic Bexley, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio. On the outside, she has everything. On the inside,...

George MacDonald (10 December 1824 - 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll.George MacDonald was born on 10 December 1824 at...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lucky Harbor series comes a "witty, steamy love story" (Robyn Carr) about a headstrong woman who takes "full advantage of her second chance at life" (Fresh Fiction). UNEXPECTED AND UNDENIABLE . . . Bailey Moore...

The pain of deceit was fresh, but love and desire overruled everything else. Now, Aria and Aiden face their greatest challenge yet.Aria Cason's life took an unexpected turn when she reconnected with Aiden Raine, the man who awakened a pure and undeniable love she'd...

The pain of deceit was fresh, but love and desire overruled everything else. Now, Aria and Aiden face their greatest challenge yet. Aria Cason's life took an unexpected turn when she reconnected with Aiden Raine, the man who awakened a pure and undeniable love...

Ten tiny stories inspired by true events. A daughter's relationship with her father grows increasingly distant because of dementia and ten thousand miles of ocean.Author: Kaye LindenISBN-10: 153280752XISBN-13: 9781532807527Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2016Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.12d

All she wants for Christmas is a second chance . . . Charlotte Daniels has made her share of mistakes, but now that she's a single mom, she vows to do better--and that starts with a new career. Working at her sister's event-planning company...

An emotionally moving novel of a woman in search of a new beginning and a man haunted by the past--from the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels. At thirty-two, Jillian Parrish finally finds the courage to put herself in the...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize A wickedly funny satire of Irish society after WWI, featuring "delicious and deleterious accounts of illicit sex and wild high jinks, and a mother-daughter duo who can scrap with the best of them" (Vulture). "Hilarious and sinister." --The New...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Danielle Steel tells a riveting story of the dark side of motherhood. Zoe Morgan's childhood was marked by her younger sister's tragic illness, watching as her parents dedicated themselves completely to her final days and then divorced. As...

From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes a sweeping saga that interweaves the past and present in an epic tapestry of love, war, and loss.As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime....

This "gentle, humorous novel" follows a young Japanese woman as she yearns for the love of a reluctant coworker (The Wall Street Journal). The objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers who handle them. But...

One of Entertainment Weekly's Must-Read Books for July People Magazine's Book of the Week One of Bustle's "Fifteen Books With Chilling Protagonists That Will Keep You Guessing" One of PopSugar's "25 Must-Read Books That Will Make July Fly By!" One of the "Biggest Thrillers...

Helen DeWitt's 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was "destined to become a cult classic" (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so "Why not just, 'destined to become a classic?'" (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it...

Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The Portrait of a Lady contains an introduction by Philip Horne in Penguin Classics. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe...

From the author of Once Upon a Sunset and The Key to Happily Ever After comes a heartwarming and moving novel following three Army wives--estranged friends--who must overcome their differences when one of them is desperate for help. Regina Castro, Adelaide Wilson-Chang, and Sophie...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of The River and The Dog Stars comes another "gorgeously wrought story--equal parts character study and mystery--a young woman asks Celine, a badass Brooklyn private eye, to investigate the death of her father, a nature photographer" (Entertainment Weekly)....

A multicultural saga, This Fierce Blood follows three generations of women in the Sylte family. In rural late-nineteenth-century New England, Wilhelmina Sylte is a settler starting a family with her Norwegian immigrant husband. When she forms an inexplicable connection with a mountain lion and...

In this delectable novel, a chef on the rise fuels her passion for cooking while enduring the hardest challenges she's ever faced after a debilitating injury. Everybody wants a piece of grand chef Sophie Valroux. With her once-destroyed reputation fully recovered and then some,...

From the makers of Overcomer and Fireproof comes the inspirational novelization of the runaway hit movie Facing the Giants. It's been six years without a winning season, and Coach Grant Taylor's job is on the line. Unless the Shiloh Christian Eagles turn things around--and...

"Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself."--The New York Times Book Review "A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt,...

Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in Penguin Classics. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and...

The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." --The New Yorker At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie...

From the bestselling author of In an Instant comes a heartrending story about the power of friendship during the most challenging moments in life.It's been eight years since a tragic accident changed Mo Kaminski's and Chloe Miller's lives forever. Now in their midtwenties, they're...

He's standing in front of her...... after ten long years.No one knows why Dixie's son is standing there, on Christmas Day, no less. And he doesn't look happy.Dixie is keeping a big secret that will shake up everyone around her.Julie's daughter, Colleen, is coming...

"A close-up look at how wartime chaos affects a tight-knit group of women living on Hawaii in 1944 at the height of Pacific combat.... Violet's] journey overcoming her trials and grief through friendship, family, and romance is a story of strength and perseverance."--Booklist Violet...

"Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see--to the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees...

What happens when a 19-year-old girl, alone and exhausted, follows a fleeting impulse and tosses her screaming infant son out a window? What happens if that baby is caught by a woman who-standing below looks up and reaches out? And what if the catcher's...

A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of 2022 From the son of acclaimed author James Agee, a haunting novel depicting an American boy's childhood in Mexico, ensconced in a world comprised of communist European exiles, local union activists, street children, and avant-garde artists like...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR "Amy Jo Burns writes a version of Appalachia that is one step removed from magic - all strychnine and moonshine and powerful wonder."--NPR " A] wrenching testament, told in language as incandescent as smoldering coal. ....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage" (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered--and shadowed--by tragedy. Lonely and...

If you love Jill Shalvis, Lori Wilde, and Susan Mallery, then you won't want to miss New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ryan's riveting new novel about family, secrets, and a woman ready to embrace who she really is by facing down her past....

Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize short list. "Levy manipulates light and shadow with artfulness. She transfixes the reader: we recognize...the thing of darkness in us all. This is an intelligent, pulsating literary beast." --The Telegraph (UK)As he arrives with his family at...

Series information from author's website.Author: Susan MalleryISBN-10: 143289126XISBN-13: 9781432891268Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2021Pages: 593Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 1.18dLarge Print

A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is...

Enjoy two classic Western romances from New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer! The Rancher Cort Brannt, heir to the Skylance Ranch empire, has women galloping into his life, but the handsome lone wolf sends them just as quickly on their way...until a pretty,...

On the day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for the Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A data journalist and recent media celebrity--he correctly forecast every outcome of the 2008 election--Sam knows a few...

A boy struggling to process an unexpected loss believes he has been given a series of clues to the biggest puzzle of all--the meaning of life--in this deeply felt debut novel. "An exquisitely beautiful and compelling novel about love, loss, and life."--Rachel Joyce, New...

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes--for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous--as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning...

"Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic, confusing times....

"A luscious, layered story of inheritance, heartbreak, reinvention, and family. I adored this book." --Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author When a deed to an apartment in Paris turns up in an old attic trunk, an estranged mother and daughter must reunite to...

These Are Not Your Fairy GodmothersWhen Toots Loudenberry relocated to Los Angeles from South Carolina to be near her daughter, Abby, she expected to bump into the occasional celebrity. She just never expected them to be dead. Meanwhile, Toots and her friends Sophie and...