Fiction - Family Life - General

Eleven-year-old Raine Hunter's family moves from the town of Blackheart Bay, Nova Scotia to Desolation Creek in the Australian Outback, where her father will begin pastoring a small church. But not long after they begin their new lives, a tragedy befalls the family. Devastated,...

When Rekiya and Zaynunah met as teenagers, neither had any inkling this would be the start of a lifelong friendship. That the bond they formed as friends would see them through the best and worst times... Rekiya & Z explores the themes of Time...

Anna Belle Lee had been wandering in the land of lost, bored and lonely widowhood for two years...unable to sleep or focus. She had not had a 'cry-free' day since Mac's death. His clothes still hung in the closet. She sprayed their room with...

He is a famous author, a man who has penned best sellers. A man with a wife and a safe, sedate life. What drives his inner sorrow, then? What fuels his hidden frustration? Perhaps the answers start with the strange one-worded statements other people...

A family desperate for money. A child prodigy--the heir to the family fortune--missing. Riverview House holds many secrets. Mark Newlin is a history professor at Gold College in southwestern Illinois. When tragedy thrusts him into a life he doesn't want, well-meaning friends send him...

She didn't love you. She bought you. And if she bought you, you were done.Pearl Ellis lies dying in the hospital in the small town of Carbon, Kansas. Located near the Bible Belt, religion is a defining force in the culture of Carbon, but...

The Forgiveness Tarts is family classic adored by both children and adults alike. This book is designed to be enjoyed as a holiday classic or for everyday moral learning. When a friendly baker moved to Apple Harbour to open up a new bakery, the...

She's running to safety. He's running from loss. Will their love overcome their fear?Megan has been hugely successful in everything but her personal life. And after the brilliant woman's latest dysfunctional relationship turns sour, she takes refuge at her sister's place in Seattle. In...

"[E]ach story inventively unfurls a different desire, longing, or frustration" -- Jacinda Townsend, author Saint Monkey In her debut collection of short fiction, Reneilwe Malatji invites us into the intimate lives of South African women--their whispered conversations, their love lives, their triumphs and heartbreaks....

It's not romantic, Torrey says. It's physics. For every letter there is an equal and opposite, you know...letter. Sheila's life is built of little thievings. Adrift in her mid-thirties, she sleeps in fragments, ditches her temp jobs, eavesdrops on her neighbor's Skype calls, and...

Hilda Greer's love affair with the violin began at the age of seven, when she attended a performance by the virtuoso Phillip Manns. She believed him with a child's faith when he declared himself the reincarnation of Niccolò Paganini and then dashed from the...

Author: Oliver AkamnonuISBN-10: 1940909007ISBN-13: 9781940909004Publisher: Akamnonu Associates IncorporatedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2013Pages: 456Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

The Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club values family above all else. Be it club family...or blood family. In London, nine half-siblings rule at Baskerville Hall, all the product of a father who's more legend than man, a mystery even to his own children. Charlie Fox...

This is a collection of stories and poems. In the novel-length story, "State of Georgia," a newly widowed elderly woman sets out to enjoy her life in ways she couldn't while she was married, and she finds more than she could have imagined. In...

There is a saying that everyone has a book inside them. Some individuals might say that is exactly where it should stay, inside them. The Tears of a Clown has been bubbling away inside of me for quite a few years now and I...

When Kieran O'Mahony rides away to the hunt on a powerful black horse, his mother is gripped by a sense of foreboding. He is a rising hurling star, with the world at his feet and one spirited local girl in his heart. His grandmother,...

The light greenery of the early summer is trembling around Erik and Julia as they shove their children into the car and start the drive towards the house by the sea on the west coast of Finland where they will spend the summer. From...

When the past and the present collide . . . Kat Harper doesn't anticipate being dragged into an unsolved cold case when a friend asks her to meet with a difficult student. Now the more Kat learns about Julie Conway, the more convinced she...

Looking for an easy way to teach children patience?The best way is a story. A story can be read at any time, at bedtime or during the day. A cute and funny short story will amuse and teach children patience and good manners. The...

A child lost on a journey to somewhere and found by a woman who was not only lost but hidden from a world she had escaped. On a dock in St. Louis, they found one another and as time continued, the friendship turned into...

Perhaps it was divine providence and not chance that Beaufort, South Carolina, was to witness the onset of the Civil War-occupation of the Union Army, and unlike its southern counterparts, spared the kindle torches of Sherman's determination to destroy the Confederacy. As a result,...

London Craft has exactly the life she wants. She's a successful artist with a hot line of edgy clothing and merchandise she sells from her boutique, Hell in a Handbasket. Along with her incredible chosen family, she's in a loving relationship with Reggie, her...

Fanny Price, is a young girl from a relatively poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, but is always treated as inferior...

The Garc as Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sof a belong to the uppermost echelon of Spanish Caribbean society, descended from the conquistadores. Their family compound adjoins the "palacio" of the dictator 's daughter....

She's a wedding coordinator. He's a divorce attorney. She begins marriages. He ends them. How could these two possibly find common ground?Wendy Hartline is finally starting to settle into the single life. After a difficult season of grief following her husband's death, she's taken...

Essie Mae Laveau Jenkins is a 78-year-old sweetgrass basket weaver who sits on the side of Hwy. 17 in the company of her dead husband, Daddy Jim. Inspired by her Auntie Leona, Essie Mae finally discovers her calling in life and weaves powerful "love...

Violet and Mommy discuss the way Violet was created using the help of a sperm donor, through the metaphor of mixing paints like red and blue to make purple. As the mother of a child conceived via sperm donor, I found that there weren't...

It is 1960 in Skowhegan, Maine. Libby Carlow is a precocious and curious sixteen-year-old who often wonders why she looks different than everyone else in her family. When an unexpected trip to Texas prompts Libby to meet an uncle she never knew existed, she...

First published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel." One of the most prosecuted and banned books...

First in the Flyover County Series!Tom and Sarah had everything going for them, until the rug was pulled out from under their feet. They were living the American dream with high paying jobs, a beautiful suburban home, and a secure future. But when Tom's...

Tom Perotta's Little Children meets Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones in this suspenseful and beautifully wrought story of a seventeen-year-old girl who vanishes on the eve of her departure for college, as told through the alternating perspectives of her neighbors.What happened to Linsey Hart?...

Lauded by critics and authors for her heartbreakingly real heroines, Laura Wiess brings readers another devastating tale of betrayal and redemption rich with the raw emotion that made Such a Pretty Girl a classic. How can you make someone love you when they won't?...

In this richly imagined, utterly original debut, a mother-daughter road trip leads a young girl, a precocious Civil War buff, to a hard-won understanding of the American history she loves and the personal history she inherits. Eleven-year-old Katherine McConnell is so immersed in Civil...

A solitary artisan. A legacy of bread-baking. And one secret that could collapse her entire identity.Liesl McNamara's life can be described in one word: bread. From her earliest memory, her mother and grandmother passed down the mystery of baking and the importance of this...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets--"a bona fide page turner" (The New York Times Book Review) about the mysteries of teenage pain and family crisis. Rachel Jensen is perfectly happy: in love with...

Trees don't talk, or do they? THE WHISPERING WILLOWS does. People are afraid when they hear him speak for the first time. They think they are hearing things, turning in all directions to see who is invading their privacy, and listening to their conversations....

A man who thought he put his shattered past behind him embarks on a reflective journey home in a heartfelt novel by the bestselling author of The Singing Trees and A Spanish Sunrise.Haunted by a tragic decision he made twenty years ago, veterinarian Dr....

A man who thought he put his shattered past behind him embarks on a reflective journey home in a heartfelt novel by the bestselling author of The Singing Trees and A Spanish Sunrise.Haunted by a tragic decision he made twenty years ago, veterinarian Dr....

It was only a high school reunion. What was the worst that could happen? Corinne Fuller has regrets. Facing a stagnant marriage and an impending empty nest, she spends her days living halfway between fantasy and reality, imagining herself as the heroine in a...

A place where families came. Homes were built. Children grew, left for war, and returned. Through it all, the river runs, as it always has.But people change and dreams shift and towns grow, and nothing good ever lasts... For years, Jack and Keira Sullivan...

Why does starting over have to be so hard? Sweet and gregarious Penny Barron was just sure handsome Gus Amherst was finally "the one." But after his protective streak evolves to controlling and then abusive, she decides enough is enough. When her childhood friend...

Joseph Atlas Wallace returns to his hometown in rural Missouri after WW1 to find his life's purpose. Happiness, tragedy, love, and adventure all await him. Led by equal helpings of faith and superstition, Atlas discovers his path and his passion on the back roads...

Author: Ann WeisgarberISBN-10: 0230745679ISBN-13: 9780230745674Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/2014Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.72d

Author: Claire SandyISBN-10: 1447253493ISBN-13: 9781447253495Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2014Pages: 350Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.97d

When Louisa and Bear meet at Princeton in 1975, sparks fly. Louisa is the sexually adventurous daughter of a geneticist, Bear the volatile son of a plumber. They dive headfirst into a passionate affair that will alter the course of their lives, changing how...

From the author of The Intangible comes a powerful story of double lives, hidden truths, and the desire to have the perfect life, no matter the price.When contract killer Cooper Franklin makes a deathbed confession, his revelations upend the lives of two strangers, setting...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Must Love Dogs series. "Charming, engagingly quirky, and full of fun, Claire Cook just gets it."-Meg Cabot "Cook's poignancy and sassy humor resonate with readers; her theme of reinvention uplifts and inspires."-Savannah Magazine The truth...

◆The craftiest gang on the Isle of Man are back for another outing. Sew, what are you waiting for...! Following a hectic year immersed in all things crafting, Charlotte Newman was looking forward to a much-needed holiday. And the fact a few friends from...

Sitting on a park bench overlooking beautiful Lake Fauna, an older woman reminisces of a long and wonderful life she has shared with her husband. Della is transported back to when she first met Ryan. Both had endured difficult tumultuous marriages. Upon finding each...

Jen Morrison has always thought of herself as a good person. She is a devoted mom to her son Danny and a dedicated nurse. She feels lucky in so many ways, but she's never been lucky in love. Her husband left her and their...