Fiction - Family Life - General

SOMETHING remarkable occurs when Rob Kingsmere unpacks his memories of Providence Point, a long-lost cottage on Georgian Bay. 1950s and '60s recollections flow into a sunny narrative of vacations spent in that paradise. Yet shadows gradually cloud the horizon.Boyish camaraderie jostles with simmering family...

SOMETHING remarkable occurs when Rob Kingsmere unpacks his memories of Providence Point, a long-lost cottage on Georgian Bay. 1950s and '60s recollections flow into a sunny narrative of vacations spent in that paradise. Yet shadows gradually cloud the horizon.Boyish camaraderie jostles with simmering family...

Brash, duplicitous women, murder and mayhem, and illicit love abound in this wild adventure for fans of Outlander and The Home for Unwanted Girls, from a major new talent in historical fiction. Bytown, 1836: The lawless cesspool that will become the city of Ottawa...

This novel paints the portrait of a Lebanese family that has settled in Montreal. The central figure is Dounia, a 75-year-old mother and grandmother. Hers is a story of loss--she first leaves her own village to live in her husband's hometown, and then is...

Don't miss the emotional next instalment in AnneMarie Brear's bestselling Waterfront Women series From rags to riches... but will happiness follow? Orphaned as a child, Fliss Atkins has spent her life working at her uncle's pub, The Bay Horse Inn, nestled along the banks...

"Solitaria is a gem." --Saidiya Hartman, author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments For fans of Fernanda Melchor and Tove Ditlevsen, a raw, propulsive novel by an award-winning Afro-Brazillian novelist about a Black mother and daughter who work as live-in maids for a rich family...

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....

Two Sisters is a heartwarming tale of love, friendship, and the unbreakable bonds we share with our pets. When two women, drawn together by circumstance rather than blood, find themselves navigating the highs and lows of life, they discover that family isn't just defined...

Dreams Like Thunder takes place on a small Eastern Oregon farm between Baker and Hells Canyon. The story is set over a couple of days in 1959, but part of the family seems less in touch with the twentieth century than with the myth...

Twin mysteries, years apart, connect two mothers and their daughters in a gripping novel of psychological suspense by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver.Who in their right mind would move into the Faraday House, with its grim history and a generation spent rotting...

During the day when there is a break in the day's labor or in the evenings when the sunlight iswaning, stories are told from Texas porches.Although these are usually short stories, they can belong, and thus continued at the next porch sitting. They contain...

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Lookout tells the story of the Kinzlers, a complex working-class family firmly rooted in northwestern Montana.Josiah and Margaret Kinzler have forged an unusual bond marked by both tenderness and distance; their daughters, Cody and Louisa,...

"A Houseful of Girls" by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey encapsulates the quintessential essence of 19th-century British domestic fiction, immersing readers in the captivating world of a Victorian family saga. Set against the backdrop of the picturesque English countryside, this novel intricately weaves together...

International playboy and owner of a jewelry empire that spreads across three continents, Dmitry Rostoff holds a memory close to this heart that not even his best friend Vlad Albrecht knows. When Dmitry learns the Russian ballerina he had a passionate affair with died...

"Forged Destinies" unfurls as an extraordinary narrative deeply rooted in actual events, peeling back the layers of a corrupt justice system in Northern Ireland. At its core lies the audacious manipulation of the late Elizabeth O'Reilly's last will by Damon Blackwell and his wife,...

In this sequel to The Lie, Jahana's half-brother Omar discovers their father needs a life-saving procedure. Out of desperation he posts his DNA results to a public website. A match uncovers an intricate tapestry of truths and lies. Omar's perceptions of judgement, forgiveness, and...

1914. The clouds of war are gathering across Europe, but life in the Durham village of Ashbrook Stills carries on as it has for generations, the miners and farmers unmindful of the catastrophe that is about to engulf their world and put them all...

Die Eroberung von Plassans ist ein Roman von mile Zola aus dem Jahre 1874 und der vierte Teil des zwanzigb ndigen Rougon-Macquart-Zyklus. Wie im ersten Roman Das Gl ck der Familie Rougon spielt die Handlung in der fiktiven Kleinstadt Plassans. Im Mittelpunkt steht ein...

I say ... how many gifts were presented to gather up what has been scattered But not everything that has been scattered can be collected again. Everyone is asking how our life goes on? It goes on by resigning oneself to the will of...

Zachariah passes the greatest passion of his life, hunting, and the lessons about life that he learned from it, on to one of his sons, James. Through it, Zachariah and James make a special connection. But, this is not a story just about hunting....

When her father dies, May Dearborne and her three older brothers all ask the same question: who is going to take care of Kipp? Kipp being their forty-five-year-old autistic brother. Who are they kidding? Since May is widowed, childless, and Kipp's twin to boot,...

My Lord of Tressan, His Majesty's Seneschal of Dauphiny, sat at his ease, his purple doublet all undone, to yield greater freedom to his vast bulk, a yellow silken undergarment visible through the gap, as is visible the flesh of some fruit that, swollen...

Six years after her family of ten children had assembled in her home for a party, Sheila Malone has to endure another reunion weekend with all but two of her children. The occasion this time is a wedding and she is even less happy...

"Dying was the best thing that ever happened to him."An exciting literary debut, The Mystical Adventures of Stavros Papadakis is the story of one man's quest for meaning and redemption following a near-death experience. Stavros Papadakis, a successful yet epically dysfunctional Boston defense attorney,...

Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her place. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her...

Author: Jennifer ProbstISBN-10: 1420525980ISBN-13: 9781420525984Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2025Format: PaperbackLarge Print

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...

A heart-warming saga about female comradery from the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls.Author: Mary WoodISBN-10: 1529033497ISBN-13: 9781529033496Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/2021Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.89d

A knitting retreat gets knotty in this humorous and poignant novel about love, second chances, and the unyielding bonds between mothers and daughters.Maggie Hodges and her daughter Piper are looking forward to a restful knitting retreat in the picturesque village of New Hope, Pennsylvania....

Crow is a nice man who is outliving his life. This is a simple story about what can happen when we outlive most--or all--the people we care about. when the only place to go is someplace we don't want to be.Author: Nancy ParsonsISBN-13: 9798897668953Publisher:...

"Wreck is a delight. What an absolute joy to be reunited with Rocky and her family, the characters we all fell in love with in Sandwich. Newman's prose is laugh-out-loud funny. It's also profound. I underlined so many passages in this treasure of a...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - PEN/FAULKNER AWARD WINNER - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From one of his generation's greatest writers comes the sequel to The Sportswriter, starring Frank Bascombe, who "has earned a place beside Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom in our literary landscape ... with...

It's never too late to find your purpose.Woody Barker steps out of prison planning to live out his years on his houseboat docked on the Alabama Gulf Coast. As a defrocked priest with a heart condition and an ex-wife who still runs his life,...

A small-town bookstore owner finds herself at odds with a newcomer bent on disrupting her quiet life in this Southern women's fiction novel by award-winning author Robin W. Pearson.Glory Pryor has carved out a life for herself in Gilmore, North Carolina, cultivating a community...

"[A] devastating, beautifully written tale imbued with Maori culture and language." --Gregory Brown, The New York Times for Auē The much-awaited follow-up to the award-winning international bestseller Auē. In Auē, eight-year-old Ārama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu...

How they met, how it grew, how it became so strong."What is love between a man and a woman? I suspect each of us has a different view of this. Some think it can only happen between young people. Others believe it can happen...

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-10: 0593498852ISBN-13: 9780593498859Publisher: Delacorte PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2026Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.66d

A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desire, guilt, and grief in this darkly comic, highly anticipated debut novel from Kimberly King Parsons, author of the story collection, Black Light (long-listed for the National Book...

By turns wry and lyrical, The Immortal Woman reveals an insider's view of the fractured lives of new Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind. A Chinese mother and daughter wrestle with the demons of their past. Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader...

In New York City in 1964, Joan Cavanaugh, an uncertain young wife and mother, and Peter 'Hutch' Hutchinson have a brief but passionate affair, yet during their almost 30 years of marriage, Joan and her husband Graham successfully raise their three daughters, Ceci, Anne...

As the clock ticks down the final minute of World War II in Europe, Sixty Seconds tells the stories of nine people on both sides of the Atlantic-- a legendary war correspondent, a madwoman and her unwitting accomplice in a deranged assassination attempt, a...

Carol is living a fortunate life with a devoted husband and three children. She is about to embark on a dream career as a speech language pathologist. And then the couple hear two ominous words in a doctor's office: multiple sclerosis.So begins Carol and...

Katherine Corbet abhors injustice -- and is happy to assist the disturbingly attractive Sir Alasdair St. Erth quash the brazen schemes of a marriage-minded opportunist. But appearing on the arm of the dark, dashing rogue at London balls as his interest will never be...

Lucy Wilson and her sister Ginny don't see eye to eye on anything, including whether or not their father is a criminal. In 1973, during their father's funeral in upstate New York, Lucy receives shocking evidence of his nefarious role in a highway project...

While on a turbulent flight to Vancouver for a business endeavour, Camrea Ricen hits her head and falls into a coma. When she wakes up weeks later, she learns that a fellow passenger, Marces Cadeon, claimed to be her fianc? and stayed by her...

Hannah is a fusion scientist working alone at a remote cottage off the coast of Scotland when she sees a figure making his way from the sea. It is a young man from a human settlement on Mars, traveling backwards through time to try...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A Bookpage Best Historical Fiction Book of 2024 "A vivacious, page-turning novel of rebellion and rebirth." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last A story full of...

Set in February 2019, The Self-Made Saint follows retired UNHCR volunteer and affectionate curmudgeon, JUDITH DRAINGER (59) as she leaves London to move to the dusty shores of Adelaide, South Australia, to rescue her daughter, CASSANDRA (29) and her baby granddaughter, EMILY(5m) from what...

Isabelle is haunted by remorse over a past mistake that drastically changed the lives of those closest to her. Apologizing would be a step in the right direction-if only she could muster the courage to say, "I'm sorry." Her world is turned upside down...

Layabout Larry Johnstone's life mission to find the perfect spouse began in his early teens. After dating (and being dumped) by nearly a hundred women, he finally meets and proposes to his dream girl, Heather-a successful advertising executive from Vancouver.A shocking truth about Larry...