Fiction - Family Life - General

David Elginbrod is a novel giving a vivid depiction of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen. The chief characters are upright and righteous, a dignified and pious Scottish peasant, and his daughter. The novel interweaves the story with a strand of mysticism...

Anna MacRae is only five years old when her mother dies in childbirth in 1940. She is left with twin sisters and a father fighting somewhere in Europe. Over the years, her twin sisters become bullies and turn to stealing, then worse. Anna must...

May, 1831, and on a tiny island off the Isle of Man a lighthouse provides a harsh living for an unusual family. Lucy and Diya, husbandless and with three children between them, watch over the ancient light on Ellan Bride. Meanwhile the Scottish engineer,...

Ireland, 1971, John Egan is a misfit, 'a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant who insists on the ridiculous truth'. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records and faith in his ability...

My family keep telling me I'm safe. But why don't I believe them?I stand at the very edge of the cliff face, looking at the roaring ocean below my feet. I'm in no danger, in fact my husband and his sister talk just feet...

Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Barbara Delinsky and Nancy Thayer, The Godmothers is a heart-warming exploration of family, friendship and female bonds.In order to find out who her father is, Eliza has to discover who her mother truly was . . .As the...

This fun and humorous children's book follows the life of a father who is always on his phone. All the little boy wants is for his dad to be happy and spend more quality time with him. Learn how he helps to teach his...

This book is about my personal life and trying to help my fellow friends who have the same sickness, as I do. I hope and pray you all will get well, and I'm doing the same thing as well. I know its tough dealing...

Doctor Thorne begins to establish a medical practice, while Henry seduces Mary Scatcherd, the sister of stonemason Roger Scatcherd. When Scatcherd finds out that Mary has become pregnant, he seeks out Henry and, in the ensuing fight, kills him.Anthony Trollope was one of the...

Goodin beautifully poses the notion that maybe life isn't defined as fact or fiction, perhaps it can include truth, lies, and everything in between.Meg is growing up in a lovely world of food-filled fantasy; where her first tooth was so sharp her mother used...

'Sometimes I think that if I'd found a way to talk, we'd be together now...' When Helen finds a bundle of unsent love letters, tied with a red ribbon, and signed only 'the love you wished I could be', she wonders who they could...

Harry's world is changing. He's sixteen with a job and a bank account, which is just as well as he needs the dosh to buy more Thomas the Tank Engine DVDs and kit kats. But how will Harry cope with the daunting prospect of...

Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe's new novel brings readers to 1960s Montreal & features a nosy would-be child detective searching for the truth about her mother. It's 1967 in Montreal, the Expo is in full swing, and Audrey Parker has just moved with...

She lives outside the village, in the woods, near the river, with her sister. Or her mother. She doesn't really know. Her life is simple, but nothing ever stays the same. Her body is changing; life around her is changing, too. And there aren't...

Gathering the best twenty stories from Cynthia Flood's career, these spare, stylistically inventive stories explore subjects ranging from the domestic to the political.In this collection, Flood navigates a wide range of subject matter with a writing style which gradually becomes more intense, tighter, and...

The Little Lady of the Big House By Jack LondonAuthor: Jack LondonISBN-10: 1978273177ISBN-13: 9781978273177Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2017Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.26d

Lying in bed, I put in a request for sweet dreams for my girls, adding a mention of one for me.Who'd of thought I would receive such a gift.The dream was simple and easy, much to do with one country selling what they had...

Lying in bed, I put in a request for sweet dreams for my girls, adding a mention of one for me.Who'd of thought I would receive such a gift.The dream was simple and easy, much to do with one country selling what they had...

I may only be in fourth grade, but I know more than most adults. I take notes every day and read all kinds of books, so I have a solid grasp on the world around me. But suddenly, there are penguins in my town!...

Mark Stone, a middle-aged man who runs a small business, and his second wife, Kathy, enjoyed a simple, quiet life raising chickens at their new home in rural Ohio. But the peace and tranquility of their new life is disrupted when Kathy-a Biology professor-shows...

A modern-day Wuthering Heights from the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. Two families, one devastating secret, and an epic story of forbidden love. Eight years have passed since Stella last saw Ivo, but when he returns, the reunion of their unconventional family...

"Raphaela Edelbauer's impressive debut novel is a subtle allegory of historical memory and collective guilt, combining a dreamy, gothic strangeness ..."--The Guardian "A village that officially does not exist and that seems to be disappearing more and more ... Anyone who embarks on this...

Dark Roux is the story of a family simmering on the verge of burning to ruin. The delicate nature of this sauce depicts how Cajun culture survives Americanization along parade routes and swamps in South Louisiana. The Mouton family approaches Mardi Gras 1999 expecting...

An island. An artist. A secret. In June of 1985, Caroline Painter's uncle whisks her away from her island home at Painter Place to film an art video in the harbor village of Mevagissey. But the trip to help the young artist clear her...

In his debut collection, Marston Hefner brings a unique voice and playful style to meditations on self-acceptance, the folly of youth, and how love can lead to actualization and destruction. Through moments of family intimacy, work presentations, vacations, doomed relationships, or businessmen chasing the...

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...

Second chances...and the secrets that sabotage them.At 48 years old, Margie Clifton never expected to be starting her life all over again. But when her brother gifts her a property on San Juan Island, that's exactly what she decides to do. After all, it's...

50 Shades of Spay: No Litters, Baby.That's the sign in front of the Chelsea Veterinary Clinic on the lower west side of Manhattan, where I'm currently standing on what is clearly another crappy Saturday morning.I'm at a vet clinic.It's not even my dog -...

COULD A LUCKY CHARM SHE NEVER KNEW SHE NEEDED BE THE KEY TO TRUE LOVE? It's always been high school drama teacher Lisa Fleming and her Nana against the world...until the rebellious retiree reconnects with her first love online and brings Lisa across the...

Book 19- CATITUDE is a family friendly coloring book full of cats, or rather, the backside of cats, by doodle artist and cat lover, Patricia Burke. An admitted servant to her cats, she created this delightful coloring book to celebrate their lovable, sometimes cuddly...

Charlie Dawson is a co-owner of a successful design-build firm in his historic hometown of Plymouth, Massachusetts. More important to him is his happy marriage to Juliette, the girl he fell in love with in tenth-grade French class ... the one he married right...

Drew Nemec may not want to be back home in the suburbs of Flint, Michigan, but home is where even the best of us wind up when we're heartbroken and drifting after graduating college. In the late 90s, a solid economy and relative peace...

How much will the McCalls be willing to sacrifice in their pursuit of big gas money-and who will lose it all when the bust comes? Lew and Johanna McCall are third-generation Oklahomans in the oil industry whose three children want nothing to do with...

Gone. . . but not forgotten?Amy loved everything about her mom: her smile, her smell, her gentle laugh. On the day her mom died, it felt as though the sun went dark. Her dad bought a house with wheels and they started moving, but...

In a world where the past refuses to stay buried, a child psychologist must confront her own dark history to save a girl who has done the unthinkable. But in the shadow of a shared trauma, can she unravel the truth without losing herself?...

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...

When fifty-something Naina Mehta's husband dies of a heart attack, she transforms herself from a suburban wife into a bold woman thirsty for new experiences. A far cry from the classic image of the aging Indian widow who dresses in subdued colors and focuses...

Zac Taylor and his crew are at the end of their last summer together before senior year of high school. Unsure of where each is headed after graduation, they know three things: time is fleeting, the pool where they all work as lifeguards is...

In the backyard of a the bride's grandparents' Southern California home, a group of family, friends and strangers come together to celebrate the wedding of two people in love, but each brings with them conflicts they can't leave behind. The bride's brother Ian brings...

Sof? is thirty-five and her husband has left her. Her father died the year before, and her mother is living in the Canary Islands with a new partner. Sof? flees the city with her young son, seeking refuge in her father's house on the...

Kin Patterson is One Sorry Individual.He sorry he is the last Patterson; sorry that at 27 years of age all he has to show for his life is failure; sorry that the best part of any day is getting plastered with the other pitiful...

Maria stood above the harbor aimlessly watching the activity on the water. Skiffs were moving back and forth preparing a merchant vessel, the Portsmouth, to sail the next day. Watching the crew and the native longshoremen lifting bale after bale of goods onto the...

Four stories twine together in this novel set in both contemporary and 1950's Maine. Kiya, a Portland hair stylist in her early 20's, becomes unexpectedly pregnant and determined to keep the baby as she struggles to recover from her brother's suicide. Peter, the baby's...

Gem is mourning her grandmother and baby boy, losing one to cancer and the baby by the hands of her abusive husband. She was raised by her grandmother when her hippie mother abandoned her; she never knew her father. Gem's only desire is to...

Queen Elizabeth II was best known for two things--as the longest reigning monarch in British history and her love for corgis. Now, in this elegant gift book, we have a beautifully illustrated tribute to the final days of QEII, told from the poignant point...

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful...

Arylk, Judich Pam and Shirley were all childhood friends. They had been through a lot together, and as life takes them on a journey of ups and downs it takes them a while to get it right. Atylk especially reflects quite often on the...

Arylk, Judich Pam and Shirley were all childhood friends. They had been through a lot together, and as life takes them on a journey of ups and downs it takes them a while to get it right. Atylk especially reflects quite often on the...

Herb has a secret: he's not quite the man he once was. And when his children learn of this, they decide it is time to move him and his wife, Susan, who is slipping into early Alzheimer's herself out of their Key West home...

Life is hard, but friends make it better. Jackie Turner has never felt so invisible. As a top performer, the forty-eight-year-old is shocked when she's passed over for a promotion at work. Has she become irrelevant? It's a bitter pill, but she vows to...