Fiction - Family Life - General

Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns - his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North...

A "breathtaking" century-spanning portrait of the inhabitants of a French village (Jennifer Egan), revealing the deception, despair, love, and longing beneath the calm surface of ordinary lives. What if our homes could tell the stories of others who lived there before us? Set in...

"Happy Holidays 2015! It has been a rough year for the Quinns, but I would like to start by saying thank you for all of the well wishes and positive missives sent our way." A second Christmas on Nantucket finds Winter Street Inn owner...

The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and...

In this New York Times bestseller, two high school students leave their hometown on the West Coast to go on an impulsive cross-country road trip in this moving romance about friendship and the power of love.Axi Moore is a "good girl" She studies hard,...

In Tahiti, it's a well-known fact that women are wisest, mothers know best, and Materena Mahi knows best of all -- or so everyone except for her own daughter thinks. Soon enough, mother and daughter are engaged in a tug-of-war that tests the bonds...

The "queen of the summer novel" explores the power of community, family, and honesty-and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight (Kirkus Reviews). A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for...

Two unknown producers struggle to fulfill their dreams to change lives through the power of film. With millions of investors' dollars on the line, everything starts to fall apart and they realize they may be in over their heads. Is it possible to beat...

The Johannssens are a sailing family: adventurous, fanatical, and, for now, a complete and total mess. Ruby, a prodigiously talented skipper, has taken off for Africa. Bernard is god-knows-where at sea. And at thirty-one years old, Josh Johannssen, the middle child, is fixing up...

The moving companion novel to Henry, Himself and a bittersweet vision of love, family, and aging from bestselling author Stewart O'NanOnce again making the ordinary and overlooked not merely visible but vital to understanding our own lives, Stewart O'Nan confirms his position as an...

The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked...

From the USA Today bestselling author of the Hope River series comes a new contemporary midwife novel.Say "goodbye" to your old life, and "hello" to the life you've been waiting for...Midwife Clara Perry is accustomed to comforting her pregnant patients...calming fathers-to-be as they anxiously...

"The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever "--New York Times Book ReviewWhen the all-time greats of mystery/noir/crime fiction are mentioned (John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Robert Parker, etc.), Elmore Leonard's name invariably tops the list. A true Leonard classic,...

In this brilliant collection, Tessa Hadley showcases beautifully her formidable talent for writing domestic fiction that rises about the genre to become literary art."Filled with exquisitely calibrated gradations and expressions of class, conducted with symphonic intensity and complexity.... Extraordinarily well-made."--New York Times Book ReviewMarried...

Available for the first time in a Premium edition, one of New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Faye Kellerman's fan-favorite Decker/Lazurus novels.Author: Faye KellermanISBN-10: 0061999253ISBN-13: 9780061999253Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/25/2011Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 7.52h x 4.28w x 1.09d

Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, coming January 2018 from Sony Pictures Classics Official SelectionToronto Film FestivalVenice Film Festival "The Leisure Seeker is pretty much like life itself: joyous, painful, moving, tragic, mysterious, and not to be missed."--Booklist, starred...

"Engrossing...The Pact is compelling reading."--PeopleIn this heart-rending tale of love and friendship, Jodi Picoult brings to life a familiar world, and in a single terrifying moment awakens every parent's worst fear: We think we know our children . . . but do we ever...

A forgotten house and a secret hidden for a century...'Wonderfully evocative' Judy Finnigan'An absolute delight!' Hazel Gaynor'Wonderful escapism' Tracy Rees'A lovely story' Erica James'Gloriously rich' Rachel Hore'Sublime storytelling' Cathy Bramley'Emotional' Kate RyderFollowing the breakdown of her marriage, Theo has bought a tumbledown cottage on...

The footpath of a special child becoming a special man, and the challenges met and surmounted by his mother, form the core of this captivating narrative. As we shift between the perspectives of Ella, the mother, and Andrew, the son, we touch down in...

Penelope, aged 9, and her family emigrate from the UK to Australia. This book covers her journey onboard the ship and her family's friendship with a Greek family. This friendship continues in Australia throughout their life's journey.The book includes the life effects of being...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A young woman searches for the truth about her father--and the secrets of her family--in this "big-hearted debut that absolutely crackles with smarts" (Emma Straub)."A warm and funny debut novel . . . perceptive, wry, and witty."--The New...

Widely considered as one of Dickens most superb and complete novels, "Bleak House" contains a more vastly complex and engaging array of characters and sub-plots than any of Dickens's novels. As is commonplace in his works, Dickens satirically criticizes the social inequities of his...

In Aida Morden's Shadows of the Living Mountain, the volcanoes don't just erupt with lava, ash, mud, boiling water and massive rocks. They also send her stories and characters into the world. Destruction and creation go hand in hand. Families come together, often through...

An unexpected connection becomes the saving grace for two unlikely friends in a heart-stirring novel about love, loss, and moving forward by a New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author.Never knowing his parents, eleven-year-old Stewie Little and his brother have been raised...

Rieliegh's hidden all the money she could save and leaves everything behind the night of her high school graduation. She ends up in New York City scared, hungry, and alone. To get out of the cold, she meets Betty, the owner of a great...

Life in the American West is a life fully lived. Burning crimson sunrises upon the pristine pasture, majestic horses, and slick cattle roaming on the ranch, and the still waters that reflect the towering mountaintops-glimpse of nature's peace found even in the midst of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020 'A magnificent novel, full of wit, warmth and tenderness' Andrew McMillan'Smart, serious and entertaining' Bernardine Evaristo How do you begin to find yourself when you only know half of who you are? As Nnenna Maloney approaches womanhood...

"Dylan..." I croak, but my little boy doesn't even look at me. "Dylan," I say again, my voice breaking now, and the social worker gives me a reproving look. I'm not helping, but I don't care. "Dylan " My voice is louder now, and...

A pulse-pounding psychological thriller based on the popular Dutch tradition of blindfolding and dropping teens and pre-teens in the middle of a forest -- and what happens when it goes horribly wrong. Twelve-year old Karin is blindfolded and dropped into the Hoge Veluwe National...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 selection, a New York Times Editors' Choice book, and longlisted for the Story Prize--from the bestselling, highly acclaimed National Book Award nominee, She Was Like That is a "piercing, intimate, and exquisite" (Publishers Weekly) collection of...

From the author of The Salt House and This Is Home comes a profound novel about the power of community and a small town's long-buried secrets as a group of New England islanders come together for a recently orphaned girl. On Ichabod Island, a...

2016 Reprint of 1954 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The novel is set in India during a period of intense urban development and is the chronicle of the marriage between Rukmani, youngest daughter of a village...

After quitting her boring editing job, aspiring writer Lily Rosenthal isn't sure what to do next. Her only joys in life are collecting antique quilts and frequenting the area's beautiful wine country. The murder of a friend results in her inheriting the inventory of...

At the court of Chancery the inheritance case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has been going on for generations, but a new piece of evidence might end it once and for all. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized...

From the author of the "clever, creative, and sweetly delicious" (Kirkus Reviews) The Coincidence of Coconut Cake and The Simplicity of Cider comes a novel about an exasperated wife and mother who makes a play to reignite her marriage--and risks everything in a gamble...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons comes a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court.How far would you go to...

A family legacy in danger. A stranger in their midst. Do they have the strength to survive the gathering storm of secrets?For the Temple women, the winds of change are blowing. And if they're not careful, it could sweep them all away...After rising from...

Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life...

A critically acclaimed debut novel praised as "unbearably poignant and beautifully told" (Eimear McBride), this captivating story follows a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog.It is springtime, and two outcasts--a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes...

A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Falling Angels follows the...

"A heart-wrenching page-turner told with warmth and humor."--People Magazine (Pick of the Week) "A rich testament to the power of second chances."--Women's WorldA Publishers Weekly and USA Today Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling author of Good Luck with That comes a new...

The ladies of the #1 New York Times bestselling Friday Night Knitting Club return in a moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family... Whipping up chocolate-orange scones at pastry school is Dakota Walker's passion, but she'll never give up the Friday...

The debut novel from the internationally acclaimed author of Wild weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. - "A deeply honest novel of life after catastrophe, of intimacy lost and found." --O, The Oprah Magazine "Work hard. Do...

In Highland Fling--Nancy Mitford's first novel, published in 1931--a set of completely incompatible and hilariously eccentric characters collide in a Scottish castle, where bright young things play pranks on their stodgy elders until the frothy plot climaxes in ghost sightings and a dramatic fire....

"Nancy Thayer is the queen of beach books."--The Star-Ledger In this captivating novel, New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer tells the wonderfully moving story of three women who forge a unique bond one sun-drenched summer on New England's Dragonfly Lake. Thirty-year-old Morgan O'Keefe...

Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent ten years in a Texas prison after pleading guilty to a robbery in which four people died and seven million dollars went...

Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the...

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times). Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to...

"The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being completely devastated by its power." -- Toni MorrisonSet on a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine--the first novel from master storyteller and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich--is an epic story about the intertwined fates...

The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to...