Fiction - Family Life - General

30th Anniversary EditionThat it was Christmas weekend made the prospects for snow all the more special.A charm had settled over the city, where the everyday Scrooges were now nicer and the usual cacophony of city noises more harmonious, as if a symphony were playing....

When future governor Philip Gidley King sailed with the First Fleet to the new colony, he had his pick of the convict women to look after him. Two years, and two sons, later, he set out back to England to provide a report on...

"By turns heartfelt and humorous, thoughtful and fascinating, Wilson knows of what he writes, and he writes very well." -- Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour John E. McDonald believes himself to be very lucky indeed. A tenure-track professor...

Amelia Riley and Ben Lawson have something in common - fathers who have kept secrets.On the day of his father's funeral, Ben's life changes forever when a woman he's never met shows up claiming to be his sister. As he investigates the past, Ben...

Inspired by true events, All Sorrows Can Be Borne is the story of Noriko Ito, a Japanese woman faced with unimaginable circumstances that force her to give up her son to save her husband. Set in Hiroshima, Osaka, and the badlands of eastern Montana...

The start of a BRAND NEW series from bestselling author Sarah Bennett.On paper, Hope Travers has an idyllic life.Living in a bustling farmhouse with her mum, aunt and uncles, cousin and too many dogs to count, surrounded by the breath-taking Cotswolds countryside, she knows...

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...

Damian Kurt has one goal: to write his father's story and prove that he was a saint and to become a saint himself to be reunited with his father in heaven. But how does one achieve such a lofty goal? First, he must confess...

"I bought the house." Art Deats does not have to ask which one. His brother, Butch, has been fixated on their childhood home deep in the swamps of lower Alabama ever since they fled the place in terror forty years ago. Has Butch lost...

In the days when superstition ruled the world, twin babies are born with terrible afflictions. The family in this tale goes against tradition, deciding to keep these children and raise them with the protections and advantages a prominent senator of means can provide. Blessing...

Author: Ambrose ConwayISBN-10: 1906154163ISBN-13: 9781906154165Publisher: Jlb Learning InnovationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2011Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

This wasn't the way Beck Throckmorton had planned it. She wasn't expecting to find herself in her thirties writing erotica and making flat whites for a living while she stewed over that fact that her ex had wound up with her sister. She never...

Three women's lives converge around the century-old mystery of a shipwreck. There's Sophia, a reclusive author who retreated from the world after a tragic loss, Claire, a young journalist who's reluctantly returned to her home town, and Josephine, a passenger from the ill-fated ship.As...

Forsyte Saga Complete By John GalsworthyAuthor: John GalsworthyISBN-10: 1537099736ISBN-13: 9781537099736Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2016Pages: 574Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.89lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.16d

An unhappy child and parents at odds were not what Sophie Robertson expected when she agreed to tutor Freddie Ryken. Sophie thought she'd enjoy an idyllic summer in the pristine wilderness of the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Instead she found herself in an...

A story from the Hollygrove Country Estate Series. A horse loses his mother in a sudden storm. he is raised by his human family and all the other horses on the estate. he goes on to be a happy, funny horse that everyone adoresAuthor:...

Frankie Byrne Tennyson stunned everyone when she decided to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. Now -- after bravely serving her country in Iraq -- she's finally come home. Home to a husband whose lingering feelings of abandonment make her wonder if their lives...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets--"a cool depiction of a mother and daughter's fraught and fiery relationship" (USA Today). Clara Brodeur has spent her entire adult life pulling herself away from her famous...

Each of the Cates sisters had felt for a time that their husbands should be put away where they wouldn't have to take care of them anymore--it's time to make some changes. So begins the powerful, empowering journey of three women who decide to...

Shortlisted for the 2021 Leacock Medal for HumourLonglisted for the 2020 Toronto Book Awards How can you say goodbye forever when you've left an important secret unspoken? "I'll tell you what I'm going to do," Zoltan said. "When I die, I'll leave my luck...

Beneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World War I, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Carousel of Provence.... Deep within the labyrinth of caves that lies below the lush, rolling...

"Andrew Porter is a born storyteller . . . He makes his own space instantly and invites you in. Hats off " --Barry Hannah From a commanding new voice in fiction comes a novel as perceptive as it is generous: a portrait of an...

The Storm Child is a heart-warming saga by Rita Bradshaw, author of the bestselling One Snowy Night, set in the years leading up to WWII.Author: Rita BradshawISBN-10: 1509898123ISBN-13: 9781509898121Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2020Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d

Beneath a Frosty Moon is a heartwarming saga by Rita Bradshaw, author of the bestselling Snowflakes in the Wind.Author: Rita BradshawISBN-10: 1509829245ISBN-13: 9781509829248Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2018Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d

Author: Michael Isaac ShokrianISBN-13: 9798992541700Publisher: Thieving MagpieLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/2025Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d

The Scarlet Pimpernel written by Baroness Orczy (1905) is a fictional novel that gives a glimpse of 'Reign of Terror' at the onset of the French revolution. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman who shows great bravery by rescuing the country's ill-fated aristocrats from...

Author: Bella MacKieISBN-10: 006345730XISBN-13: 9780063457300Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2025Pages: 384Format: Paperback

Author: Karen ParkmanISBN-10: 0593982924ISBN-13: 9780593982921Publisher: Ballantine BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2026Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.97d

"A twisty, atmospheric story about the damage inflicted by childhood trauma and its manifestations later. Immersed in Silver's world as she performs daring high-wire feats, trains tigers, and debuts as a silver-screen starlet, danger is ever-present. Years later, her mother tries to find out...

Author: Kathleen BolandISBN-10: 0593834488ISBN-13: 9780593834480Publisher: VikingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2026Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Santiago Jose SanchezISBN-10: 0593542193ISBN-13: 9780593542194Publisher: Riverhead BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2025Pages: 336Format: Paperback

A young lawyer in Los Angeles is called back to his family's farm in rural Australia and plunged into a complex struggle between past and present, town and country, and the secrets that haunt them all. When he learns of his mother's ailing health,...

Author: Elizabeth Madox RobertsISBN-10: 9369057188ISBN-13: 9789369057184Publisher: Alpha EditionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2025Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d

Author: Booth TarkingtonISBN-10: 1022962566ISBN-13: 9781022962569Publisher: Anson Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2025Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.53dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.2Point Value: 18Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 28457 / Magnificent Ambersons

Author: Jo HamyaISBN-10: 0593686268ISBN-13: 9780593686263Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.66d

Author: Rogue GrayISBN-13: 9798230286233Publisher: Rogue GrayLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2025Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39d

In a web of retribution and despair, one man's faith and love are pushed to the limit. Will ancient family secrets guide him, or tear him apart?From the heart of Karen Humeniuk comes a riveting exploration of human resilience, Choices & Secrets: The Chalmers...

A new holiday-inspired novel from the "master" (Booklist) of Christmas fiction, New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans.Author: Richard Paul EvansISBN-10: 166814266XISBN-13: 9781668142660Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2025Format: CD

THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE SHORTLIST - From the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist, whose short stories received instant acclaim ("Sparingly told, evoked with lacerating intimacy . . . Extraordinary"--Esquire), a debut novel about a young woman's coming of age, and the...

Thirteen-year-old Alice Truelove can't take another day of her father's cruelty.Better a life on the streets than being constantly blamed for her mother's sad death, or that's what Alice thinks as she packs up her meagre possessions. But fending for herself in the Black...

I'm sure we all must have told ourselves, at least once while growing up, that life couldn't possibly get worse. As Rod Serling, host of the ancient TV show, *The Twilight Zone*, actually never said, "Imagine if you will," being the eldest female child...

For the Love of Cats chronicles the lives of three rescue cats, their hilarious antics and bonds with their adopters. Unashamedly anthropomorphic this novella of over one hundred pages will bring laughter and smiles into the reader's home. It is illustrated with some charming...

Three sisters are called home to their small town to learn the old ways of mountain healing and magic. Guided by their aging grandmother, the sisters embark on a path of self-discovery. Through good times and heartbreak, the sisters stick together and learn a...

Although best known for creating the spirited Anne Shirley, L. M. Montgomery had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than five hundred poems and stories. This collection brings together rare pieces originally published between 1900 and 1939 that haven't been...

Jaxon Nelson wasn't looking for love, especially not after the last woman he tried to date stole his heart and then ran off with another man. Suddenly, out of nowhere, fate threw him the chance of a lifetime when his eyes landed on the...

One of PureWow's "Best Beach Reads of Summer 2018" New York Times bestselling author Karen White crafts evocative relationships in this contemporary women's fiction novel, set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, about lifelong friends who share a devastating secret. On the banks of...

From one of world literature's most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China's one-child policy Far away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as...

An Italian paradise is the last thing she wants... but the one thing she needs.Surely any girl would kill for the chance to tour Italy's most famous cities for the summer? To experience the warmth of the Tuscan sun, the culinary delights of the...

The Number One laugh-out-loud bestseller Fiona Gibson is back and funnier than ever!When her 18-year-old twins leave for university, single mum Nadia's life changes in ways she never expected: her Glasgow flat feels suddenly huge, laundry doesn't take up half her week, and she...

In 2014 Alexandria, Egypt, history professor Omar El-Mohammedi is shattered when his once-promising son, Nasser, returns-not alive, but wrapped in silence and unanswered questions.Was Nasser truly a terrorist, radicalized by faith, or a casualty of a fractured world that rarely seeks to understand? With...