Fiction - Family Life - General

For readers of My Absolute Darling and Fourth of July Creek, a "riveting and timely" Montana story about the unbreakable bond between a young man and the abandoned boy put in his care (Jess Walter), as old grievances of land and blood are visited...

Cozy up with New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first Christmas novel, hailed "a diverting tale... filled with humor, romance, and realism" by USA Today, in which a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with chaos, caroling, and cheer. Kelley Quinn...

In this thrilling drama from an award-winning author, after one night's deadly mistake, a man will go to any lengths to save his family and his reputation. Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect life--married to a beautiful police officer and father of two young...

Gather under the mistletoe for another round of caroling with the Quinn family in this heartwarming third addition to Elin Hilderbrand's bestselling Winter Street series. Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After...

Reunite with the Quinn family on Nantucket for the holidays and catch up on all the drama that Kirkus Reviews calls "juicy," in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's sequel to Winter Street. A second Christmas on Nantucket finds Winter Street Inn owner...

As a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver's adventures have charmed millions. This edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the book's orginal publication in the U.S., features a new introduction by Greer Garson, who won the Academy Award as best...

A New York Times Notable Book and the March 2001 selection of Oprah's Book Club(R) ! Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl growing up in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky during the 1950's. Gwyn Hyman Rubio's beautifully...

"Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic, confusing times....

"Dottie Frank's books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property." --Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of TidesBulls Island is a supremely satisfying tale of honor, chance, and star-crossed love, infused with Southern...

"Ultimately, [If Today Be Sweet] reflects on what makes an individual part of a community, and movingly depicts the heartaches, responsibilities, and rewards of family life--among one's own blood relatives as well as one's 'family of choice.' . . . [A] meditation on the...

New York Times Bestseller - An Oprah Book Club Pick"Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty." --Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTaking its place alongside...

" A sympathetic storyteller deftly explores the complexities of dealing with family and confronting the past." - Kirkus Reviews "Full of feelings of passion and emotion, Losing Love may teach us to understand the importance of both love and loyalty and the difference between...

Fresh out of college, small-town crime reporter Cara Nielsen sees disturbing things that suggest, for the first time in her life, that evil is real. But as the daughter of two secular academics, she pushes that notion aside. When her smart, ambitious boyfriend asks...

"I know you never knew your grandfather, but now you can touch what his hands touched and create beauty.... Be like him, dearest Orla; recognize, make, and be beauty in an often ugly world." These words were to have a profound effect upon Orla.The...

He's standing in front of her...... after ten long years.No one knows why Dixie's son is standing there, on Christmas Day, no less. And he doesn't look happy.Dixie is keeping a big secret that will shake up everyone around her.Julie's daughter, Colleen, is coming...

A new provocative love story from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things. "The story of Zee and Gentry is the reason we read." --Brunonia Barry Their journey will break them--or save them. A moving and complicated love...

"Separation Anxiety is a hilarious, heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage, as fierce as it is funny.... My advice: Start reading and don't stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel." --Alice Hoffman AN ANTICIPATED BOOK...

It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the...

In this unforgettable international bestseller, three women from very different circumstances around the world find their lives intertwined by a single object and discover what connects us--across cultures, across backgrounds, and across borders. In India, Smita is an untouchable. Desperate to give her daughter...

In her sweeping debut novel, Elizabeth J. Church takes us from the World War II years in Chicago to the vast sun-parched canyons of New Mexico in the 1970s as we follow the journey of a driven, spirited young woman, Meridian Wallace, whose scientific...

Christmas should be a joyous time. But this year the celebration is overshadowed in sickness, sorrow, and disappointment. Seeing her grandmother struggle with pain and sadness, Emily decided to share a story that she's never told anyone. As old memories live again through her...

The Baxters is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Roma Downey and Ted McGinley.A story of God's grace, redemption, and victory even in the most difficult times, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic...

Book 4 in the bestselling 4-book Christian fiction series that has sold over 1.3 million copies A story about God's unending faithfulness, the power of family love, and the healing miracle of redemption, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of...

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream--the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy New York Times Bestseller -...

Two sparkling comedies from early in the career of the beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. - "Exuberant...enjoyable skulduggery...

The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in this captivating, beautifully written drama involving family, friendship, secrets, sacrifice, courage, and true love for fans of Jojo Moyes, Elin Hilderbrand, and Nancy...

"Frank...writes with genuine adoration for and authority on the South Carolina Lowcountry from which she sprang.... Her] stuff is never escapist fluff--it's the real deal."--Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionReturn to Tall Pines in the long-awaited sequel to Dorothea Benton Frank's beloved bestseller Plantation. Lowcountry Summer is the...

"Nothing short of astonishing." -- New Yorker"A thing of beauty--lucidly written, artfully ordered, riddled with riddles and undergirded with dark layers of philosophical meditations." -- Los Angeles TimesThe final book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, Unless, is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story...

The Lady Lighthouse Keeper is an intimate and relatable look at family life in the late 1800s against the backdrop of the rigor required to maintain a lighthouse. A fictionalized account based on the life of Stella Prince, a woman who resists society's expectations...

In the spirit of We Were the Lucky Ones and We Must Be Brave, a heartbreaking World War II novel of one mother's impossible choice, and her search for her daughter against the odds. As a Russian Jewish émigré to France, Vera's wealth cannot...

In book 8 of the USA Today bestselling South Carolina Sunsets series, somebody comes back to Seagrove for the first time in many years. When the town is all abuzz about what's happening at the Willow tree house, what secrets will come out?Plus, catch...

2022 Eric Hoffer Award - Short List for Grand Prize2022 Eric Hoffer Award - Finalist in First Horizon Award (for debut authors)2022 Book Excellence Award - Finalist in Chick Lit2021 NYC Big Book Awards (Distinguished Favorite, Contemporary Novel)2021 Paris Book Festival (Honorable Mention, General...

Author: Betsy NaglichISBN-10: 1098078233ISBN-13: 9781098078232Publisher: Christian FaithLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/24/2021Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

"It is the voice of the characters, the kindness of strangers, and the ingenuity and determination of our protagonist against terrible forces that make this story sing." -- San Francisco Chronicle on Tucker's debut, The Clay Girl From the author of the Indie Next...

A powerful novel about the expectations of family--and the risks and liberation of defying them--by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow.1975. In the town of Rexburg, Idaho, aspiring artist Aran Rigby, his younger sister, Tamsin, and...

Two crystalline novellas linked by one devastating crime: Say This is an immersive meditation on the interplay between memory, trauma, and narrative.It's a cold spring in Baltimore, 2018, when the email arrives: the celebrity journalist hopes Eva will tell him everything about the sexual...

A modern reimagining of a classic fairy tale by one of most bewitching, idiosyncratic British writers of the twentieth century. Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn't quite...

Sisterhood, motherhood, marriage, baking, and books--these are a few of the things that make this delightful novel a recipe for getting through the tough stuff of life--from the author of The Summer Sail and The Summer of Good Intentions. Ellen McClarety, a recent divorc馥,...

National Bestseller. Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline. Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just...

Book 2 in the bestselling 4-book Christian fiction series that has sold over 1.3 million copies A story about God's unending faithfulness and the trials and triumphs of this one unforgettable summer, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging...

ALEX AWARD WINNERFINALIST FOR THE 2018 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD "Both timelessly beautiful and unbelievably timely." --Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant Esther Ann Hicks--Essie--is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's...

In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with classic stories of...

A number one bestseller in the UK, this captivating and epic tale of family ties, romance, war, disease, and history is set on the beautiful Greek Island of Crete.On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding plans a trip to her mother's childhood...

Lyrical realism meets family drama meets sparkling global folktale.Joan, a half-Chinese English conversation teacher unmoored in Europe, flees Budapest for a fresh start. Stepping off the train in Bratislava, she meets Milan, a proud Roma teenager, and they strike up a friendship. Milan helps...

With the same atmosphere and imagination of The Book of Hidden Wonders, Polly Crosby's new novel, The Women of Pearl Island is set on a lush, secluded island where family secrets bring together an unlikely friendship.On a secluded island off the British coast, an...

From one of Sweden's most astute cultural critics, a razor-sharp comedy of the progress and ruin of the industrial welfare state, told through the story of a single family. Ragnar Johansson is born in 1932, a transformative moment in Swedish history. He has Swedish...

Author: Kristy Wood HarveyISBN-10: 1432889427ISBN-13: 9781432889425Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2021Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.00dLarge Print

In the spirit of Ruth Hogan and Adriana Trigiani, bestselling British author Debbie Johnson brings us the ultimate in "happy tears" a heartfelt story about a woman seizing the chance to reconnect with her lost love.The truth changes everything. For years Jess believed that...

Hailed as "a masterful excursion into terror" by the Sunday Times--the eerie, suspenseful debut novel from the author of Devil's Day and Starve Acre.Winner of the Costa First Novel Award A Best Book of the Year, London Times and Daily Mail"The terrors of this...

High Plains Book Award Winner for Fiction - Western Writers of America Spur Award Winner for Best Contemporary Western Novel - WILLA Literary Award Winner in Contemporary Fiction - Montana Book Award Honor BookWith the quiet precision of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres and...