Fiction - Family Life - General

Amy Poeppel brings her signature "big-hearted, charming" (The Washington Post) style to this wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between. In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby--belonging...

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this "marvelous debut" (Alice McDermott, National Book Award-winning author of The Ninth Hour) follows a Washington, DC, artist as she faces her past and the secrets held in the waters of Florida's lush swamps and wetlands. Loni...

When a mysterious preacher arrives at their ranch in the Rocky Mountains, Genesis watches as her pious mother becomes enamored by him and then must fight to keep her sister, Isiah, and the ranch out of his grasp. Steadfast Genesis and defiant Isaiah are...

How do you stay alive when everybody wants you dead? The Devil Hound, set in mid-eighteen century Europe and the Americas, as an evil priest dedicates his life to destroying two innocent Romani (Gypsy) brothers because of their ethnic origin and because they are...

A novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming from Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Andrew KrivakRooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War...

Ezra Magee has worked hard to make a good life for himself as a professor, husband, and father. He's even made peace with the fact that he can't remember any of his childhood in the small town of Folly, Alabama, before a traumatic event...

Richard Quinn welcomes his readers with a warm portrait of southwest New York State's majestic landscape, which is home to Ben Bowden, his wife Angela, and their two children. The Bowden family is likable, imperfect, and relatable. Their story is a personal and poignant...

REVENGE MAY BE A DISH BEST SERVED COLD, BUT JUSTICE TASTES SO MUCH SWEETER. Party girl, socialite, and granddaughter of the former Don of the Marchesi crime family, Anna Barrichello lived a charmed life. But on The Day of the Dead, she found herself...

REVENGE MAY BE A DISH BEST SERVED COLD, BUT JUSTICE TASTES SO MUCH SWEETER. Party girl, socialite, and granddaughter of the former Don of the Marchesi crime family, Anna Barrichello lived a charmed life. But on The Day of the Dead, she found herself...

In one minute, delivering a not guilty verdict at the end of a trial for a disturbing murder of a child, Matthew Rice's life begins to unravel. The very structures his life is built upon collapse. He finds refuge, if not security when he...

Danah Calsely was only nine when her mother abandoned her. Years later, as a promising Sociology Ph.D. candidate, Danah appears largely unaffected by this traumatic loss -- until she finds a letter that she's convinced is from her missing mother. The truth about Jane...

"If GILMORE GIRLS and FRIED GREEN TOMATOES made a book, this would be it." - Sharon Marie on Goodreads "Savannah writes in such a captivating detailed way that keeps you turning the pages." - Joyce Stewart Reviews "This story was so good, it explored...

Pam Wheeler checked every box: Happy marriage? Check. Fantastic kid? Check. Booming career? Check. So when her husband dies in a freak accident and their DIY empire goes on life support, Pam must fix the relationship with her troubled and grief-stricken daughter and save...

A girl, set adrift by the impact of a sudden death, struggles to gain control of herself while confronting the lack of choices before her. Beth Lawrence, a teenager of the 60's and product of a large Catholic family has grown up with a...

Gbaelay could not wait to be in the second grade. She has waited all these years and finally, she was going to be in Mrs. Boatwright's class. It is the first day of school and Gbaelay just found out that the meanest teacher in...

The Love Factor in Marriage is written by a marriage and family scholar and practitioner, to help Christian married couples live their marriage relationships rightly anchored in their faith in God and to thrive in the twenty-first century with the empowerment Holy Spirit. The...

Matt Stearns had his draft card pulled and winds up in serving on the front lines during the Korean War in 1953. He could have gotten a deferment and gone on to college like he had planned to do but a family crisis changed...

Alexis Jefferson doesn't want much for her sixteenth birthday-just an amazing party and a luxury car. With an unlimited budget and the help of her best friend, Lucky Lewis, Alexis is ready to make her wildest dreams come true. After making a series of...

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries, a new step-sister enters Molly's quiet life - loveable, but worldly and troubling, Cynthia....

In the early 1970s, during a time when their families lived in separate cities, Cary and John kept in touch with each other through letters that were kept secret from their wives and daughters. Forty years later, those daughters, Gloria and Cathy, still the...

a story that will change your life it is current an is easy to understand this is a great story to readAuthor: Leah MitchellISBN-10: 1721549331ISBN-13: 9781721549337Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/19/2018Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.08lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.05d

Estranged daughter Sylvia gets the chance to mend the damaged relationship she has with her mother when her mother's rights are taken away by Sylvia's brother. When she learns of a secret her mother has kept from her, one that she's not supposed to...

Author: Chris TusaISBN-10: 1604890304ISBN-13: 9781604890303Publisher: Livingston Press at the University of West AlLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2009Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Seattle attorney Chico Lenoch wonders why his Czech father refuses to contact family left behind the Iron Curtain. Searching through his father's attic after the Velvet Revolution, Chico discovers letters dated four decades earlier revealing the existence of a half-sister. He travels to the...

Fiction. Translated from the Italian by Martha King. Winner of the prestigious Viareggio Literary Prize in 1984, Tosca dei gatti TOSCA, THE CAT LADY] offers the reader one of the most intriguing characters emanating from the pen of Gina Lagorio. Realizing she is destined...

Getting to Thanksgiving exposes the dynamic interactions that can occur between family members. It humbly reminds us to not only teach our children well, but to learn from our own experiences to become an admirable role model. This inspirational novel will cause many to...

Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel of the Rougon-Macquart series by ﾉmile Zola. This volume serves in many respects as an epilogue to the series -- but it's also a fine tale in its own right. Doctor Pascal, approaching old age, looks...

A powerful and gripping allegory of an ordinary man trying to survive in the oppressive Chinese communist regime of the 1970s.Author: Ruyan MengISBN-10: 1597098760ISBN-13: 9781597098762Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2022Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Shelf Awareness 08/05/2022

As a small child, Josiah believed that his father's absence could be explained by the simple fact that he was a high ranking alien official on the planet Parnuckle. It explained so much else, too, like why Josiah should eat nothing but chocolate (Parnucklians...

A story of hope, love and purpose for anyone who has ever loved a rescue dog. With wry wit, deep insight, and vivid anecdotes, Tim McHugh gives voice to the family pet and delves into the place where the canine and human hearts become...

Jennifer Andersen had a lot of reasons to leave Delicious, not the least of which was her attempt to drown her former sweetheart's father--the town preacher--in the baptismal font. Away from the poisonous fruits of her birthplace, Jennifer finds peace, a good woman and,...

A family saga set during the American Revolution, traces the path of the powerful Hessian family, the Haynows, as they navigate a tumultuous path from Europe to America.Author: Sandra ParettiISBN-10: 1590774582ISBN-13: 9781590774588Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/18/2014Pages: 444Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w...

A scandalous, gossipy, breezy satire, Cable Harbor follows the summer antics of the vacationers and townies in a small Maine resort town--rife with betrayal, young love, and small town drama.Author: Donald BowieISBN-10: 1590772997ISBN-13: 9781590772997Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2014Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.10h...

Author: Christie WatsonISBN-10: 1590514661ISBN-13: 9781590514665Publisher: Other Press (NY)Language: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2011Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.40dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.2Point Value: 16Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 150727 / Tiny Sunbirds, Far AwayAward: Costa Book Awards - WinnerReview Citation(s): Booklist 04/01/2011 pg. 29Publishers Weekly...

A half-naked Viking, with horned Brunhilda-helmet, sword and shield, is the last thing Delaney Kullerton expects to find on her doorstep. Introducing himself in broken English, he claims he's Varik the Bold and he's come to play. Stunned to hear the name of her...

Three Continents is a tale of the clash between the easternized West and the westernized East. Twins Harriet and Michael-spoiled, quixotic, and extremely wealthy-have eschewed the vapid world of cocktail parties and adulteries that seems to be their inheritance. In constantly searching to complete...

A great idea is always worth repeating In one volume, Christian readers' favorite fiction authors-including Randy Alcorn, Terri Blackstock, Angela Elwell Hunt, Melody Carlson, Nancy Moser, and Karen Kingsbury-offer delightful new short stories about hometown faith and foibles. This hard-to-put-down book, which features story...

"Honest to God" is about a successful small-town middle-aged insurance salesman and family man named Daniel Adams (Burke Sage), who lives in the quaint town of Bethany, IL with his wife Becca (Polly Cassiday Doyle) and his two fully grown children, Dylan (Tyler Burke)...

A spaceship hurtles towards the moon, hippies gather at Woodstock, Charles Manson leads a cult into murder and a Kennedy drives off a Chappaquiddick dock: it's the summer of 1969. And as mankind takes its giant leap, Jordan May March, disabled bastard and genius,...

Set in the British Columbia Interior, the novel Cambium Blue is an homage to resource towns, independent women and local newspapers. In 1994, at the outset of the bark beetle epidemic that will decimate millions of acres of pine forest in western North America,...

A sweeping multigenerational Southern saga with echoes of Gone with the Wind. (Publishers Weekly)Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions...

Raging War Between Love tells the story of love, power, hate, and an intervention that could be fatal. Margaret has taken it upon herself to be the fighting force for the people. Her people. Margaret has a mission. It is to help her community,...

Amber was the neighborhood helper. She cared about people and her neighbors loved her. Amber biggest problem was Derrick and he did not know it yet. Amber ran from one good deed to another.It was the good deed that put her face to face...

Lia, Lia, Lia She could still hear the chants from the thousands who'd come tonight to see her perform, as Jaycee Williams, her security escort, walked with her back to the dressing room. Emilia Hanson had come a long way as a child living...

"Secrets of the Heart" is a novel which was birthed from Psalm 44:20,21... "If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; Shall not God search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the...

Thirty-something Parisian artist Billie is working towards her next exhibition when she receives the news that her mother, with whom she has had no contact for years, has drowned in the river near her nursing home. In an attempt to understand the circumstances of...

Margaret is a successful judge, and her family seems perfect. She loves her daughter Sheila and would give the world for her. But when Sheila decides to commit suicide rather than face the wrath of her parents (especially her mother) who claims to love...

A storm rages through Philadelphia causing a city-wide power outage. Three strangers are thrust into an arduous and unexpected situation when they are suddenly trapped together in a high-rise elevator. With little food or water, their desperation increases by the hour as they pray...

"Wedding Anniversary is a play 70 percent of women and girls worldwide can relate with. It is an interesting story of love and hate that cuts across countries and cultures. The shocking intrigues women go through are illustrated in this play. It is bigger...

In the Jamaican vernacular a man wears a "jacket" if he has been given the paternity of a child that he has not fathered. A young police officer, his ex-girlfriend, and his current fianc e who is desperate for a child of her own,...