Fiction - Family Life - General

THIS IS NOT A BOOK.This is a house that hungers.The Keeper welcomes you atthreshold. Maryanne waitsin the mirror, lullaby a shackle.The Haunt seals the doors behindyou. Each soul is taken, bound, transformed into a room thatremembers you, where you willremember nothing but the barsand...

Let Fay Keenan whisk you away from it all with the latest heartwarming and uplifting instalment of the much-loved Brambleton series. Perfect for fans of Milly Johnson, Cathy Bramley and Veronica Henry.Author: Fay KeenanISBN-10: 1836176554ISBN-13: 9781836176558Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/2026Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize:...

"The 5th CHILD" is a poignant and introspective work of fiction by Klaus Mann, a significant literary voice of the early twentieth century. Set against the backdrop of post-World War I Europe, the narrative explores the delicate and often turbulent emotional landscape of youth....

'Strange, wonderful and compelling' - Louis de Bernières A powerful yacht, a warring family, the unforgiving deep... Caught in a terrorist explosion on the London Underground, inner-city schoolteacher Helen is pregnant and lost until a stranger leads her to safety then vanishes. Obsessed with...

What happens when someone sees you more clearly than you've ever seen yourself?Alex Robertson spent eighteen years in a small Ohio town, perfecting the art of blending in. He's the quiet one, the artist, the boy who never quite fit but never made waves...

She draws criminals for a living. Now one of them is watching her.Harper Leighton has built a career sketching the most dangerous people in the room--capturing their tells, their guilt, the truth they try to hide.But when her aunt dies under suspicious circumstances, Harper...

Saving Lucas - A Heart-Wrenching Story of Trauma, Courage, and the Power of a Second ChanceWhile trying to rebuild an abandoned school into a deaf academy, Father Mark Rossi finds Lucas, a 10-year-old deaf orphan, living in a classroom. Lucas is street smart and...

Dive into the intricate world of Victorian England with Mary Elizabeth Braddon's compelling novel, "The fatal three, Vol. 1". This enduring work of English fiction expertly weaves a tale of domestic drama, unveiling the strictures of 19th-century social customs and the profound impact of...

Author: Tonya PerryISBN-13: 9798886857023Publisher: Christian FaithLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2022Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d

The Weight of Witness is Book Two of The Unburdened Series-a Southern coming-of-age novel about grief, faith, first love, and the cost of telling the truth.After his grandmother-the quiet center of his world-dies, seventeen-year-old Van Shelton is left juggling a showboat father, a new...

They expected a woman like me to disappear quietly. I chose the opposite. I'm 64. Ethiopian by birth. American by necessity. And I've been called many things: Revolutionary. Refugee. Doctor. Mother. Liar. Lover. Ghost. Parkinson's is hijacking my body one tremor at a time,...

A Novella of Memory, Madness, and Misfortune What happens when instinct is sharper than reason, and sorrow more familiar than joy? In this darkly humorous and unflinchingly honest novella, we enter the chaotic world of a narrator who senses disaster before it strikes-a gift...

The title of this book isn't a philosophical masterpiece; it's more like a loud shout in a library - unexpected, maybe a little scandalous, but oh so relatable! It captures those times when we're all ready to throw our hands up and let out...

What do you do when the person you love vanishes-and leaves behind no explanation, no body, not even the dignity of an ending?James is gone. No one saw him leave. No note. No call. In an apartment above Rue de Buci, Nathan wakes to...

Rustin and Zack had always had a strong connection. They were twins, after all. The telepathy they shared was usually auditory. But one late afternoon, when they were fifteen years old, Zack fell to his knees. With visual flashes and pain he knew wasn't...

Amidst the backdrop of the Great Depression, the bedtime prince combines the struggles of the time with the hope that children have held onto for ages. The escape provided by simple bedtime stories transforms a struggling single working mother's journey to find happiness into...

It is 1968 during a decade that has been labelled one of the most turbulent in history. The headlines are bold with many social and political movements happening including the Women's Rights Movement, the Viet Nam War, Freedom Marches, segregation in our schools, and...

"Rebellino captures with incredible accuracy the awful brutality of watching a loved one sink into and then deal with madness."-Patrick Dylan, Award Winning Author of Safe, Wanted, and Loved: A Family Memoir of Mental Illness, Heartbreak, and Hope"Rebellino blends brilliant prose with powerful poetry,...

Child abuse is never an acceptable thing in a civilized society, but sometimes social mores in certain localities are more accepting of deviant behavior, especially in more rural communities. Identification of abuse in small towns is often more difficult because in close-knit communities people...

We're talking good, clean fun! With 20-years difference, some things are vastly different... And some things are totally the same. TPing was a Cady family past-time growing up. For ALL the children. Read these short, fun stories about the Cady girls' toilet papering adventures...

Widowed and now the last lonely inhabitant of a small island in Northwestern Ireland, Seán is tired, grieving, and ready to be done with his life. Long estranged from his only child, and spurred by his wife's last words to him, Seán dreams up...

Out of Nowhere is a literary novel that delves into the life of Sean, a disenchanted father and emotionally damaged individual, as he returns to his childhood residence to care for his estranged, terminally ill father. The narrative grapples with themes of anticipatory grief,...

Embark on a marine adventure with "The Brave Dolphin" a children's book full of magic and learningAre you looking for a special gift for the little ones in the house? A gift that entertains them, inspires them, and makes them dream big. Then look...

When everything is taken from you; your work, your family, your hope, one couple will pursue the unthinkable.After a local boy is kidnapped, small-town America proves to be unforgiving. Laura and Bush Batty's quiet family life comes crashing to a shocking halt. Laura and...

Reviewing lost times on Milwaukee's South Side during the 1930s and 1940s and beyond, this chronicle offers memorable events of an extended family of European heritage, some immigrating to America at the start of the 20th century. Recalling those events, the chronicle depicts how...

In the wake of a train derailment, a comatose passenger traverses a mythological landscape that restores the numinous to his life. A woman who has served too long as a metaphorical battery for those around her realizes she must learn to nurture the fire...

ZZ is an anomaly in a world of power and money. His name is Zhang Zhan, which connotes 'stretching' and 'spreading of wings', and his parents are fiercely ambitious minor party officials, climbing the lower rungs of what they see as a golden ladder...

Martins' parents died when he needs them most, their death took a part of him that housed feelings and emotions. As a result, he became hard like a diamond and cold like an ice. Jina comes from a poor family background, asthmatic and allergic...

Bleak House is a novel by celebrated English author Charles Dickens, first serialised and then published in book form in 1853. The complex plot, aided by a brilliantly depicted and engaging cast of characters, is in many ways a detective story, incorporating as it...

Sense and Sensibility (1811) was the first novel written by legendary novelist Jane Austen. The novel is an insightful analysis of the social customs of early Nineteenth century in which Jane exemplifies the two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as models of sense and sensibility...

Can a new boy in town put an end to a dark, century-old tradition?In the summer of 2004, a boy and his mother moved to a small town, Banca. The town appears to be peaceful and its people nice, until the rain begins to...

In the 2020s the female birthrate starts to decline. By 2059 only one newborn in twenty is female. This drop in the number of females in the population causes serious social upheavals: changes in sexual mores. The lives of both men and women, occupations,...

Near Rattlesnake Creek, on the side of a little draw stood Canute's shanty. North, east, south, stretched the level Nebraska plain of long rust-red grass that undulated constantly in the wind. To the west the ground was broken and rough, and a narrow strip...

"But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asks Candide. "To drive us mad," replies Martin. Voltaire was an amusing and sarcastic guy. If his was the Age of Enlightenment, we live in the Age of Schizophrenia. We are all at once going stark...

The Campbells have been part of Sullivan County for as long as anyone can remember-a family built on hard work, love, and a little bit of stubbornness. Their land holds stories of generations past, their brewery produces beer as familiar as an old friend,...

A GIRL SICK OF THE BIG CITY. After losing both her financier boyfriend and her internship at a fashion magazine, Jessica feels her urban chick-lit life is beginning to fall apart. Then... A SINGLE PHONE CALL CHANGES EVERYTHING. Her grandmother has suffered a stroke,...

"The inner eye sees in many directions!" Opal's going to host a booth at the annual county fair and dazzle the crowd with her fortune-telling skills. Her best friend, Maude Cooper, thinks it's a terrible idea, but she's along for the ride nonetheless! All...

Set in the Eisenhower era, Lynda Lee Rogers, a former beauty pageant queen, seems to have an idyllic life, woven together with her very own loom, but in reality she struggles with debilitating headaches and depression, only finding solace in pain pills which evoke...

She loved him as a father. When he breaks her heart, she'll raise his darkest specters... High-school valedictorian Tracy Silver embraced her uncle as the dad she never had. But her perfect image of him shattered when she caught the married man with a...

If she notched her bedpost, it'd look like a ruler. But she can count her true loves on one finger... until a trek through the past says different. Ashley Silver is stuck in mourning. Since the woman of her dreams was killed outside a...

When a woman is physically beaten, everyone knows. But how do you know when she experiences emotional bruises and battery? Which one of your friends right now suffers from the emotional lashing of a tongue? Although the wounds may not appear visible to the...

A Heroine in Distress....In the span of one afternoon, Maggie Sampson lost everything-her job, her fiancé and her inheritance. The thing she'll miss most though is her mind. What else could explain her vision of the handsome and enigmatic stranger who retrieved her engagement...

When she finds a scrap of paper from the past in her purse, Betty realizes that her dreams about her deceased husband may not be dreams at all. She can feel him around her even when she's awake. Every time she dreams about the...

Annabel Turner sneaks out of her bedroom window at night and walks the streets of her quiet suburban town, while dreaming of a different life. She peers through people's windows, eager for a glimpse of what normal family life looks like. She just wants...

In The Graduation thirteen year old Annie O'Brien is forced to attend a private school to hone her skills at being a woman. Annie sees this as an unfair act on the part of her parents. At the academy she learns other students have...

After years of mistakes, regrets, and struggles, Ezra Mackenzie is finally on the path to recovery. But with a long road ahead to rebuild his self-worth and get his life back on track, the idea of dating seems impossible-who would want a flawed, broken...

Everything is not as it seems. Alexander IV has succeeded to the throne of the billion-dollar Kingwood Empire, but the people he thought he could trust aren't allies. They're enemies. Everyone he cares about is at risk. Decisions--SACRIFICES--must be made. What will he do...

A novel in the form of family memoir compressed into one hot afternoon, each member's narrative interwoven with the youngest's recollection of that ordinary, extraordinary day. A young boy sits in a dark bar waiting for his father to finish his beer. His mother...

Incest, rape, betrayal, kidnapping - the darkest shadows that fall upon man; shadows that break apart families and destroy lives. The McDeal's are one of the nicest families in the neighborhood. Until her death, Gracie McDeal, spends her days caring for her son, Carter,...

No matter the crisis, we help each other.Crisis is the backbone of this book of Denver Cereal. Recently reunited, Nelson begins to realize that he will have to take on the mantle of the Templars. Sandy is injured in an accident that shatters her...