Fiction - Family Life - General

A beautifully written collection of interconnected short stories told primarily through the eyes of a young Anishinaabe woman struggling with her relationships with lovers, friends, family, children, community and culture. As some relationships dissolve or are wrenched apart, others endure and gain strength. An...

Another wonderful new series from the top 10 bestselling author of The Cornish Midwife, Jo Bartlett. Welcome to Seabreeze Farm.Unhappy with life in London, and with her love life a complete disaster, Ellie Chapman desperately needs a change. So when she learns she's inherited...

Love is universal. Suffering is universal. Forgiveness is universal. Faith is universal.The emotions and experiences described in these pages could be anyone's. This is why this book is for you! Because when we are dealing with the challenges of life, it feels like our...

Eric Larson is smart, good-looking, and full of confidence. When he is sent to a rural Montana town to work in the local branch of his uncle's financial company, Eric is determined to earn a promotion and be back in Seattle by the end...

Welcome to the guesthouse on the Green, where Mammy and her girls will make you feel part of the family. Settle in and enjoy your stay at O'Mara's, where stories abound, romance lurks and laughter sounds. Aisling O'Mara. She's married to a Ronan Keating...

Rachel Lambert can escape from a Bohemian Torture Crib, but she can't leave her marriage. Her whole life she's tried to be a good girl--she considers others first and she's never missed a deadline. Now her family's doing a vanishing act, her book on...

Hannah Cooper's daughter is leaving for college soon. The change is bittersweet. A single mother since the age of eighteen, Hannah isn't eager to confront the pain of being alone, but she's determined not to let her own hang-ups keep Ellen from the future...

A heartwarming story that celebrates how life-changing friendships can be found in all seasons of life. The sprawling lake home Lynn Lundberg built with her husband has been an epicenter of joyful family life, from summer holidays spent around the water, to cookies baked...

A tense neurosurgery case turns into a pivotal encounter...Who says a rising neurosurgeon can't fall from his pinnacle? From the skullduggery taking place deep in the Tennessee woods to the silent tension in the operating room, Doctor Danny Tilson's life takes an abrupt turn...

In this epic family history, Xiaobin portrays women across five generations with Yu (feather) as the central character whose life story is weaved through the lives of her grandmother, mother, sisters and niece. Beginning in the 1950s, Yu loves her parents but at a...

As an infant, Alice Thorton is found abandoned in a canoe. Adopted by a young childless couple, she is raised with no knowledge of her family's history, especially that of her strong female forebears--Eleonora, Signe, and Sophie--who hold a special place in the history...

No Matter What Life Throws at Them, the Grace Sisters Always Have Each OtherThe four Grace sisters--Liz, Sal, Tilly, and Addie--love their quiet life in the country village of Chevis Green. To some, their insular world might seem dull, but the sisters and their...

The hidden village was meant to keep them safe, but the Nazis have found it... There's no time to lose. Laura gathers the children and whispers to them to be brave. The smallest cowers in her arms as they hear the crack of gunshots...

The Criteria explores unconventional, and at times highly problematic, motherhood. The characters struggle with impossible choices that often lead to heartbreaking behaviors. In the titular story, the main character takes on the burden of breastfeeding infants whose mothers have fallen in while at the...

Conversation of men is book about everyday men taking on life's challenges, showing us regardless of what kinds of trials and tribulations we go through a true friend will be there.This book also shows that if men stand together, young and old, black or...

A pitch-perfect, emotionally riveting novel about the fracturing of a marriage and a family: "A gripping debut" (People) from an award-winning young writer with superb storytelling instincts. Life hasn't always been perfect for Abe and Cassandra Green, but an afternoon on the San Francisco...

Author: Daniel BlackISBN-10: 1799976610ISBN-13: 9781799976615Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.70lbs

Harvest of Fear is a gripping historical novel that brings to life a family, a farm, and a racial war - in Africa. Johan Steenkamp brings ardent, impetuous Marie home to his flourishing farm in Rhodesia. There is a leopard roaming the bush and,...

"Maeve Binchy fans will adore it--she just gets better and better."--Patricia Scanlan On Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula, summer means glorious weather and a life-changing choice for local librarian Hanna Casey in this delightful installment in the USA Today bestselling series, a captivating tale filled with...

A heartwarming, hilarious Christmas story with a Southern twist from the USA Today bestselling Sally Kilpatrick! Like most things in Ellery, Tennessee, this year's Drive Thru Nativity is a little unconventional. The Dollar General parking lot doubles as a Bethlehem stable, and widowed writer...

It is June 1979, and school is out for the summer! Having just turned ten years old, Shane Anderson is your typical fun-loving kid who just moved from the suburbs to the city. Sure, he likes to exit the same door he entered. And...

Mia is growing up, unbeknownst to her, in a terribly abusive home. As Mia navigates her way through the end of fourth grade, she starts to question whether her home life is the same as that of her friends'. With the help of some...

"Breaking Her Fall is a corker-- vivid, brilliantly marbled with harmonies and textures and people vibrant with life." -- Richard Bausch Just before eleven on an ordinary summer night in Washington, D.C., Tucker Jones picks up the phone, expecting to hear that his teenage...

From a small, bogside cabin in rural New England, 38-year-old Aimee Slater unravels the story of her life, attempting to make sense of the tangled thread that leads from her mother's house-a short, unbridgeable distance away-to the world she now inhabits. It is soon...

From a bright new talent, a witty, moving, and inspirational coming-of-age debut novel set in 1970s Brooklyn about a teenager and his abusive father whose obsession with broken down vintage cars careens wildly out of control."Such a pleasure to read.... This is a coming...

Author: Judi CulbertsonISBN-10: 0062365177ISBN-13: 9780062365170Publisher: Witness ImpulseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2016Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d

A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The...

The co-host of ESPN's Mike and Mike follows up his New York Times bestseller All You Could Ask For with this poignant story of one man's search to understand himself, his marriage, and his father.Jonathan Sweetwater has been blessed with money, a fulfilling career,...

"Gritty and suspenseful, Chosen draws us into the obstacle-strewn path of domestic adoption." --Juliette Fay, author of Shelter MeA young caseworker increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents faces life-altering choices when an extortion attempt goes horribly wrong in Chosen. Written...

It's the last place she wants to be. It's the only place left to go . . .'Hugely entertaining...an instantly engaging read, what you might get if you mixed Jojo Moyes with Marian Keyes' Sunday Independent'A fabulous read...you're immediately immersed' Sheila O'Flanagan, bestselling author...

A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy & Son is a quietly moving masterpiece from one of Ireland's most gifted comic writers.Eugene Duffy is turning 70; his son Jim is turning 40.For decades now,...

'Simply superb.' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Excellent from beginning to end.' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A bone-chilling thriller.' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'WARNING: do not start reading this if you have things to do. It's a page-turner you won't be able to stop thinking about.' NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐It started with...

On the evening of their wedding anniversary, Ali and Matthew are involved in a fatal car accident.Grief-stricken, Ali can't bring herself to believe that her beloved Matthew is gone...The smell of his aftershave lingers in their bedroom. His voice still rings out on their...

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives--set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations....

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives--set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations....

Gina S. lives an orderly life, commuting to her secretarial job in Chicago, watching movies, or visiting her elderly neighbor, until a rainy weekend when unexpected events disrupt her routine. A blind date, a mysterious envelope, and a voicemail from Korea-each pushes Gina to...

Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty's The Husband's Secret and Linda Holmes's Evvie Drake Starts Over."A touching novel charting two women's parallel lives, tied together by mysteries, transformation, and a cabin." -BookLife"Chrysteen Braun creates a masterpiece with smooth storytelling that juxtaposes the serenity of...

Love can heal...or devastate. Trouble is, the difference isn't clear until you're In Too Deep to escape...Ronan Doyle needs the truth. He can't let his family declare their missing father dead when there are still so many unanswered questions. He's sure the Cahills have...

West Virginia, 1937...It was not a place one could visit without an invitation. It wasn't what Harlan Fleming had planned. Yet, when he heard there would be no school if a teacher couldn't be found for this year, something about the place called out...

There isn't a day I don't think of you, my poor lost girl. I remember the sweet, milky smell of your skin, the shape of your lips. You were perfect, lying there in my arms, as tiny as a bird and just as weightless....

In an intriguing and exciting story, Njavwa a young lady and also a school girl gets a lift from a stranger on her way to the boarding school. As fate has it, she falls in love with this stranger. In another twist of fate,...

Looking for a cute way to put the kids to bed? The best way is a bedtime story. A cute and short bedtime story, for kids 3 4 5 6 7 8 years old. Here's a good 5 minute bedtime story that will quietly...

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona and is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating...

In the sweltering heat of a Montana July, the small town of Grandview readies for its annual Jamboree. The event is meant to celebrate community, but this year tensions boil over, threatening to tear the town, and a family, apart.Sam Kelvig, a third-generation resident,...

In which Anne Shirley of Green Gables and Avonlea plays some part, and which have to do with other personalities and events, including The Hurrying of Ludovic, Old Lady Lloyd, The Training of Felix, Little Joscelyn, The Winning of Lucinda, Old Man Shaw's Girl,...

Elise's time on Mackinac Island has only just begun.What started as a brief trek to the gorgeous Michigan island has forced Elise into a wild arena of family secrets, broken promises, and now--to her surprise--disaster.Wayne, the handsome stranger who works at the coffee shop...

A life beyond redemption. No, wait. That's wrong. Everyone can be redeemed. Right?Alejandro needed to feel safe, needed to prove to himself he was worth more than trash left at the side of the road. He did things we didn't like, things he believed...

When the Little Wings Are Stronger is the coming of age story of a young girl from the southern Ozarks in Missouri during the period before and at the beginning of the United States involvement in World War II.Raised in post-depression times in a...

Tom Wilcher is a miserly lawyer, deeply at odds with the modern world. Approaching death, amidst a close-knit family that he both resents and loves, he reviews his life and times.Tom Wilcher, the hero of the second volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, has...

An instant classic, beloved New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Mary Monroe's debut novel The Upper Room introduced unforgettable, indomitable, and thrillingly scandalous heroine Mama Ruby. Now this beautifully repackaged edition will captivate readers old and new. Mama Ruby's known for taking things...