Fiction - Family Life - General

"Authentic, disturbing and unbearably tense, Hideaway will leave you reeling." --Shari Lapena, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Couple Next Door Gloria Janes appears to be a doting suburban mother and loving wife. But beyond her canary-yellow door, Gloria controls her husband, Telly, as...

Touching and original, Stories About Mothers and Their Daughters and the Clock Family is comprised of two parts. In the first, author Beth Carol Solomon, M.A., has written a collection of short stories about the relationships mothers have with their daughters, many of whom...

First published in 1814, "Mansfield Park" is Jane Austen's third published novel, the story of Fanny Price, an impoverished young girl who at the age of ten is sent away by her overburdened family to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle, Sir...

They told her he was dead.It was the worst day of her life.Unable to bear the memories of her late fiance, Paige moves far away and tries to start her life over.And then there was a cowboy. He shows her that maybe life is...

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she...

One quiet afternoon in 2037, Joyce Denzell hears a thud in her family's home library and finds a book lying in the middle of the room, seemingly waiting for her--a book whose copyright page says it was published in the year 2200. Over the...

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...

The Mighty Atom (1896) is a novel by Marie Corelli. Published at the height of Corelli's career as one of the most successful writers of her generation, the novel combines realism, social commentary, and family drama to tell a story of morality and the...

A writer travels to a fishing village to complete her book and becomes close friends with many residents including her popular housemate, Mrs. Almira Todd. Throughout her stay, the writer is inundated with personal stories from her colorful neighbors. In The Country of the...

'Wait just one minute while I catch my breath and pick my heart up off the floor. Wow! This book grabbed onto me and would not let go... Five stars' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐You thought she was safe. You were wrong...Alex knows her daughter would...

"Six generations of readers have found in the story of the March family universal truths about girls, families and growing up." -The Guardian "A Natural source of stories...she is, and is to be the poet of children." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "The novelist of children...the...

Marketing executive and mother of two, Jade Kelly can now add cancer survivor to her list of successes. But while her life looks good on paper, four months out of treatment, Jade realizes she hardly knows her college-age children and she and her husband...

A heartwarming and transporting romantic comedy about finding happy ever after on your own terms.Heir to his father's Mumbai business empire, Ved Mehra has money, looks, and status. He is also living as a closeted gay man. Thirty-eight, lonely, still reeling from a breakup,...

'THIS BOOK IS A DELIGHT. WARM, FUNNY AND FULL OF LOVE!' Katie Fforde, author of A Springtime Affair 'LOVELY, SUNSHINEY . . . A TREAT' Carole Matthews, author of Sunny Days and Sea Breezes ___________________________"...Before anyone or anything else could stop her, she pulled...

Connor is an obstinate young man whose difficult relationship with his father keeps him away from his family and home. After years of tension their relationship seems destined to continue in a stalemate when Connor's grandfather and true patriarch of the Hennessey family passes...

From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Golden Hill, a mesmerizing and boldly inventive novel tracing the infinite possibilities of five lives in the bustling neighborhoods of 20th-century London.Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London receives...

"A fearless and sensitive coming-of-age story. I loved it." --Mark Sullivan, bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley.Bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns with an emotionally arresting follow-up to The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell.In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just...

Interrupting the Soria family's Christmas Eve feast, childish teenager Emily requires the hospital emergency room for an apparent attack of appendicitis. But a blunt nurse explains the truth: Emily is giving birth. The seventeen-year-old has tricked her mind and body into believing she isn't...

The Eves is a multi-generational novel portraying lives lived well and lives in transition. Filled with poignancy and humor, The Eves captures the conversations we wish we had had with our parents, if we had taken the opportunity, and the lessons we would want...

It's 2015. Tony and Rachel's son Jacob is coming to Baltimore to start graduate school at the world famous Peabody Conservatory of Music. He will live at Godfather Jim and Uncle Joe's Baltimore house. The sequel to Dialogues on the Beach, Spirit's Tether traces...

***If you're looking for the ebook edition of this book, it has been rewritten and published under the title: Dangerous Defiance.*** It's my duty to the family...KingWhen I go to work for the Valenti's, I don't expect my first assignment to be my biggest...

A Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2020. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by The New York Times, Real Simple, Electric Literature, and more. "Cinematic . . . The spaces she creates for her characters ....

Three generations of dads, playing traditional roles in each other's lives, arrive simultaneously at significant crossroads. The decisions they make and the actions they take will directly - and eternally - affect each other.After a life of hard work and raising children, Robert is...

Secrets and lies shadow a woman on the run in the second novel in the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.Jenna Mason's life seems perfect: a successful career as an animator, a town house near the...

*The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Finalist 2021*'A powerful and uplifting coming-of-age story. A FINALIST and highly recommended!' The Wishing Shelf Book Awards A young homeless boy. An old man who had lost everything. An unlikely friendship that brought healing to both.Ben doesn't know what...

"Moving." --Booklist (starred review) At Hatters Museum of the Wide Wide World, where the animals never age but time takes its toll, one woman must find the courage to overcome the greatest loss of her life. Four years after her husband Richard's death, Cate...

A beautifully jacketed hardcover edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's beloved epic novel about a stubbornly independent Icelandic sheep farmer and his spirited daughter. Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin...

This is a book that champions older women's stories and challenges the limiting outcomes we seem to hold for them. The Book of Old Ladies introduces readers to thirty stories featuring fictional "women of a certain age" who increasingly become their truest selves. Their...

Three generations of women--and the love, loss, sacrifice, and secrets that can bind them forever or tear them apart.Millicent Glenn is self-sufficient and contentedly alone in the Cincinnati suburbs. As she nears her ninety-first birthday, her daughter Jane, with whom she's weathered a shaky...

Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? "Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful . . . Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling...

Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day--a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever. Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie...

From the author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick Wrong Place, Wrong Time and Just Another Missing Person comes a captivating, ingenious novel about a woman who must make an impossible decision...."A Sliding Doors thriller with a moral dilemma at its heart. Brilliant."--Claire...

A gorgeously romantic novel you will fall in love with and tell all your friends about!One love. Two people. Twenty Years.From the moment their eyes met across the room at a house party, Erin and Dom were meant to be.If only it could be...

She's returned to her hometown. He wasn't supposed to be there. And now she's forced to help him return to the life he left her for in the first place. Emmy Moore is a physical therapist but is nursing wounds from her ex-husband's betrayal...

Tammy Greenwood's haunting novel is the beautifully evoked story of a good man who has done a terrible thing, the events leading up to it, and the demons born from it. It is at once a love story set against the backdrop of the...

To Sarah Dove, books live, breathe, and sometimes they even speak. When Sarah becomes the librarian in her quaint Southern town of Dove Pond, her gift helps place every book in the hands of the perfect reader. Recently, however, the books have been whispering...

"Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people."--Khaled Hosseini, author of...

Banned in Britain for over a decade because of its frank treatment of sexual love, D. H. Lawrence's controversial story traces three generations of a farming family. Spanning the period from 1840 to 1905, the novel portrays the effects of Britain's industrial revolution on...

Lore arrives at the hospital alone--no husband, no partner, no friends. Her birth plan is explicit: she wants no fetal monitor, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward--herself on the verge of showing--is patient with the young woman. She knows...

The Dirty Divorce Trilogy has been a wild ride and readers just can t get enough of the Sanchez family drama. In Dirty Divorce Part 4 the offsprings of Rich Sanchez, Juan and Denie don t disappoint. Juan is determined to become his own...

"[Claypool's] characters' escalating savagery culminates in a satisfyingly unsettling conclusion." --Publishers WeeklyA dark, clever tale of two brothers, a fishing trip, misconceptions, drugs and murder, South of the Pumphouse skillfully combines classic motifs of epic struggle and intelligent layers of imagery, reminiscent of The...

When Ada falls for a body piercer named Pan, her cheeky grandmother, Mattie, says she looks like a caught trout with all those hooks in her mouth. Ada soon discovers Mattie is also caught in a perpetual swoon. It isn't just Alzheimer's, or the...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Bedford's autobiographical novel paints a vivid picture of life in 1920s Europe between the wars. Sybille Bedford placed the ambiguous and inescapable stuff of her own life at the center of her fiction, and in Jigsaw--her fourth and final...

A heartwarming story about faith and starting over." -Kirkus ReviewsWhen a shy woman inherits a ranch, she'll have to find an inner strength to succeed--and open herself up to love--in this heartwarming novel from New York Times bestselling author Victoria James. Sarah Turner has...

"A moving, beautiful story about what persists and what doesn't, about what can be repaired and what can't." --Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Until John Wilson met the warm, wise woman who became his fourth wife, the object...

To the Mansours, an Arab American family living in Seattle, love knows no borders. But despite our best efforts, sometimes love--and family--are foreign to us . . . American-born Margaret Mansour wants nothing more than to rekindle the struggling twenty-year marriage to her Palestinian...

Is there any father worse than Abraham?Are there any unhappier families than the first family of Genesis?In the follow-up to his acclaimed debut, The Bend of the World, Jacob Bacharach enlivens these existential questions in a madcap tale that replaces the biblical Ur with...

"A warm, heartfelt novel about what it means to belong to a family. You won't want to put it down." --Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of A Lowcountry WeddingIn a heartfelt story set in a picturesque small town in Virginia, Mary...

Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Goldsmiths PrizeWinner of the Bord G疂s Energy Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year An Irish Times Book Club Choice "With stylistic gusto, and in rare, spare, precise and poetic prose, Mike McCormack gets to...

"Set in New Orleans, this important and powerful novel follows the Boisdor family . . . in the months after Katrina. A profound, moving and authentically detailed picture of the storm's emotional impact on those who lived through it." --People In this dazzling debut...