Fiction - Family Life - General

An old woman, not that she thinks of herself that way, sits quietly reading as she has done every evening for years. The night is rainy, dark, but she ignores the weather, as she does most negative scenes, until she hears a knock, a...

Half of Jan Morrison's life is pure chaos, the half that has to do with her family, her sense of wifeliness, motherliness, womanliness. The other half, the half in which she counsels children whose own lives are as chaotic as hers, is the core...

The prevalence of Uterine Fibroid among black African women of childbearing age has dimmed their hope of conception and destroyed many marriages, homes, and lives. Many of these women did not realize the presence of this deadly scourge in their uterus until it became...

This suspenseful, touching, quirky little tale of Christmas is a fast-moving, frequently shocking, account of a children's crisis hospital on one Christmas Eve. This one night of the year has a mysterious power, from millennia of pre-Christian harvest festivals and ancestor worship, when ghosts...

McGinty Family Secrets dives into Samantha McGinty and Kenneth 'Gunny' Gunther's closets. Sam's hidden secret dates back to the year Gunny came to Benton: 1926. He is in the dark until his cousin Tig Taylor reveals the dark truth. Sam is forced to face...

Barney and December both know what it's like to live with loss and change. All her life, December has been at the mercy of her free-spirited hippie mom, who continually moves her from one school to another-she met her father only once, when she...

When her parents are killed by a drunk driver, Jocie is thrown into an unstable world of hardship and horror that no young girl should have to endure. At the mercy of a broken foster care system, she is left without a roof over...

Third in a series of Misadventures of a very active septuagenarian Yia Yia and her obnoxious Cock-a-Poo, Lucey. Still in the Witness Protection Program, she embarks westward under the protection of her court appointed guardian, Sarge.Facing a number of twists and turns before finally...

Calico Beaumont and her family face conflicts in a small Mississippi Delta town in the early 1950's. Calico's Cherokee ancestry plays an important role in her upbringing. She explores the woods with her bow, arrows, and dogs, and makes a shocking discovery. The neighbors...

Cat seems to have it all...but appearances can be deceiving. After the mysterious death of her grandfather, she inherits Serene Valley Farm, a perfect setting for a gun-toting, strawberry-blonde beauty and her beloved Palomino horse, Tyler. But although she loves the farm, tragedy lurks...

A young children's story for our times. Stand up, shout loud and stop others destroying Nature.Author: Martin SwordsISBN-10: 1975707818ISBN-13: 9781975707811Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2017Pages: 54Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11d

Simon's Sanctuary is a classic in its portrayal of immigrant life in America. Simon Matin, his wife Clara, and their children Lorna and Sonny are political refugees from the Philippines. They settle down in Los Angeles at a time when the city is gripped...

Years later, when Grace Laporte Nyberg's grandson refused to go to kindergarten, she remembered the day the Lake stole her childhood. On the edge of the Big Lake live the Laportes. The family is poor but happy until disaster strikes. Struggling to feed her...

I knew the title of this novel long before I wrote it. We get a hint of it in Five Love Stories en Brochette when we briefly meet John Farnsworthy. This tale takes place many years before the events related in that tale. Some...

After the closing up of "Who Is Sylvia" I wasn't given much choice on who to write about next. I had laid it out in some detail that Phil and Sylvia Esterházy had five rather remarkable children. Unlike Phil and Sylvia, their lives were...

In the world of 1989 Angela DeLucci and her kitten LB leave her hometown of Providence R.I. and head south in search of a new life. After helping her parents move to Florida she travels to Historic Charleston, South Carolina and buys a run...

This book is about making fond memories and spending quality time with family. Our nine-year-old Kamran enjoys playing and having fun at his grandparent's house. He finds various ways to do just that, but it is so much fun to do it anyway. Nana...

Meet Jaylynn Harris, a real creative and the daughter of two creative parents. Ms. Wright, her teacher has given the class the assignment of making a presentation using any of their creative skills, music, art, dance, singing or writing. Jaylynn is nervous but her...

Mark White appears to have it all as the head of a prestigious PR firm in Washington, DC. But in the aftermath of his wife's sudden death, he is struggling to raise his eight-year-old son, Colin. When he takes on a controversial new technology...

Two babies. Two fathers. One white. One black."She knew that one of the babies wasn't Mr. Meyer's child, and it was really difficult for her to expose it. She knew that her husband was a nice man, sent from above, but this process had...

Lindsay Harris, mother of Emily, Ellen, and Ryan, has to face the most unanticipated event in her life when her youngest child, Ryan, is involved with drug dealers. He is only 11 years old and she is at a total loss on what she...

The year is 1972, and Randy Walls is fresh out of the foster care system. Haunted by memories of sexual abuse, he hitchhikes from Pittsburgh to rural Georgia in search of a blood relation. His quest for family is fulfilled in unexpected ways after...

When my grandmother passed away, I inherited a wonderful memento, a chest containing her handwritten twenty-page memoir.A Year in the Life of a Southern Girl features one year of my grandmother's life around the year 1900, describing life in small town Arkansas at the...

Some betrayals are nectar, not poison 11-year-old Prisha didn't know what to mourn for; her father's sudden death or his 'betrayal' that forced the helpless family to move to a remote township. Life takes further twists and turns when, during her final year of...

West, Book three of the Go Love Quartet, closes the circle initiated when Josephine Stepwell made the star-crossed decision to head West with the outlaw husband who'd lied up one side of her heart and down the other. Now, her granddaughter, who grew up...

From the Fated Loves collection by USA-Today bestselling author Edie Claire, a 4.5-star Romantic Times Top Pick and winner of the Romance Reviews Today Perfect Ten Award!When nothing is as it seems, all you can do is trust your heart...On the eve of her...

UNDOCUMENTED is based on the true story of twelve-year-old Frank Lanc, a European immigrant, already working hard in the coal mines of Bohemia. In 1885, he devises a scheme that gets him to America carrying only a few coins in his pockets, along with...

1800S - CORNWALL, ENGLANDKerena Dugan wants a better life. Her husband, Jeremy, is abusive to her and their two-year-old son, Matthew. Fearing for their lives, she flees her home with her son, searching for safety. As she nears the village of Tremorna, she devises...

All Elsa Garrett wants in life is to be Franklin's wife. He's asked her father for her hand and knows he has permission to ask her. Yet when and how would her boyfriend with Asperger's Syndrome ask the question? When Franklin has a diabetic...

In the age of blogs and omnipresent social media, where is the line between laudable, cathartic honesty and oversharing? Maggie Kelly started her personal blog for one reason: to prevent her head from exploding with frustration. She is, frankly, tired of at-home motherhood and...

"Makes me wonder if God's even up there at all. And if he is, why ain't he doing a better job of things down here. Unless maybe he's doing the best he can."In 1930s Toad Springs, Florida, a three-legged gator with Jesus's birthmark draws...

The brothers, Peter and Andrew Amonovitch, are fraternal twin brothers, age 14 when the story begins. They are called out of school, informed that their mother is facing death after falling or being pushed down the basement stairs by their alcoholic father. On her...

Josephine Stepwell Harvell is certainly not lucky in love; from Buddy Washer, the Arizona mistake, who got her pregnant and then got arrested trying to smuggle weed in the belly of a Santa Claus suit, to O.W., a truck driving brawler who pawns everything...

Praise for Barbara de la Cuesta's previous novel, The Spanish Teacher, winner of the Gival Press Novel Prize... "The Spanish Teacher has everything to thrill you--pace, a great balance of description, gesture and action, charmed, perfectly tuned dialogue, and most notably, a character we...

From the heart of a father with two daughters of his own comes a letter originally written for them, and now expanded to include all daughters by revealing a father's love, the uniqueness residing in each daughter, and the importance of every daughter achieving...

In spring 1972, Brenda Hudson, wife and mother, disappears while vacationing on Hatteras Island, North Carolina.The narrative (told in second person, present tense) begins in a beach cottage on remote Hatteras Island, North Carolina, in the midst of a long-standing marital dispute between Peter...

Death in Three Quarter Time is an eclectic collection of original short stories. By expressing life's true meaning through the written word, these stories deal with conflict and times of grief that will surely bring insight and understanding into the reader's life. About the...

Better to have loved and lost...Just before dawn, the sun limped through the guest room curtains casting shadows of light across the room.Outside, a chorus of kookaburras and magpies greeted the day.Sam struggles to come to terms with losing her husband. His dog does...

L.J. Diva's Porn Star Brothers series continues in Stefan: The New Generation...Thirty years has passed since Carlos, Pedro and Tomas Stefan made a name for themselves in the world of porn in the late '70s. They have not only forged new careers for themselves...

This is a fascinating prequel to Rocking Horse Rider. The book provides the back-stories of the complex characters in the later novel. Clyde Steadman, the youngest son of Sir Henry and Edith, Lady Steadman, is educated at Winchester College and the University College London...

Inspired by a true story.Sue and Roger attempt to resolve family conflicts and improve their living standards by migrating with their two small children from England to the warmer Great Southern Land to become 'fair dinkum Aussies'.Set from the 1970s, buckle up for a...

Ash and Destiny enjoy a happy life in Melbourne with their young son, Tomas, a large and slightly dysfunctional family, a successful art gallery, and Destiny's new exhibition about to debut. But everything changes for Ash on one extremely hot Summer Solstice when a...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every single, good Calabrian boy is looking for a single, good Calabrian girl to marry so they can cook, wash and clean for him! It's the late eighties and twenty-three-year-old Ree is trying to get out of...

This is 'bald' fiction, a book not afraid to shave it off! Antonio 'Tony' Timone used to be beautiful. Too beautiful for the south coast town he left thirty years ago. But that was then ... Now, on the brink of 50, Tony is...

On rare occasions, an injury can give you capabilities you never had before - and change your life in unexpected ways. Derek Saddler is a tradesman - a boatbuilder - hard talking and hard working; so hard working, in fact, that his family life...

Thirty-six-year-old Emma Taylor has returned to her childhood home - a remote Cumbrian village. She holds a big secret, but she also has a plan.A plan to win back the man she loves; build the career she surrendered and find the most precious thing...

The time has come for Jane to sell the family home. Downsizing to a flat means everything must go, but her late husband's favourite chair is far too precious for the tip. Meanwhile Robyn, balancing her precarious career as a portrait artist with raising...

On the outside, Thomas Grey just seems like any other ordinary guy. On the inside, however, he is at war with himself and has been since childhood. Thomas is married to the woman of his dreams, has a beautiful two-year-old daughter, and is devoted...

It's winter at The Vineyard in Alsace, and wedding bells are in the air...How do you know when you're ready for love?Ellie Robinson has spent her life running from commitment following the breakdown of her parents' marriage when she was young. She doesn't believe...

Lara and Luella Jeffreys lead isolated lives until the night they are left alone for the first time, and Luella decides to have some fun. That evening goes horribly wrong.After Luella wakes up in hospital, she's kept prisoner at home with her mother acting...