Fiction - Family Life - General

At twenty-years-old, Robin MacKenzie is waiting for his life to start. Waiting until his summer working at a Philly restaurant is over and he's back with his boyfriend Peter...until the spring semester when he'll travel to London for an acting program...until the moment when...

Lutishia Lovely is back and it's a matter of life and death in this witty, wise new novel where family, fanaticism, and the rebel spirit of young adulthood collide . . . When eighteen-year-old Raina Reed is given an ultimatum--herAuthor: Lutishia LovelyISBN-10: 1496724437ISBN-13: 9781496724434Publisher:...

Laugh-out-loud funny and unabashedly uplifting, with just the right amount of Southern sass, Sally Kilpatrick's wonderful novel centers on one woman's journey from an unhappy marriage to a surprising second chance . . . On the day Posey Love discovers that her born-again husband...

No one writes about Italian-American families with the humor, warmth, and heart of Peter Pezzelli. With Francesca's Kitchen, he delivers a winning novel about how much we need the closeness of family--even if we don't know it. Where There's Food, There's Family For years,...

In bestselling author Holly Chamberlin's poignant new novel, a mother and daughter escape to a beautiful coastal town in Maine to find healing in the wake of heartbreaking loss.The journey to Yorktide, Maine, was always a happy one for Frieda and Aaron Braithwaite and...

"Happy Holidays 2015! It has been a rough year for the Quinns, but I would like to start by saying thank you for all of the well wishes and positive missives sent our way." A second Christmas on Nantucket finds Winter Street Inn owner...

From New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown comes a sweet romance about finding a place to truly call home.Being broke, unemployed, and stranded back in the tiny town of Pick, Texas, was not part of Jancy Wilson's plan. Yet here she is, watching...

A series of tragedies brings Vivvie's young grandchildren into her custody, and her two estranged daughters back under one roof. Jackson, Vivvie's husband, was shot and killed thirty years ago, and the ramifications have splintered the family into their own isolated remembrances and recriminations.Sisters...

"If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this" (The Sunday Times, London): An award-winning debut novel from a rising star in Australia--a hauntingly beautiful story about the bond of brotherhood and the fragility of youth. Joe, Miles, and Harry are...

A deeply imaginative debut novel about a family in crisis, Time of the Locust "deftly brings together the fantastic and the realistic, and touches on a variety of issues, from politics, race, and murder to disability, domestic tragedy, and myth...[and] spins them with gold...

When softhearted handyman Cedric O'Toole agrees to help Barry Mitchell renovate his farmhouse, he finds himself facing old fears. Not only did Mitchell bully Cedric all through school, but his life has been troubled ever since. Now, just out of prison, he's broke and...

Fall in love with New York Times bestselling author Grace Burrowes's "favorite kind of historical" where a case of mistaken identity leads to an unexpected love between a duke and debutante. Miranda Hodgkins has only ever wanted one thing: to marry Robert Carlisle. And...

Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Him Away From Her Raised beneath the big Montana sky, Matt Malloy was never meant to be a jet-setting businessman. But he'll do anything to protect the family ranch he shares with his brothers. Coming home after a two-week trip...

The Manor, the very place where their passionate love affair began, fills with guests on what should be the happiest day of Ava and Jesse's lives. She has accepted that she'll never tame the fierceness in Jesse-and she doesn't want to. Their love is...

Bestselling author Jim Kraus returns with a heartwarming tale about a dog who has people convinced he can talk. Wilson Steele is a single professor and Vietnam veteran who likes living alone, insisting it's too late for him to have a family. His mother...

Hooper's Crossing, New York, 1952. The post-war boom seems a million miles away . . . especially for a sheltered librarian who longs for the adventure and excitement of the big city. New York City. The hustle and bustle. The people and the excitement....

The New York Times bestselling novel from the author of the Reverend Curtis Black series... ADDICTION. DECEPTION. PRETTY PICTURES HIDE UGLY SECRETS. Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for fifteen years, they have a wonderful daughter, Mackenzie, successful careers,...

In this "extraordinary" (Chicago Tribune) and compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggles to give her daughter a good life and to find love in a society caught between ancient tradition and change. On the eve...

A New York Times bestseller, The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson's mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family that captures the turbulent history of the country at large.Named a New York Times Editors' Choice, a People magazine...

*The #1 New York Times bestseller* The next audiobook sensation from Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of The Nightingale.This program is read by acclaimed narrator Julia Whelan, whose enchanting voice brought Gone Girl and Fates and Furies to life. Kristin Hannah reads the acknowledgements. Alaska,...

From #1 bestselling Irish novelist Cathy Kelly, one woman's journey to truly know the family she's always loved...Lessons in Heartbreak. Izzie Silver--a warmhearted Irishwoman with a mane of chestnut hair and a zest for life--is a New YoAuthor: Cathy KellyISBN-10: 1416586245ISBN-13: 9781416586241Publisher: Downtown PRLanguage:...

This "mesmerizing" (Entertainment Weekly) novel from Booker Prize-shortlisted author Monica Ali brings us into the vivid world of a London restaurant. Gabriel Lightfoot, an enterprising man from a northern English mill town, is making good in London. As executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial...

2017 Christy Award winner! (Short Form category)From the best-selling author of War Room. . .Every day, Paige Redwine is haunted by a choice she made when she was only seventeen. Now, just past forty, still single, she lives a tidy, controlled life as a...

Author: Liane MoriartyISBN-10: 1410472035ISBN-13: 9781410472038Publisher: Thorndike PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2014Pages: 679Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.40dLarge Print

A beautifully told story of family secrets and conflicting cultural expectations. --Booklist (starred review)A brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative . . . Cesaire's Notebook meets Duras' Lover. Unprecedented --Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go A moving, mesmerizing, and astoundingly original debut novel...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes comes the story of Greenie Duquette, who lavishes most of her passionate energy on her Greenwich Village bakery and her young son--until she makes an impulsive decision that will change the course...

"Secrets From a Happy Marriage is a beautiful, emotional, tender story with a gorgeous setting and characters I adored. Maisey Yates always writes stories that stay in your heart long after you read the last page."--RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times Bestselling Author New York...

"Michelle Gable has moved in on [Elin] Hilderbrand's home turf with a humorous and smartly written story of two generations of love and vacations." --Wall Street Journal From New York Times bestselling author of A Paris Apartment comes a novel about summer in Nantucket...

One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2016A Best 35 Over 35 PickBlogcritics Best Fiction of the YearA novel so startlingly original and so unafraid to approach complicated, bald emotion and anger. --The Brooklyn RailA very cunning variation on the revenge fable. --The New...

From the author of The Good Neighbor and The Glass Wives comes an enchanting story of returning home and discovering what truly matters after loss. No one knows why Teddi Lerner left her hometown, but everyone knows why she's back. Twelve-year-old Shayna-- talented, persistent,...

Named a Best Book of Summer by People Magazine * USA Today * New York Magazine * New York Times Book Review * New York Post * PopSugar * Entertainment Tonight "Hugely entertaining." --Time Hilarious and poignant, How Hard Can It Be? is for...

"Wolas writes with gorgeous intensity about the strata of loving relationships that entwine families in all their messy contradictions that often stubbornly resist transparency, the truth, and resolution. Savor this." --Library Journal, starred review The Family Tabor, the new novel from Cherise Wolas, acclaimed...

Fifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel "Mason's Retreat," Tilghman returns to the Chesapeake Bay estate. This richly textured novel proceeds through 19th-century industry and centers on two families attempting to save a son and daughter.Author: Christopher TilghmanISBN-10: 1250033284ISBN-13: 9781250033284Publisher: Picador USALanguage:...

Constant spinning, round and round and round, temperatures rise and fall from stifling heat to chilling cold, emotions run high in anticipation of what will happen next... there's a fine line between surviving a tornado and falling in love.A close encounter with a tornado,...

While most use their summer breaks for pleasure, third grade teacher Cindy Moore is using her summer vacation to tie up some loose ends concerning her grandmother's estate. When Cindy enters the storage unit that holds her grandmother's belongings, she is merely looking for...

Three best friends met every Tuesday for twenty-six years. And then they stopped. From the author of the bestselling Sweeney Sisters Series comes a novel of friendship, family, and hope.When new next-door neighbors Georgia, Midge, and Lula first assembled on Georgia's porch in Charleston...

o A steamy Caribbean islando A missing female photographero A daughter's relentless search and her entanglement in the island's twisted subculture Don't expect an umbrella in your drink when you escape to the Virgin Islands in this heart-pounding suspense novel as young Olivia Benning...

Even in a town as picturesque and rich in history as Oliver s Well there s something special about the Reynolds house on Honeysuckle Lane. Sturdy yet graceful, well-proportioned outside and within, it s where Andie, Emma, and Daniel Reynolds grew up."Author: Mary McDonoughISBN-10:...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND FEATURE FILM STARRING HALLE BERRY AND JESSICA LANGE "Riveting...impossible to turn away from." -THE BOSTON GLOBE "Losing Isaiah pushes all the current cultural buttons...[Margolis] gets inside the head of every character." -THE WASHINGTON POST "[E]ngrossing and, to its credit, offers...

The residents of Baybridge on the west coast of Ireland were forgiving of the damp climate except when the clothes failed to dry on the line. Even on those days, they would not forfeit the stunning scenery surrounding them. Fiona Hannon, a local social...

Did you know that 1 in 10 children in America have experienced some form of sexual abuse? This shocking truth becomes even harder to accept when its coupled with a longer more extensive violation of trust called grooming. Groomed: Shining a Light on the...

Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families and their bustling efforts to have a "Community Baby." Miguel could not be more different from his partner Chad, a happy-go-lucky real estate mogul from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. When Chad's sister,...

The Restless Classics edition of Chekhov: Stories for Our Time presents a must-have collection by the great Russian author who captured humanity in all its complexity, and reintroduces Chekhov as a funny, playful, deeply human, and thoroughly modern writer. The great 19th-century Russian author...

When a startling confession rattles a group of tightly knit women to its core, the friends are left analyzing their own roads not taken and the vastly different choices they've made in life and love.Author: Nicole WaggonerISBN-10: 1631520342ISBN-13: 9781631520341Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2016Pages:...

All hell has broken loose, and the McPhearson clan is right in the middle of the chaos. After finding out their beloved foster mother, Claudette McPhearson, was anything but the sweet old woman they thought her to be, Javon, Shanelle, and the rest of...

--Nominated for a 2014 Lime Award for Excellence in Fiction"An earnest, well-done historical novel that skillfully blends fact and fiction." --Publishers Weekly "Solomon enticingly described the novel Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night by Barbara J. Taylor (Akashic), set in a coal-mining town...

"A novel for our time, a courageous and necessary book." --Jennifer Haigh, author of Heat and Light In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love. In the...

In this epic tale of friendship and loss from the author of The Sugar Men, fate pushes childhood friends to opposite sides of a terrible war--but is forgiveness always possible?Ukraine, 1923. On a small farm, two boys are born within days of each other,...

From New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Catherine Bybee comes the first novel in the delicious Not Quite series.Waitress and single mom Jessica "Jessie" Mann is practical to a fault. Even if she had time to date, which she...

From New York Times, USA Today, and WSJ bestselling author Catherine Bybee comes the second novel in the delicious Not Quite series.Gorgeous hotel heiress Katelyn "Katie" Morrison seems to have it all. But when she crosses paths with Dean Prescott--the only man she's ever...