Fiction - Family Life - General

'LOVE LOVE LOVED this fabulous novel... I couldn't put it down... Stunning and beautifully written... Will transport you through time and across the world from England to India... Highly recommended.' NetGalley reviewer India, 1926: English Margaret arrives with her new husband Suraj at his...

Can she save herself, her marriage - and her daughter? It's 1946 and the war is over. In Liverpool, the blackout blinds may be coming down, but one family is about to face devastating misfortune... Dora Evans is finally marrying the love of her...

Lauren had it all together. An awesome husband, a flourishing career as a doctor, all the sleep she ever wanted, and socks that always matched. Then Lauren had a baby, and from that point forward, having it all together felt like a distant memory....

A 49th Shelf Editors' Pick MyMum said sometimes refugees don't eat anything for days and days. Sometimes weeks and months so I am really lucky. I think she exaggerates. But I think she is right about the lucky bit. Or maybe not. Sometimes I...

The Other House by Henry James. The Other House is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in the Illustrated London News in 1896 and then as a book later the same year. Set in England, this book is something of...

A Maxy Awards "Runner-Up" for Literary Fiction from USA Today bestselling author Joe Siple."Heart and emotion are on full display in this thoughtful and often overwhelming story of love, loss, and forgiveness." -Sublime Book ReviewWhen a woman begins finding notes from her comatose father,...

The finale of the Storms of War trilogy finds Celia de Witt in glittering 1920s New York, hunting for Michael, the son who was taken from her at birth. Desperate and vulnerable, she looks to the valiant girls of an underground flapper army--and a...

Kai Ingersohn was motivated to become a psychiatrist after a childhood of dysfunction with her tempestuous and manic-depressive grandmother, Dumpling. Now divorced, in private practice, and raising two teenagers, she starts work with Stephanie, a young grad student with acute leukemia, who has returned...

"A wise, lonely novel . . . [and an] honest reflection of exile."--The New YorkerIn the tradition of Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives, a celebrated classic and heart-wrenching story of a family torn apart by the forces of history, by one of Latin America's most...

"A woman gets a chance to start over in this romantic novel... centering on wish fulfillment." -Kirkus Reviews"An easy read, with a wonderful life-affirming storyline for women of a certain age. Life doesn't stop at 50 it just begins." -Secret Library Book BlogOn her...

Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence Winner--Contemporary Single TitleNancy Herkness welcomes readers to Sanctuary, West Virginia, where a whisper horse leads two wounded hearts to a second chance at love.When Claire Parker left Sanctuary, West Virginia, she thought it was for good. But now she's...

Bell Harbor is a one-million copy bestselling series.If Sadie Turner is good at anything, it's putting stuff in order. So when she finds her "perfect" life in disarray, she hopes a summer vacation at her aunt's lake house will help her piece it back...

Fifteen years after discovering an abandoned baby boy in the woods, widower Nathan McCann finds him abandoned once again--this time at his doorstep--in this emotional tale from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.While duck hunting one morning, childless, middle-aged Nathan McCann finds...

This coming of age novel by the acclaimed Belgian author is "a disarmingly simple yet deeply complex study of a mother-daughter relationship" (The Washington Post). One of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of fiction in 2018 Marie is the prettiest girl in her...

A novel that's "brilliant on sex, brilliant on bereavement and death, brilliant on god, brilliant on dottiness" from the acclaimed author of Old Filth (A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard). The story of a motherless girl named Faith and her family and close friends, all...

In Victorian Cornwall, a doctor risks her marriage to fight for female asylum patients: "One of the most memorable heroines of recent fiction " (The Times, London). Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize for Historical Fiction Ally Moberley, a recently qualified doctor, never expected...

"A wild rumpus of a book . . . an exuberant American tale of brothers wrestling demons and each other on opposite poles of their grab bag of a family" (PANK Magazine). Lewis Chopik has just graduated from Columbia University. Having been dumped by...

In this finale of the Jennie Trilogy, the Glenroys find themselves facing issues that they've long been sheltered from: slavery, enmity, and violence. When a figure from their fugitive past sails into town, everything they have worked to build over the past twenty years...

Completing Elisabeth Ogilvie's Lover's Trilogy Strawberries in the Sea tells the story of Rosa Fleming who flees to Bennett's Island to escape her messy divorce. The island becomes much more than a refuge as she discovers community, love, and an inner strength upon its...

The first title in Elizabeth Ogilvies' Lover's Trilogy, The Dawning of the Day follows widow Philippa Marshall as she makes a life for herself as a schoolteacher on rugged Bennett's Island. As she grapples with her sense of loyalty to her deceased husband, Philippa...

Gabby knows God is the God of second chances. But can she give one to the man who betrayed her?When she was thrown out of the penthouse she shared with her husband and their sons, Gabby didn't know if she'd ever find a soft...

You can only walk forward when you learn how to lean.Just months after her husband threw her out of their penthouse and sent their two sons away, Gabrielle Fairbanks is finally getting back on her feet. She has a job she loves at the...

In a world of doubt, disillusionment, and disbelief--it's time for miracles For all who believe in the unseen comes this gift of Miracles--two stand-alone stories now together for the first time. You'll savor these stories from award-winning, best-selling author Terri Blackstock that reveal how...

Four headstrong siblings must satisfy their father's dying demands--or risk losing his fortune. Let the clash of wills begin.Charleston blue blood Clayton Wilcott "got religion" late in life; so late, it turns out his kids never took to it. So he's left a provisional...

Today we live in a "glut of images." What does that mean? Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our era through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, specialist in family photographs. We are the...

A meditation on memory and futility among the ruins of artistic ambition, family myth, and the fall of the South.Author: Sam SavageISBN-10: 1566893720ISBN-13: 9781566893725Publisher: Coffee House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2014Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.30h x 4.60w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/22/2014Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2014Library Journal...

A small-town embalmer's daughter lifts the shroud on the fascinating minutiae of dealing with the dead. Imagine rubbing shoulders with the dead for most of your life. As she picks the brain of her father for the most gruesome and thought-provoking secrets of his...

Single mother Shay is strong, devout, intelligent, and sassy. She works hard to keep food on the table for her teenage daughter Nora, but their home in the Ozarks is full of love and laughter.Mallory is retired; a beautiful, glamorous socialite. Thrice divorced, she...

Saying goodbye is never easy. During their long friendship, Cornelia Parish had been the bane of Irwin Abernathy's existence. Forever minding his business and trying to run his life. But even in death, Cornelia seems determined to make sure her best friend--former librarian, current...

In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much...

When you feel invisible, friendship can offer a ray of hope'Emotional and heartwarming' Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People'This life-affirming tale is exactly what we all need to be reading in these trying times' HeatSometimes it's the things we don't say that we need...

An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family.Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents'...

Broken Heart Syndrome: A sudden and acute form of heart failure, brought on by emotional or physical distress.After years of studying cardiac medicine, thirty-one-year-old Keisha knows the heart inside out. She knows the average heartrate for each age group, she can name every valve,...

Based on fact, the powerful story of Ben and his father Jack, who have the strongest of bonds, but are torn apart by the most unconventional and heart wrenching of choices. 'Pride', will take you into their lives, their family, work, conflicts, highs and...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England. Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The...

How do you break a death bed promise to your best friend?When Sissy came to visit Liz and Cliff Gordon, they weren't expecting her to stay. But she was pregnant and newly widowed, and more importantly, the Gordons loved her. Together, they and their...

Stoney the Pony can't stop eating peppermint candies. When Stoney becomes addicted to the sweets, his friends are concerned about the changes they see in him. He's no longer the same Stoney the Pony everyone knows and loves. Stoney was once a beloved neighborhood...

For people who enjoy books like Where the Crawdads Sing and My Sister's Keeper. MACKENZIE FRASER witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped-up drug charge. Now she's in...

When you hear a familiar song play on the radio, immediately, it takes you back--back to your childhood, your first love, cruising with friends in the car, whatever the memory may be. Songs are like time capsules, capturing the moment, feeling, and essence of...

Fake it so Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle--the future of "no future"--and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen lookalike, meets Damian, the enigmatic leader of a punk band....

"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin Squashed among a bus full of strangers, mother-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into a series of off-roading misadventures, from the USA Today...

An imaginative, emotional debut novel for fans of Ann Patchett about one woman's fight to save her daughter from repeating a deadly fate. What if you had one chance to save someone you lost? Isolated in the aftermath of tragedy, Erin Fullarton has felt...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Baxter Family novels--now a TV series. When eighteen-year-old...

In the bestselling tradition of The Interestings and A Little Life, this "cleverly constructed and emotionally compelling" (Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation) novel follows four longtime friends as they navigate love, commitment, and forgiveness while the world around them changes beyond recognition--from the author...

England, 1959: two young soldiers--Drummond and Carter--form an intense and unlikely friendship at "Doom Town," a training center that recreates the aftermath of atomic warfare. The experience will haunt them the rest of their lives. Years later, Carter, now a high-ranking government official, offers...

Southern Culture ... Old Friendships ... Family TragedyOne phone call from Renny to come home and "see about" the capricious Ava and Celia Wakefield decides to overlook her distressful past in the name of friendship.For three reflective days at Renny's lake house in Heber...

A wise and necessary book, one I've been recommending ardently to everyone I know. --Julie Orringer, author of The Flight Portfolio Suspenseful and gripping, award-winning author Michael Frank's What is Missing is a psychological family drama about a father, a son, and the woman...

This book is a candid family saga that weaves together conflict and redemption. Maggie is a widow, and her four adult children are navigating their own complicated lives while blaming their parents for the way they were raised. In the unexpected company of a...

A member of the greatest generation looks back on the loves and losses of his past and comes to treasure the present anew in this poignant and thoughtful new novel from a modern master Stewart O'Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected grace of...

Finn Brennan, the woman who has everything. Her handsome husband, a radio personality, is beloved of the women of Ireland. Her two gorgeous sons are making a name for themselves in films. She has a lavish house in Dublin. What does she have to...