Fiction - Family Life - General

A brand new Miss Read novel, set in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green at Christmas. The villagers of Thrush Green celebrate Christmas traditionally, in a way that has hardly changed over the generations. Children eagerly hang up their stockings, families go to church...

Ada escaped her family's self-enclosed world to elope with a mysterious stranger. Five months later, she's a widow in a strange new world.Ada was born into a fringe religious sect named for her father, The Prophet. But her lifelong habit of absolute obedience was...

When Sadie looks out her window and sees her bother standing on the front lawn she knows he can't bring good news. Fidgeting over coffee with sugar and cream he explains: Their sister is gone. Three days earlier Goldie left to go shopping and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a novel that examines wildly divisive American issues like gun control and animal rights with Chris Bohjalian's trademark emotional heft and spellbinding storytelling skill. For ten summers, the Seton family--all three...

From New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole comes "a raw, powerful, heart-wrenching read" (Robyn Harding, international bestselling author of The Party) about a son's heroin addiction and its harrowing effects on both him and his mother, reminiscent of the #1 New York Times...

A "gripping and heartfelt" (The New York Times Book Review) story about two young brothers contending with the love they have for their abusive father, One of the Boys is "one of the most striking debut novels of the year" (Rolling Stone).The three of...

"An electrifying family drama that shows the dark side of adoption, You Were Always Mine is the kind of book you will want to finish in one sitting." --Bustle The acclaimed author of Little Broken Things returns with another "race-to-the-finish family drama" (People) about...

The second holiday love story in New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans's Mistletoe Collection. At thirty-two, Kimberly Rossi--a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership--has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two failed engagements, a divorce,...

A "spellbinding debut" and "a feast for all readers" (Library Journal, starred review) about a food journalist's desperate attempt to save his career--and possibly, his marriage--through an epic quest that leads him from Burgundy through Russia, tracking an infamous bottle of wine. Ex-food journalist...

New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding is the mistress of the "taut suburban thriller"(Kirkus Reviews). Now Fielding unnerves readers with a richly layered page-turner that swings from haunting intrigue to electrifying suspense in the space of a heartbeat. PUPPET Living a no-strings-attached life...

Volume Two of THE TAGGER HERD series: Horses, cows, trucks, and tractors...who wouldn't love the ranch life Wade Tagger is livin' the life...until an accident threatens to take it all away. When he refuses to discuss what happened, the family tries to unravel the...

Seventeen years ago, a tragic accident orphaned the Tagger siblings. While working their 25,000 acre Idaho cattle ranch, they grow their family and build their mother's dream; a horse stable.Newly widowed, Cora Smith, has learned her late husband may have purchased animals, but she...

Bestselling author Holly Chamberlin's heartfelt novel, set in a beautiful Maine beach town, tells of three sisters--and one summer filled with revelations . . . When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured future visits home as brief diversions from her real...

Judy Reene Singer's newest novel is a masterful story of the American experience. Between the past and present, between love and war, between the burdens of race and hope, a woman returns home to discover her father and a history she had never known......

In the colorful small town of Cherico, Mississippi, librarian Maura Beth McShay is preparing for an exciting new installment in her own life story--with some help from the Cherry Cola Book Club.Overseeing the opening of Cherico's new library has been a labor of love...

From bestselling author Holly Chamberlin comes a smart, clever novel about love, marriage, and growing up--not necessarily in that order... Anna Traulsen, of Anna's Occasions, an elite Boston event planning company, has never been impetuous. At thirty-seven, she's never had a one-night stand, crammed...

Author: Maggie CoeISBN-10: 1491838868ISBN-13: 9781491838860Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2014Pages: 18Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.04d

Disturbing and sensuous, Audrée Wilhelmy's tale of a hermetic family minding a lighthouse in willed isolation is reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies.The Body of Beasts is a startling, gorgeously written novel that tells the story of the Borya family living in...

In this stirring suspense filled romance novel, Kareena's short lived love affair with Rian O'Connor spirals into an unbelievable journey of heart wrenching loss and mind blowing discoveries. Rian is forced to choose between his love for Kareena and his loyalty to his father...

Rita was vibrant and energetic. She was on her way to becoming the first college graduate in her family. One day, her life suddenly changed and threw a curve into her educational path. She felt she had a severe case of indigestion, but the...

A chilling psychological suspense novel, The Grave Tender explores the dark boundaries people cross to save loved ones, and the limits of family bonds tested by the deepest of betrayals.Endless questions from a shadow-filled East Texas childhood haunt Hadley Dixon. People said her mother,...

No one had ever looked at her and seen perfection--until now.Delicate, titian-haired Theresa Noble has met her father's associates in the past, but the gorgeous, Italian-born Sandro De Lucci leaves her speechless. Eighteen months into their marriage, however, Sandro has turned to ice. Desperate...

Already an international phenomenon, this utterly engaging novel tells the heart wrenching tale of a nine year old boy who loses his mother and embarks on a quest to understand her death as he grows older. One snowy New Year's Eve, nine-year-old MassiAuthor: Massimo...

"A riveting new novel" (Kirkus Reviews) about finding evil close to home and how far a woman will go to protect her family: Named one of "The Top 10 Things We Love This Week" by Entertainment Weekly. Growing up in the 1960s in one...

We bring together these two novels, thought to be the only books written for an adult audience by L. M. Montgomery, in one volume for you to enjoy.The Blue Castle, originally published in 1926, is a story full of humour and romance about a...

This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Children' is a comic novel about the seven Wheater children and their association with a bachelor that leads to several...

Louis H mon wrote this book during his time working at a farm in the Lac Saint-Jean region. He never saw the widespread publication of his landmark novel. Since his death, Maria Chapdelaine has been translated into more than 20 languages in 23 countries,...

Daddy's Wish is the story of an excited soon-to-be father who can't wait for the arrival of his baby girl and all of the wonderful possibilities it could bring. This book is dedicated to the important, unique and timeless bond between Dads and Daughters....

In 1948 a murder/suicide rocks a small west Texas town, devastating a prominent family, changing their lives forever. At the center of the tragedy is Opal Evans, the widow. Over fifty years later, terminally ill, her only desire is to forgive herself for the...

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence follows three generations of the Brangwen family, focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual desire and the power plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force of...

The Tagger Family rescued a small herd of horses in book one of the series. Each book follows the rehabilitation of the horses from a different family members point of view. It's more than just the horses; it's about family too. Book Ten is...

Modern life in Britain for sixties kids can be hard, as the four teenage daughters of Frank Taylor know all too well. Filled with family drama, their ordinary lives are a push and pull between modernity and tradition, and the changing world around them...

Winner, National Outdoor Book Award"Part quest, part rebirth, Heacox's debut novel spins a story of Alaska's Tlingit people and the land, an old man dying, and a young man learning to live."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"A splendid, unique gem of a novel."--Library Journal (starred review)"Heacox...

The Tagger Family rescued a small herd of horses in book one of the series. Each book follows the rehabilitation of the horses from a different family members point of view. It's more than just the horses; it's about family too. Book Nine is...

The following is an anthology of four short stories from a life apparently peppered with controversy. Or maybe the life stories about to be read are just a reflection of what life is about. Scotty is a troublesome kind of lad who is always...

Its harvest time on the Tagger family farm and ranch. The only adult that can get away is Nora's mom. but when she takes Sadie and Wade to a rodeo, it's a surprising weekend companion that takes Nora to her horse show. It's a...

Come hell or high water, Emmy Jo Massey will have a wedding. After three generations of Massey women with children out of wedlock, she wants the whole town of Hickory, Texas, to witness the legitimacy of her union with Logan Grady. But dream weddings...

When it comes to her heart, Arabella D'Angelo has moved on--even though she still lives in Mirror Lake, Connecticut, a little tourist town with a long memory for mistakes. Ever the dutiful daughter of a cantankerous widower who holds grudges, Bella has spent the...

New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown returns with a heartbreakingly hilarious novel about three women who had nothing in common, except their husband.Leaving one widow behind is unfortunate. Leaving three widows behind is just plain despicable. Oil heiress Kate Steele knew her not-so-dearly...

Three women, three lives, and one chance to become a family...whether they want to or not.Newly orphaned, recently divorced, and semiadrift, Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. She's spent her life looking into strangers' faces, fantasizing they're related to her,...

When Isabelle took a chance and eloped with Leon Feininger, her true love, she hadn't stopped to consider what would happen next. Winter on his family's isolated vineyard proves tougher than she expected, and Isabelle finds herself daydreaming, envisioning the wines she and Leon...

Someone is out to destroy the family vineyard--and expose its secrets--in this atmospheric novel from Cynthia Ellingsen, Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Lighthouse Keeper.Abby Harrington's family has dedicated their lives to cultivating the family vineyard and collecting vintage wines. But it takes only...

Jaclyn Gilbert's piercing and lyrically compelling debut novel about marriage, loss, and finding the path home again.Murray has always known how to suppress his pain.In the shadows of a predawn run, a man tries to escape what he can't control: His failed marriage. Grief....

She can't change what's come before. But letting go could bring healing--and the rare love that comes once in a lifetime.When Ohio pastry chef Jada Brooks and her two best friends restored the glorious Wayfair Inn, it was a boon to Sweet Lake--and to...

In this riveting debut, prize-winning artist and filmmaker Miquel Reina maps out ambitious and fantastical new territory in a novel about a couple holding on for dear life as their world takes an extraordinary fall...On the highest point of an island, in a house...

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.From the author of Everything We Keep comes the final novel in the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling Everything Series. Brimming with suspense, mystery, and romance, Everything We Give brings to a powerful close the gripping series of...

For the first time in her life, Claire wants to know where she came from... After losing her mother to cancer, and suffering yet another miscarriage soon after, Claire Ferguson numbs the pain with alcohol and pills, and wonders if her own lifeis worth...

Wren has tried to shelter her only son from the tumult of the world. Now she's about to find sanctuary . . . in the last place she ever expected.In tiny Cottage Cover, on the coast of Maine, Wren Evans is raising her gifted...

The Clarkson family looks perfect to many--but looks can be deceiving.Katherine Clarkson has the perfect life. Married to Brad, a loving and handsome husband, respected in their church and the community. Two grown daughters on the verge of starting families of their own. A...

Estranged from her father and four brothers after her mother's death, Carson Cartwright is not expecting a call from her twin. He urges a reconciliation before their father succumbs to his final illness. Though she has spent more than a decade trying to forget...