Fiction - Family Life - General

A big, moving, critically acclaimed novel of one tight-knit Texas community and the events that alter its residents' lives forever. Friendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast town of church suppers, high school football games, oil rigs on the horizon, and hurricane weather. When...

In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena.The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales's exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy...

A novel of warmth and true feeling, The Well and the Mine explores the value of community, charity, family, and hope that we can give each other during a time of hardship. Look out for Phillips's new novel, Fierce Kingdom. In a small Alabama...

The Posts are going on their first family vacation in years, and it's going to be a special one: Jim and Franny are taking their daughter Sylvia, son Bobby and his girlfriend, and Franny's best friend Charles and his husband, all the way to...

From the acclaimed Nordic Council Literature Prize winner, a story that reveals the devastating effects of mistaking silence for peace and feeling shame for inevitable circumstances Eva and Simon have spent most of their adult lives together. He is a physician and she is...

Manhattan,1962. Frederick Bailey is a quiet, cultured, closeted architect reluctantly drawn into the effort to save Pennsylvania Station from being demolished. But when he meets Curt, a vibrant, immature gay activist more than half his age, he is overtaken by passions he hasn't felt...

Alexander Herzog, a young writer, goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There he is pursued by book-loving Ganna: giddy, girlish, clumsy, eccentric, and wild. Dazzled and unnerved by her devotion to him, and attracted to the large dowry...

"Stark and compelling . . . Rigorously unsentimental yet suffused with emotion: possibly the best work yet from an always stimulating writer."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Katharine Weber's Still Life With Monkey is a beautifully wrought paean of praise for the ordinary pleasures taken for...

"This is familial redemption at its finest, which is to say agonizingly complex and wholly engaging." - BooklistEvery winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey watches the meteor showers in northern Minnesota. On the long haul from Texas to Minnesota, Tommy encounters a deluded Japanese tourist determined...

Over the course of a single transformative summer, an American teenager travels to southern India to visit her relatives and gains new insight into her past, her family and her heritage. Born in Kerala, Maya spent the first four years of her life there,...

Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspirator--that is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married...

A "heart-wrenching, beautiful" and edgy collection that gives voice to the true experience of Italian American women. (Philadelphia Inquirer)Author: Louise DeSalvo, Edvige GuintaISBN-10: 1558614532ISBN-13: 9781558614536Publisher: Feminist PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2003Pages: 346Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.60w x 1.00d

Originally published in 1936, Whiteoak Harvest chronicles the 1930s saga of Renny Whiteoak and his family. Finch Whiteoak and wife, Sarah, return from their honeymoon to upset the Jalna household with Eden Whiteoaks love child. Meanwhile, Wakefield Whiteoak is engaged to Pauline Lebraux but...

"This is an eye-opening and realistic exploration of mental illness--a topic that greatly deserves to be front and center." --Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Small Great ThingsMetal artist Katie Mack is living a lie. Nine years ago she ran away from...

An Amazon Charts bestseller. In the deep woods of East Texas, Henry supports his family by selling bootleg liquor. It's all he can do to keep his compassionate but ailing mother and his stepfather--a fanatical grassroots minister with a bruising rhetoric--from ruin. But they...

Cat Mendoza needs a win. After a business failure and years of dating the wrong men, she's ready to turn things around.First she must convince the residents of Sweet Lake, Ohio, that she's taking her responsibilities seriously. As the events director of the newly...

From the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes the moving story of a man whose life is changed in an instant. How do you start again when you lose the only love you've ever known?When Nick's wife Kerry falls ill and...

From the outside, Alice's marriage looks successful. It's true that Ken was never her first choice, but four decades in, she's learned to tolerate him. Their two sons have chosen their own paths, Tim as a successful banker and Matt a carefree globetrotter she...

From the bestselling author of Wish Me Home comes a breathtaking novel about the secrets that families keep and one woman's illuminating search for the truth.Quinn Maguire has a stable life, a fianc , and what she thinks is a clear vision for her...

Elegant Sabrina Stone speaks with investigative reporter Derek McGill for only a few minutes, but it is long enough to tell her all that she needs to know about this caring man. When Derek is convicted of murder, Sabrina begins a fight for his...

"No reader should pass this by." -- Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Joe Henry was the glue that held his family together. Now he is dead, and his wife and sons are coming together for one final journey to scatter his...

Fall in love with this heartwarming and heartbreaking novel perfect "for fans of Me Before You" (Next Magazine).When Ava Green turns twenty-eight, she discovers this will be her last birthday. The cancer she thought she'd beaten three years ago is back -- only now...

The Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author's native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury. The protagonist, who shares the author's name, Driss, comes from a Moroccan family of means, his father a self-made tea merchant,...

Doting, the last of Henry Green's novels, is, as its title would suggest, a story of yearning and lusting and aging in which a wife and a brash young woman run hilarious circles around a hapless hardworking civil servant suddenly seized by long-dormant urges....

Humor, pain and copious amounts of love run throughout this critically acclaimed novel by Tom Lanoye that sold almost 135,000 copies in Holland and Belgium alone. Both brave and honest, Speechless is a poignant homage to Lanoye's late mother, Jos e.Flamboyant, proud and dominant,...

Yvette is a talented and gifted third-grade student who likes to read and learn. Her parents instilled in her the importance of getting an education and how it will impact her life when she becomes an adult. The story is from Yvette's perspective on...

A debut short story collection that explores the vulnerability, grit, and complex nature of our humanity from a new, vital queer voice. A yacht races to outrun a tsunami. A young man jailed on a drug charge forms a relationship with his cellmate that...

"Although author Carole Maso follows the contours of fiction, style is everything in Ghost Dance, a strangely lovely and perplexing book . . . she has a fine ear and her literary gift is impressive." --San Francisco Chronicle Originally published in 1986, Ghost Dance...

"Jay Cronley is surely one of the funniest writers alive " --Evan Hunter"Cronley has a dead-on ear for the American clich ." --Los Angeles Times Book Review"He is the kind of writer who, because there is no one else quite like him, could easily...

When Angela walked into her social work office for the first time, she vowed her work with traumatized families would be meaningful. But when one family intrudes into her personal life, all bets are off. Discovering her father's picture alongside an overdosed client is...

2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in New Fiction 2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in Women's Fiction 2018 IBPA Ben Franklin Finalist in Best New Voices: Fiction Becca Meister Fitzpatrick--wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community--is the dutiful steward of her family's...

2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in New Fiction 2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in Women's Fiction 2018 IBPA Ben Franklin Finalist in Best New Voices: Fiction Becca Meister Fitzpatrick--wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community--is the dutiful steward of her family's...

Available again from the Bergman centenary comes an elegant novel structured as a series of five "conversations" that reveal Bergman's mastery of dialogue and gift for setting. Revisiting the autobiographical themes he first explored in his novel The Best Intentions, Ingmar Bergman's Private Confessions...

The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them...

I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasn't mine. In a city that wasn't mine, in a country that wasn't...

Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott, depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society. It is Alcott's sequel to Eight Cousins.Author: Louisa May AlcottISBN-10: 1618953990ISBN-13: 9781618953995Publisher: Bibliotech PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2019Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

"King Lear in the Caribbean--except in this novel, the flattery and deceit of Glynis (Goneril) and Rebecca (Regan) lose out to the principled, honest love of their younger sister, Corinne (Cordelia)." --O, the Oprah Magazine, 10 Titles to Pick Up Now An epic tale...

"Exceptionally readable and highly recommended." --Library Journal, Starred Review "Engaging first work from a writer of evident ability." --Kirkus ReviewsMarian Elliot Adams, an outspoken advocate for sensible undergarments for women, sweeps onto the Chautauqua stage under a brown canvas tent on a sweltering August...

"McFadden's reissued second novel takes an unflinching look at the corrosive nature of alcoholism . . . This is not a story of easy redemption . . . McFadden writes candidly about the treacherous hold of addiction." --Publishers Weekly "Riveting . . . so...

"There's something mesmerizing about Hiebert's storytelling voice." --The New York Times Book ReviewA case from the past sparks a nightmare for Detective Leah Teal in Michael Hiebert's masterful new novel of suspense. Fifteen years ago, a serial killer tagged by the media as the...

From Weekday Brides to First Wives, a dazzling series about four women and their alliance of newfound friendship, unexpected love, and second chances.Cynical divorce attorney Lori Cumberland lives by one motto: Love is grand, but divorce is a hundred grand. With one failed marriage...

An unabridged edition of the 1925 classic, to include: The Family - Tom Outland's Story - The ProfessorAuthor: Willa CatherISBN-10: 1603864733ISBN-13: 9781603864732Publisher: Merchant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2012Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.34d

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).Theo Decker,...

The first book to present plays by Sweden's greatest living playwright in English Lars Nor n, generally considered Sweden's greatest playwright since August Strindberg, had his first play produced in 1973 at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, when he was about 30. His...

A lost novel originally written at the end of the 1960's, and too free with its metafictional soul for the publishers of even that era. This is Stephen Dixon enmeshed in domestic concerns as always, but with a young, ferocious energy that will amaze...

Mission to Kala (Mission termin e) is a powerful comic novel set in late colonial Cameroon. It won the Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1958. It describes the visit of a young Yaounde-educated man to a village in the interior. Jean-Marie Medza, the narrator, has just...

Connie and Eva are best friends but their families are the worst of enemies...During the VE Day celebrations, two women meet completely by chance. As Connie and Eva talk they discover they are from feuding families, the Maxwells and the Dixons. But when they...

An incredible and fascinating journey of a boy Kenzie, who was indoctrinated to maintain his aristocratic childhood. He was further brainwashed by his friends, and accordingly, he became an active gang member with extremist ideology.He inherited much wealth from his parents and grandparents, and...

This paperback edition of David Constantine's Selected Stories, originally named among Kirkus Reviews' Best Story Collections of 2015, features In Another Country, the tale that inspired the Academy Award-nominated feature film 45 Years. Constantine's work is acclaimed for its pristine emotional clarity, spare but...

...more than a page-turning narrative; it's an embrace of the Kinyarwanda greeting amahoro--'peace.'--Oprah.com An evocative page-turner and an eye-opening meditation on the ways we survive profoundly painful memories and negotiate the complexities of love."--Wally Lamb, author of I Know This Much is True Finalist...