Fiction - Family Life - General

Tinker Gordon doesn't want anything to change. He thinks that if he holds on tightly enough, his family, his tiny Cape Breton Island community, his very world will stay exactly the way it has always been. But explosions large and small--a world away, in...

Winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Shortlisted for 2016 CBC Canada Reads Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods -- and by shared tragedy....

The Meadow is about a boy growing up on a farm while being loved and nurtured by his family and neighbors. Read about the adventures of Charlie and his two best friends-the lovable Labrador retrievers, Martha and George-as they romp, play, and have fun...

"The Portrait of a Lady" was, like "Roderick Hudson," begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like "Roderick" and like "The American," it had been designed for publication in "The Atlantic Monthly," where it began to appear in...

Song of the Tree Frogs tells the story of two brothers in a brutal reality, revealing that there are no throwaway kids, especially when unconditional love works its transforming power.Author: J. W. KitsonISBN-10: 1683506057ISBN-13: 9781683506058Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author brings us her most ambitious and provocative work yet--a searing and timely novel that explores the most volatile issue of our time--domestic violence. At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet...

Teenager Pam Ackerman is looking forward to the promising life she sees before her. She loves her hometown and parents, and her father's career as an attorney has set the family up with a comfortable life of opportunity.Then the unthinkable happens: her father abandons...

Amanda thumbed through her mail and afterwards went and took a hot shower and washed her hair. She couldn't believe how much it had grown. She wanted to cut it so badly because it was easier to handle when it was shorter, but Derrick...

On the anniversary of her husband's death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unmade bed, an unlocked house, two college-aged sons, and an overabundance of bad memories.Struggling to make peace with the death of a husband who'd been lost to mental illness, she...

The last place Angelina Moltisanti ever wants to go is home. She barely escaped life under the roof, and the thumb, of her violent but charismatic father, Jack. Yet home is exactly where she ends up after an SUV plows into her car just...

Cougar's Crossing"To read a book by Lillian Ross is to travel to another time and place with characters who quickly become family.Read this true-to-life novel to feel the essence of the rugged era on the Canadian prairies... raw, messy, inspired by hope and motivated...

Shared Gardens brings the Garden Trilogy full circle. Claire's journey in search of her birth-mother is chronicled in this intense fictionaliztion of the authors own story of abandonment and adoption.Alice's story of The Swan Garden and that of her daughters in Garden of Nails,...

If Will Fletcher's severe bipolar disorder isn't proof he shouldn't be a parent, his infant daughter's grave is. Once a happily married, successful veterinarian, he now lives with his sister and thrives as the small-town crazy of Half Moon Hollow. But when a fifteen-year-old...

"Must Love Dogs has already been a major motion picture, and now New York Times bestselling author Claire Cook's hilarious and heartwarming series is begging to hit the screen again."-New York Journal of Books "Reading about how life goes for this wacky marvelously lovable...

"As a reader, there's nothing I love more than finding a set of characters I absolutely adore and learning that I don't have to say goodbye to them."-Book Perfume "A hilariously original tale about dating and its place in a modern woman's life."-BookPageSarah Hurlihy...

The town of New Eden, peopled with hereditary oddities, has arrived at its last days. As two near-centenarian citizens prepare for their annual birthday tea, a third vows to interrupt the proceedings with a bold declaration. The Remnants cartwheels rambunctiously through the lives of...

Sisters Betsy and Avery have never met, but they have both spent their lives under the scrutiny of prying cameras and tabloid journalists. Their father, David Christie, was a charismatic senator and promising presidential candidate until infidelity destroyed his campaign and his family's life....

Imagine not knowing who you are, until you find yourself in a statue 800 miles from home. Join intensely passionate and fiercely independent New York college student Lara Bonavito on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery in sigh-worthy Savannah, Georgia. Adopted into an abusive and...

Claire Barnes is shattered when her husband, Greg, goes on a business trip and never returns. Unwilling to just wait for the police to find him, Claire conducts her own investigation. Her best friend Drew helps her look for answers, but all she finds...

It's the summer of 1994 in suburban Chicago: Forrest Gump is still in theaters, teens are reeling from the recent death of Kurt Cobain, and you can enter a sweepstakes for a spaceship from Jupiter to land in your backyard. Welcome to Margaret Wappler's...

"Suspenseful and moving . . . This author has a talent for telling a story and telling it well." - ABNA Breakthrough Novel Award "Like the nesting dolls of the title, the story moves backward through time, masterfully disclosing the mysteries of three generations...

Booker Prize winner James Kelman's new novel, Dirt Road, tells the story of a teenage boy who travels with his father from Scotland to Alabama to visit with relatives after the death of his mother. In the American South, he becomes swept up into...

"Features some of the liveliest characters that one is apt to meet in a contemporary novel. Vividly described."--Publishers Weekly "Extremely vivid. . . . Any number of novels have been written about unhappy childhoods and bizarre families, but this one surpasses many."--Kirkus Reviews Joe...

"Damn if I didn't actually laugh out loud while reading it--several times, in fact. If you're looking for a funny, well-written novel . . . give this a try!"--AfterEllen.com Just when you thought it was safe to pitch your tent, the Santora family shows...

Dotty, old and maybe crazy, sees The Wizard of Oz on TV, and recognizes it as her own story.Author: Geoff RymanISBN-10: 1931520739ISBN-13: 9781931520737Publisher: Small Beer PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/2015Pages: 386Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 78

A.G. Harmon's Some Bore Gifts is an eclectic collection of stories spanning the traditional to the satirical, with a kaleidoscope of viewpoints and characters that includes tree cutters, department store pianists, museum guides, physicians, florists, actresses, bank managers, junk salesmen, personal trainers, and English...

Shortlisted for the 2018 ReLit AwardIn this new novel by ReLit award-winning, Leacock-nominated writer Andrew Kaufman, the narrator eschews the usual avenues of mid-life crisis-sportscars, mistresses-and instead seeks meaning in the least likely of places: small claims court. There, he struggles to understand what's...

When Colin discovers his son is on a murder charge in France, he trails his small boat, The Dragonfly, across the channel to Paris to try and help him. There he meets his grand-daughter - the irrepressible Delphine - for the first time. They...

"Thoughts of a Fractured Soul" tells a story of family and failed potential told through the reflective voice of the main character, Corey Thomas a.k.a Ace. Through a series of non-linear digressions, some brief and some extended, Corey catalogues the crucial moments of his...

Beaten and left for dead in the English countryside, clergyman and reformer Tom Cross is rescued and nursed back to health by Miranda and Simon Thorne, reclusive siblings who seem to have as many secrets as he does. Tom has spent years helping the...

Tragedy brought him home, but love made him stay. When his estranged wife, Jess, has a terrible accident leaving her lying in a coma, Clay Connors returns to his family to care for his two daughters. He has been separated from his family for...

An unforgettable and breathtaking novel of love, loss, and the unexpected routes that life takes from Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.With her deceased sister's Route 66 bucket list in hand, California girl Joy Evers sets out on a cross-country...

"The Snakes is many things--a parable and an ancient drama where a father's greed devours his children, a police procedural, an avid take on tabloid venality, and a bitter comedy, superbly observed. Sadie Jones writes with pitiless aplomb and corrosive intelligence."--Louise ErdrichA chilling page-turner...

2nd EDITION -- Selah Award Winner, Carol Award Finalist - "Best Historical Fiction" -- Gerard Warner was not only a literary giant but a devoted family man. When he dies he leaves his Charleston estate to his grandson, Michael, an aspiring writer. Michael soon...

Quiet street. Perfect homes. Not so perfect lives.Hope Close: a leafy, tranquil backwater in the heart of the English countryside. But when Andy Meyer moves in, it soon becomes clear that picture-perfect homes can hide less-than-perfect lives. Fresh from rehab and with no interest...

Falling For You Former pro-snowboarder Ben Healy has always sensed when to call it quits. He knew when to give up Olympic dreams and settle for lucrative sponsorship deals. He knew when his competition days were ending. And with Colleen Ridge, he knew that...

"With the man of her dreams back in her life and all three of her daughters happy, Ansley Murphy should be content. But she can't help but feel like it's all a little too good to be true. Meanwhile, youngest daughter and actress Emerson,...

New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble takes her readers on another beach adventure where a young woman discovers the power of family and forgiveness.School teacher Julie Barlow and her two best friends, Beth and Aggie, are looking forward to an adults only beach...

"After spending time with the gang in the seventh Must Love Dogs installment, Hearts and Barks, I'm thrilled to report that I love them even more, and I have the distinct feeling that we'll be continuing our friendship for a long, long time."-Book Perfume...

This book could be called a fairytale. A fairytale is -after all - a story of wonder. But unlike most fairy-tales, it is true, and just like most fairy-tales, it has a happy ending. Even though it is about children, is not a children's...

Young Mikey Quinn, scavenging on the streets of Hull, is thrown into prison for stealing a rabbit from the butcher. His chief accuser, a well-to-do lawyer, has a daughter, Eleanor, whom he badly mistreats. When Mikey is released he finds that his mother has...

Complete and unabridged paperback edition.Work: A Story of Experience, first published in 1873, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, set in the times before and after the American Civil War. It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels...

You are an artist living in New York City who suddenly faces a series of temptations as your estranged father and older successful siblings re-enter your life, bringing with them old grudges and bringing once-buried secrets to light. Later on, a horrific tragedy occurs...

Atuonuo lives with her widowed mother Visuenuo in Kija, an ancient village of the Angamis. Their lives are hard--regulated by the seasons and by the ceaseless annual labours of hoeing and digging, planting and harvesting. But it is also a life of peace, lived...

When Fanny Price is sent away from her struggling family to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle, life doesn't suddenly transform for her. At least, not for the better. From failed marriage proposals to unavoidable class conflicts, Fanny must learn to fit in...

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and...

"A gripping look at the way humanity handles crisis." --NewsweekIn the midst of a devastating epidemic, how far will a desperate mother go to keep her loved ones safe? There is a deadly virus spreading around the world. At first it is a distant...

Two wildly different women--one a grifter, the other an heiress--are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a page-turner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear. "Pretty Things is awesome. Simple as that. I loved every page. Janelle...

One tall tree on the mountain once marked Grandfather's farm. Now there is a busy city and Grandfather lives with us in our apartment. Once he told stories but now he stays silent. Until one day, in the city market, I find something precious...

Imagine the look on the mechanic's face when they see you reading this book If you're really looking for the top 10 ways to kill a mechanic, stop what you're doing and seek psychiatric help immediately For the rest of you, bring some dark...