Fiction - Family Life - General

From the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes a story that asks: how do you forgive the family that lied to you, and love the mum you never had?When her loving, free-spirited grandmother Primrose passes away, Victoria is bereft, yet resilient--she...

In the thrilling, suspenseful new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, all of Ellie de Florent-Stinson's secrets come to light in one eventful evening full of twists, turns, and surprises. Before she became a glamorous fashion designer, Ellie...

Cecil Boatwright-Jones was the epitome of a crotchety old manSo crotchety he was murderedAfter all, when you're worth millionsAnd you won't spend a dimeOn your run-down English manorOr your familyOr anything elseMaybe murder is the answerBut it's never acceptableDeeDee and Jake wish they'd never...

This suspenseful, touching, quirky little tale of Christmas is a fast-moving, frequently shocking, account of a children's crisis hospital on one Christmas Eve. This one night of the year has a mysterious power, from millennia of pre-Christian harvest festivals and ancestor worship, when ghosts...

If your loved one has memory or cognitive challenges but still enjoys the calm, relaxing pleasure of reading, this book is for them. It's the second in a series of illustrated senior fiction books, each telling the story of a grandparent spending a special...

Family ties are strong, but even the strongest can be broken. Building on the story of faith and family, the Grandma, Mom, and Me Saga continues with Elaina, a story of devastating loss, constant lies, overwhelming betrayal, restorative love, and undiminished compassion.Elaina Drew is...

Life is so much more than people have the ability to comprehend. So many unexplained mysteries and things yet to be explained by modern science. A small Wisconsin family farm, a woodlot with its secrets, and a man who long ago needed forgiveness. The...

Three women: a mother, a daughter, a friend. Can they save each other from the past?It's been twenty-six years since the accident, but Helen still lives on autopilot, going through the motions of work and motherhood. Her one wish is for her daughter Julia...

50 Shades of Spay: No Litters, Baby. That's the sign in front of the Chelsea Veterinary Clinic on the lower west side of Manhattan, where I'm currently standing on what is clearly another crappy Saturday morning. I'm at a vet clinic. It's not even...

Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2015, Ben Fergusson's critically acclaimed debut, The Spring of Kasper Meier, was the winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2015 and the HWA 2015 Debut Crown Award. The Other Hoffmann Sister is a gripping,...

"I've found a new author to love. Her writing was so full of life, so descriptive... so many laugh out loud moments... I can't wait for Ellyn Oaksmith's next book!" Goodreads Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Things are finally working out for Stella Gallagher. Underwhelmed by all the...

"The angels...regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us." -John CalvinMost hard-working families living in the shadow of the Lyon Brook Railroad Bridge are oblivious to the angels in their midst. However, Betsy...

A family legacy in danger. A stranger in their midst. Do they have the strength to survive the gathering storm of secrets?For the Temple women, the winds of change are blowing. And if they're not careful, it could sweep them all away...After rising from...

For Bill, the end has always been in view. His life has seen a series of unlikely extensions. When he was young, he hated his father and contemplated suicide. Later in his life he was diagnosed with leukemia and expected to die within months....

A clever love story set between Cuba, Miami, and Halifax, exploring the complexities of love at middle-age. Eli Cooper is a resolutely single, fiftysomething newspaper copy editor. He spends his nights obsessing over reporters' unnecessary "thats" and his days caring for a demented father...

A town held together with secrets. A wealthy widow looking for an heir. One choice could shame high society into submission.Eighty-year-old Southern aristocrat Iris Temple's health may be failing, but her wit is as sharp as ever. Before she joins her ancestral ghosts, she...

Despite being young and romantically inexperienced, Sophie Woods is an old soul who believes in true love, working hard at her bar, and always trusting her instincts. And from the moment she meets Nico, she knows without a doubt that he is her one-and-only....

It's Cliffside Bay and beyond in this heartwarming enemies-to-lovers romantic adventure from USA Today bestselling author Tess Thompson. Stone Hickman is the last of a dying breed. The former Marine believes in integrity, service to his country, a hard day's work, and taking care...

Fiction. Italian American Studies. Ever wonder about the step-by-step of the lives of forebearers in homelands lost, left & returned to? About what life was really like in all fullness & detail, real & frail, on both ends? Wish for unforced narrative in explosive...

Stormy has grown up with the warning that she is cursed. Raised in a family of eight women with twenty-four husbands among them, she has managed to escape the family's legacy thus far. Things begin to change once she is given the details of...

The House of Remember When focuses on a middle-aged man, Neil Moreland, who is dealing with a broken marriage, a boring job, and an estranged father suffering from dementia. Written in first-person narrative, the story weaves significant life events into his present-day problems as...

Award-winning book that recently earned acclaim from the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Awards Acadia Powers knows herself to be too selfish, too sinful, and too skeptical in her faith to marry a preacher. And yet she does. God truly does work in a...

Go on a powerful journey of forgiveness and healing with The Light Through the Leaves, a transcendent novel of love, loss, and self-discovery by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars.One unbearable mistake at the edge of the...

A young widow embraces a second chance at life when she reconnects with those who understand the sacrifices made by American soldiers and their families in award-winning author Laura Trentham's The Military Wife. Harper Lee Wilcox has been marking time in her hometown of...

Clint Hurley and his faithful Australian Cattle Dog, Josie, save a runaway girl from drowning, on a snowy Christmas Day. Now he is faced with a choice. Should he turn her over to the authorities or "rescue" her from far more than the river?I...

In the dry heat of her Arizona home, feisty, Irish-Catholic Colleen Moretti, thrusts the letter that threatens her marriage into the back of a drawer. This is her default mode: ignore the fault lines until the tremors pass. But her husband Derek's faithlessness turns...

In a section of Memphis, TN called Smokey City, two girls; Lori Ann Keefer and April Gail Quincy grow up right across the street from one another. Though they attend the same elementary, middle and high schools, their perceptions of life and living are...

She no longer knows who she is or what she wants. He blames himself for her pain. Is their marriage strong enough to survive their greatest hurt?Christy Thomas has built her entire life around the dream of being a mother and raising a family...

A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder -- a first-generation East German immigrant -- adopts the last...

Children face many challenges in their lives, and sometimes it is difficult to know how to overcome them. The 'World of Wally' books provide a way for children to experience life's difficulties through the eyes of Wally, a sweet Maltese pup who faces in...

New house. Fresh start. Same husband.Can you paint over the cracks in a marriage?'Felicity has the reader gripped when she explores unhealthy relationships based on insecurity and delusion. She writes with a raw realism' Adele Parks, Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author, in PlatinumKaren has...

A married couple in California grapples with race, betrayal, love, and loss when their son comes home from a Guatemalan orphanage. Contemporary art museum curator Julie Cowan achieves her dream of motherhood through adoption, but her life is far from perfect. Her pathologist husband,...

Coco is a six-year-old girl who can do magic. Coco and Mary play mom and dad. Mary's parents visit Coco's mom for Korean medicine treatment. Find out what happens to Mary's family.Author: Hyojung KwonISBN-10: 1188939084ISBN-13: 9791188939084Publisher: Inc.All That Korean MedicineLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2020Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Title: I'm Glad God Made Me a Girl For ages 5-8 (K-2nd grade)Susie is surprised when her friend Amy cuts her hair short and dresses like a boy because she thinks boys are braver, smarter, and stronger than girls. Susie feels sad. Can't girls...

From Chris Whaley, whose book, The Masked Saint, inspired the "Best Picture" winner at the 2015 International Christian Film Festival comes a holiday story about angelic intervention.Author: Chris WhaleyISBN-10: 1631951688ISBN-13: 9781631951688Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2020Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.39d

When you want to make your mark, an occasion with all the trimmings is just the ticket. The village of Beeting Down has a centenarian in its midst, but when she shuffles off this mortal coil before they can wish her happy birthday, it...

With the life of her unborn child in danger, Camille Jacobs had no choice but to flee Seoul, South Korea, and the man who made her heart soar. Four years later, after the launch of her start-up skincare line, Camille is a successful, single...

Pete spent his first seven years coddled, spoiled, and protected by grandparents, aunts, and uncles. He never thought those years would end and his life change. When his mother met Gene, however, things changed. Suddenly Pete had a stepfather and lived in a village....

"The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections." ― Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove Within a Budding Grove (1919) by Marcel Proust...

It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife. In a series of snapshots we meet all the Pargiter siblings: twenty-year-old Eleanor, whose concern is to help the poor; her younger...

Silas Marner is a lowly weaver who is wrongfully accused of a crime, loses the woman he loves and the respect of his conservative neighbors. Shamed and broken, he attempts to build a new life without the reminder of everything he's lost. In the...

"A luscious, layered story of inheritance, heartbreak, reinvention, and family. I adored this book." --Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author When a deed to an apartment in Paris turns up in an old attic trunk, an estranged mother and daughter must reunite to...

Olivia returns home for her grandmother Sarah's funeral in 1984. Sarah was a loving matriarch in the village of Lindara. So why would someone spit at her coffin?In 1910 Sarah marries Theo, a widower deeply involved in the anti-home rule movement. She promises to...

With each step forward, the women of Whisling seem to be pushed two steps back. But these passionate and powerful women aren't giving up anytime soon. They will work for that long-awaited promise of a bright and better tomorrow. Nora's day has finally come....

A stunning new novel from award-winning author, Virginia Sievers. On a fateful day in August of 1997, Callie Sue Hannamann, a pretty fourteen-year-old midwestern farm girl constrained by the expectations of her conservative unbending family and the conforming rules of the community, vanishes and...

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - In her new historical novel, "Just Passing Through," author Margaret Tutor shares a story of changed lives and healed hearts.The story introduces readers to the Ward family, who traveled from cotton field to cotton field, living out of their covered...

Who can forgive a mother who poisons her eight-year-old son? Even if it was an accident.Tasha thought she had everything under control - her family life, her career as a nurse - until her son got into her stash of painkillers. Now, during her...

Coco helps her friend Alice in this book. Everybody including Coco and Alice is happy that they can all go camping togetherAuthor: Hyojung KwonISBN-10: 1195797974ISBN-13: 9791195797974Publisher: Inc.All That Korean MedicineLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/12/2017Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d

"Her husband's moved out - and her dad's moved in ... It's New Year's Eve and 42-year-old Iris finds out her husband Adam is cheating on her. Heartbroken, Iris kicks him out, and enlists her dad - who is still grieving for Iris's mum,...

"Kim Powers's haunting and spellbinding novel Rules for Being Dead reads like an intoxicating blend of the best of Shirley Jackson, Alice Sebold and Fannie Flagg." --STARRED Review, Shelf Awareness It's the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local...