Fiction - Family Life - General

"Susan Wiggs paints the details of human relationships with the finesse of a master." --Jodi Picoult Explore the pleasures of love and laughter, food and wine, friendship and romance in an endearing novel of one woman's journey to rediscover herself over the course of...

A vintage necklace. A long-hidden secret. A second chance for love.From a USA Today Bestselling Author.When costume designer Ariana Ricci leaves her groom at the altar, she seeks solace at the Palm Springs home of her great-aunt, a Texas-born Hollywood legend who began her...

Two novellas about family life and fraudsters by one of the twentieth century's best Italian novelists. Valentino and Sagittarius are two of Natalia Ginzburg's most celebrated works: tales of love, hope, and delusion that are full of her characteristic mordant humor, keen psychological insight,...

A remarkable multigenerational novel, The Border of Paradise transports readers into the world of an iconoclastic midcentury family. In booming postwar Brooklyn, the Nowak Piano Company is an American success story. There is just one problem: the Nowak's only son, David. A handsome kid...

A woman keeps her daughters safe in the wake of war and political trauma in Central and Latin America.Author: Claudia HernándezISBN-10: 1911508822ISBN-13: 9781911508823Publisher: And Other StoriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2021Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.10w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2020Publishers Weekly 11/16/2020Foreword 12/26/2020

From Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years ....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community."--The Washington Post The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last...

In this "powerful" blockbuster of a novel (The New York Times), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day introduces his most beloved character, failed novelist turned sportswriter Frank Bascombe, during an Easter weekend, as he moves through the great losses of his life. As...

A masterwork of American literature from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence. A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple...

Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling...

For the sake of a dream . . . or the love of fame?Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison set out to change the world with their films--and they are finally seeing their dreams come true. The dedicated producers are deep in negotiations with America's...

Now joining Everyman's Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure._____________________Dog Stories rounds up a pack of vivid and colorful stories about man's...

Dominique LeSaint-Favier hasn't been home to New Orleans in over a decade. But when she receives an unexpected call about her ailing father, she and her daughter, Gia, take the first flight out. They're greeted by Dominique's sisters and mother, but the tension between...

The Holding, by author Lynda Faye Schmidt, is the much-anticipated prequel to The Healing. Based on true events, the story follows protagonist, Cate Henderson, back to the beginning, to her birth in a small prairie town in Saskatchewan, Canada.Born six weeks premature, baby Cate...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love, in this warm and charming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over."A testament...

Sometimes the only way forward is to look to the pastA young woman leaves England to travel to New Zealand when she discovers she is pregnant. Coral's treasured son Tom grows up never knowing his father, and she is determined to keep it that...

Lily starts to realize how much Earth is a special gift after receiving a globe from her grandparents. What will Lily and her friend Emma discover when they look more closely at the environment on their beloved planet? Even Max, Emma's dog, takes part...

Texting Olivia is a funny, fast-paced, modern take on the epistolary novel, using phone texts and calls instead of letters as the main form of communication.Fay is a paralegal in her forties with thwarted career ambitions, which she blames on her mother. Indeed, she...

Everyone has a story!For Peter, his story is rife with anger, pain and regret-a story marred by the flames of tragedy. There was a time when he had it all together with someone to love and a purpose to serve. But, as quickly as...

A mother's love vs. a doctor's oath.Oncologist Emma Blake has dedicated her life to finding a cure for a rare brain cancer. Twenty-five years ago, Emma's childhood friend Kate died of glioblastoma, and Emma vowed to annihilate the deadly disease. Now, Kate's father, Ned,...

Making her way up the cedar-lined driveway, tears fill her eyes at the sight of the cottage's faded trim and peeling turquoise shutters. Taking a deep breath, she grasps the heart-shaped iron door handle and steps inside the once-happy childhood home she's been avoiding....

A razor-sharp novel of suspense about the lies families tell--and those we choose to believe--by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Jane Doe.Lauren Abrams wants nothing to do with her damaged mother, whose spurious testimony sent Lauren's father to prison for murder years ago....

The deep secrets - that restrict us and limit our lives - are at the heart of this first, engaging novel in the Smoky Mountain series.Vivian Delaney - in The Foster Girls - arrives in the quiet Wears Valley, on the backside of the...

Move over, Pynchon--the 83-year-old Joseph McElroy is as inventive as ever, and this time he takes on the Iraq War. --Tom LeClair, The Daily Beast Since 1966, McElroy's novels have astonished and delighted by their brilliant wit, intelligence, and style.--Washington Post Book WorldMcElroy is...

The 1934 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a young newlywed woman struggling with her harsh life in rural, impoverished antebellum Georgia. "It has a wonderful freshness about it.... A wonderfully large and vital picture." ―The New York Times Cean and Lonzo are a young couple...

All three of the Godmothers novellas together for the very first time! Old friends reunite for an adventure unlike any they've faced before in the latest novel by beloved storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. As Sophie De Luca has...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner delivers "a tale of love against the odds" (People). Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are just eight years old when they meet one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenial heart defect, Rachel...

The grass is always greener on your sister's side of the fence...Divorce left Harper Szymanski with a name no one can spell, a house she can't afford and a teenage daughter who's pulling away. With her fledgling virtual-assistant business, she's scrambling to maintain her...

In this "irresistibly readable" (New York Review of Books) tour de force of psychological unease, the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying.In the arid summer...

An emotional story of love, betrayal, friendship, and family from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy. David Power and Clare O'Brien both grew up dreaming of escape from the battered seaside town of Castlebay, Ireland, but they might as well have had...

"The strong pull of friendship, the leisurely pace of a tiny, waterfront Southern town, and the steady buildup of romance help buoy Frank's well-drawn, memorable characters" (Publishers Weekly) in this New York Times bestseller. Meet Linda Breland, single parent of two teenage daughters--one of...

New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank takes readers on a rollicking ride in this Lowcountry tale about a woman whose unconventional friends and family show her the real meaning of unconditional love.Anna Lutz Abbot considers herself independent and happy--until one steamy summer...

Wilson's ambition alone is exciting. . . . His] writing has a Houdini-like perfection, wherein no matter how grim the variables, each lovely sentence manages to escape with all its parts intact." --Boston GlobeThe eagerly-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Family...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes--for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous--as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning...

The Douglas' were a conservative Black family, "boujee" in every sense of the word. They enjoyed a prominent lifestyle in a world where most blacks were not as fortunate. Carletta was a beautiful stunning young girl and the apple of her father's eye. Her...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to...

"Complex and rich, Chen's story serves as a fascinating window into a unique period of history and the plight of one displaced family." --Harper's BazaarThe day nine-year-old San San and her twelve-year-old brother, Ah Liam, discover their grandmother taking a hammer to a framed...

The lives of two women, generations apart, converge in this enthralling novel of love, mystery, memories, and secrets.Pregnant and still grieving the death of her fianc , historian Megan Buchanan is forging ahead on a dream project: to restore to its original glory the...

In this stunning sequel to her acclaimed debut My Brother's Keeper, #1 national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley brings her real-deal insight to a heartfelt new novel about a wife and mother on a daring rescue mission-to save herself. Freshly forty-five, Aja James knows...

In a charming Maine seaside town, a single mother longs to create a memorable Christmas for her two daughters--and receives a chance to make her own wishes come true . . . At first glance, Nell King's cozy home in Yorktide seems a step...

Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world. She has a lot to be thankful for: a great kid, a loving husband, a job she enjoys and the security of living in the small town where she was born....

Opposites attract in this moving #1 New York Times bestseller of love lost and found between a medical student and the man who captures her heart. Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in...

Previously published as The Perfect HappinessWonderfully wise Santa Montefiore will capture your heart with this "bittersweet and thought-provoking"* novel about a modern wife who must ask herself, Would I risk everything for love?A wife who has forgotten her own beauty and allure. A distant,...

From the author of The Gypsy Madonna and The Last Voyage of the Valentina, a breathless novel that sweeps its heroine from the Cornish coast to the rugged beauty of Puglia Italy, where she discovers a shocking truth about her family and the way...

An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter brings back the unforgettable Frank Bascombe in this astonishing meditation on modern-day America. A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father--Frank Bascombe...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully funny novel set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. "Superbly original and maliciously...

In 1492, two history-altering events occurred: the Jews and Muslims of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for the New World. Many Spanish Jews chose not to flee and instead became Christian in name only, maintaining their religious traditions in secret. Among them...

Our beloved cast of characters are back, as are the joys and trials of life at 44 Scotland Street in this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully charming series. Bertie's mother, Irene, returns from the Middle East to discover that, in her absence,...

A suburban woman discovers her own wild spirit in this "suspenseful...dark, romantic meditation on what it means to be human"(The New Yorker) from the bestselling author of The Rules of Magic. Robin Moore, coping with a divorce and a troubled teen-aged son, impulsively rescues...