Fiction - Family Life - General

The reappearance of Mariela Fairman's husband, seven years after he mysteriously vanished, launches her into a tortuous whirlpool of love, guilt, hope and loss. Living on the south west coast of Ireland in a dilapidated manor house that is both a retreat and a...

Most people want the same thing from life. Someone to love, a comfortable home but mostly contentment. Some of us are lucky enough to find these things. Some never do but learn to accept what they have, and some of us waste our whole...

Consumed by ambition, J.P. Ralston controls everything in his reach-a successful law practice, any woman he desires, and total social freedom. His world is turned upside down by the local librarian. Samira Cartwright is everything J.P. has purposefully avoided. She's steady, smart, and predictable,...

Consumed by ambition, J.P. Ralston controls everything in his reach-a successful law practice, any woman he desires, and total social freedom. His world is turned upside down by the local librarian. Samira Cartwright is everything J.P. has purposefully avoided. She's steady, smart, and predictable,...

Her decision will change the fate of the entire family.Tiki and her family left Iraq and immigrated to Israel in order to start a new and better life in the beating heart of the new Jewish state. But life as new immigrants in a...

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza is the largest state government office complex in the United States. It took over ten years to build, at a cost of over two-billion 1960s dollars. The project was conceived and started by Governor Rockefeller, with the...

Forced into spending the day with one another while their wife and respective mother undergoes a procedure, a father and son become reacquainted after a period of disjunction. As the day progress and the proverbial scabs are picked, each man comes to understand a...

Kimberly Miller keeps an ugly, dark secret to herself, and as a fourteen-year-old child she is too embarassed to speak up.Two years later, when Kimberley finally reveals she has been abused by her father, he's given his marching orders and moves out of the...

Tony Cawson, 75 and in the early stages of dementia, has a dreadful secret dating back to his youth of which his daughter Rebecca is ashamed and which she dreads her children will discover. But Rebecca, a conflicted individual in a failing marriage, also...

Will the past never leave the present in peace? Did you learn family tales at your grandmother's knee? Just harmless old stories. But what of the reality behind them? The Beauty of Chell Street is the story of a family dominated by its own...

Previously published as The Ever Open Door, this is a story told with warmth and humour, about a hard working, down-to-earth community in a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War and its aftermath. Burly steelworker Jim Butler and his wife Sally are...

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...

Well it's about a love story, family, going through rough and tumble, but things pick up in time.Mum and dad fell in loveFor the first time other things pick up on the Cornfield.In the beginning mother, 4 boys died, young daughter survived. She grew...

When Laura Anne Robinson offered 10,000 for Addie Jeffries' youngest son Ian, Addie thought she was joking. After all, they were on their second bottle of Chablis, and Ian was, as they say, a street angel and a house devil. Why would this wealthy...

Journey back to childhood, where the buds of friendship and romance blossom; take a peek into the lives of the primary school children who would become...The Circle."A very sweet short story of blossoming friendships and childhood traumas." "...a wonderful, engaging story that made me...

Must she choose loyalty over happiness? January 1900. When her mother dies late in pregnancy, sixteen-year-old Rose resolves never to marry. She is resigned to a life of mind-numbing domestic work alongside her five siblings at Sawdons Hall. A chance encounter with the charismatic...

This chronicle covers just over a year in the 1960's. It alternates between the perception of Tabitha, in her early twenties, and her mother. Starting with the same spring weekend when Tabitha is at home in Sussex while Victoria Langton visits the married daughter...

This chronicle covers just over a year in the 1960's. It alternates between the perception of Tabitha, in her early twenties, and her mother. Starting with the same spring weekend when Tabitha is at home in Sussex while Victoria Langton visits the married daughter...

'You'll have to sit with the orphans, ' she said. 'On the bottom table.'Lily pulled her coat tight. 'I'm not an orphan. I have a Mam.''But you haven't got a dad. Never did have one.' Growing up in Macclesfield, a town whose cotton and...

The story of a farming family and a small community adapting to life in the aftermath of the First World War, surviving the changes that the twentieth century brings to rural Devon.The Tamar Valley, 1919: on a small farm a family tussles with the...

The year is 1955, the location picturesque Devon.In a house by the River Dart, schoolgirl Josephine Kennedy posts invitations to her twelfth birthday party - a party that never takes place.Horrific violence is committed that night in the family home, leaving all of its...

In twentieth-century England, many working-class people were victims of values and circumstances not of their own making. They were people to whom things were done to, not for. Billy and Tommy Jones and their mother, Mary, were such people. The boys were born out...

From Karen E. Black comes the final novel in a trilogy about the Devereux cousins-In "From the Chrysalis" (The Devereux Cousins, Book 1), Dace and Liza's unconventional romance survived beyond all odds-and a deadly prison riot gave them a brief chance at freedom.In "Feeling...

This is a story about a family whose house, through magic, gets transported to 2000 BC in the middle of the desert, leaving them with no water, no electricity and absolutely no idea what to do. Will they survive in this barren, inhospitable place?...

Melba's Wash is a rich telling of the archetypal search. In this fractured familial story, Esther Prat wraps her fingers with her diamond necklace and reflects on the secrets, lies, and pain that haunt her life, and makes her choice. Born on Grand Manan...

This history of oppression and its effects, at the heart of a French-Canadian family in the 1950s and 1960s, depicts a combination of prohibitions and censures. While the father demands the children's slavish obedience and labour, the mother promises some protection from his tyranny--until...

A seismic shift in Hollywood's power structure occurred during the 1980s.Gone were the moguls and founding fathers of the motion picture industry -- Jack L. Warner, Louis B. Mayer, Carl Laemmle, Samuel Goldwyn, and Darryl Zanuck.The studios were being taken over by technological giants...

At the end of this story I'm going to kill myself. And then die. That's the way it is. All good things must come to an end, including me.Mama's Boy Game Over is the third and final book in David Goudreault's bleakly comic bestselling...

Mosaic Press published John B. Lee's book Into a Land of Strangers: Documentary Poems in 2019 in which he explores his own ancestry which involves the tumultuous decades of China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth Century. A School Called Normal: Poems &...

This story is about me. In my golden years, I learned about a child I never knew I had. The child was not the result of a torrid, passionate, love affair. I never knew what had happened or that anything did happen. Some fifty...

Edgar Williams is lost after the tragic death of his wife Jackie and can't find a way to shake off the black dog. Therapy doesn't help. His spiritual son Joe suggests leaving it to God. However, he returns to his boxing club, fellowship with...

For years, the best that young girls from the backwater village of Alta Gracia couldhope for was a position in the Big House, home of the immensely powerful andpolitically influential Goyena family. So, when Señ orita Delia Lugghi - enigmaticteacher and devout Peró nist...

A beloved husband and father. A gamble to avoid doctors. A medical nightmare.Reggie Nichols knows pain. Suffering from a leg ailment since birth, he still works hard and puts family first. Even before his own health. When a fainting spell forces him to seek...

A New Hope: A New Nightmare Nothing is as it seems in New Hope, Indiana-the land of curly-haired designer dogs, bunco nights, and impeccably manicured lawns. Where the good kids from good families live. Except... it has a dark side. Wanting the good life...

1,000 years in the future, a grieving father seeks a job one last time-to assassinate a man he's never met. His agreement is not what it seems, and what he finds changes him forever. This fantasy adventure explores the aftermath of such a catastrophe-in...

Aging and homesick, Nur Ali is living in America, seeking asylum. Though exiled from his Swat, Pakistan, homeland and inaccurately labeled as a Taliban sympathizer by the US government, he's determined to keep his position as family patriarch. So Nur Ali leads and provides...

Playful illustrations and rhyming text reveals a parent appreciating the antics of a child as well as noting the unique joy of watching children grow and evolve.Author: Tracy M. SmytheISBN-10: 1733146164ISBN-13: 9781733146166Publisher: Griffin PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2021Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.08d

Up and coming rodeo star, Blue Riggins, was a cowboy champion in the making until a tragic death left him face down in the dirt. Turning his back on the arena and his family in Texas, Blue walked away from fame and fortune to...

No Mercy follows the growing conflict between rich music producer, Byron Mercy, and his troubled, twenty-one year-old daughter, Erica. Their rift has deepened over the years due to her promiscuous behavior and the persistent rumors about her. The family tension reaches a boiling point...

Can life be beautiful after a terrible trauma?Find out how Danny learned to overcome his loss.A special bond is formed in the hospital between DannyAuthor: Smadar ShirISBN-10: 1731002025ISBN-13: 9781731002020Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2018Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.42d

Jumping through shadows. (Part of a 2 book duology). A teenager's struggle to move on from a past that still haunts him. The story charters Timothy Spoon's time after school, and is the sequel to, Stepping Through Loops. Plot: ''There is something wrong, with...

Hameed's family is well known and one of the wealthier families of their village, however Hameed is unlike most rich villagers. When the family goes through the process of marrying their son, they face criticism as they don't follow traditional customs. Hameed begins to...

1976, Patrick, a dad of three children, John, Peter, and Annie, vanishes one day and never comes back. His wife and children will have to cope with his disappearance. Yet, some day, when an old house is being sold, a secret comes out, tongues...

The author returns to her northern home to take up a lectureship in music and drama in a college. The repressive atmosphere generated by her father's intensely religious beliefs and her mother's controlling instincts soon make her wish to escape the severe parental restrictions....

When the scrolling never ends and time is wasted - we realize we have become subject to hopeless dreams. Social media plays an instrumental role in shaping our views of reality and creating a façade of happiness. This trend of vanity and virtual contentment,...

Enduring Courage is the final book in The Victors Series: A Trilogy of Triumph. It continues the adventures of all the characters you have come to know and love while introducing a few new ones and answering all your remaining questions. What mysterious illness...

A Process of Change is the sequel to A Reunion of the Heart, and is the second book of The Victors Series: A Trilogy of Triumph. It answers the questions posed in Book One about Andrew, the patriarch of the Peters family. He has...

This novel, SHARDS OF MEMORY - Oral History in a Heartbeat, presents a heartwarming experience of emotional healing through storytelling, with a touch of romance and mystery woven throughout.Young Gahlen spends an inordinate amount of time with both sets of grandparents after a tragic...

Just like down home is a phrase my Grandpa said a lot. It's a fancy way of saying everything went just fine.My Grandpa had a lot of phrases which he said repeated quite often. Some people call them Hillbilly phrases. But as my Grandpa...

This book is a tribute to all the Girls and Women. It is a fictional story of a talented girl Megha Shenoy. Megha was discouraged by her own educated parents from pursuing a career despite of having enormous talent. She chose not to become...