Fiction - Family Life - General

24 Merrion Square. The house stands empty, the old stone steps overgrown with thorny rose bushes. But Mary Kate feels a deep connection to the neglected rooms. Could this be the place to help her heal? Dublin 1952. When Mary Kate Ryan receives a...

Almost Heaven was originally titled Ballengee. I wrote during the early 80s while driving an eighteen-wheeler across the fruited plain of America and Canada. The characters of Almost Heaven are based on my memories of folks I knew while spending time with my summer...

A grandmother passes on her wisdom to her neighbours, friends and grandchildren in rural Bohemia. A fine example of 19th century proto-feminist fiction.Author: Bozena Němcov?ISBN-10: 1914990293ISBN-13: 9781914990298Publisher: Jantar PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 180Format: Paperback

A gripping novel of two sisters who must reimagine the future-before they're ready to let go of the past. As a girl, Margot Winkler knew her big sister Lacey would keep her safe. Decades later, Lacey's home is often Margot's refuge. Lacey's life has...

Can a Greek escape be the start of something special?Xanthe Fox has it all: a famous, drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend, a dream career and bright future - until heartbreak sends her life into a tailspin.So when Xanthe's Greek godmother unexpectedly leaves her a villa on...

American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) wrote the children's book Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, which was first released in 1871 by Roberts Brothers. The book serves as a sequel or the second book in an unofficial Little Women trilogy...

BONZE (bOHnz) A Coming-of-Age Novel Are you looking for a thrilling and suspenseful story of heartache, hope, redemption, and love that will make you feel something long after reading it? When 10-year-old Fin is orphaned and sent to live with strangers, he soon finds...

The Strong family has survived against all odds, but their greatest test is still to come.After a seemingly endless labour, Horatia Strong is delighted to announce that she's given her husband, Tom, a much-needed son and heir to the entire Strong fortune. But the...

To find true love, first you have to truly love yourself...Fleur French does not have the best of luck when it comes to life and love, and her current boyfriend Jasper is yet another person who only seems to like Fleur when she moulds...

What does it take to become truly free? Newly freed slave, Rosette arrives in Kingston with nothing but a little money and an old rain coat. She is determined to find her long-lost son and will do anything to seek him. The city is...

Twelve women connected by the death of another, realizing what they most want from life and reaching for it - this is the year of discovery, the year of new beginnings.Moira Sykes has a dream. She wants to open a women's health clinic and...

The fourth installment in Mette Ivie Harrison's nationally bestselling Linda Wallheim mystery series, set in Mormon Utah, explores the effects of alienation, immigration, and extortion from the inner workings of the Mormon church. Draper, Utah: Now that all five of her sons have left...

In the follow-up to the controversial and critically acclaimed mystery The Bishop's Wife, Mormon housewife Linda Wallheim finds herself ruffling feathers in Draper, Utah, as she assists a murder investigation that is being derailed by transphobia within the LDS community. In Draper, Utah, a...

Bridget O'Bannon is ready for a do-over. After years of pretending she had a happy marriage and denying that she missed the friends and family she'd left behind, she's headed home to restart her life. But working alongside her family every day at their...

In these ten interwoven stories, two adolescent brothers face a world in which their father has suddenly died, a world dominated by their beautiful and complicated mother. Thirty years later, one of the brothers-the only remaining survivor of a family he seeks both to...

This powerful narrative, winner of the 1993 Associated Writing Programs award for the novel, focuses on Galveston, Texas, and a community of newly arrived Vietnamese. Struggling to maintain a balance between Vietnam and America, they live with one foot in each world. Close-knit families,...

In this sharp-witted and poignant novel, two former friends with a complicated history are thrown together on an unexpected road trip, where old lies unravel and new truths emerge with every mile marker.Ophelia Dahl has just buried her beloved father when she finds among...

When everything was lost, she would seize a new beginning. Rita Bradshaw's Beyond the Veil of Tears depicts one woman's battle for love and her sanity.Author: Rita BradshawISBN-10: 1447217306ISBN-13: 9781447217305Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2014Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.00w x 1.00d

Growing up in Puerto Rico, Maricarmen works hard, getting good grades, and cleaning houses after school. She dreams of becoming a singer. When she meets Rey, a young Black musician, she falls in love with his dynamism, his band, and his voice. But when...

A new holiday-inspired novel from the "master" (Booklist) of Christmas fiction, New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans.Author: Richard Paul EvansISBN-10: 1668014904ISBN-13: 9781668014905Publisher: Gallery BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2025Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.59d

A queer Palestinian refugee plans to come out at his elaborate birthday dinner party in this tragicomic modern reimagining of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Firas Dareer wakes up on his twenty-third birthday with a sense of purpose: today he'll jump from a Stage 3...

A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington. In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. He's entangled in a sexual relationship with a...

"Kathy's journey begins in a turbulent home in Louisville, where her childhood is marred by her mother's volatile anger and abusive behavior. As a young girl, Kathy learns to navigate the treacherous dynamics of her household, holding onto her beloved stuffed rabbit as a...

Dreams Like Thunder takes place on a small Eastern Oregon farm between Baker and Hells Canyon. The story is set over a couple of days in 1959, but part of the family seems less in touch with the twentieth century than with the myth...

*** Now a USA TODAY BESTSELLER ***She's 43 years old......and starting over from scratch.How did this happen? She had it all together. A stable marriage of two decades. Two grown daughters. And now she and her husband, empty nesters, were moving to a beach...

Land of Milk and Money tells the story of the Francisco family, Portuguese immigrants who build a prosperous California dairy farm. With their growing success, plans to return to the Old Country fall by the wayside, and the legacy of the older generation becomes...

An evocative, emotional novel that illustrates life in all its messy beauty from New York Times bestselling author Wendy LindstromOne ordinary day, Kate Weston woke up, drank her coffee, then abandoned her life.Her search for an unapologetically honest existence drives her back to her...

Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat is a brilliant novel grappling with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility.On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast - the same place she visited when grieving her mother...

Author: Miranda JulyISBN-10: 0593190270ISBN-13: 9780593190272Publisher: Riverhead BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2025Pages: 400Format: Paperback

As children in Central Illinois, Kate and Martin were never told much about their mother's childhood in East Germany. And they rarely asked questions. They were too busy grappling with the heartache left behind by an absent father and the tough love of a...

Only trouble can bring about the beauty of redemption and grace. In the small town of Grady, Montana, twenty-four-year-old Tad Bungley has a reputation for trouble. When he lands a job at Come Around Ranch, however, his life seems to take a positive turn....

Author: Clare PooleyISBN-10: 0143137948ISBN-13: 9780143137948Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.72d

Author: Helen RolfeISBN-10: 1835611095ISBN-13: 9781835611098Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2025Pages: 282Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Author: Alex BrownISBN-10: 1836030886ISBN-13: 9781836030881Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2025Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.54d

Author: Alex BrownISBN-10: 1836030878ISBN-13: 9781836030874Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2025Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76dLarge Print

Author: Jennifer MosesISBN-10: 029935444XISBN-13: 9780299354442Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2025Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbs

"The perfect cocktail of well-plotted, good-hearted, murderous fun."" --Nina Simon, bestselling author of Mother-Daughter Murder NightThree best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands' life insurance policies... But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darkly funny debut that...

A debut historical fiction for fans of Kristin Hannah and John Steinbeck, Orphans of the Living follows the Stovall family's early 20th-century quest for home and redemption as they confront racism, poverty, and inequality across the American South and West. In the shadow of...

In this captivating novel, a DNA test turns a woman's world upside-down. Will searching for answers give her the peace she craves--or deepen the fractures in her life? On the day of her father's funeral, Dylan Turner receives a life-altering email: her DNA family...

Originally published as The House on Honeysuckle Lane, Mary McDonough's novel is now a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie, Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane. Join Mary as she welcomes readers back to the small town of Oliver's Well, Virginia, in a story of holiday and...

From internationally bestselling author Christopher Ransom, The Turn is one man's hilarious and heartwarming odyssey through loss and addiction as he desperately fights to shoot par on the back nine of his life.After a divorce and the death of his father, Casey Sweet is...

Three strangers, connected only by a mesmerizing painting named Three Guesses, embark on an extraordinary journey of friendship. Compelled by their agreement to communicate only by mail, Sam Brooks of Memphis, Tennessee, Richard Mabry of Phoenix, Arizona, and Pete Wren of New York City...

What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling comedy from #1 bestseller Mhairi McFarlane 'Think of the great duos of history. We're just like them.' 'You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?'...

Author: Pam RosenthalISBN-10: 045122230XISBN-13: 9780451222305Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2008Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.73dAward: Rita Awards - WinnerReview Citation(s): Romantic Times 11/01/2008 pg. 51 - ExcellentLibrary Journal 10/15/2008 pg. 51Booklist 11/01/2008 pg. 29LJ Best Books of Year 12/15/2008 pg. 67LJ...

Take one woman, her partner Antman and their dog Fleabag, pack up the car, turn up the country music and you've got one spirited road trip makin' room for all the good things in life, like family, laughin', travellin' and, best of all, love....

Carol is living a fortunate life with a devoted husband and three children. She is about to embark on a dream career as a speech language pathologist. And then the couple hear two ominous words in a doctor's office: multiple sclerosis.So begins Carol and...

Emily is drowning in memories. Yet those memories are also the only thing besides her daughter that are keeping her afloat. Emily had a person she loved that she couldn't be with. Now she's in an arranged marriage to a man she does not...

Nick adores his new little brother, but when Oliver goes back to live with his own parents, and Aiden, a new foster brother comes to live with him, he has to face the reality that Oliver may never come back.Even as an adult it's...

In Washington, D.C., life inside the Goldstein home is as tumultuous as the swiftly changing times. In 1979, the Cold War is waning and the age of protest has come and gone, leaving a once radical family to face a new set of challenges....

In the lush North Carolina foothills, the Moon women have put down roots: matriarch Marvelle Moon, who's losing her grip on the world after more than eighty years of life; her daughters, Ruth Ann and Cassandra; and Ruth Ann's nineteen-year-old daughter, Ashley, fresh out...