Fiction - Family Life - General

In this short story enhanced with beautiful illustrations, the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, Beartown, and Anxious People delivers an insightful and poignant tale about finding out what is truly important in life. A father and a son are seeing each other...

"Evoking Emmy limited-series winner Big Little Lies, Whalen's novel is about a Georgia town ripped apart when an outcast boy kills three cheerleaders in a car accident, bringing secrets and simmering tensions to the surface." --The Hollywood Reporter When the sound of sirens cuts...

A brilliant, twisty novel about a missing woman, an unfaithful husband, and the dark secrets that will destroy two perfect families.A scandalous revelation is about to devastate a picturesque town where the houses are immaculate and the neighborhoods are tightly knit. Devoted mother Cora...

In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, another of the First Wives finds that love and secrets are a dangerous combination. Trina Petrov's marriage-by-contract was only meant to be temporary. But when tragedy strikes, Trina is left one of the wealthiest women in the world....

"With a birder's eye for detail, White takes us on [Adrian Mandrick's] painful, near death descent...[her] life-affirming conclusion reminds us that endangered species aren't the only ones that need to change and adapt in order to survive."--The New York Times Book Review H Is...

In this "moving story of how sacrifices accumulate in the wake of passions left unfulfilled" (Publishers Weekly)--perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and Lisa Genova--a poet must decide if he should put his family's or his own needs first when he returns to Italy...

A Good Housekeeping "Great Read" This "deliciously creepy psychological thriller" (Publishers Weekly)--think Strangers on a Train for the modern age--explores the dark side of love and the unbreakable ties that bind two sisters together. Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple: young and...

Maureen Sherry's funny insider novel about a female Wall Street executive also trying to be a mother and a wife is a "compulsively readable...cheeky--and at times, romantic--battle-cry for any woman who's ever strived to have it all and been told by a man that...

"Let her go. I'll stay." There are some decisions you can never unmake. You can only atone for them--or try to. During her senior year of college, Clare Michaels takes a spring break trip to Florida with three other girls, including her best friend,...

Provocative in the way it explodes and expands the category of historical fiction. --Salt Lake Tribune In this beautifully written and powerful debut novel, Ella Joy Olsen traces the stories of five fascinating women who inhabit the same historic home over the course of...

Exciting fiction premiere from beloved New York Times bestselling author Beth Moore.2017 Christy Award finalist (General Fiction category)Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death. It's not like...

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, villages in the Fang region of northern Gabon must grapple with the clash of tradition and the evolution of customs throughout modern Africa. With this tension in the background, the passionate, deft, and creative seamstress Awu marries...

Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemyss's "sweet girl," and to Lucy, Everard is the whole world. The only blot on Lucy's happiness is the shadowy figure of Wemyss's...

Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Story Collections of 2015Featuring the story adapted into the Academy Award nominated film, 45 YEARSI started reading these stories quietly, and then became obsessed, read them all fast, and started re-reading them again and again. They are gripping tales,...

Over a decade, Caro and Anna have bonded while raising their daughters, two little girls the same age but living two very different lives. The women have supported each other as they have shared the joys and trials of motherhood, but now everything has...

Arthur's Back!!Finally, by popular demand, the follow up to the much loved novel about Arthur, a lonely little dog, running stray on the streets of Warrington.Arthur is a little dog, in search of love, missing the lady who loved him most, finding out just...

Sheriff Rich got the call every lawman dreads - a relative's murder. And it's even worse when it's your sister.Brigid moved back to Cottonwood Springs to be with friends and family when her marriage and her publishing company both ended. When her best friend's...

A devastating novel about the treachery of love by Maupassant, now in a new translation by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator Richard HowardOlivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name as...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE "Knausg蚌d is an impressive writer" --Publishers Weekly "Knausg蚌d's writing is crystalline and careful" --Kirkus Reviews "Bostr Knausg蚌d's careful exploration of mental illness is restrained and entirely unsentimental. (...) Her prose is unobtrusive in its...

"Cool, sparse, and delicious, Esther Gerritsen's Craving hits all the right notes. This is an author who is unafraid of both complex characters and complex emotion (Thank God!)." --Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones"Funny, angry, feminist...Droll and horrific and incredibly moving"--The New York...

A lot of people don't realize Mick Jagger has a younger brother, who also likes to sing. Veteran women's fiction writer Lauren Baratz-Logsted answers the question of what such an existence would be like in an original heartfelt novel about what it means to...

A Senses Series Story Dan was a throwaway child and learned to take care of himself in foster care. As an adult, he devotes his life to the business he started and his heart to raising children no one else wants. Dan has already...

IPPY Gold Medal for Regional Fiction (South) True Stories at the Smoky View is a wry, intricate novel about family and friendship, tyranny and justice. Although Vrai (short for Vraiment), an art history librarian in Baltimore, has not spoken to her friend Skip for...

Broken by their unorthodox Midwestern childhood, sisters Catherine, Anne, and Jessica Mathers search for love, acceptance, and worth--often in the most unlikely places. Catherine, the oldest of the Mathers sisters, is an English professor battling breast cancer with Cytoxan, red wine, and profanity. Anne...

This unforgettable portrait of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War effortlessly mixes humor with Shakespearean-like tragedy to create an achingly human portrait of the sixteenth president. Charyn conducts an orchestra of historical figures and fictional extras centered around a profoundly moral but troubled commander...

Note: This book was previously sold under the title: Thin Blood."This thought-provoking story of a woman reviewing her life as she faces her last days is a riveting page-turner that never fails to surprise. Quiet Sins will make you laugh, cry and empathize with...

"Absorbing . . . [Nunez] writes novels that resound with thunder and fury." --Essence Prospero's Daughter is a captivating recreation of Shakespeare's The Tempest set on a verdant Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. Using Shakespeare's...

"Mootoo's character-driven novel is rich in setting and slow in pace, inviting the reader to linger over its closely observed details." --BooklistJonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his parents separated, and his mother, Sid, vanished entirely from his life. It is not until he is...

Pickles are mentioned in the Bible. Cleopatra ate them as a beauty regimen. Shakespeare put them in his plays. Mason designed jars for bottling them. So did Ball. Did Mason and Ball fight over the King of the Pickle Jars title? I don't know....

In this engaging and heartfelt novel, Libby Parker, a normal, happy fourteen-year-old girl, finds her life dramatically changed on September 25th, 2006, when her school bus is hit from behind by another bus. Libby is left with near-total amnesia and traumatic brain injury. Her...

This Orange Prize Finalist novel is both a meditation on time and memory and "a deeply moving portrait of domestic and family life" in Ireland (The Sunday Telegraph). Ireland, 2006. The economic miracle known as the Celtic Tiger has swept the country into a...

"Set against the backdrop of Obama's ascendancy to the presidency . . . A complex and imaginative literary tapestry about family and identity" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). At once immediate and epic, funny and devastating, this new novel by the author of Shadowbahn is...

From New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Letters comes the completion of one family's journey to survive their past and forge their own future. With no more secrets . . . When Noah Cooper bumps into Rachel, it's love at first sight--at...

The fourth novel in this seven-part series with Anne Brown and the Colebridge community. In The Basement Quilt, The Potting Shed Quilt, and The Funeral Parlor Quilt, you have become familiar with Anne Brown as well as her family and friends who encounter many...

"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope." ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility Just a few years after their father's business scandal shatters their lives, Jane and Celia Woodward find themselves...

Kalina, born in Bulgaria and now living in Boston, has always been a spiritual seeker. Her fourteen-year-old son, Marko, who has spina bifida and is partially paralyzed, shares her curiosity about larger metaphysical questions, but also has his own unique perspective on life: Marko...

Sometimes you find hope in the last place you look.Gabrielle Fairbanks has nearly lost touch with the carefree, spirited young woman she was shen she married her husband sixteen years ago. But when the couple moves to Chicago to accommodate Philip's ambition, Gabby longs...

When the unthinkable happens . . .En route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Tampa International, Flight 848 bursts into flames and crashes into Tampa Bay. All 261 passengers and crew are killed. For one week, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder and her fellow reporters...

An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood with an electric mix of humor and emotion. Acclaimed for the grace, wit, and magic of her novels, Ramona Ausubel introduces us to a geography both fantastic and familiar...

"A virtuosic debut and] a wry look at immigrant life in the global age." --Vogue Having left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a sense of finality, the Nasmertov family has discovered that the divide between the old world and the new is not...

From the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow, an epic novel about faith and the magic of everyday life. Told from the precocious perspective of fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers' Children is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric...

The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist's couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds...

Is it better to take the risk and pursue the glory of fame and fortune, or to live a simpler, more grounded life? WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Winter 2020 -- Best Literary Fiction WINNER: Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2020 - Bronze Medal -...

A rural epic about warring families in modern Italy and an intimate bildungsroman of the artist's journey. Set over ten years in an unnamed town in the Maremma region of Southern Tuscany, this novel tells the story of two families against the backdrop of...

A father and son, the open road, and Johnny Cash.Number one bestselling ebook author Neil White has penned an emotional journey through the life and songs of Johnny Cash, as told through the eyes of a fictional English lawyer, James Gray, whose life is...

PART TWO of Series- America has had it with Smoke Screens, Mirrors, and Fake News. We are being heard and making a difference. One voice can change the world. One heart can lead to healing.One answer can lead to truth. One word can lead...

On the verge of lost hope, Gil discovers his true love in a Psych Ward, and together they set out to build a normal life. But as family dysfunction tightens its grip and trusted friends reveal their true colors, Gil must overcome a crippling...

Sometimes you have to go back to move forward In the tradition of the beloved novels of Debbie Macomber and Kristin Hannah, award-winning author Tammy L. Grace returns readers to the fifth book in her Hometown Harbor Series and another unforgettable journey of friendship,...

Sammy Kehoe, his sister, Charlotte, and her four-year-old daughter, Maggie, are all each other have left since the car accident that killed the rest of their family. When they visit their beloved old family home on remote Fox Island, Maine, Sammy and Charlotte each...

Twenty-five years after a group of ninth graders produces a Saturday Night Live-style videotape to cheer up their cancer-stricken friend, they reunite to celebrate her good health-but the happy holiday card facades quickly crumble and give way to an unforgettable three days filled with...