Fiction - Family Life - General

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...

(5 stars!) "Claire Cook has done it again. Must Love Dogs: Bark and Roll Forever is another fun visit with the irrepressible Sarah Hurlihy and her family. Sarah is such a wonderful main character, with all of her quirks and personality flaws, she is...

Tommy Zane hates lions, a major obstacle in a family of lion tamers. But Tommy's dreams--and talent--fly higher, up in the rigging with the trapeze. When rising star Mario Santelli offers him flying lessons, it looks like the start of wonderful new life, and...

The life and nuclear-weapons work of renowned physicist Adam Brooks form the center of an orbit that binds his family to him as he struggles to find his place in science, history, and love. In this debut novel, searingly brilliant characters fill a world...

Greenwich Village, 1959. Claire Bishop sits for a portrait--a gift from her husband--only to discover that what the artist has actually depicted is Claire's suicide. Haunted by the painting, Claire is forced to redefine herself within a failing marriage and a family history of...

Nick Reynolds is a highly successful food company executive. He's also a bully, feared by his employees and estranged from his wife and children. After his latest blow-up at work, Nick's boss orders him to take the summer off and sort himself out. Angry...

2024 UPDATE: NOW A CELEBRATED ALETHEA ROOT FILM that has won Best Feature Film and Best Director at several film festivals! It is now being shown in Berlin and much of Europe.Awards: Audience Award Best Feature, Festival of Cinema NYC> Best Director, Albuquerque Film...

"Riveting . . . vibrant and unsparing." --Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) "Superb. . . . Startlingly original." --Library Journal (starred review) "Once I started reading these stories, I couldn't stop. They absorbed me thoroughly, with their taut narratives and evocative language--the language...

When Grace de Silva's once-prominent family loses their vast tea estate, she has little idea how everyone's life in her lush, Eden-like homeland of Sri Lanka is about to change. Her children dream of escape--Jacob, the eldest, wants desperately to go to England; Thornton...

The Girls Club is the coming-of-age story of a young, white, working-class woman. Set in the 1970s, the story revolves around Cora Rose as she copes with her emerging sexuality, an illness her sisters refer to as "the dreaded bowel disease," and the conflicts...

When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, chef and widower Simon Fortier knows how he plans to face the storm--riding it out inside his long-time home in the city's Treme neighborhood, just as he has through so many storms before. But when the levees break...

This thought-provoking and intriguing tale, by the Akutagawa Prize-nominated master short story writer Kanji Hanawa, revolves around the extraordinary real story of the seven-year-old boy who went missing in the bear-inhabited forests of northern Japan for six whole days in 2016, after his parents...

The Fall of Heartless Horse is a postmodern multigenerational family drama that is dark, hilarious, moving and wildly original. By turns lyric, comic, tragic and absurd, it deals with greed, inheritance, heroism, internecine intrigue, capitalism, sex, and the intertwining of public and private history....

Ada Boucher and Stanley Brent are young things at the time of boaters, parasols, champagne and trippers on the Thames. Ada is an apprentice and dreads heading into the low-paid saleswoman position which beckons. Stanley is an assistant at a land broker's establishment. Their...

Miles. Kerry wanted hundreds of miles between her and the hometown that never felt much like home. College held all the promise of new beginnings. Academics and tests always made more sense to her than people and feelings. Her complicated family couldn't seem to...

Despite a declining popularity throughout his career, Anthony Trollope has become one of the most notable and respected English novelists of the Victorian Era. His penetrating novels on political, social and gender issues of his day have placed him among such nineteenth century literary...

A heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again. After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay...

Gift Idea for birthdays, Perfect gift for Valentine's day, Christmas, Mother's Day and Birthdays - Card alternative and wedding or any event give the love to someone Sentimental Journal: Fill in the reasons why you love someone to give as a personalised gift.Author: Gift...

This Christmas, home is where the heart is . . .The first snow is falling over Primrose Farm, the mince pies are warming, and Rachel Swinton is looking forward to a well-earned break over the holidays. It's time to settle down with family, and...

I am Connor is about a boy diagnosed with Down Syndrome that does not see himself as different from anyone else. He sees everyone as different but the same, since he can do everything that everyone else can do.Author: Fred Rodriguez, Connor RodriguezISBN-10: 1654299243ISBN-13:...

From the author: You might be surprised to learn that back in 1961 Nightstand Books published an inquiry into the heartbreak of scoliosis, but--oh, hang on a minute. You say the title refers to characters who are not spinally but psychosexually bent?Oh.Well, never mind.Dave...

In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise--which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life--an aging husband's sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable.After an ignominious early retirement,...

An illustrated children's book about a boy who wants to climb a mountain with his parents. They think he's talking about the mountain they see in the distance, but he means the hill in their backyard. Children and grownups see the world in different...

'Uplifting' Daily Mail'Breathtaking' Awais KhanForgetting your past is one thing, but living with your present is entirely different.Twenty years ago, Helen is forced to give up her newborn baby, Lily. Now living alone in her small flat, there is a knock at the door...

I firmly believe that it is extremely important that young children and grandparents connect and maintain a strong relationship even when they are not physically together! Intergenerational relationships can invigorate and energize older adults as well as help reduce the likelihood of depression and...

"Lightman's best book since Einstein's Dreams . . . a piercing story of social dissolution in damaged Cambodia . . . an important story of global women's rights." --Annie Proulx The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman's first...

Includes a recipe, discussion questions and an excerpt from: The summer of Sunshine & Margot.Author: Susan MalleryISBN-10: 1432873237ISBN-13: 9781432873233Publisher: Large Print PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2020Pages: 632Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.30dLarge Print

"Lively and evocative, Mother Land is a deftly crafted exploration of identity and culture, with memorable and deeply human characters who highlight how that which makes us different can ultimately unite us."--Amy Myerson, author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays and The ImperfectsFrom the critically...

Now a major motion picture starring Sarah Fisher! Science raises questions only hope and faith can answer in this instant New York Times bestselling "tale of forgiveness and love" (Woman's World) from Karen Kingsbury. Andi Allen is shaken to the core when she finds...

To folllow ........................................................................................................................................................................................Author: George J. HawkinsISBN-10: 0578594633ISBN-13: 9780578594637Publisher: Bay Company Books, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2019Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d

"It is impossible to resist this novel's wit, grace, and charm." --Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia A smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation, confusion, and commitment; a triumphant and beautifully executed recasting of Edith Wharton's The Age...

From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth. Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only...

After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren's touching, romantic novel Love and Other Words...how many words will it take for them to figure out where it all went wrong? The story of the heart...

#1 New York Times BestsellerWhat would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? In Mitch Albom's profound new novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He claims to be...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE THE PAPER PALACE IS: "Filled with secrets, love, lies and a summer beach house. What more could you ask?"--Parade "A deeply emotional love story...the unraveling of secrets, lies...

A 2022 Audie Award Finalist Don't miss the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick that's sold 3 million copies strong--now an Apple TV+ limited series starring Jennifer Garner! The "page-turning, exhilarating" (PopSugar) and "heartfelt thriller" (Real Simple) about...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another "fun, feisty" (The Washington Post) novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind. When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the...

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To...

"Riveting, heart-wrenching, and full of Old Hollywood glamour, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of the most captivating reads of 2017." -BuzzFeed "The epic adventures Evelyn creates over the course of a lifetime will leave every reader mesmerized. This wildly addictive journey...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A twist you won't see coming. A love story you'll never forget. From the acclaimed author of The Notebook comes a powerful novel about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. We...

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREYFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "If you're looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read." --Bustle From the New York Times bestselling author...

From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, a heart-wrenching love story that proves attraction at first sight can be messy. When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think...

A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover.After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went...

The #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller that People Magazine calls "a poignant, addictive read."From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and...

The winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize "about mothers and daughters, nation and exile, and the way forward with hope and pain . . . a masterpiece" (Tayari Jones, The Times).A gut punch of a novel that asks us to consider: what do...

Winner of the Library of Virginia's Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award for Fiction! A brilliantly moving and unforgettable novel. - Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life Janet Peery's first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996....

From the director of The Spy Who Dumped Me, Susanna Fogel, comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents, over the course of three decades. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get...

A dazzling novel about love, loss, and the mysteries of the mind.--David Ebershoff, bestselling author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife A breathtaking tale of tragedy and redemption...A triumph.--People A family in crisis, a town torn apart, and the boy who holds...

Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters' Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction Named one of Kirkus Reviews's Best Fiction Books of the Year and a Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the YearOn an oppressively hot Monday in August of...