Fiction - Family Life - General

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An astonishing novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises. In June of 1989 Paul McLeod,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Ave Maria must decide between old love and new adventures in this enthralling second novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series "Heartwarming . . . Everything that really matters is here: humor, romance, wisdom, and drama."--The Dallas Morning...

The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their...

Three classic works--including the virtuosic Revolutionary Road--that exemplify the remarkable gifts of this great American master "It is Yates's relentless, unflinching investigation of our secret hearts, and his speaking to us in language as clear and honest and unadorned and unsentimental and uncompromising as...

Now a Netflix original series starring Simon Baker, Travis Fimmel, and Phoebe Tonkin!"Hypnotizes you with wonder, and then hammers you with heartbreak. . . . Eli's remarkably poetic voice and his astonishingly open heart take the day. They enable him to carve out the...

"Dottie Frank's books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property."--Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and South of BroadThe incomparable Dorothea Benton Frank is back with her latest Lowcountry Novel, Folly...

Karnali Blues, by Buddhisagar, is the most widely read Nepali novel to have appeared in the last twenty years. As it recounts the evolution of a father-son relationship-a son's search for approval, a father's small acts of kindness and forgiveness, a son's fears for...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they've come from--and what they've...

"A delicious escape." --People Love is in the salty sea air in this smart and steamy ensemble romantic comedy set in a tropical paradise, from the author of the "sparkly and entertaining" (Oprah Daily) It Had to Be You. This is one island you...

Wendell Combs is as local as they come. Born and raised in the small town of Saybrook, Connecticut, his venture into the larger world was met with heartbreak. Now, middle-aged and a confirmed bachelor, he seeks solitude from his tour of duty as a...

"Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss."--Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Keeping Faith"Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while...

In a bravura feat of storytelling, Mark Haddon calls upon narratives ancient and modern to tell the story of Angelica, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with her father. When a young man named Darius discovers their secret, he is forced to...

"A charming portrait of the Smokies, their people, and a wonderful way of life." --Deborah Smith, New York Times bestselling authorSet against the backdrop of Tennessee's breathtaking Smoky Mountains, Lin Stepp's Down By the River is a warm-hearted novel that proves it's never too...

An Unabridged Edition of Both The Lifted Veil & Brother JacobAuthor: George EliotISBN-10: 1603862935ISBN-13: 9781603862936Publisher: Watchmaker PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2010Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

"A stunning story about family and hope that unfolds unexpectedly but beautifully, like a Michigan summer sunset over an orchard." --Viola Shipman, bestselling author of The Clover Girls and The Secret of SnowIn cherry season, anything is possible...Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House...

An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.Dear Luke, First let me say--I love you...I didn't want to leave you...Luke Richardson has returned home after burying Natalie, his beloved wife of sixteen years, ready to face the hard job of raising their three children...

One of BuzzFeed's "Books Coming Out This Summer That You Need to Seriously Read" * One of Bustle's "New Romance Novels to Make Your Spring Reading Even Dreamier Than You Imagined" A charming romantic comedy about three sisters who are struggling to keep the...

The Beans of Egypt, Maine introduced the world to the notorious, unforgettable Bean clan of small town Egypt, Maine--from wild man Reuben, an alcoholic who can't seem to keep himself out of jail; to his cousins, the perpetually pregnant Roberta, and Beal, a man...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A great holiday gift, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you...

Bursting with wicked humor and driven by an incomparable understanding of what it means to be human, The World to Come is the inimitable work of "the most ambitious story writer in America" (The Daily Beast). Now a major motion pictureShepard traverses both borders...

A richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier. Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family's struggle to settle and endure in the vast, untamed territory of New...

"Extraordinary . . . No one but Chaim Potok could have written this strangely sweet, compelling, and deeply felt novel."--The Cleveland Plain Dealer In his powerful My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok gave the world an unforgettable character and a timeless story that...

A local schoolteacher is arrested, leaving his family to wrestle with the possibility of his guilt, in this exquisite novel about loyalty, truth, and happiness. The Woodburys cherish life in the affluent, bucolic suburb of Avalon Hills, Connecticut. George is a beloved science teacher...

At the heart of this novel, which spans from the 1930s through the 1980s, is principled, passionate Dillon Freeman and his more conventional cousin Rachel Honaker. Best friends as children, as they grow older they realize, and are torn apart by, their forbidden love...

How do you change your luck? A young woman chooses to look for happiness in this marvelously entertaining and poignant novel from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire. "A hilarious and touching...

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 4 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy--just ask his mother. There is never...

At the age of fourteen, Lakshmi leaves behind her childhood among the mango trees of Ceylon for married life across the ocean in Malaysia, and soon finds herself struggling to raise a family in a country that is, by turns, unyielding and amazing, brutal...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas...

"P.S. insights, interviews & more"--Cover.Author: Annie England NoblinISBN-10: 0062465627ISBN-13: 9780062465627Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2016Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 09/15/2016 pg. 80Booklist 09/15/2016 pg. 23

Andie Parker has just been told that she may have unconsciously taken on someone else's identity as a child. But how could this be? How could she not know who she is?The police have found the body of a little girl in the basement...

Recent college graduate Alice Burton typically has a Plan A, B, and C. But now that her decisions have real consequences, she's feeling the delayed after-effects of the night her life was rocked by twin disasters-an injured father and a serious betrayal. Eager to...

When you strip away everything else, what's left is the truthLife taught Joe Davidson not to believe in miracles. A blue-collar woodworker, Joe is trying to build a future. His father drank himself to death and his mother succumbed to cancer, leaving a broken,...

Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future...when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son's birth--from the...

Michelle de la Fortuna's research brought her back to the lonely Massachusetts coast, and to the house of the reclusive Sisters of Providence. For more than sixty years the Sisters have stood watch here-first against the terrible pandemic that devastated their town, and then...

A reunited couple search for a valuable treasure, a precious jewelry box, stolen from the Nazis and hidden away since World War II, in this powerfully emotional and romantic novel of rekindled love--perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Josie Silver, and Jill Santopolo.Then...Once upon...

Hosting Christmas at the cottage this year sounded like the perfect plan...At least that's what everyone thought.Helen couldn't be more pleased to see her daughters, their husbands, and the kids gathered together. The Matthews have always been big on family. This year, with her...

"The forty-seven components of Josh Russell's engrossing King of the Animals are always entertaining, never less than mischievous, constantly surprising, and stunningly well expressed. Yes, they are stories, vignettes, parables, moral tales--but none of those descriptions do them full justice. Let's just say that...

A modern chronicle of a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic. Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha's Vineyard,...

Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but...

The aging patriarch and matriarch of the Ghosh family preside over their large household, made up of their five adult children and their respective children, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled surface of their lives the sands are shifting. Each set of family members...

It's 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth is finally coming home to Ackerman's Field, Tennessee. Itinerant banjo picker and volatile vagrant, he's been gone ever since he gunned down a deputy thirty years before. Two of his sons won't be home to greet him: Warren lives...

A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community. Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways but, unlike...

NPR Best Book of 2017Los Angeles Times Best Fiction PickRefinery29 Best Book of the YearBOLO Books Top Read of 2017"Destined to be a classic L.A. novel."--Michael ConnellyWhen a teen runs away from his father's mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that...

From the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author comes a dazzling novel of family, love and love's disappointments Anna's aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children's pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she turns her focus to her hospital window, through which...

"What Survives takes the reader on an inspiring journey of transformation as Adalet finds her voice and command as a woman. The sights, tastes, and politics of modern Turkey add to this extraordinary story's power. This novel will transport you!" -Lynn C. Miller, author...

When her elderly father dies, Miranda Fox is free at last. He's promised an inheritance that will give her independence. But her domineering half-brother controls the money and has very different ideas as to how she should live her life. A new friend helps...

"A meditation on yearning, solitude, and self; a soul storm, a mirage of phantom figures . . . a book of deep reckoning." --The New York Times Book Review The #1 international bestselling phenomenon--a profound and riveting story of love, loss, and memory. A...

When all has been lost, we find ourselves...Out of the ashes of destruction, a new world has arisen. The plagues of the past-the worship of greed and pursuit of power-are gone. Now, the communities that remain in this post-apocalyptic world focus on creating connections,...

From the winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, CLMP Firecracker Award, and Bard Fiction Prize, National Book Award "5 Under 35" Honoree, and finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize, an astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control,...

Dear (almost) everyone: Can we be friends again?Life is about to get complicated for Amelia Montgomery, a prominent litigator in Chicago. She's been fired for not compromising her principles in a high-profile case and then punching her partner in the nose for the misogynistic...