Fiction - Family Life - General

As children, Hayden and her sisters ran carefree through the wilds of rural Connecticut when their father was away writing novels. But when he eventually returned, the spontaneous nature of their female household gave way to his oppressive regulation. Years later, Hayden has moved...

An uncensored, eye-opening, and laugh-out-loud funny portrait of modern China as seen through the lives and loves of four professional women in contemporary Beijing.Divorce, oral sex, plastic surgery. Indulging in a Starbucks coffee, admitting to the emotional repercussions of a one-night stand, giggling over...

Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities. Her tales follow two generations of two families living on the cusp of disparate...

As the tiny town of Mulberry, Georgia, celebrates its spring Peach Blossom Festival, things are far from peachy for three generations of Pines women. Eighteen-year-old LaShawndra, who wants nothing more out of life than to dance in a music video, has messed up again...

A congressional adviser and habitu of a cozy circuit of bars inside the Beltway, Joel Lingeman never quite felt middle-aged. At least not until he was abandoned by his partner of fifteen years and suddenly thrust into a dating scene with men half his...

Another Martha's Vineyard August burns out into a shimmery autumn, as the sisters face more family secrets, lost loves, and future questions.Olivia Hesson's great-aunt left her the dream of a lifetime -- an old-world mansion, which Olivia and her new boyfriend, Anthony, have transformed...

Ariston Letrero is a renaissance man: audio producer, insurance salesman, musician, composer, part-time fast food mascot, and an adulterer who quickly and quietly abandons his wife and son, Lucas, at the peak of his mottled career, for a new life in America with his...

In Charbagh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a short detour from the Grand Trunk Road that leads towards Afghanistan, stands a chinar tree in the garden of Khan Mohammad Usman Khan. Legend has it that it was planted by a saint known to the grandfather of the Khan,...

Some balls end with a glass slipper while others end with a blade at your throat.When Lily tumbles through time to medieval England, she happily gives up all thoughts of pizza, hot showers, and modern technology and vows to soak up every bit of...

The Faded Rainbow is the English translation of Gourahari Das's novel Chhayasoudhara Abasesha. The Odia novel, published in 1996, was the writer's maiden attempt at the genre. The Faded Rainbow offers multiple interpretations to the readers. It is no doubt a study in feminism....

The Divine Life By Professor Hilton Hotema Author: By Professor Hilton HotemaISBN-10: 163923120XISBN-13: 9781639231201Publisher: Lushena BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2022Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.48d

Sadira Doyle believes the best years of her life are behind her. A housewife and mother in a parochial town during the latter years of the depression, she yearns for more. Her husband is an alcoholic sinking into despair; her eldest son's eccentricities make...

A captivating and heartwarming story of a young mother's love for her little girl, Anna. Her short life has been lived in isolation, the mailman is her only friend. You'll fall in love with Boulder, her big playful shaggy dog. Her stuffed bear, Mr....

In this brilliant new novel by from Emiko Jean, the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Tokyo Ever After, comes a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, daughterhood, and love--how we find it, keep it, and how...

Retirement - is it a wasteland or a wonderland? Ruth, Trudy and some other baby-boomers they meet along the way, are about to find out. Drawn together by a love of music, they form a ukulele band which takes them on a journey far...

In a neighborhood nondescript except for how often small houses are being torn down to make way for big houses, a beautiful woman too young to be widowed waits for her husband to come home from prison. Arthur Baladino is getting out courtesy of...

Virginia Woolf's novel follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an outwardly self-assured London socialite, as she prepares for her party that evening. Mrs. Dalloway's interior monologue flits from preoccupation with the details of her party to memories as a young girl...

The "queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine) presents nine captivating stories of summer on Nantucket--and days that last forever--to carry us through when those warm sandy days feel far off. Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand revisits her most treasured and iconic characters in this...

The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny that "lays bare women's intimate, lacerating experience of war" (The New York Times Book Review) After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom...

Ribby Balustrade didn't have a very good childhood with an abusive drunken mother to deal with.Still, she gave selflessly - entertained children at the hospital.But sometimes enough is enough...That's when a voice inside answered.And killing to her was as easy as flirting.Sometimes everything turns...

If you're brave enough to let love in, it can heal even the deepest wounds.On the heels of a failed marriage proposal and losing his medical practice, Dr. Jake Rodgers decides it's time to head home to Hickory Grove. Surrounded by family and friends,...

The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo's marriage is falling apart; daughter Dina, beleaguered by the fear that her nightmares are real, is...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr returns to the beloved town of Virgin River with a brand-new story about fresh starts and new friends.Now a Netflix Original Series! Kaylee Sloan's home in Southern California is full of wonderful memories of the woman...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - This "deeply immersive novel" (The Washington Post) from the author of the award-winning Preparation for the Next Life is an "epic coming-of-age tale filled with pain, heartache, fear, and undying love" (The Associated Press),...

A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother--and about the very nature of writing, memory, and artTen months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a...

A Reese's Book Club Pick"An utterly original and brilliant story." -Reese WitherspoonA stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives--set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home...

From acclaimed author Jamie Brenner comes a stunning new novel about three generations of women who discover that the scandalous books of their past may just be the key to saving their family's future. For decades, the Hollander Estates winery has been the premier...

They called him Stone Cold.Once upon a time, I called him my pen pal.When I wrote to Callum Rose five years ago, I never expected a response. He was an up and coming rock star, afterall, and I was just a shy seventeen-year-old. He...

Gracie waits alone outside the Bass County courtroom for the grand jury's decision while Jake marks his sixty-third birthday inside the county jail. After surviving the suicide of her son and her daughter's struggle with drugs, she thought she could survive anything. Now, staring...

Skin is inventive, compelling and deeply moving - a story of loss and recovery, of wild swimming and identity from a rising star of British fiction.London, 1985. Joe, father to 11-year-old Matty, has disappeared and nobody will explain where he's gone, or why.In the...

Skin is inventive, compelling and deeply moving - a story of loss and recovery, of wild swimming and identity from a rising star of British fiction.London, 1985. Joe, father to 11-year-old Matty, has disappeared and nobody will explain where he's gone, or why.In the...

Moira Lovegood-depressed, single, and a little neurotic-just wants to get through her 30th birthday. But when things go from the usual bad to the even worse, she quickly learns that she has to do something to break the bonds of her monotonous existence. After...

In these dense and startling stories, Maya Sonenberg telescopes seasons, decades, and generations in candid depictions of women's family lives.What happens when the urge to ditch your family outpaces the desire to love them? The stories in Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters, winner of the...

The Cold Hard Light is a spare and bracing literary debut that tells the story of a new father who falls into the grip of obsession.The novel begins when the man who assaulted Andrew Harrison's sister is released from prison. Benjamin Williams was barely...

Patrick Crabtree and his sister Janet are faced with the task of going through their father's belongings and preparing the family farm for sale after his death. The difficult relationship they had with their father, especially after the loss of their mother, was always...

How much can be forgiven?After the Mendoza family unexpectedly loses their youngest son, Michael, they each face a different adversity. From spiritual struggles and disillusionment to family rivalries and quirky social interactions, each family member deals with the aftermath of Michael's death differently.Jose Luis...

For readers of Where the Crawdads Sing, this powerful debut novel, set amid the lush landscape of the Florida wetlands, delves into past crimes, old memories, and the eloquent, limitless expanse of parental love. Loni Mae Murrow's life as a bird artist at the...

It is to be expected that an adult and child reading the same book will glean from it completely different messages due to their respective frames of reference. Rare, however, is the book that equally targets both adult and child with a purpose relatable...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916) is a novel by Vicente Blasco Ib瘻ez. Published at the height of his career as a popular Spanish author, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was adapted into a 1921 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino and later...

"I was only five when a tiger bit off one of my hands. My mother filled a glove with sand and sewed it to my stump. Every year, she cut the seam with a miniature pair of sewing scissors and stitched on a new...

The story of a woman's life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025. She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one abortive attempt at passion, buys a big house...

Chosen as one of New York Post's Best Books of 2022 People were forever telling her how lucky she was. But what did people know?' Dublin 1966. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her...

"Both a heartbreaking and heart-warming story, Melody Razak's debut transports the reader into the home of a Brahmin family in 1940s Delhi. . . . The character portrayal is so intricate that as the plot twists and turns, you'll truly care what happens to...

"Maeve Binchy fans will adore it--she just gets better and better."--Patricia Scanlan On Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula, summer means glorious weather and a life-changing choice for local librarian Hanna Casey in this delightful installment in the USA Today bestselling series, a captivating tale filled with...

The book's narratives, poems, and drawings evoke the beauty and tragedy of Appalachia and the betrayal of the region's natural wealth. The novella relates the troubled family chronicle of Ramona and Woody Mann, and the friend they know simply as the Greek. Woody's and...

From Distress to Success is a riveting account of the life of Rev. Dr. Francis J. Ford who escaped treacherous venom of poverty and disability. Born with a deformed leg, witnessed his mothers death at the hand of his father, but God! The book...

When Cleo Henderson divorces with a small son to support, she seeks a job as a healthcare worker. She is assigned to Zackary Hughes, an elderly white supremacist. Zachary is a complaining, gravelly voiced curmudgeon who requested a white woman; he is taken aback...

Dana Turner is at a crossroads in her life. She decides to take her brother's advice and go back to the small town of Hideaway Lake to their family-owned cottage where she can sort things out. Does she stay in a bad relationship or...

A Sino-Chinese family find their destiny is inseparably entangled with that of the country they have adopted as a home. Not long before the Communist revolution, Tong, sent by his peasant-parents in impoverished rural China to work with a relative in Siam, has risen...

Out of the mist of prehistory emerges Li. He is a superior man, a success at everything he tries, destined to lead his tribe to greatness. Unfortunately, Li is the only one who knows this.Li is with his tribe when their coastal village is...