Fiction - Family Life - General

DONTE AND RUBY CROSS PATHS; RUBY A YOUNG WOMAN WITH AN UNEXPECTED LITTLE SISTER TRYING TO MAKE IT. CROSSES PATHS WITH DONTE A MAN THAT HAS ALREADY MADE AND IS LOOKING FOR LOVE. THEY MEET IN THE MIDDLE. FIGHTING OBSTACLES AND ODDS WILL TRUE...

Further Adventures of Cuddle Cat and Dozy Dog This is the second book in the series about these two unusual pets of the Smith family. Together, Cuddle Cat and Dozy Dog share a remarkable secret; they can speak and understand the human language. Because...

Two life stories: one life lived. In Big Shoes, Colin Sparrow's Birmingham boyhood unfolds alongside the discoveries, struggles and triumphs of his adult life. We watch Colin's own development as a father become defined by his memories of his own dad, memories which he...

It's Complicated is a collection of short stories about the lives of women. Touching on themes of love and loss, these stories will make you laugh, cry and most of all, feel.Author: Julia GravesISBN-10: 1716660009ISBN-13: 9781716660009Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2020Pages: 134Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.27h x...

It was the day after Thanksgiving and the Claus family gathered around the table for the important last minute planning for Christmas. But this was a special gathering. On December 1, just a few days away Joseph Claus would "retire" as Santa and hand...

Quiet and shy Isabelle is about to spend "the worstsummer of her life" at her grandfather's farm while her parents work out their divorce.Instead she is propelled into the chaotic world of her Aunt Beth, a wild menagerie of cousins, and a crazy plan...

Come on inside and sit a spell for stories about family, friends, dogs, and places travelled. You will be entertained by amusing narrations of people, events, and a few science fiction imaginings of the near future. Together, we'll share the joy of storytelling. Written...

Lily Stone works at her family owned and operated truck stop, Trucker's Paradise. After being abandoned by the man she thought she was going to spend the rest of her life with, she has to learn how and who to trust again. She's a...

This story is about a young man getting out of the Air Force in the Vietnam era and how his life changed on his trip home. With no idea where his life was going he stumbled on an area, fell in love with it,...

Tilly Green continues to grow and explore the world around her. In this story of Tilly's weather adventures, she learns about Electricity, her community, friendship, and even more about how to handle emergencies that come up in her life!Author: Brittany CrawfordISBN-10: 1716435978ISBN-13: 9781716435973Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage:...

Julia Richmond and Chris Edwards never thought they would become friends but the summer before they started high school it happened. Their friendship would be tested often as they navigated high school in their rural Michigan hometown in the middle of the 1980s. This...

This story is fictional and very loosely based on the story of Elizabeth Woodcock, a Histon and Impington Resident in 1799. The children are fictional characters and bear no resemblance to any of her real children. There are plenty of historical accounts of her...

Stepping into the Stream is a philosophical novel telling the story of a young woman wrestling with her creativity, spirituality and mental health and the demands of modern life. Anoushka Weisman was obsessed with becoming an Experimental Music composer until her plans were sidelined...

Kate Morgan loves a good mystery. She's an avid reader and she recently finished writing a murder mystery. The story takes place at the fictionalized version of Maple Ridge, the real life home of Chad Hollingsworth, the man Kate has been dating for the...

Every child may not sing or have a musical gift, but everyone has been given a gift. Help a child discover, develop and display that gift today.Author: Derrick Thomas,Julia a. RoystonISBN-10: 1689180110ISBN-13: 9781689180115Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2019Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x...

"Heartwarming, poignant... a joy to read." -Writer's DigestClaire Chastain reflects on her journey of childhood innocence and discovery in small-town Texas in the 1950s. She and best friend Libby share a lifetime of challenges and friendship although Claire is pampered and sheltered in contrast...

For Alex and Carolyn, a simple swimming getaway after football trials turns into a parents' worst nightmare, when their younger son, nine-year-old Jordan, disappears. Within hours, they realise he's become the victim of some bizarre kidnapping plot, one without a ransom demand, just a...

Author: Elaine JannetidesISBN-10: 1681570297ISBN-13: 9781681570297Publisher: Blue River PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2017Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose...

A Colored Child's Belly is a book about an African American or colored boy who transitions from childhood into adulthood. This book details specific life experiences he has as he gets older. It details his journey from boyhood into man hood. Clarence has several...

From My Book Shelf is a treasure trove of intrigue and insights, a dash of daring the reader's imagination, a sprinkling of morals and mystical possibilities, folded into suspended realities and accessible messages. Maria Manobianco has woven short stories and poems into a journey...

Eleven-year-old Lucy happily lives with her parents and her beloved rabbit, Jumper. There is nothing she enjoys more than playing in her paddling pool and watching Jumper hop around the garden. Spoiled with unending love and affection, Lucy wants for nothing-until the day her...

Many of the events described in this book (except for the murder and subsequent investigation) have their parallels in this life. The writing of this book is something of a catharsis in dealing with this pain. This is a fictional account of dishonesty, malfeasance...

Felix Fernandez's novella gives a candid and intimate look at a family's story of loss, sacrifice, and overcoming various obstacles in the pursuit of freedom. Although the story is unique, the themes running through the book are universal showing the unbreakable ties that run...

Rosie is the final book in a trilogy, 3 Boys and Boat, A Man with a Black Cashmere Coat, and now Rosie. Each book can stand alone, enjoyed by its reader. Rosie is an average person, tries to mend her mistakes, and is a...

Jennie O'Malley may seem like she has it all together, but her orderly and stylish life in Florence starts to fall apart when she is unexpectedly called home to Monterey, California to say her final goodbyes to her beloved father, Shaun. A warm and...

After the death of his beloved Annabelle Owens, Zack Calloway's life goes off the rails when he falls in love with an older woman, who is seeking revenge for the death of her daughter. Zack helps Justin Webb with Marie's lawsuit against a large...

Todd is a great story that outlines the hardship many children born in the fifties experienced at a time when children where often needed to help around the home or the family business. While there were many good parents who loved their children deeply...

On Nov. 9, 1989, the notorious Berlin Wall came tumbling down and the world celebrated freedom. Just weeks later a young Canadian family experienced a tragedy that shrunk their world, and for them, eclipsed the recent news! Three sister, Victoria (15), Noelle-Collette (13) and...

Set in the last century, starting from the mid-thirties to the end of the millennium, this is a story of a Marathi Brahmin Family that goes through many ups and downs through the sands of time. Over the years due to variety of reasons,...

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 - May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once,...

Comic and sad, poignant and absurd, disturbing and tragic, Merigan is the unsentimental but compassionate tale of a people and a world in spiritual disarray and moral collapse. Set in an Ohio steel mill town between 1960 and 1976, Merigan tells the story of...

Emmitt Wasson's life wasn't perfect.But, with a decent job and a loving family, his life was pretty good. That is, until a horrific accident left him and his family spiraling out of control. While Emmitt struggles to put his family back together, his daughter...

In Just Desserts we find Emma Craven's life has become more complicated and difficult to navigate. She's student teaching and working at her husband Gary Parker's restaurant, The Green Spruce Grill. An unexpected pregnancy has Emma's head whirling, and she can't keep up with...

Countenance of Man can be simply described as a beautiful portrayal of this plain thing called life. Although a work of fiction, it recalls memories that touch each of us as we grow to adulthood. Countenance provides us a look into Randall Simmons as...

Joey McBride, a rodeo cowboy, is thrown and severely injured by a mean-tempered bull. As he lies in a hospital bed, an angel appears at his side and tells him that she is a procurement agent delivering him to the Disbursement Department, where a...

The idealistic world of Myra Jenkins comes crashing down when a tragic car accident changes her life forever. Unjustly carrying the burden of the accident alone, she is forced down a path that will put her face-to-face with the children of the couple she...

What do you get when you add a perfectly happy sales manager, his pun-loving wife, a charitable young lady who is soon to be married, a retired old couple who just want to see their kids settled, an 87-year-old grandpa whose only pastime is...

When Captain Arjan Singh, an army man posted in the L.O.C., retires, he is not prepared for the changes in his life. He feels depressed, demotivated, neglected by his family and friends. But being a strong-willed person, he does not give up and decides...

Samantha is a fifteen-year-old who lives with her stepmother and stepsisters in the hope that someday her life would become magnificent like Cinderella's. She meets Samuel, a lonely older man who lived to fulfil his last wish to help the poor and orphans and...

Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death.The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of twenty-seven years, whose family moves to lower their expenses and reduce their debt...

North and South is a social novel published in 1854 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004). The 2004 version...

Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was published in four parts, though a fifth and sixth part were planned. The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his (second) cousin...

E.F. Benson, in full Edward Frederic Benson, (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.-died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian...

E. F. Benson's subject is always the petty concerns of petty people, but his talent is to make those concerns nearly as important to us as they are to his characters. For us, what happens to Benson's people is also much funnier than it...

When Tracy's brother Aaron commits suicide, she inherits his dogs: two dog-aggressive pit bulls and the French mastiff Stella. As Tracy navigates her grief, she also has to learn how to care for her new dogs - who come with issues of their own....

In the summer of 1982, Jim Bradley is diagnosed with cancer. When surgery is unsuccessful, he is given six months to live and placed in a nursing home. He hates the nursing home and wants to leave, but his son tells him he has...

Dealing with the loss of a parent is hard, but dealing with a 43-year-old secret nearly brings Richard Murphy to his knees. A single sheet of paper in a tatty yellow envelope changes his life, tears his family apart, and breaks his son's heart....

When This War Is Over is the sequel to No White Flowers, Please. Rhoda Pritchard, 19 years old, has moved from Bath to Salisbury, where she becomes a nurse in a small private psychiatric hospital.There are two men in Rhoda's life: Harold, a struggling...

Anthony Trollope, (born April 24, 1815, London, Eng.--died Dec. 6, 1882, London), English novelist whose popular success concealed until long after his death the nature and extent of his literary merit. A series of books set in the imaginary English county of Barsetshire remains...