Fiction - Family Life - General

The novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought about profound changes in French society; the struggle of individuals to secure upper-class status is ubiquitous in the book. The city of Paris also impresses itself on the characters - especially young Rastignac, who...

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is...

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me.Lies.Words destroyed me.Author: Aly MartinezISBN-10: 1973778947ISBN-13: 9781973778943Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2017Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.57d

Alan and Audrey Taylor are an ordinary married couple raising three children and coping with the demands of busy careers when the unthinkable happens: their eldest daughter, Isabel, on the verge of precocious womanhood, goes missing in the middle of the night. Thus begins...

On the surface, Melanie Kingstad-Keyes's life is the picture of success. She's a tenure track professor at a prestigious university and has a perfect husband. But a recent miscarriage has left her reeling and her marriage tenuous. Selling her family's Lake Indigo summer home,...

For Madison O'Neill, it's motherhood versus Hollywood.When A-list actor Ring Stanford arrives in town claiming to be the father of her unborn child, Madison is shocked to learn he's telling the truth. Now this anonymous donor wants to be part of her baby's life....

It is 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler is circulating a most-wanted list of "cultural degenerates"--artists, writers, and thinkers whose work is deemed antithetical to the new regime. To prevent the destruction of her favorite art (and artists), the impetuous...

WINNER OF TWO NATIONAL LITERARY AWARDSTOP SELECTION FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"One of the best novels in ten years." Hackney Literary Awards CommitteeDestined to become the next The Book Thief. For fans of Small Great Things, Before We Were Yours, and Orphan Train, and...

Iola Boggs escapes a small-minded village and is proud that she becomes a non-combat pilot during World War II. Iola meets Jim Lewis, who never served in the war but contributed in his own way to the war effort. They marry in post-war Philadelphia...

After suffering a childhood "accident" involving a campfire and a bullet, Jason Han spends his childhood being cared for by a doctor in Princeton, New Jersey while the rest of his family lives in a factory town near Scranton, Pennsylvania. Years later, as they...

Grab an Ameripass for one low fare and 'ride the Dog' across America with author Paula Coomer for a gritty, unflinching journey through some of the country's most poignant and vulnerable moments: War. Racism. Women's rights. The Sexual Revolution and more.Stop off here and...

A free black man in London wanders too close to the docks on the wrong day. A woman gives birth alone in a barn loft near an Australian outback crossroads. A mother removes her apron, walks away from her family, and tells her secrets...

From Frances O'Roark Dowell, the author of Birds in the Air, comes Margaret Goes Modern, a touching, big-hearted collection of short stories about women whose lives revolve around family, friends and quilt-making.Meet Margaret, whose adventures in a new quilting group help her reconnect with...

"A truly enjoyable read" about "the power of quilts to connect, heal, and restore the soul." --Marianne Fons. From Frances O'Roark Dowell -- bestselling author of Dovey Coe, The Secret Language of Girls, Trouble the Water and other "beloved books for tweens and teenagers"...

SELECTED AS A TOP 10 DEBUT BY THE AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS' ASSOCIATION A GREAT GROUP READS 2020 BOOK CLUB SELECTION 2021 HONORED AUTHOR, WISCONSIN LITERARY COUNCIL "Mark Rader's The Wanting Life is somehow both quiet and deeply unsettling. A profound meditation on what we owe...

A nameless young woman starts her freshman year of college with one goal in mind: survival. Newly transplanted to the big city of Chicago, she is one of the rare few to leave her small working class town in Iowa, let alone for a...

T he Timekeeper's Son, a moving father-son tale, explores middle-aged grief and youthful yearnings, the price of hidden disabilities and wounds, and the claims and limits of community. In the small town of Milledge, Georgia, aspiring teenage filmmaker Josh Lovejoy hits a jogger while...

During the Autumn of the early 1940's, a fifty acre farm near Corpus Christi, Texas could hardly contain the antics and adventure of an impetuous twelve year old boy named Ted Crockett. Country life included Ted's obsession with owning a horse, a special horse.Ted's...

POINT REYES STATION: At 10:42 a.m. deputies called for back-up for a "pedestrian who was not following orders." SO BEGINS THE SHORT STORY: "Following Orders" in which we are introduced to the charmingly confused pedestrian, Fred Rhinehart, one of the magical characters author Susanna...

Ireland holds the keys ... to love and to life. A late-night phone call, pulls her back to Dublin. A fall in the park; lost memories ... a mother's long buried fears. Catherine is going home.Things become complicated, as she re-discovers family dynamics overlooked...

Devastated by the loss of their spouses, Georgia and Kenny think that the best times of their lives are long over until they find each other; meanwhile Kenny's teenage stepdaughter, Zelda, and Georgia's friend's son, Spencer, fall in love at first sight-only to fall...

Chosen as a best summer read by People, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and Good Morning America "Midlife love, laughter, sibling rivalry and self-discovery . . . Goes down as easy as it sounds."- People Life's a bit of a beach these days for Ginger Walsh,...

National Reading Group Month "Great Group Reads" selection"[Helen Benedict] has emerged as one of our most thoughtful and provocative writers of war literature." --David Abrams, author of Fobbit and Brave Deeds, at the Quivering Pen"No one writes with more authority or cool-eyed compassion about...

"[Kramer's body of work is] precise and sumptuous . . . a song of emotion, but with a great lucidity about the humanity of simple people."--Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Swiss Grand Prize for Literature citation "You need to read Pascale Kramer's books because...

Long before fracking ever came to Minden, Pennsylvania, the fissures in the Pierson family were developing into major fault lines. Green Energy arrives, offering the rural community of Minden the dream of making more money from their land by leasing natural gas rights for...

A nationwide power cut sends the UK into darkness and the lights are going to be off for a long time. There is no mains water, no petrol and no news. Towns and cities are chaotic and dangerous. Who will survive the months ahead...

Separating from a parent can be very difficult for a little one and parent, especially when its time for the first day of school. Tango explores the feelings that both parent and child have during the first days of preschool and explains what happens...

The story concerns the love and marriage of a young girl, Mashechka (17 years old), and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych (36), an old family friend. The story is narrated by Masha. After a courtship that has the trappings of a mere family friendship,...

Five pages... A letter holding a secret buried for more than five years... A secret neither of them wanted to know. Will the truth tear them apart... again? I've loved my best friend's brother, Houston Cavanaugh, since I was eleven years old. But my...

A powerful and sweeping historical novel of love, loss, and hope, set against Australia's vast sugarcane fields in the turbulent days after World War II. 1948: Change has come to every corner of the globe--and Rosie Stanton, returning home to northern Queensland after serving...

A Winter's Tale After racking up serious injuries, world-famous snowboarder Nate Forrest returns to the West Virginia coal town that has been his family's home for generations. The transition's a challenge, but there's nothing more beautiful than snow. Except maybe Dr. Lacey Berryville. How...

In Italy, the best attractions are always off the beaten path . . . Mamie Weber doesn't know why she survived that terrible car accident five years ago. Physically, she has only a slight reminder-but emotionally, the pain is still fresh. Deep down she...

House enough to hold her dreams . . . Aspiring engineer Molly McGinnis is one master's thesis away from conquering the universe. But in the meantime, she's struggling to make ends meet, working at a tree farm while stowing away in a Tiny House...

Home is where the heart fits . . .Summer Murray is ready to shake things up. She doesn't want to work in risk management. She doesn't want to live in Hartford, Connecticut. So she plans a grand adventure: she's going to throw out all...

Cousin Phillis is a haunting story about Paul Manning, a youth of nineteen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence. Paul finds himself helpless...

After being recently orphaned Rose must live with her aunts, the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family. When Rose's guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, he takes over her care. She becomes happier and healthier while finding her place in her family of seven...

One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history.* * *The classic novel of a young girl's exploration of physical pleasures.Young Fanny Hill is tricked into a life of prostitution, but she quickly learns the power of her own body as she learns...

Fourteen-year-old Kathleen is walking home from a concert on a dark Liverpool night in 1974 when she's violently raped. The attacker, unimaginably, is her trusted parish priest. Terrified, Kathleen never tells her pious Catholic mother, and when she discovers she is pregnant, she pays...

Sporting a nagging conscience and a chip on his shoulder, C.J. Neubauer books a flight home on his girlfriend's credit card to bury his father and try to make sense of what led him to take his own life. All he has to go...

"Hilarious, incisive, and uncomfortably familiar."--Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving: A Novel "Johnson perfectly captures both the ennui and elation of parenthood and the mundanity and magic of marriage . . . I love this little book."--T. Greenwood, author of Rust...

A Son's Addiction. A Mother's Heartbreak. A Family's Crisis. As the wife of a prominent city attorney and the mother of two teenage children on the brink of adulthood, Glennis Harmon lives the kind of successful, high-profile life that many people envy. But when...

Two Worlds. Two Women. One Love. In 1975, an American girl named Genevieve loses her mother when a plane full of orphans crashes in war-ravaged Vietnam. Miles away in the countryside, seven-year-old Lan, a Vietnamese girl, is forced out of her family home by...

Competition for church members in Mount Oak has reached a furious peak. When tragedy strikes one of their hometown sons, the church women are drawn together through compassion. The Church Ladies is a contemporary tale illustrating how women can have a major impact on...

In Roseborough, Jane Roberts Wood returns with a keenly observed tale of bighearted people in small-town Texas. Three weeks after Mary Lou's Gypsy husband dies, her fourteen-year-old daughter, Echo, runs away. Numbed by grief and grounded only by her job at the Dairy Queen,...

In the east Texas town of Cold Springs in 1944, the community waits for the war to end. In this place where certain boundaries are not crossed and in a time when people reveal little about themselves, their problems, and their passions, Jane Roberts...

Short fiction about people on the edge that "masterfully balances the absurd, the horrific, and the humorous" (Booklist).The characters in Inappropriate Behavior teeter on the brink of sanity, while those around them reach out in support, watch helplessly, or duck for cover. In their...

An astonishing novel of epic ambition, Vandal Love--winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in 2007--follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century.A family curse--a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship--causes the...

Endowing family horrors with mythical resonance, Marcello Fois creates an unforgettable tale of twentieth-century Sardinia. When Guiseppe Mundula first sees Michele Angelo Chironi across the corridor of a Sardinian orphanage, the blacksmith realizes that he has found the son and heir he never knew...

Praise for Cynan Jones: " A] piercing novella . . . Like Cormac McCarthy, Jones can make the everyday sound fraught and biblical."--Kirkus, starred review"Jones' prose clips along at an unnerving pace, barely giving you time to process the previous beautiful image, before knocking...

Mason Jones felt like he never belonged anywhere. Bouncing from foster home to foster home, it seemed that no one wanted him around. His latest placement had a similar make-up to the others: a middle-aged couple with one child of their own, who for...