Fiction - Family Life - General

Based on the courtship and marriage of Ingmar Bergman's own parents, The Best Intentions describes the complex, tumultuous love of a man and woman and the miracle of what love is: overriding and, so often, inexplicable. Henrik is a struggling, somber divinity student; Anna...

Now available again, the best-selling and award winning novel, called "A lush, wildly imaginative fairy tale" (San Francisco Chronicle). For readers of The White Tiger and The God of Small Things, a dazzling, exuberant, wickedly funny, and moving novel set in post-colonial India that...

Dr. Lydia Giddens has taken an oath to do no harm. But now she stands in the shadows of her success, wondering if honoring her profession is even possible. Surely, her family doesn't expect her to jeopardize everything she's worked so hard for all...

A remarkable couple with different complexions is featured in this interracial romance novel. Their amazing relationship comes together in an unexpected and surprising way, and blooms until one partner leaves town because of the negative reaction of their parents.Stella is smart, sexy, and gorgeous....

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hot Milk moves gracefully among pathos, danger, and humor" (The New York Times).I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I...

A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers. Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest...

This brand new collection of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame's career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories have been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in...

Long-listed for Canada's Scotiabank Giller Prize.Short-listed for the Lambda Literary Award.Readers who enjoy rich details of place will find Mootoo's writing about her settings to be luxuriant; we are especially treated to abundant descriptions of Trinidad... A] thoughtful exploration of place and identity.--Kirkus ReviewsMootoo's...

A hilarious book about the city vs. suburb divide.--New York Post, a Must-Read BookCity Mouse is a sharp and sophisticated novel of suburban life with a narrative voice that is equal parts witty, observant, and vulnerable. A wonderful debut --Susan Isaacs, New York Times...

The novel avoids the maudlin of some coming-of-age stories, and the magnetic descriptions of the father-and-son conversations and encounters and the Jamaican landscape add to the narrative....Like Marcus J. Guillory's Red, Now, and Laters, this book will appeal to lovers of Caribbean fiction, but...

"Jones . . . has written a compulsively readable novel about a woman who manages to come into her own. With engaging characters, a compelling story, and a seductive sense of place, this is a literary treat." --Booklist "Jones creates a seething portrait of...

Included in Library Journal's Books That Buzzed at BookExpo America Roundup, the first word on titles and trends from Barbara Hoffert, Editor McGevna's debut novel captures the familiar rhythms of summertime, following young people on the edge of violence.--Kirkus Reviews A serious, searing debut...

--Longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award --Finalist for the Jewish Book Council's 2014 JJ Greenberg Memorial Award --One of The Margins's 100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers"Lyrical, shrewd, and daring novelist Nahai . . . writes with acute emotional and nearly anthropological...

S. Gagliano & Son has been a barber shop fixture in South Philly for decades. Frankie and Michael Gagliano's Italian immigrant father--Luigi to his customers, Papa to his sons--presides over the store, enlisting his children as soon as they're big enough to wield a...

Admirers of Elizabeth Spencer's writing will welcome back into print her first novel, and her new readers will discover the sources of her notable talent in this book. Published in 1948 to extraordinary attention from such eminent writers as Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty,...

The Mormon church may have disavowed the polygamy it became so infamous for in the 19th century, but for some Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, "plural marriage" isn't just ancient history. Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim couldn't be more surprised to learn that her son Kenneth...

A zombie movie-obsessed teen is forced to face a dark family secret in this shocking debut literary novel from a talented new author. "Wow! A crazy, wicked knock-out of a book!" -Garth Stein Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker attends an all-boys Catholic high school where roving...

"Owen writes exquisite stories that lodge somewhere in my chest and keep detonating--loudly, devastatingly--again and again."--Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You In the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan Owen's debut collection, the people of Glass, a picturesque village on the rugged...

How can a woman learn to let go of the people she loves the most? "Lauren Grodstein breaks your heart, then miraculously pieces it back together so it's bigger--and stronger--than before." --Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You Karen Neulander, a successful...

Nine richly varied, often funny, always moving stories that reveal the complex workings of the human heart. Bill Roorbach conjures vivid characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar and extraordinary. He first made his mark as the winner of an O. Henry...

In this modern age, when the means of communication have turned individual and collective history into a spectacle, literature is the privileged place of subjectivity. This book allows us to peer into the fascinating world of characters trapped in their particular deliriums: a club...

A family in modern Botswana is wracked by losses from AIDS and caught in the tension of a society divided between ancient traditions and beliefs and Western thought with white influences. Single parent Mara feels the urgency of holding on to her community's faith...

Welcome to the house of the mosque . . . Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a suitor to knock on the door. Her uncle Nosrat returns from Tehran with a glamorous woman, while on...

Three friends discover that marriage and motherhood have their ups and downs in this warm and engaging family saga. 1960. Having been firm friends ever since they met in a Blackpool boarding house five years before, Val, Cissie and Janice are all now happily...

Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a close attachment to her cousin Edmund, the only person...

Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper-crust Australian world.Lilian Una Singer starts...

What if the perfect life you envy was rotten to the core? Three brand-new friends. Three very different families. Way too many secrets. Gisela, Sally and Kate become close when they move into the same new housing estate. But behind their shiny front doors,...

Kat only wanted to be part of the convention on how to write successful books, not solve a murder that took place there - the murder of a beloved "tell-all" author. Was that the motive?Greed, revenge, and hatred are also reasons to murder, at...

Human trafficking in the small Colorado town of Cottonwood Springs? That only happens in the big cities, right?Planning a wedding is hard enough without having your florist disappear. And it's even worse when there's a chance that people engaged in human trafficking may have...

A woman's dream, a warning, a murder, but it's the wrong person.When a mistaken identity murder happens at her sister's bookstore in Cottonwood Springs, Brigid has no choice. She has to find the person who intended to murder her sister.Not everyone liked her sister,...

Set in ducal Italy and post-revolutionary France, The Manzoni Family tells a rich story of passions, writing, rivalries, deaths, and war. It pivots on the figure of Alessandro Manzoni, celebrated Milanese nobleman, man of letters, and author of the masterpiece of nineteenth-century Italian literature,...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia London launches a triumphant, emotional, heartwarming story about finding love, family and home.Madeline Pruett has made up for a lonely childhood and being raised by an irresponsible single mom by creating a solitary world where...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee comes the newest installment in her popular Weekday Brides series.Gwen Harrison: The beautiful, high-born daughter of an English duke came to America to take over her sister-in-law's matchmaking business. But just because she's the boss doesn't...

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood--in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into...

From the acclaimed author of Girl in the Arena, the story of a hit-and-run accident on an empty road that sets loose forces to tear a young girl's family apart. With the disappearance of her father, Mona's wrenching task is to make herself whole...

Nobody knows why John Baird, a quiet family man, decided one day to pick up a shotgun and murder his wife and children. On the remote Scottish island of Skellag, violent crime is unheard of, and the killings sent shockwaves through this tiny community...

"Zanily inventive . . . This deeply eccentric comedy belongs in the company of the best novels about wildly precocious kids" (The Seattle Times). Al Santamaria is a child prodigy, maybe a genius. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he,...

A London graphic designer is suddenly forced to take over his South Asian family's convenience store in this "hugely enjoyable" novel (The Sunday Express). "Sathnam Sanghera's witty first novel chronicles three generations of a Punjabi Indian family in England. After his father dies, Arjan...

A child psychologist struggles to come to grips with her own dark childhood memories, in this "mesmerizing, unsettling novel" (The New York Times). When eight-year-old Julia was asked to be a bridesmaid at her cousin's wedding, she was thrilled. Nothing, not even her mother's...

Dedicated to those of us who find we must sometimes let go of someone we love deeply, in order to realize our dreams, The Unexpected Ring is based on the true story of one woman's journey. Anna, who grew-up in a large, loving Italian...

John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes...

From renowned playwright Jackie Alexander comes a captivating, masterfully told coming-of-age novel of a young man struggling through his haunting past to discover and save himself. Stigmatized at birth due to his interracial parentage and reared in a household poisoned by domestic abuse, Kevin...

The title of this book might suggest that I'm saying goodbye to the central subject of my fiction. That is not the case. A fifth and final book in this At Home and Away novel series is in progress because, like the rebirth of...

Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose) - Alphonse Daudet's (1840-1897) first published, though not his first written, novel - appeared in 1868. The first part was composed in that Southern France it describes so charmingly; its first chapters form one of the most touching of...

The Soil (aka The Earth; French original title: La Terre), around which the greatest controversy has raged, is a novel which treats of the conditions of agricultural life in France before the war with Prussia (1870-1871), and the subsequent downfall of the Second Empire....

Winner of the inaugural French Voices Award: " A] masterfully conceived debut, arelentless tale, intricately and irresistibly told" (La Quinzaine Litt raire). Only once in a great while does a new novel come along that takes a literary scene by storm, demonstrating real innovation...

When the going gets tough, the tough hit the beach.After years of being single, Lily's about to head down the aisle again. But just as she's about to take the plunge, she gets cold feet--ice cold.To calm her pre-wedding jitters, Lily and her girlfriends...

The only constants in reporter Savannah Phillips's life are her best friend Paige, her workplace tormenter Joshua, her steady father--and her crazed mother. In spite of that, she agrees to take a Florida vacation with her parents and enjoy some seaside "rest and relaxation"...

A feast of romance and laughter featuring a delightful and courageous heroine that you can relate to no matter what your size. Convinced that her larger size relegates her to wallflower status, Freddie Heinz hides behind the wedding cakes she creates as a professional...

"A timely, sophisticated tale [that] explores what happens when a charmed life loses its luster." -O Magazine From the award-winning author of the new collection Awayland, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its...