Fiction - Family Life - General

A woman's journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening After receiving the devastating news of her son's death, Elizabeth ekes out a lonely and strained relationship with her husband, Zach. While he takes comfort in support groups, Elizabeth becomes withdrawn and seeks solace from the...

Ray Morris is a tech journalist with a forgettable face, a tiresome manner, a small but dedicated group of friends, and a wife, Garthene, who is pregnant. He is a man who has never been punched above the neck. He has never committed adultery...

Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears...

Ma Bole follows the eponymous cowardly layabout as he escapes his unhappy family life by going on the run to avoid the coming Japanese invasion. A humorous-yet-stark depiction of despair in the face of war and Westernization, Xiao's novel (completed by the translator) mirrors...

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JOURNEY HOME - A CAT'S TALE is a story based upon the actual life of a cat found abandoned in a dumpster, left to die. Born in a small town on the coast of Maine, an unpretentious cat named 'Patches' encounters life changing experiences...

In September 1993, four generations of the Travis family gather to celebrate the 80th birthday of their matriarch, Isabelle. Reflecting on their experiences at the rustic family cabin set on a lake in the Chippewa National Forest, they talk of fishing for walleye, cooking...

Libby Thompson is just fourteen years old when she flees her abusive home with her newborn son, Angel. Now they must build a life for themselves on hard work and low wages, dealing with police who are sometimes helpful-but not always-and a drug dealer...

"Brafman's talent for drawing human emotion shines through in this episodic, deeply sensitive, and introspective novel of the human psyche."-- BooklistBertrand Court is a captivating novel told in story form, intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos, filmmakers, and...

A story for all who have struggled with choices, family, or faith. Vanessa Palmer suffers from the guilt of painful life choices and the inescapable feeling that she's been a disappointment to her parents. With her counselor's help, she is determined to confront a...

Susannah begins to learn about slavery in the South and the Abolitionist movement in the North, but the issues soon become more than idle gossip. Her father hires Jacob, an escaped slave, to work as a farmhand and live in the Allen's spare room....

A bereft anthropologist assembles the artifacts of her family's history and her brother's suicide, hoping to discover herself within them.Author: Nan CubaISBN-10: 1938126068ISBN-13: 9781938126062Publisher: Engine BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2013Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

The title novella is a first-person account of a mentally challenged fourteen-year-old boy who accidentally kills a neighborhood girl and winds up running away and hitching a ride with a trucker who is not as trustworthy a companion as Jimmy believes him to be....

This stunning collection introduces an important new voice in American fiction. The characters--among them a suburban wife, an alcoholic mother, two homeless men, and an injured veteran--grapple with being voiceless and feeling trapped.The fiction editor of Little Patuxent Review, Jen Grow's fiction and nonfiction...

COUSIN PHILLIS (1863) by Elizabeth Gaskell is a deceptively simple story of budding young love and its disappointment, as observed through the eyes of a young man who comes to stay with his Cousin Phillis and her family. Gaskell is at the height of...

Irish Book Awards ShortlistLibrary Journal Best Indie Fiction of the YearPublishers Weekly Best Summer Book Staff PickConcord Monitor/Concord Insider Book of the WeekChatelaine magazine Book Club selectionBrooklyn Book Festival Best Debut Book "Ghost Moth is an impressive debut by a writer who is not...

"An elaborate tale of family and the paths people take to understanding." --Seattle Times "[This] mix of well-researched history and contemporary fiction makes for a fine, sad read." --Minneapolis Star Tribune "Hauntingly honest and emotionally resonant." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Gregory Spatz's prose is...

"A stark, harrowing, yet deeply courageous work of immense power and magnitude."--Quadrant Homeless and alone, a disturbed youth drifts between town and the Australian outback, growing increasingly isolated and distrustful in a society lacking the means and seemingly the will to help him. He...

WINNER OF THE AMAZON.CA FIRST NOVEL AWARD, 2013WINNER OF THE DEBUT-LITZER PRIZE, 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZEA NEW STATESMAN READ-ALL-ABOUT-IT SELECTION FOR 2012A BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS PICK, 2012A SALON.COM WHAT-TO-READ AWARD-WINNER, 2012A TOP FIVE BOOK PICK, CHATELAINEAN...

Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize NomineeLonglisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story AwardClark Blaise's brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations, a portrait of...

The matriarch dominates these award-winning stories in Lisa Blower's debut collection. From the wise, witty and outspoken Nan of 'Broken Crockery', who has lived and worked in Stoke on Trent for all of her 92 years, never owning a passport, to happy hooker Ruthie...

As a young man comes to terms with his father's death, he is forced to face his own demons, and confront the possibility of change... A stark, eye-opening and exquisitely poignant novel spanning the globe and probing the issues that define our times, by...

In the fictional town of Middlemarch, selflessness, social reform, and romantic love struggle to survive against human foolishness, economic missteps, and societal ideals. Young and intelligent, Dorothea Brooke hastily marries Casaubon, a middle-aged scholar working tirelessly on his "masterpiece," The Key to All Mythologies....

Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence...

The Four Gifts of the King is a story of salvation and hope told through an adventure that stirs the imagination and speaks to the soul.Author: R. Scott RodinISBN-10: 1683509323ISBN-13: 9781683509325Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2018Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d

Legacy Letters is a transformative parable that will entice and equip readers to build principled legacy for themselves and their organization.Author: Tony DileonardiISBN-10: 1683506278ISBN-13: 9781683506270Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2018Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 6.00h x 4.00w x 0.32d

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage -- after consulting fertility...

Still She Speaks is a tale of every woman. A journey of failure and faith, laughter and tears, heartache and joy. Travel through time as you follow the thread of Sondra's life as she pursues an elusive dream, wrestles with difficult challenges, copes with...

... a lost and violated Welsh girl, surrounded by the stench of coal and thick smog. Raped repeatedly by her father, she runs away to London, and after trying her hand at different jobs, she gets a place as a nursing auxiliary in a...

Three lifelong friends - Ben, Levi, and Tracy - take very different paths after high school, but all have brushes with danger and war. What happens in war? Only injury, if one is lucky.This powerful novel tells of Levi's war with family tragedy and...

Fans of Flaubert's Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love. Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is one of the most unusual...

"Until the day of Merriwether's departure from the house--a month after his divorce--the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one" we read on the first page of Other Men's Daughters. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are full...

It is the year 1996. Renee Howell, thirty-nine years old, has moved away from her crazy-making husband and the cult he's been in. Now she is all alone in San Diego except for a few friends. Though she thrives amid the city's bustling urban...

Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco's most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that's not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who's achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules: Never trust an outsider. Never do anything to jeopardize your brother's political aspirations. And never,...

Grace is in her late twenties and living with her single mother in Estill, South Carolina. After her brother dies in what the police call a drug-related incident, Grace is sent on a mission to find out the truth. She finds this, a relative...

Gather the Fragments, That None May Be Lost is the fictional story of a small group of young, homeless, mothers living in a shelter in Manhattan who dream of a better life for themselves and their children. The characters are loosely based on a...

Looking into a mirror and liking the reflection had never been of interest to Sequoya until the day she didn't know who she was. One drastic, brash decision sends her on a discovery path to not only herself but also her close circle. Join...

Keely Marie McLaughlin felt there was a secret surrounding her birth. She was keeping a secret from her momma, and she'd told a whopper of a lie, too. She was also about to have the encounter of her lifetime.Keely's story unfolds in the summertime...

A bright and thoughtful, yet thoroughly disillusioned heroine discovers how family shapes who we are, who we aren't, and who we have the potential to become. When a family crisis jolts Maggie Winslow out of her quarter-life malaise, she takes charge and rethinks the...

Christmas Eve in Vacherie, Louisiana, finds the banks of the Mississippi alive with fire. Walter is consumed with planning the perfect bonfire--the one that will finally beat his brother's blaze and extinguish the lingering melancholy from his father's death. As Walter obsesses over wood,...

From Nora Roberts comes the #1 New York Times bestseller Shelter in Place (June 2018)--a powerful tale of heart, heroism...and propulsive suspense.It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted...

Carleigh is a 14 year-old girl trying to carve her own place in this world. Her younger brother's mental illness is slowly invading every aspect of her life. Her family is troubled. Friendships are unbearable. And just when calm begins to seem possible, one...

You might be surprised to learn that back in 1961 Nightstand Books published an inquiry into the heartbreak of scoliosis, but-oh, hang on a minute. You say the title refers to characters who are not spinally but psychosexually bent?Oh.Well, never mind.Dave and Nancy Grantland...

For most of his life, eighteen-year-old Joel thought his father, Daniel, had abandoned him. He's about to discover how wrong he was. In many ways, Daniel has been a constant influence in the young man's life.On his birthday, Joel learns the truth when his...

It is the first day of seventh grade for Elliott, a student at a Catholic grade school in a conservative, solidly Republican town in northeast Ohio. His entrepreneur parents, considered leftover hippies by most, have always encouraged Elliott to think outside the box. Jeffery...

Wilson Lacy is fast becoming an old man. After a prosperous time as a scientist, teacher, husband, and father, he is now adrift and alone in a shadow-filled house with only his ghosts and memories as companions. Wilson Lacy is beset by a particular...

It is 1904 as Jay and Anna Titus anxiously await the arrival of their first child. But when Jay dies unexpectedly while Anna is six months pregnant, the eighteen-year-old widow is beside herself with grief. Nearly three months later and after hours of grueling...

Matthew Gallagher is a train conductor extraordinaire. He travels about the country, escaping from one life and relocating to another on a daily basis, a status he prefers, with no roots to tie him down. Neddie Anderson is a country girl who has never...

For the first time in his life, twenty-four-year-old Stuart Jones wants to get serious about his lady. Now that Tiffany and her daughter, Angel, live with him, Stuart thinks that maybe it's time to pop the question. After all, at the mature age of...

Corey's quiet, middle-aged life changes the day his wife dies. He quits his job... and takes up wood sculpting. He gains weight... then goes on an odd diet. Stray dogs begin to visit him... and give him advice. He hires a young, headstrong counselor...