Fiction - Family Life - General

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...

Anna Martin and her two older brothers, Matt and Samuel, find themselves taking a trip to Nicaragua. It is an unlikely place for them to be, but they are there as a result of a request by their late father, Dr. Joseph Martin. None...

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...

Live every day like it's your last. Thelma is the busy single mom of 12-year old Louis. When Louis is hit by a truck one morning, their lives are changed forever. Louis falls into a coma and if he doesn't regain consciousness in the...

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...

She's generous, kind, and compassionate--yet Delilah Grey will forever be an outcast in the small seaside town of Camden Beach, Maryland. She takes in women shattered by abuse, poverty, illness, or events beyond their control. But no matter how far she's come or how...

"Beautifully written and closely observed, The Summer Cottage captures the deep and complicated love of family. Reading this lovely novel, I felt the embrace of summer on the shoreline." --Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author Spanning two summers decades apart, Susan Kietzman's poignant...

A powerful, poignant novel of love, redemption, and family secrets from the incomparable #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels . . . On his thirty-fifth birthday, Jake St. Cloud inherits a fortune--and learns the whereabouts of his mysterious half-brother. On her deathbed,...

In the quirky Southern town of Cherico, Mississippi, a new library means an exciting new chapter for librarian Maura Beth McShay--and for the friends and book lovers known as the Cherry Cola Book Club... The construction of Cherico's cutting-edge library has been an epic...

Jane Austen is widely considered one of the greatest writers in history and her romances have captured the attention of generations, since they were first published. Mansfield Park is one of her most famous novels and widely considered a classic.Author: Jane AustenISBN-10: 1495990168ISBN-13: 9781495990168Publisher:...

First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of Remembrance of Things Past, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually...

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written circa 1798-99....

Throughout this collection are tales honed with a psychological edge and sprinkled with a dash of dark humor, while other stories cross over into the realms of tragedy, coming of age, and the paranormal.DISEASED - When Carter Lynch, a resident of a mental institution,...

A compelling story of a woman's determination and spirit, proof that most things are possible with courage; a faith that indeed moves mountains and opens doors for others to succeed in the generations that follow. At twenty-four Connie Caruso was a secretary in a...

Isabel grew up without a father, so she's never observed firsthand how a man should treat a woman. Although she wasn't looking for love, she meets Juan--an attractive Mexican man who falls in love with her instantly. For the first time in her life,...

Eli left the corporate life in San Francisco and moved with his wife, Frances Amelia, to Goat Mountain, high up on the west side of the Cascade Mountains, near the small town of Colton, Oregon. When his parents died, Eli inherited the 640 acres,...

A young boy with a splendid imagination. He chooses his soup for lunch based on warm and cool colors - red, yellow, orange, purple, green, and blue. Joshua's thoughts, experiences and ideas of what the colors remind him of flow out of his soup...

"Where can you turn when your house is not safe? In a small coastal town in Oregon, Amber and Kelly know the deadliest people sleep down the hall. As they attempt to escape the violent, domineering men in their lives, despair fights against faith...

Following the premature death of her husband in the later winter of 1963, Grace Irwin discovers that she no longer fits in to the world she knew. Always a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, the widow is unmoored by her loneliness, fearing the slightest...

Based on true-life events, Parris reflects on her struggle with Nature vs. Nurture and the childhood memories of her dysfunctional family. Turning the clock back two generations, Parris's story begins with her grandparents and the events that led up to her family's extreme narcissistic...

At age twenty, Leena O'Neil walked away from her old life. Anything to avoid becoming a lawyer like her mother and older sister, Georgia. Three years later, Georgia contacts her, convinced that her husband is trying to kill her rather than divorce her. Reluctantly,...

A love of a lifetime . . . Leaving Belmont Clarkson is the hardest thing Sage Alexander has ever done. From the moment they met, she knew Belmont was the one, and getting up close and personal with him on his family's epic road...

Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old member Olive Charles passes away. What's more shocking news is that Olive has left her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds to...

A novel of women's friendship, resilience, and legacy from the author of The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship and Friendship Makes the Heart Grow Fonder. Claire Petrenko always knew it was coming. Breast cancer has already claimed both her mother and her younger...

The new novel in Kimberla Lawson Roby's beloved New York Times bestselling Curtis Black series. "Roby's latest sizzles with scandal. A deliciously decadent beach read of temptation and the wages of sin." -- Kirkus Reviews Raven Black is bouncing back after her very public...

In this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Reverend Curtis Black series, Curtis's secret past returns in an unwelcome--but ultimately healing--visit. Rev. Curtis Black is no stranger to scandal. Throughout the decades, he has done much in the public eye, both good and evil. But...

The new novel in Kimberla Lawson Roby's beloved New York Times bestselling Curtis Black series that "sizzles with scandal" and is a "deliciously decadent beach read of temptation and the wages of sin" (Kirkus Reviews). Raven Black is bouncing back after her very public...

From the USA Today bestselling author of Christmas at the Cottage comes the perfect holiday romance for "readers seeking a peppermint-filled, cozy Christmas contemporary" (Publishers Weekly). Tis the worst season to be single, but Kara Hastings won't let a little Christmas funk spoil the...

Fans of Jill Shalvis, Susan Mallery, and RaeAnne Thayne will love the fourth book in Olivia Miles's Briar Creek series. Love is always in season . . . Florist Ivy Birch fantasizes about the day a man will surprise her with a beautiful bouquet...

A literary tour de force from the acclaimed author of The Blessings-a riveting novel about one of the most urgent crises of our time. One August afternoon, as single mother Maggie Daley prepares to send her only child off to college, their world is...