Fiction - Family Life - General

An international literary triumph, Shtum is a powerhouse debut that untangles the complicated strands of personal identity, family history, and lapsed communication. Drawn from author Jem Lester's experience of raising an autistic child, Shtum is "a darker, sadder version of The Curious Incident of...

I left off in Thug's Intuition with Greg being carted off to jail. He left behind a very devastated Miami. Miami wasn't alone because she indeed had her girls to comfort her. In Thug's Intuition you met Tremble. I know some of you are...

From "The King of Christmas," Richard Paul Evans, comes the next exciting holiday novel perfect for "fans of Debbie Macomber" (Booklist) in his New York Times bestselling Noel Collection. Maggie Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local...

In this instant New York Times bestseller and "multigenerational narrative that's nothing short of brilliant" (People), two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present are explored as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world from #1...

Monica Bennett is a typical married woman living in Florida raising her son and trying to be the perfect wife and mom. There is nothing for her to be unhappy about; she lives in a nice home; her husband takes care of all of...

In this multilayered historical novel that explores family secrets and hidden identities, "Woods skillfully captures the disorienting mixture of heady freedom and mounting fear characterizing 1930s Berlin, and the political and gender issues she raises add contemporary relevancy" (Publishers Weekly). Berlin, 1931: Sisters raised...

She's given her daughter everything. Now it's time to give her the truth.Becky's father is not just absent: he's a mystery, a gaping hole in her past. He died before she was born and for her mother, Laura, the subject is strictly off-limits. But...

Everything she loved could so easily be lost.The end of World War II should have brought joy to Gwen Mullen. But on V-J Day, her worst fear is realized. As celebrating crowds gather in Times Square, a soldier appears on her doorstep to claim...

From USA Today bestselling author Rochelle B. Weinstein comes an emotional novel for mothers, daughters, and anyone who has ever felt imperfect.Emma and Bobby Ross enjoy a charmed life on the shores of Miami Beach. They are a model family with a successful business,...

Sarah Moriarty's stunning debut is a portrait of the family scars and faults passed along the generations, brilliantly capturing life on the Maine coastline, where time seems to stand still even as the waters never stop moving.On an island in Maine, four siblings arrive...

After a devastating loss, and a move across the world, a young mother rediscovers the healing power of family.Heather Forester is losing her grip on reality. She turns up at the airport to meet her pilot husband, Brett--and then she remembers: he's not coming...

Food, friendship, family, and a fresh start.Shelby Preston, a young single mother, is at a crossroads. She feels suffocated by her hardscrabble life in rural Georgia and dreams of becoming a professional chef. Lord knows her family could use a pot of something good.In...

A mother's devotion. A daughter's search for identity. This is a heartbreaking and hopeful novel of love, class, and race set against the backdrop of the post-Civil War South.In the late nineteenth-century South, Margaret Hardin has been raised with the advantages befitting her titled...

From bestselling author Camille Pag n comes a hilarious and hopeful story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough.At fifty-three, Maggie Harris has a good marriage and two mostly happy children. Perpetually anxious, she's also accumulated a list of semi-reasonable fears:...

Sixty-four years ago, Susannah Morgan managed to flee the horrors of the Holocaust. But the memories of that childhood ordeal have proven impossible to sweep away.For most of her new life spent settled in sleepy North Carolina, the flashbacks have been a lonely obsession--one...

Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He was living a nice, safe Midwestern existence. And then his wife left him for a handsome paramedic down the street.We're All Damaged begins after Andy has lost his job,...

A dying wish. A devastating secret. Should the truth really stay buried?The four Bliss siblings have a loving but complicated bond, but when their mother, Dorothy, dies seemingly without a will, this relationship is put to the test. As the mourning siblings try to...

From bestselling author Amanda Prowse comes a tale of a blissful life, a happy marriage, a beloved son...and a tragedy that destroys it all.When Rachel Croft wakes up on her family's boat in Bermuda, it's to sunshine and yet another perfect day...until she goes...

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller."True Places is a beautiful reminder that though we may busy ourselves seeking what we want, what we need has an uncanny way of finding us." --Camille Pag n, bestselling author of Life and Other Near-Death ExperiencesA girl...

A mystery, a love story, and a search through a shadowy past. Two strangers unite in this novel of family secrets by international bestselling author Marc Levy, the most read contemporary French author in the world. When London journalist Eleanor-Rigby Donovan receives an anonymous...

When Steffi Lockwood returns to Sanctuary Sound to start over, she has no idea she'll also get a second chance with her first love. Steffi Lockwood has survived more than most. Recovering from an assault, she returns to her coastal Connecticut hometown to rebuild...

A former love makes a lasting impression in a warm and sexy romance from Nancy Herkness.Kyra Dixon, a blue-collar girl from the boondocks, is dedicated to her job at a community center that matches underprivileged kids with rescue dogs. When she runs into Will...

The truth isn't what it seems in this stirring novel of suspense.After presenting a major scientific breakthrough to a rapt audience across the country, renowned astronomer Sarah Mayfield returns home to a disturbing discovery. Her husband, Ben, a Los Angeles restaurateur, has disappeared, leaving...

"Exceptional...fast and smart, funny and sad, this is an outstanding sports novel, and Joe Mungo Reed is an author to watch" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Sol and Liz are a couple on the cusp. He's a professional cyclist in the Tour de France, a workhorse,...

From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a seductive, dazzling, atmospheric story of family, class, and deception set against the mesmerizing backdrops of Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon River, and London. André is a listless Brazilian teenager and the son of a successful...

A bittersweet coming-of-age debut novel set in the Korean community in Toronto in the 1980s.This haunting coming-of-age story, told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl, vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures in the 1980s. Family secrets, a lost...

New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time--an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on...

From the author of the highly praised Small Claims comes an unlikely and beguiling mother-daughter story as they navigate through uniquely puzzling parts of their lives. Gloria is a modern-day "snake oil" saleswoman and a quixotic entrepreneur who sells everything from metal detectors to...

Recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction Lauded for her "astute and engrossing" (People) writing style imbued with "originality galore" (RT Book Reviews), Kim Wright channels the best of Jennifer Weiner and Sarah Pekkanen in this delightful novel of self-discovery on the...

Daniel Heath Yielding weaves a tale of an eleven year old Danny, who lives in the hills of Alabama and the struggles that he and his family face, during the time of recession. You will find Danny and his family struggling to live an...

The Diary of a Nobody is a novel written by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith that helped to establish a genre of humorous popular fiction based on lower class aspirations. It also paved the way for other kinds of fictitious diary novels in the...

This post World War II story chronicles the lives of Matt and Rachel Williams as they leave the big City and settle in the suburbs of Long Island, New York. Between the back yard barbecues, and neighborhood get-togethers they encounter those who will become...

In Lisa Genova's extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer's disease--only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin,...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls's gripping novel "transports us with her powerful storytelling...contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where the hardest thing to do may...

This international bestseller tells the incredible and heartbreaking love story of Sara and Jack as they learn to understand their differences in postwar New York. "Kennedy tells his epic tale with a keen eye and brisk pace.... a winningly sincere love story." --Publishers Weekly...

The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback, a "furiously compelling" (New York Times) and richly compassionate novel about marriage, ambition, and reclaiming of love--by novelist and cofounder of the online fiction magazine NarratAuthor: Carol EdgarianISBN-10: 1439198314ISBN-13: 9781439198315Publisher: Scribner Books CoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/07/2012Pages: 320Format:...

Chatting it up with bendy WASPs is the last thing on Coco Guthrie's mind during her 8:30 a.m. yoga class. Having made her fortune as the world-renowned inventor of Butt-B-Gone derriere cream, Coco still doesn't feel like she belongs among the upper class-- until...

The woman in the picture was so young she looked like a child. Her hair was loose, eyes wide, blue T-shirt stark against the pale lines of arching collarbones. I felt the air leave me in a quiet rush. Not because of the way...

#1 International Bestseller "In this surging epic, a veritable decathlon of the spirit, Kennedy incisively dramatizes the enigma of chance, petty cruelty, and catastrophic evil, 'unalloyed grief, ' and the tensile strength concealed beneath our obvious vulnerability." --Booklist (starred review) On the night of...

A sweeping novel that follows a mother and daughter through post-WWII Ireland and London, demonstrating that family bonds can never be broken.Author: Tara HylandISBN-10: 1439165122ISBN-13: 9781439165126Publisher: Atria BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2011Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.85h x 6.25w x 1.09dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 06/20/2011Booklist 07/01/2011 pg....

Meet Alma, a mother and wife, who's brutally honest and bitter--disappointment and heartbreak have left the once vital and joyful woman so cynical and self-protecting that she has forgotten how to love anyone, including herself. Alma has become so accustomed to being resentful of...

On a cold January morning Susan leaves her husband alone for a few minutes and returns to find him gone. Suffering from dementia, no longer able to dress or feed or wash himself, he has wandered alone into a frigid landscape with no sense...

"Equal parts wry comedy and touching family drama, it's ultimately a heartbreaker that'll stay with you long after you're done." --Marie Claire "Glass of chilled ros�, check. Comfy chair, check. Box of tissues, check. You Me Everything is everything you need for a moving,...

One of Entertainment Weekly's Must-Read Books for July - People Magazine's Book of the Week - One of Bustle's "Fifteen Books With Chilling Protagonists That Will Keep You Guessing" - One of PopSugar's "25 Must-Read Books That Will Make July Fly By " -...

When recently divorced Katie and her rescue dog, Bark, move in with her grandmother in Florida, Katie is swept up in a reunion of her grandmother�s troupe of underwater performers � finding hope and renewal in unexpected places.Author: Allie LarkinISBN-10: 1432867873ISBN-13: 9781432867874Publisher: Thorndike Press...

All three of the Godmothers novellas together for the very first time Old friends reunite for an adventure unlike any they've faced before in the latest novel by beloved storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. As Sophie De Luca has...

Natalie Coombs is determined to help every young woman who walks into the Pregnancy Center--but one client might prove to be a bigger challenge than Natalie can handle when she brings along with her a terrible secret that threatens to unravel everything. As if...

"Jessica Chamberlain, newly separated and living with her two sons in a small Iowa town, can't believe that a tragedy in another state could have anything to do with her. But when her phone rings one quiet morning, her world is shattered. As she...

From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break, with a little help from the most famous woman in America. After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s...

New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a thrilling, mind-bending novel about one mother's journey to save her child.When Carly Sears, a young woman widowed by the Vietnam war, receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is...