Fiction - Family Life - General

Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspirator--that is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married...

A "heart-wrenching, beautiful" and edgy collection that gives voice to the true experience of Italian American women. (Philadelphia Inquirer)Author: Louise DeSalvo, Edvige GuintaISBN-10: 1558614532ISBN-13: 9781558614536Publisher: Feminist PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2003Pages: 346Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.60w x 1.00d

Originally published in 1936, Whiteoak Harvest chronicles the 1930s saga of Renny Whiteoak and his family. Finch Whiteoak and wife, Sarah, return from their honeymoon to upset the Jalna household with Eden Whiteoaks love child. Meanwhile, Wakefield Whiteoak is engaged to Pauline Lebraux but...

"This is an eye-opening and realistic exploration of mental illness--a topic that greatly deserves to be front and center." --Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Small Great ThingsMetal artist Katie Mack is living a lie. Nine years ago she ran away from...

An Amazon Charts bestseller. In the deep woods of East Texas, Henry supports his family by selling bootleg liquor. It's all he can do to keep his compassionate but ailing mother and his stepfather--a fanatical grassroots minister with a bruising rhetoric--from ruin. But they...

Cat Mendoza needs a win. After a business failure and years of dating the wrong men, she's ready to turn things around.First she must convince the residents of Sweet Lake, Ohio, that she's taking her responsibilities seriously. As the events director of the newly...

From the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes the moving story of a man whose life is changed in an instant. How do you start again when you lose the only love you've ever known?When Nick's wife Kerry falls ill and...

From the outside, Alice's marriage looks successful. It's true that Ken was never her first choice, but four decades in, she's learned to tolerate him. Their two sons have chosen their own paths, Tim as a successful banker and Matt a carefree globetrotter she...

From the bestselling author of Wish Me Home comes a breathtaking novel about the secrets that families keep and one woman's illuminating search for the truth.Quinn Maguire has a stable life, a fianc , and what she thinks is a clear vision for her...

Elegant Sabrina Stone speaks with investigative reporter Derek McGill for only a few minutes, but it is long enough to tell her all that she needs to know about this caring man. When Derek is convicted of murder, Sabrina begins a fight for his...

Fall in love with this heartwarming and heartbreaking novel perfect "for fans of Me Before You" (Next Magazine).When Ava Green turns twenty-eight, she discovers this will be her last birthday. The cancer she thought she'd beaten three years ago is back -- only now...

The Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author's native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury. The protagonist, who shares the author's name, Driss, comes from a Moroccan family of means, his father a self-made tea merchant,...

Doting, the last of Henry Green's novels, is, as its title would suggest, a story of yearning and lusting and aging in which a wife and a brash young woman run hilarious circles around a hapless hardworking civil servant suddenly seized by long-dormant urges....

Yvette is a talented and gifted third-grade student who likes to read and learn. Her parents instilled in her the importance of getting an education and how it will impact her life when she becomes an adult. The story is from Yvette's perspective on...

A debut short story collection that explores the vulnerability, grit, and complex nature of our humanity from a new, vital queer voice. A yacht races to outrun a tsunami. A young man jailed on a drug charge forms a relationship with his cellmate that...

"Although author Carole Maso follows the contours of fiction, style is everything in Ghost Dance, a strangely lovely and perplexing book . . . she has a fine ear and her literary gift is impressive." --San Francisco Chronicle Originally published in 1986, Ghost Dance...

"Jay Cronley is surely one of the funniest writers alive " --Evan Hunter"Cronley has a dead-on ear for the American clich ." --Los Angeles Times Book Review"He is the kind of writer who, because there is no one else quite like him, could easily...

When Angela walked into her social work office for the first time, she vowed her work with traumatized families would be meaningful. But when one family intrudes into her personal life, all bets are off. Discovering her father's picture alongside an overdosed client is...

2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in New Fiction 2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in Women's Fiction 2018 IBPA Ben Franklin Finalist in Best New Voices: Fiction Becca Meister Fitzpatrick--wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community--is the dutiful steward of her family's...

2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in New Fiction 2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in Women's Fiction 2018 IBPA Ben Franklin Finalist in Best New Voices: Fiction Becca Meister Fitzpatrick--wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community--is the dutiful steward of her family's...

Available again from the Bergman centenary comes an elegant novel structured as a series of five "conversations" that reveal Bergman's mastery of dialogue and gift for setting. Revisiting the autobiographical themes he first explored in his novel The Best Intentions, Ingmar Bergman's Private Confessions...

The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them...

Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott, depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society. It is Alcott's sequel to Eight Cousins.Author: Louisa May AlcottISBN-10: 1618953990ISBN-13: 9781618953995Publisher: Bibliotech PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2019Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

"There's something mesmerizing about Hiebert's storytelling voice." --The New York Times Book ReviewA case from the past sparks a nightmare for Detective Leah Teal in Michael Hiebert's masterful new novel of suspense. Fifteen years ago, a serial killer tagged by the media as the...

From Weekday Brides to First Wives, a dazzling series about four women and their alliance of newfound friendship, unexpected love, and second chances.Cynical divorce attorney Lori Cumberland lives by one motto: Love is grand, but divorce is a hundred grand. With one failed marriage...

An unabridged edition of the 1925 classic, to include: The Family - Tom Outland's Story - The ProfessorAuthor: Willa CatherISBN-10: 1603864733ISBN-13: 9781603864732Publisher: Merchant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2012Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.34d

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).Theo Decker,...

The first book to present plays by Sweden's greatest living playwright in English Lars Nor n, generally considered Sweden's greatest playwright since August Strindberg, had his first play produced in 1973 at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, when he was about 30. His...

A lost novel originally written at the end of the 1960's, and too free with its metafictional soul for the publishers of even that era. This is Stephen Dixon enmeshed in domestic concerns as always, but with a young, ferocious energy that will amaze...

Mission to Kala (Mission termin e) is a powerful comic novel set in late colonial Cameroon. It won the Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1958. It describes the visit of a young Yaounde-educated man to a village in the interior. Jean-Marie Medza, the narrator, has just...

Connie and Eva are best friends but their families are the worst of enemies...During the VE Day celebrations, two women meet completely by chance. As Connie and Eva talk they discover they are from feuding families, the Maxwells and the Dixons. But when they...

An incredible and fascinating journey of a boy Kenzie, who was indoctrinated to maintain his aristocratic childhood. He was further brainwashed by his friends, and accordingly, he became an active gang member with extremist ideology.He inherited much wealth from his parents and grandparents, and...

This paperback edition of David Constantine's Selected Stories, originally named among Kirkus Reviews' Best Story Collections of 2015, features In Another Country, the tale that inspired the Academy Award-nominated feature film 45 Years. Constantine's work is acclaimed for its pristine emotional clarity, spare but...

...more than a page-turning narrative; it's an embrace of the Kinyarwanda greeting amahoro--'peace.'--Oprah.com An evocative page-turner and an eye-opening meditation on the ways we survive profoundly painful memories and negotiate the complexities of love."--Wally Lamb, author of I Know This Much is True Finalist...

Tinker Gordon doesn't want anything to change. He thinks that if he holds on tightly enough, his family, his tiny Cape Breton Island community, his very world will stay exactly the way it has always been. But explosions large and small--a world away, in...

Winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Shortlisted for 2016 CBC Canada Reads Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods -- and by shared tragedy....

The Meadow is about a boy growing up on a farm while being loved and nurtured by his family and neighbors. Read about the adventures of Charlie and his two best friends-the lovable Labrador retrievers, Martha and George-as they romp, play, and have fun...

"The Portrait of a Lady" was, like "Roderick Hudson," begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like "Roderick" and like "The American," it had been designed for publication in "The Atlantic Monthly," where it began to appear in...

Song of the Tree Frogs tells the story of two brothers in a brutal reality, revealing that there are no throwaway kids, especially when unconditional love works its transforming power.Author: J. W. KitsonISBN-10: 1683506057ISBN-13: 9781683506058Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author brings us her most ambitious and provocative work yet--a searing and timely novel that explores the most volatile issue of our time--domestic violence. At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet...

Teenager Pam Ackerman is looking forward to the promising life she sees before her. She loves her hometown and parents, and her father's career as an attorney has set the family up with a comfortable life of opportunity.Then the unthinkable happens: her father abandons...

Amanda thumbed through her mail and afterwards went and took a hot shower and washed her hair. She couldn't believe how much it had grown. She wanted to cut it so badly because it was easier to handle when it was shorter, but Derrick...

On the anniversary of her husband's death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unmade bed, an unlocked house, two college-aged sons, and an overabundance of bad memories.Struggling to make peace with the death of a husband who'd been lost to mental illness, she...

The last place Angelina Moltisanti ever wants to go is home. She barely escaped life under the roof, and the thumb, of her violent but charismatic father, Jack. Yet home is exactly where she ends up after an SUV plows into her car just...

Shared Gardens brings the Garden Trilogy full circle. Claire's journey in search of her birth-mother is chronicled in this intense fictionaliztion of the authors own story of abandonment and adoption.Alice's story of The Swan Garden and that of her daughters in Garden of Nails,...

If Will Fletcher's severe bipolar disorder isn't proof he shouldn't be a parent, his infant daughter's grave is. Once a happily married, successful veterinarian, he now lives with his sister and thrives as the small-town crazy of Half Moon Hollow. But when a fifteen-year-old...

"Must Love Dogs has already been a major motion picture, and now New York Times bestselling author Claire Cook's hilarious and heartwarming series is begging to hit the screen again."-New York Journal of Books "Reading about how life goes for this wacky marvelously lovable...

"As a reader, there's nothing I love more than finding a set of characters I absolutely adore and learning that I don't have to say goodbye to them."-Book Perfume "A hilariously original tale about dating and its place in a modern woman's life."-BookPageSarah Hurlihy...

The town of New Eden, peopled with hereditary oddities, has arrived at its last days. As two near-centenarian citizens prepare for their annual birthday tea, a third vows to interrupt the proceedings with a bold declaration. The Remnants cartwheels rambunctiously through the lives of...

Imagine not knowing who you are, until you find yourself in a statue 800 miles from home. Join intensely passionate and fiercely independent New York college student Lara Bonavito on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery in sigh-worthy Savannah, Georgia. Adopted into an abusive and...