Fiction - Family Life - General

A family legacy in danger. A stranger in their midst. Do they have the strength to survive the gathering storm of secrets?For the Temple women, the winds of change are blowing. And if they're not careful, it could sweep them all away...After rising from...

A clever love story set between Cuba, Miami, and Halifax, exploring the complexities of love at middle-age. Eli Cooper is a resolutely single, fiftysomething newspaper copy editor. He spends his nights obsessing over reporters' unnecessary "thats" and his days caring for a demented father...

A town held together with secrets. A wealthy widow looking for an heir. One choice could shame high society into submission.Eighty-year-old Southern aristocrat Iris Temple's health may be failing, but her wit is as sharp as ever. Before she joins her ancestral ghosts, she...

Fiction. Italian American Studies. Ever wonder about the step-by-step of the lives of forebearers in homelands lost, left & returned to? About what life was really like in all fullness & detail, real & frail, on both ends? Wish for unforced narrative in explosive...

Stormy has grown up with the warning that she is cursed. Raised in a family of eight women with twenty-four husbands among them, she has managed to escape the family's legacy thus far. Things begin to change once she is given the details of...

Award-winning book that recently earned acclaim from the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Awards Acadia Powers knows herself to be too selfish, too sinful, and too skeptical in her faith to marry a preacher. And yet she does. God truly does work in a...

A young widow embraces a second chance at life when she reconnects with those who understand the sacrifices made by American soldiers and their families in award-winning author Laura Trentham's The Military Wife. Harper Lee Wilcox has been marking time in her hometown of...

Clint Hurley and his faithful Australian Cattle Dog, Josie, save a runaway girl from drowning, on a snowy Christmas Day. Now he is faced with a choice. Should he turn her over to the authorities or "rescue" her from far more than the river?I...

In the dry heat of her Arizona home, feisty, Irish-Catholic Colleen Moretti, thrusts the letter that threatens her marriage into the back of a drawer. This is her default mode: ignore the fault lines until the tremors pass. But her husband Derek's faithlessness turns...

In a section of Memphis, TN called Smokey City, two girls; Lori Ann Keefer and April Gail Quincy grow up right across the street from one another. Though they attend the same elementary, middle and high schools, their perceptions of life and living are...

She no longer knows who she is or what she wants. He blames himself for her pain. Is their marriage strong enough to survive their greatest hurt?Christy Thomas has built her entire life around the dream of being a mother and raising a family...

A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder -- a first-generation East German immigrant -- adopts the last...

New house. Fresh start. Same husband.Can you paint over the cracks in a marriage?'Felicity has the reader gripped when she explores unhealthy relationships based on insecurity and delusion. She writes with a raw realism' Adele Parks, Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author, in PlatinumKaren has...

A married couple in California grapples with race, betrayal, love, and loss when their son comes home from a Guatemalan orphanage. Contemporary art museum curator Julie Cowan achieves her dream of motherhood through adoption, but her life is far from perfect. Her pathologist husband,...

Coco is a six-year-old girl who can do magic. Coco and Mary play mom and dad. Mary's parents visit Coco's mom for Korean medicine treatment. Find out what happens to Mary's family.Author: Hyojung KwonISBN-10: 1188939084ISBN-13: 9791188939084Publisher: Inc.All That Korean MedicineLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2020Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Title: I'm Glad God Made Me a Girl For ages 5-8 (K-2nd grade)Susie is surprised when her friend Amy cuts her hair short and dresses like a boy because she thinks boys are braver, smarter, and stronger than girls. Susie feels sad. Can't girls...

From Chris Whaley, whose book, The Masked Saint, inspired the "Best Picture" winner at the 2015 International Christian Film Festival comes a holiday story about angelic intervention.Author: Chris WhaleyISBN-10: 1631951688ISBN-13: 9781631951688Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2020Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.39d

When you want to make your mark, an occasion with all the trimmings is just the ticket. The village of Beeting Down has a centenarian in its midst, but when she shuffles off this mortal coil before they can wish her happy birthday, it...

With the life of her unborn child in danger, Camille Jacobs had no choice but to flee Seoul, South Korea, and the man who made her heart soar. Four years later, after the launch of her start-up skincare line, Camille is a successful, single...

"The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections." ― Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove Within a Budding Grove (1919) by Marcel Proust...

It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife. In a series of snapshots we meet all the Pargiter siblings: twenty-year-old Eleanor, whose concern is to help the poor; her younger...

Silas Marner is a lowly weaver who is wrongfully accused of a crime, loses the woman he loves and the respect of his conservative neighbors. Shamed and broken, he attempts to build a new life without the reminder of everything he's lost. In the...

"A luscious, layered story of inheritance, heartbreak, reinvention, and family. I adored this book." --Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author When a deed to an apartment in Paris turns up in an old attic trunk, an estranged mother and daughter must reunite to...

Olivia returns home for her grandmother Sarah's funeral in 1984. Sarah was a loving matriarch in the village of Lindara. So why would someone spit at her coffin?In 1910 Sarah marries Theo, a widower deeply involved in the anti-home rule movement. She promises to...

With each step forward, the women of Whisling seem to be pushed two steps back. But these passionate and powerful women aren't giving up anytime soon. They will work for that long-awaited promise of a bright and better tomorrow. Nora's day has finally come....

Who can forgive a mother who poisons her eight-year-old son? Even if it was an accident.Tasha thought she had everything under control - her family life, her career as a nurse - until her son got into her stash of painkillers. Now, during her...

Coco helps her friend Alice in this book. Everybody including Coco and Alice is happy that they can all go camping togetherAuthor: Hyojung KwonISBN-10: 1195797974ISBN-13: 9791195797974Publisher: Inc.All That Korean MedicineLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/12/2017Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d

"Her husband's moved out - and her dad's moved in ... It's New Year's Eve and 42-year-old Iris finds out her husband Adam is cheating on her. Heartbroken, Iris kicks him out, and enlists her dad - who is still grieving for Iris's mum,...

"Kim Powers's haunting and spellbinding novel Rules for Being Dead reads like an intoxicating blend of the best of Shirley Jackson, Alice Sebold and Fannie Flagg." --STARRED Review, Shelf Awareness It's the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local...

From the acclaimed author of Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and the memoir W-3, a trio of novellas about three women's bold exploration of the desire for belonging as it comes into conflict with the fulfillment of our individual selves. With an introduction by...

The latest gripping domestic drama from the author of The Move and The People at Number 9...Moving in together. What could go wrong?'Sharp, dark and brilliantly twisty' OK!Two couples, best friends for half a lifetime, move in together. What could possibly go wrong...?Harriet and...

The plot of "Jacklighters" unfolds in the fictitious small Illinois town of Silverton, where life is normally quaint and peaceful. When Riley Jensen hears that Len Wilkins, a family friend who also employs her father as a farm hand, has been found dead with...

In bestselling author Holly Chamberlin's poignant novel, a mother and daughter escape to a beautiful coastal town in Maine to find healing in the wake of heartbreaking loss. The journey to Yorktide, Maine, was always a happy one for Frieda and Aaron Braithwaite and...

The movement of the ship seals his fate. He could be sailing anywhere, anytime, but he's not, he's going to the other side of the world. He could be anyone, but he's not, he's the son of a respectable London businessman. His crime? An...

They begin working together for a cause greater than themselves when something magical happens.Author Ruby Bennett has a romance novel to finish. But when she gets word that the retirement community she and her Irish Setter, Red, frequently visit is under fire for building...

A reunited couple search for a valuable treasure, a precious jewelry box, stolen from the Nazis and hidden away since World War II, in this powerfully emotional and romantic novel of rekindled love--perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Josie Silver, and Jill Santopolo.Then...Once upon...

In these stories, the protagonists find themselves living outside cultural mores and expectations as they confront the central questions of their lives. In doing so, they undergo a range of moral and psychological transformations. If they see themselves on some level as living in...

On a midsummer's night in 1941, a family is illegally arrested, by order of Stalin, in cosmopolitan Rīga, Latvia, and deported in cattle wagons to the frozen wilderness of Siberia. Sixty years later, the son, Laimonis aka Lucky, now an actor, visits Sydney and...

"Beautifully written... Timely and pressing... McCraw Crow deftly navigates the campus and national politics of the '70s." --Amy Meyerson, bestselling author of The Imperfects A powerful exploration of what a woman can be when what she should be is no longer an option In...

Lilly Carlsen has planned the perfect wedding reception for her brother, but her plans unravel in spectacular fashion when a dead body turns up and someone's dangerous prank spirals out of control. After Bill and Noley head off to their well-deserved honeymoon in the...

This is a story about two boys, who are best friends and face life's challenges together. They are in the fourth grade, about to be fifth-graders. They are each from opposite sides of the tracks. Benny lives in the run-down, poor side of town;...

After 40 years of marriage, Olivia's husband unexpectedly passes away. But when Ben's will reveals a life-altering secret, she suffers a blow no widow should ever experience.Olivia learns that she gave birth to a baby who later died in the nursery. Instead of telling...

You'll Never Amount to Anything, Roy! is the story of a very ordinary man who lives extraordinarily in his dying days. Roy may have been diagnosed with terminal cancer, but that's not going to stop him from playing for his hometown soccer team. Honoring...

Mother Nature does her best to rip this family apart. When a hurricane threatens to wreak havoc on the South Carolina coast, Annie prepares Sweet Magnolia for what she thinks will be a day or two without electricity while Jack checks on Lady Powell...

Father Goriot (1835) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. An early work in his La Comédie humaine sequence, Father Goriot has since become one of Balzac's most critically and commercially successful novels. It contains several characters who appear throughout his other...

Brain Teaser Word Search Puzzle Game helps keep your mind active and younger.Practice the challenge of canvassing 200 puzzle games to find random words. Train your brain with selective focus and uncover hidden words with this non-themed word search workbook.It is a fun pastime...

Trick is a stylish drama about ambition, family, and old-age that goes beyond the ordinary and predictable. Imagine a duel between two men. One, Daniele Mallarico, is a successful illustrator who, in the twilight of his years, feels that his reputation and his artistic...

Goodbye to Ribbons is a historical biography that follows the incredible story of a remarkable woman growing up in rural Britain in the 1950s. Rosie only wants one thing-her mother's love. But for reasons she is yet to discover, her popular, bolshy, and brash...

L.J. Diva's Porn Star Brothers series continues in Stefan: The New Generation...Thirty years has passed since Carlos, Pedro and Tomas Stefan made a name for themselves in the world of porn in the late '70s. They have not only forged new careers for themselves...

Will Junior's secret destroy him from the inside?The family's oldest son, Jose Luis Mendoza - Junior - battles a haunting childhood secret. Because of the burden, he hasn't been able to grow into the man he wanted to be.Soon, he must confront his unloving...