Fiction - Family Life - General

If you're brave enough to let love in, it can heal even the deepest wounds.On the heels of a failed marriage proposal and losing his medical practice, Dr. Jake Rodgers decides it's time to head home to Hickory Grove. Surrounded by family and friends,...

The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo's marriage is falling apart; daughter Dina, beleaguered by the fear that her nightmares are real, is...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr returns to the beloved town of Virgin River with a brand-new story about fresh starts and new friends.Now a Netflix Original Series! Kaylee Sloan's home in Southern California is full of wonderful memories of the woman...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - This "deeply immersive novel" (The Washington Post) from the author of the award-winning Preparation for the Next Life is an "epic coming-of-age tale filled with pain, heartache, fear, and undying love" (The Associated Press),...

A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother--and about the very nature of writing, memory, and artTen months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a...

A Reese's Book Club Pick"An utterly original and brilliant story." -Reese WitherspoonA stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives--set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home...

From acclaimed author Jamie Brenner comes a stunning new novel about three generations of women who discover that the scandalous books of their past may just be the key to saving their family's future. For decades, the Hollander Estates winery has been the premier...

They called him Stone Cold.Once upon a time, I called him my pen pal.When I wrote to Callum Rose five years ago, I never expected a response. He was an up and coming rock star, afterall, and I was just a shy seventeen-year-old. He...

Gracie waits alone outside the Bass County courtroom for the grand jury's decision while Jake marks his sixty-third birthday inside the county jail. After surviving the suicide of her son and her daughter's struggle with drugs, she thought she could survive anything. Now, staring...

Moira Lovegood-depressed, single, and a little neurotic-just wants to get through her 30th birthday. But when things go from the usual bad to the even worse, she quickly learns that she has to do something to break the bonds of her monotonous existence. After...

In these dense and startling stories, Maya Sonenberg telescopes seasons, decades, and generations in candid depictions of women's family lives.What happens when the urge to ditch your family outpaces the desire to love them? The stories in Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters, winner of the...

The Cold Hard Light is a spare and bracing literary debut that tells the story of a new father who falls into the grip of obsession.The novel begins when the man who assaulted Andrew Harrison's sister is released from prison. Benjamin Williams was barely...

Patrick Crabtree and his sister Janet are faced with the task of going through their father's belongings and preparing the family farm for sale after his death. The difficult relationship they had with their father, especially after the loss of their mother, was always...

How much can be forgiven?After the Mendoza family unexpectedly loses their youngest son, Michael, they each face a different adversity. From spiritual struggles and disillusionment to family rivalries and quirky social interactions, each family member deals with the aftermath of Michael's death differently.Jose Luis...

For readers of Where the Crawdads Sing, this powerful debut novel, set amid the lush landscape of the Florida wetlands, delves into past crimes, old memories, and the eloquent, limitless expanse of parental love. Loni Mae Murrow's life as a bird artist at the...

It is to be expected that an adult and child reading the same book will glean from it completely different messages due to their respective frames of reference. Rare, however, is the book that equally targets both adult and child with a purpose relatable...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916) is a novel by Vicente Blasco Ib瘻ez. Published at the height of his career as a popular Spanish author, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was adapted into a 1921 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino and later...

"I was only five when a tiger bit off one of my hands. My mother filled a glove with sand and sewed it to my stump. Every year, she cut the seam with a miniature pair of sewing scissors and stitched on a new...

The story of a woman's life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025. She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one abortive attempt at passion, buys a big house...

Chosen as one of New York Post's Best Books of 2022 People were forever telling her how lucky she was. But what did people know?' Dublin 1966. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her...

"Maeve Binchy fans will adore it--she just gets better and better."--Patricia Scanlan On Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula, summer means glorious weather and a life-changing choice for local librarian Hanna Casey in this delightful installment in the USA Today bestselling series, a captivating tale filled with...

The book's narratives, poems, and drawings evoke the beauty and tragedy of Appalachia and the betrayal of the region's natural wealth. The novella relates the troubled family chronicle of Ramona and Woody Mann, and the friend they know simply as the Greek. Woody's and...

From Distress to Success is a riveting account of the life of Rev. Dr. Francis J. Ford who escaped treacherous venom of poverty and disability. Born with a deformed leg, witnessed his mothers death at the hand of his father, but God! The book...

When Cleo Henderson divorces with a small son to support, she seeks a job as a healthcare worker. She is assigned to Zackary Hughes, an elderly white supremacist. Zachary is a complaining, gravelly voiced curmudgeon who requested a white woman; he is taken aback...

Dana Turner is at a crossroads in her life. She decides to take her brother's advice and go back to the small town of Hideaway Lake to their family-owned cottage where she can sort things out. Does she stay in a bad relationship or...

A Sino-Chinese family find their destiny is inseparably entangled with that of the country they have adopted as a home. Not long before the Communist revolution, Tong, sent by his peasant-parents in impoverished rural China to work with a relative in Siam, has risen...

Out of the mist of prehistory emerges Li. He is a superior man, a success at everything he tries, destined to lead his tribe to greatness. Unfortunately, Li is the only one who knows this.Li is with his tribe when their coastal village is...

In Search of Lost Time, also translated as Remembrance of Things Past, is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. It is his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory; the most famous example of this...

When you fall down, you pick yourself back up. But what happens when you fall too many times?Sarah Hall wasn't dealt the best hand. With an alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Sarah had obstacles from day one. Now, at thirty years old,...

'My heart grew, then broke, then mended itself. A wise, funny, brave novel and a story that you will never want to forget.' Favel ParrettAn unforgettable story of loneliness, isolation and finding your way. Heart-wrenching, wise and wryly funny, this novel will make you...

Author: Valina R. RudolphISBN-10: 0578132907ISBN-13: 9780578132907Publisher: Moval PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2013Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d

A family full of secrets...and one girl who must survive.Sixteen-year-old Alison Brennan's mother, Bernadette, is an agoraphobic hoarder, and her father Harry seems to have no past. Struggling every day, Alison seeks the help of a school counsellor.When an old homeless man is found...

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for TranslationWinner of the 2022 VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres AwardRemnants is an exploration of our relationships with family and perception, told through a profound investigation of a father's life and sudden death. Employing various voices...

A kitten without a name cowers in the bushes of an unloved park. In an instant, his life is changed forever.With no choice but to start an incredible journey, every new encounter, every new place and every new adventure takes him one step closer...

Summer in Last Ride is about to get a whole lot hotter... The chance to be near his young son is the only thing that could entice former SWAT commander Matt Corbin back to his hometown. Matt has only a few happy memories of...

Profoundly moving, filled with tenderness, and brought to life by a curious, sprawling imagination, Drowning Practice is the story of a mother and daughter trying to save each other's lives at what could be the end of the worldOne night, everyone on Earth has...

In this highly anticipated second installment in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series, Tabitha Walker copes with more of life's challenges and a happy surprise--a baby--with a little help and lots of love from friends old and new.For Tabitha Walker, her grandmother's old...

Fall in love with two feel-good beach romances from a renowned New York Times bestselling author--together for the first time in print! BAREFOOT IN THE SUN Ever since her great-aunt Pasha rescued her from a troubled childhood, Zoe Tamarin doesn't dare stay still for...

"Willy Vlautin is not known for happy endings, but there's something here that defies the downward pull. In the end, Lynette is pure life force: fierce and canny and blazing through a city that no longer has space for her, and it's all Portland's...

Sometimes the best medicine is a dog who loves you. Maggie Allen hates being a delivery driver, but she can't leave her small town to find a better job; her father's too sick to take care of himself, her younger brother Jake can't stay...

While attending her brother's wedding, freelance photographer Janet Montgomery finds herself once again fruitlessly vying for her father's love.Driving back to her hotel after an awkward goodbye, she meets the architect Neil Porter. Soon, a chain of events draws them together, and Janet begins...

Paul and Deena are friends with MS and Parkinson's Disease respectively. They've found a wonderful flat renovated for people with disabilities, only they can't afford it. Enter Albert, a former nurse with cancer, and Bolton, an athletic paraplegic. They too look at the flat,...

NEW RELEASE! FINALLY, a book that answers the question, "Why is dad in a bad mood?"A little girl is having a grouchy day...BUT, that's not how she sees it! Her legs are "too tired" to clean her room. Her dad picks the "wrong" color...

From the bestselling author of While My Eyes Were Closed and One Moment comes a powerful, emotional novel about how far we can trust those closest to us. 'Linda Green is bloody brilliant!' Amanda Prowse You can run from the past but you can't...

'Wonderfully written and a real page turner. Christina tells a story equally as well as Barbara Erskine' 5* reader review This stunning and evocative new timeslip novel from the bestselling author of Echoes of the Runes, features an exclusive bonus short story! Brimming with...

Reagan Nichols is a small-town woman trying to make her way in the world. Timid by nature, she has made a life-long, relentless effort to remain invisible. She finds contentment in the pages of books and sheets of canvas.When she catches the eye of...

'A perfect book for summer' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️'I laughed, cried and loved every word' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️As the sun rises on a hot summer's day, four lives are about to be changed forever...Brand new from the bestselling author of What If? and One Day In Summer.Today, Maisie McTeer...

Notion Press proudly brings to you timeless classics from ancient texts to popular modern classics. This carefully chosen collection of books is a celebration of literature, our tribute to the pioneers, the legends and the giants of the literary world. Apart from being the...

Poor Miss Finch (1872) by Wilkie Collins is a novel about a young blind woman who temporarily regains her sight while finding herself in a romantic triangle with two brothers. Twenty-one-year-old Lucilla Finch, the independently wealthy daughter of the rector of Dimchurch, Sussex, has...

A 14 year old boy named Matt, who has autism, is bullied by his family and his classmates. When the town drunk catches on and offers to teach him martial arts, the bullying gets worse. But together, they teach each other and the town...