Fiction - Family Life - General

Who is the girl?A young girl lies huddled in a cardboard box, shrinking away from the social workers who have come to rescue her from a homeless camp. She doesn't speak and affection seems alien to her as she has no apparent ties to...

When Zoe finds the body of the lunch lady on the hopscotch course the week before the new school year, she is pulled into a mystery that will find her volunteering as soccer mom, classroom mom, and PTA board member. It's funny, it's family,...

"Filled with deep emotion and intense spark, Marcella Bell brings grit, spark and brilliance to western romance! Marcella Bell is one to watch!"--Maisey Yates, New York Times bestselling authorThe world watches on as reality TV meets rodeo in this competition like no other. In...

The Unlit Lamp (1924) is a novel by Radclyffe Hall. After publishing several collections of poems, Hall turned to fiction in 1924 with two successful novels. The Unlit Lamp is the story of a young woman with an unhappy home life who falls in...

A black children's book based on a Great grand-mother's house and the fun her and her four great-grand kids have on Friday's!Author: Vikas Upadhyay, De'auz'janae PickettISBN-10: 8739380882ISBN-13: 9798739380883Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2021Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.07d

"Colm Tb匤's beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James's inner life" (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love.Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story...

Real sagas with female characters right at the heart' Woman's Hour'In the world of historical saga writers, there's a brand new voice' My Weekly 'Heart-warming, emotional and simply wonderful . . . If you think family sagas aren't for you, you've never read Glenda...

A sunshiny day, Sonja was eager to play softball with her friends. On her journey to the park and search for friends to play with she invites two girls who join up with her as mystically as they appear. Sonja's new friends prove to...

Easy-on-the-eye font, very large print. Can Melina give away her husband's possessions because they've always said that 'what's mine is yours and what's yours is mine'? Will the 'Sleep Doctor' deliver on his promises? How will the young Sicilian duke, Pericle, help his friend...

While a young Dokterfraa learns to heal the body, the Great Physician heals the heart ...Sarah Yoder is learning to serve her Old Order Amish community as a Dokterfraa, creating teas and tinctures from the herbs in her garden and fields. But her latest...

From low-calorie lip-lock of young couple, through strip advisor, baby getting more attention, getting attention back after some interlude, kids' studies, who will run (away from) the family, to finally submissive to the woman power.From betrothal to baby-sitting, marriage in mandap to honeymoon in...

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...

North and South is a social novel published in 1854 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004). The 2004 version...

When Fanny Price is sent away from her struggling family to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle, life doesn't suddenly transform for her. At least, not for the better. From failed marriage proposals to unavoidable class conflicts, Fanny must learn to fit in...

Another book with a different look at the newness that is coming our way. Has anyone asked you about a "face diaper?" If you need to wear a scarf to hide your smile, make sure you have anti-fogging spray for your glasses because you...

A deeply moving family story of happiness and heartbreak, Behind the Scenes at the Museum is bestselling author Kate Atkinson's award-winning literary debut. National Bestseller Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception,...

Born into slavery, Clotel is a white-passing woman who conceals her identity and uses a disguise to infiltrate a plantation to rescue her loved ones. It's a story of survival that's deeply rooted in the cruelest part of American history. Clotel and Althesa are...

The Columbia space shuttle and its contents rain down on the people of Kiser, Texas, in Kathryn Schwille's imaginative debut novel set six weeks before the invasion of Iraq. What Luck, This Life begins in the aftermath of the space shuttle's break-up, as the...

Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) is a collection of short stories by Sui Sin Far. Inspired by her experience living among Chinese Americans in San Francisco and Seattle, Mrs. Spring Fragrance is considered one of the earliest works of fiction published in the United States...

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) is a novel by English writer and printer Samuel Richardson. Recognized as the first English novel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel that takes on the themes made popular in conduct literature, a genre dedicated to educating...

These stories tell of life, and lives lived in the forgotten days of the mountains and foothills of the great Adirondacks. The following stories here within are not true.Some are based on the truth of a myth, as I like to say. Leather Jack,...

An uplifting story of finding love in unlikely places and having the strength to come to terms with the past.Serenity House is a safe haven. It offers peace and the chance to heal for women in need. Ironically, no one needs that safe haven...

E. F. Benson's subject is always the petty concerns of petty people, but his talent is to make those concerns nearly as important to us as they are to his characters. For us, what happens to Benson's people is also much funnier than it...

The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 book by American writer Sarah Orne Jewett. It is considered by some literary critics to be her finest work. The Country of the Pointed Firs was serialized in the January, March, July, and September 1896...

In Brownee the Bear Teaches Good Manners, Brownee takes on his toughest challenge yet-learning all the rules it takes to be a respectful and polite guest. Although it's not easy to remember at first, Brownee comes to realize how important, and fun, it can...

Goonie Bear loves to play soccer and loves her special sock. In this story, Goonie B learns to deal with several emotions as her favorite sock is lost. Can you pick out the different emotions she feels?Author: Joe RonquilloISBN-10: 8701381202ISBN-13: 9798701381207Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD 'Effortlessly readable and fizzing with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful' Mail on SundayDani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died. Fulfilling his father's last wishes, Dani embarks on a road trip...

Don't miss this much-loved Australian classic that will have readers reaching for the tissues and not wanting the last page to be turned. The sequel Forever More, is now also available.***In the 1960s the rural suburbs of Brisbane should have been an idyllic place...

Seasons of Grief is a collection of twenty-seven award-winning stories by teens. These stories encompass a wide range of genres, inviting readers to explore a wealth of important themes passionately crafted by these young writers: from a middle-aged woman suffering losses in the heart...

Can fate-and firemen-do it again? When General Hart and his matchmaking cronies almost burn down the church, quiet bookkeeper Poppy Nelson's ordinary life is turned on its heels. With a mischievous puppy underfoot, a mysterious painting under wraps, and hidden secrets unraveling, will art...

Love sometimes starts at home...As Regan Sullivan continues to work with her sisters, Sheena and Darcy, to meet their Uncle Gavin's challenge to make the Salty Key Inn a success, she wonders why she can never find the man of her dreams. Her sisters...

Clare Connor enjoys personal and financial success by teaching people how to be their best selves--she's a professional life coach in a major Southern city. But her life starts to come undone when she experiences first one, then another major financial shock. Her husband...

Dave Cartwright used to be good at a lot of things: good with his hands, good at solving problems, good at staying calm in a crisis. But on the heels of his third tour in Iraq, the fabric of Dave's life has begun to...

Born into slavery, Clotel is a white-passing woman who conceals her identity and uses a disguise to infiltrate a plantation to rescue her loved ones. It's a story of survival that's deeply rooted in the cruelest part of American history. Clotel and Althesa are...

Here is a wonderful story for people of all ages, nine irresistible chapters, with a timeless message for all of us. The deeply significant theme running through this beautiful romance is everything connected to devotion, love, duty, constancy, and dedication, through every circumstance, no...

A town not as sweet as it sounds...Daynah Walsh's ticket to her dream job at Metropolitan magazine has just been handed to her-but before she can move into that corner office, she must take on an assignment in the small town of Sugarloaf Ridge...

Considered by many to be her greatest novel, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country tells the story of Undine Spragg, a vain and spoiled young woman determined to climb the social ladder of high society. Undine's unquenchable lust for wealth takes her from...

When an old church is torn down in the small Florida town of Toad Springs, a trunk full of stories written by the inhabitants in the 1930s is discovered in the attic.You'll meet Midge and Smitty Mallet, who end up in Toad Springs after...

Callie Nelson had no idea that falling heading over heels in love might involve an afternoon ball game, an ice chest and the arms of Hart Land's newest guest. Zane Cantrell came to visit his grandfather, but local fans of a promising small town...

Clare Connor enjoys personal and financial success by teaching people how to be their best selves--she's a professional life coach in a major Southern city. But her life starts to come undone when she experiences first one, then another major financial shock. Her husband...

"My only complaint is that I wanted more, which is a good complaint to have. It made me laugh and cry and then laugh again and then pee and then cry. Lots of fluids lost. But in a good way. A book to make...

First published in 1919, "Within a Budding Grove" is the second novel in the "In Search of Lost Time" series by famed French author Marcel Proust. Originally intended to be published in 1914, but delayed by the onset of World War I, "Within a...

The path through life is littered with obstacles, some of them products of our environment and others of our own doing. Kindness often provides the positive energy we need to overcome real or imagined challenges and set us on the path to contentment.These nine...

FACES OF CHRISTMAS PAST is an engaging, middle-aged look at the perils of Christmas, our own self-imposed burdens of ritual duty (like the newsy Christmas Xerox), and the more unsettling fact that successive Christmases, more even than New Year's, mark the passing of our...

I didn't think there was life after you, but you left me a gift on the day you died that changed everything for me...On the day Heidi's husband, Johnny, died, he passed on a final token of his love - a precious photograph of...

Like the call of the cicada, this collection of short stories and essays takes the reader on a journey through the ups and downs of life. Written from the heart and for the heart, you'll experience the joys and pains of being a parent,...

Tough love is about love and the way secrets can ruin a relationship or marriage in a matter of minutes.Author: Demetrius Havana, Sophia HavanaISBN-10: 8576952823ISBN-13: 9798576952823Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2020Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.06d

The Custom of the Country is a 1913 tragicomedy of manners novel by American Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.The Spraggs, a family of midwesterners from the fictional city...

In this novel, you will read about a mother raising her family and slating her oldest daughter as the black sheep of the family. Despite this ill treatment, the child to the bitter end shows loving and understanding towards her mother. Author: Mary McArthurISBN-10:...

The narrator, a Bostonian, returns after a brief visit a few summers prior, to the small coastal town of Dunnet, Maine, in order to finish writing her book. Upon arriving she settles in with Almira Todd, a widow in her sixties and the local...