Fiction - Family Life - General

When seventeen-year-old Grace loses her mother, she expects silence. What she doesn't expect is to discover that silence has something to say.After her mother's death, Grace is drowning in a house full of people who don't know how to grieve out loud. Her father...

Meet Vinnie. He has Down syndrome, a gift for cooking, and a twin brother who worries too much. He sees what others miss, says what others won't, and knows that "typical" people underestimate him. Which is exactly why he's planning a heist.Vinnie lives with...

There's a storm coming... and he's not taking no for an answer. Life has dealt Kasi one blow after another. Following her mother's untimely death, her family implodes, leaving her alone to run the farm. Fatigue and stress have become her new best friends,...

"Persuasion" is a masterpiece of Regency literature and the final completed novel by the esteemed author Jane Austen. The story centers on Anne Elliot, a woman of deep sensitivity and intelligence who, at the age of nineteen, was persuaded by a trusted family friend...

The stunning second novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts ''Poignant, redemptive, electrifying.' - Catherine Chidgey A novel about friendship and betrayal, ambition and grief, Good Things Come and Go is also a study of homecoming and heartbreak and...

A sweeping, emotionally resonant, multigenerational novel from award-winning Cameroonian author Hemley Boum, tracing the fate of a family divided by migration, memory, and the violent reshaping of their homeland.  "Boum is a magnificent storyteller."--Le Monde Winner of the Grand Prix Afrique 2025 and the Prix des cinq...

Two families collide in this thrilling debut about motherhood, migration, and the distance between who we are and who we want to be. How far are you willing to go to help someone in need? Surrey is a quiet, affluent area just outside of...

A romantic coming-of-age story about one woman's inspiring journey to find self-love, reconnect with family, and forge a new path for her future, from the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick Dirty Laundry Durga is named after the Bengali goddess--pure of...

Author: Anna HogelandISBN-10: 1639739157ISBN-13: 9781639739158Publisher: Bloomsbury PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2026Pages: 416Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d

Author: Frances ParkISBN-10: 9815266357ISBN-13: 9789815266351Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2026Pages: 256Format: Paperback

"The Train" is a poignant faith-based novel that follows the intertwined journeys of three individuals seeking hope and redemption. Sam, a disfigured World War II paratrooper, struggles with loneliness and an uncertain future. Rachel, a mother trapped in an abusive marriage, fights to protect...

Where Kindness Lives is a moving collection of nine original stories that celebrate the quiet power of compassion, generosity, and connection.From strangers who reach out in unexpected moments, to loved ones offering grace when it's needed most, these stories explore how even the smallest...

Getting cozy with the cowboy Famed rodeo rider Carly Hawkins has decided to leave the glitz and glamour of the circuit behind and finally put down roots in the small town of Tenacity, Montana. She's excited to start a riding school...and maybe find that...

Thomas Jude Barber doesn't speak. Not with words, anyway. But he hums, softly, instinctively, and always with a quiet kind of wonder. From the moment he's adopted as a newborn, his world begins to unfold in gentle, sometimes unexpected ways: with AAC devices instead...

Teeming with the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of small-town life, "Bingo, " a spirited novel about an avowed lesbian living in the South, is certain to appeal as much to the funny bone as it does to the heart.Author: Rita Mae BrownISBN-10: 0553380400ISBN-13: 9780553380408Publisher:...

A tornado whips the dry plains of New Mexico. It is the early 80s, and the ghastly boogeyman of nuclear war has long threatened America's nuclear families. An aging priest scared of death takes acid in the hopes that it will quell haunting visions...

Driven by his desire for success, Mac, the hard-working proprietor of a successful drug store, sees his life diverging from the close relationship with his family that he idealizes. He narrates his way through memorable and humerous interactions over 1 business day with his...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children's author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner's life in this absorbing and whimsical novel."Clever, dark, and hopeful...

Reproduction of the original: Facts and Fictions of Life by Helen Hamilton GardenerAuthor: Helen Hamilton GardenerISBN-10: 3752390557ISBN-13: 9783752390551Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2020Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

A gritty, breakneck debut novel by a popular Croatian writer of the country's ?lost generation."Dada's life is at a standstill in Zagreb?she's sleeping with a married man, working a dead-end job, and even the parties have started to feel exhausting. So when her sister...

Pre-order the brand new instalment in the bestselling New York Ever After series from Helen Rolfe!Welcome back to the Inglenook Inn, a cosy and welcoming place that instantly feels like home.Rupert has been the chef at the Inglenook Inn for years. He loves working...

Luke Corbett, a young man who spent most of his life in Canberra, has recently returned to his hometown of Gamarra, a small rural community in the heart of New South Wales. Struggling to find his footing in a place that feels both familiar...

A rambunctious Maltipoo puppy called Leo Pomp is adopted by a wealthy, British family with a bunny and he develops an affinity for gardening. He soon learns that his family had a previous dog named Hero, who was highly acclaimed for his physical strength...

Middy was adopted by Tim Adams and Mary Simpson. They had just known each other for two days and were driving from St. Louis, headed west when Tim's Volkswagen stopped on the interstate. They were found by a man in a pickup truck. He...

Lia, Lia, Lia! She could still hear the chants from the thousands who'd come tonight to see her perform, as Jaycee Williams, her security escort, walked with her back to the dressing room. Emilia Hanson had come a long way as a child living...

"In LICA, Hitesh Trehon traces the story of three generations of the Dev family - grandfather Mulkhraj Dev, son Raj Dev and grandson Inder Dev - with the focus on the latter two. The scope of the novel is ambitious and takes the reader...

Seven-year-old Sigrit's happy and structured life in Germany ends suddenly one afternoon in 1944. With her parents dead, she is forced to travel with a woman who hates children while being taken to live with strangers. Even her fourteen-year-old brother is yanked away from...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Joseph, a man in his late thirties, awakens disoriented and uneasy in a place he doesn't recognize. He doesn't know where he is and he has no way to contact his wife. He sets out on a journey to find his home...

Youngstown, Ohio, 1977. Between the closing of the city's largest steel mill and the worst blizzard in more than 40 years, the table is set for remarkable change. Unemployed steel worker Bobby Wayland is trying hard to help his family and still pay for...

In the second book of the Twin Oaks Trilogy, Jessica and Jed return to their beloved farm home. At twelve years old, in On Our Own, they moved with their parents to Toronto. After only a short time, they were left to fend for...

It is the post war period in Ontario, Canada, and Jed and Jessica Oaks, twelve year old twins, are living a completely happy life on a farm with their grandparents. Suddenly everything goes wrong. A terrible automobile crash robs them of the only family...

Marriage, a new home and a new baby, Joel Thomas, all make up a perfect life for Nell Winston until suddenly her husband is no longer there and she turns into a woman possessed of compulsion to rule her son. Her strength is drawn...

Young, free-spirited Maya Mubeen leaves behind the pressures of family, marriage and tradition for a life of experience and adventure -- proving to herself, and her mother, that she is anything but a typical Indian girl. After diving with sharks in the Philippines and...

Author: Thanh Thuong HoangISBN-10: 1546602658ISBN-13: 9781546602651Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2017Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.76d

The acts of one generation affect the next-and the next-in a seemingly endless cycle, often with bitter results. Breaking the pattern requires a special individual-one willing to see past pain and tragedy and draw a fragmented, dysfunctional family together. Deborah knew and loved just...

An entertaining thriller that features the disappearance of a child and mysterious death of her nanny. The mother, a hardworking divorcee, who has been married to a control freak, has difficulty coping. But she tries her best to move forward, always keeping her daughers...

Irish artist Richal Ryan travels to the tropical island of San Sebastian in the West Indies to meet her pen pal Daniel San Laurant. She thinks she has finally found the man of her dreams, and sparks indeed fly as soon as they meet...

This series of three short stories illustrates the life experiences and perspectives of a five-year-old girl through to the time she is fifteen. It challenges the relationships and bonds that she has with her immediate family when she learns not only how to adapt...

This book is a follow-up to my first novel, No Road Map. It tells the story of the grandchildrenthe next generationand the ups and downs of their lives. All the places visited in my story exist. The story is fictional, and all the characters...

Family Trust is Ann Miller Hopkins's second novel set in Alabama and Florida. A large family bands together, pooling resources to elevate their golden years and live a far greater lifestyle together than any of the sisters and cousins could experience individually. An attorney...

My Book, "Secrets of A Dysfunctional Family", is inspired on a true story, about the struggle of three sisters' determination to overcome the odds of drama as children, who also was physical, mental and emotional abuse, and was betrayed by their family. Trying to...

This is a story of marriage gone wrong, a story of love between two very unlikely people, and a story of two very likable unlikable people. This is a work of fiction with the island of Maui in the late 1980s as a location...

Trish Kelly Adams is a tough, stubborn daughter of Irish farmers in northern Minnesota. She loses her mother young and nursed her father till death, with the help of an American Indian couple who were farming partners of her parents. Growing up near a...

The Session is about the birth, death, and rebirth of relationships. Characters find themselves in cycles of destruction, sinking in the darkness of the ego. Dr. River Meadows, a marital therapist, finds herself working with a couple she has an unnerving attraction to. There...

The book is a fictional account of a foreigner's experience in Nigeria being relayed with reference to her experience in her war-torn home country. It attempts to lay out the struggles of many African countries in search for peace and unity amidst cultural diversity,...

This is a story of a family fighting for survival in a world that may one day resemble our own. While on a business trip to Chicago, a man is separated from the wife he loves and the two sons he adores, who must...

Minuet Through Time is a realistic fiction that combines the expression of style with a plot part real and part imagined into a collective narrative. The characters revolve around the daily experiences of life, focusing at the same time on an imaginary site where...

Don Lane would say he had no quarrel with living alone, but many times, he found himself getting rather upset because the family life that he once knew had dissolved. Then a phone call from his brother sent him on a journey that would...

Jesse Anders lives a simple life in the eyes of outsiders. No one knows her darkest secret except Colin McGowan, the married man who promises to never tell. It isnt until James Cordello reappears into her life that the past that she has kept...

Love or duty? What is more important? For three kingdoms, these royal families will be put to the test. From arranged marriages, duels, and assassination attempts, these families will discover that royal blood does not make you family.Author: Diamond SpringISBN-10: 1546221468ISBN-13: 9781546221463Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished:...