Fiction - Family Life - General

A nationwide power cut sends the UK into darkness and the lights are going to be off for a long time. There is no mains water, no petrol and no news. Towns and cities are chaotic and dangerous. Who will survive the months ahead...

Separating from a parent can be very difficult for a little one and parent, especially when its time for the first day of school. Tango explores the feelings that both parent and child have during the first days of preschool and explains what happens...

The story concerns the love and marriage of a young girl, Mashechka (17 years old), and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych (36), an old family friend. The story is narrated by Masha. After a courtship that has the trappings of a mere family friendship,...

Five pages... A letter holding a secret buried for more than five years... A secret neither of them wanted to know. Will the truth tear them apart... again? I've loved my best friend's brother, Houston Cavanaugh, since I was eleven years old. But my...

A powerful and sweeping historical novel of love, loss, and hope, set against Australia's vast sugarcane fields in the turbulent days after World War II. 1948: Change has come to every corner of the globe--and Rosie Stanton, returning home to northern Queensland after serving...

A Winter's Tale After racking up serious injuries, world-famous snowboarder Nate Forrest returns to the West Virginia coal town that has been his family's home for generations. The transition's a challenge, but there's nothing more beautiful than snow. Except maybe Dr. Lacey Berryville. How...

In Italy, the best attractions are always off the beaten path . . . Mamie Weber doesn't know why she survived that terrible car accident five years ago. Physically, she has only a slight reminder-but emotionally, the pain is still fresh. Deep down she...

House enough to hold her dreams . . . Aspiring engineer Molly McGinnis is one master's thesis away from conquering the universe. But in the meantime, she's struggling to make ends meet, working at a tree farm while stowing away in a Tiny House...

Home is where the heart fits . . .Summer Murray is ready to shake things up. She doesn't want to work in risk management. She doesn't want to live in Hartford, Connecticut. So she plans a grand adventure: she's going to throw out all...

Cousin Phillis is a haunting story about Paul Manning, a youth of nineteen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence. Paul finds himself helpless...

After being recently orphaned Rose must live with her aunts, the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family. When Rose's guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, he takes over her care. She becomes happier and healthier while finding her place in her family of seven...

One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history.* * *The classic novel of a young girl's exploration of physical pleasures.Young Fanny Hill is tricked into a life of prostitution, but she quickly learns the power of her own body as she learns...

Fourteen-year-old Kathleen is walking home from a concert on a dark Liverpool night in 1974 when she's violently raped. The attacker, unimaginably, is her trusted parish priest. Terrified, Kathleen never tells her pious Catholic mother, and when she discovers she is pregnant, she pays...

Sporting a nagging conscience and a chip on his shoulder, C.J. Neubauer books a flight home on his girlfriend's credit card to bury his father and try to make sense of what led him to take his own life. All he has to go...

A Son's Addiction. A Mother's Heartbreak. A Family's Crisis. As the wife of a prominent city attorney and the mother of two teenage children on the brink of adulthood, Glennis Harmon lives the kind of successful, high-profile life that many people envy. But when...

Two Worlds. Two Women. One Love. In 1975, an American girl named Genevieve loses her mother when a plane full of orphans crashes in war-ravaged Vietnam. Miles away in the countryside, seven-year-old Lan, a Vietnamese girl, is forced out of her family home by...

Competition for church members in Mount Oak has reached a furious peak. When tragedy strikes one of their hometown sons, the church women are drawn together through compassion. The Church Ladies is a contemporary tale illustrating how women can have a major impact on...

In Roseborough, Jane Roberts Wood returns with a keenly observed tale of bighearted people in small-town Texas. Three weeks after Mary Lou's Gypsy husband dies, her fourteen-year-old daughter, Echo, runs away. Numbed by grief and grounded only by her job at the Dairy Queen,...

In the east Texas town of Cold Springs in 1944, the community waits for the war to end. In this place where certain boundaries are not crossed and in a time when people reveal little about themselves, their problems, and their passions, Jane Roberts...

Short fiction about people on the edge that "masterfully balances the absurd, the horrific, and the humorous" (Booklist).The characters in Inappropriate Behavior teeter on the brink of sanity, while those around them reach out in support, watch helplessly, or duck for cover. In their...

An astonishing novel of epic ambition, Vandal Love--winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in 2007--follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century.A family curse--a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship--causes the...

Praise for Cynan Jones: " A] piercing novella . . . Like Cormac McCarthy, Jones can make the everyday sound fraught and biblical."--Kirkus, starred review"Jones' prose clips along at an unnerving pace, barely giving you time to process the previous beautiful image, before knocking...

Mason Jones felt like he never belonged anywhere. Bouncing from foster home to foster home, it seemed that no one wanted him around. His latest placement had a similar make-up to the others: a middle-aged couple with one child of their own, who for...

A powerful examination of the artistic impulse, cultural identity, and family bondsAnita is waiting for Adam to be released from prison. They met twenty years ago at a New Year's Eve party in Paris, a city where they both felt out of place--he as...

SHORTLISTED FOR CBC CANADA READS 2019WINNER OF THE BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDEighty-five years of art and history through the eyes of a woman who fled her family - as re-imagined by her granddaughter.Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother's mother. Curious to understand why her...

We're nothing like other families. We are self-made. We are an essence unto ourselves, unique and dissonant, the only members of our species. Livers of humdrum lives who flitted around us got their wings burned. We're not mean, but we can bare our teeth....

Winner of the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize Winner of the 2012 Relit Award for Best Novel Longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction Shortlisted for the Alberta Literary Award for Best Fiction Shortlisted for the W.O....

Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's darkest, and most complex novel. In contrast to the confident and vivacious heroines of Emma and Pride and Prejudice, its central character, Fanny Price, is a shy and vulnerable poor relation who finds the courage to stand up for...

Angel's curiosity has led her on a journey of self discovery for answers. She won't stop until she's questioned every member of the family why she has two mommies.Author: Janai AkereleISBN-10: 1546979697ISBN-13: 9781546979692Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2017Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.50h x...

The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia.Author: Johann David WyssISBN-10: 1546761675ISBN-13: 9781546761679Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The wayward daughters is a story of a small-town fisherman whose wife mysteriously disappears in 1967, leaving him to raise five daughters on his own. The girls are soon taken and raised by Parson Blackstock and his wife, and Earnest Wayward never sees them...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. Where You Belong is the story of thirteen-year-old Fiona, in the Bronx in 1963, who runs away from her alcoholic father and a family that's been evicted. Alone, hungry, with no choices left, she wanders into the black neighborhood and...

AWARDS: Bookclub FavoriteWinner of New Adult Fiction--Beverly Hills Book AwardsWinner of the SILVER Medal for Best Fiction in Drama from Readers' FavoriteFinalist USA Best Books Awards in Literary Fiction and in New Fiction "Under its skin, it is a lively, accessible meditation on redemption...

For most of his adult life, the only place he felt at peace was at home in Silver Lake, Ohio with his parents--but after their sudden death, he is left on his own. Eager to help their brother, Steve's siblings, Scott and Sylvia, who...

Based on the courtship and marriage of Ingmar Bergman's own parents, The Best Intentions describes the complex, tumultuous love of a man and woman and the miracle of what love is: overriding and, so often, inexplicable. Henrik is a struggling, somber divinity student; Anna...

Now available again, the best-selling and award winning novel, called "A lush, wildly imaginative fairy tale" (San Francisco Chronicle). For readers of The White Tiger and The God of Small Things, a dazzling, exuberant, wickedly funny, and moving novel set in post-colonial India that...

Dr. Lydia Giddens has taken an oath to do no harm. But now she stands in the shadows of her success, wondering if honoring her profession is even possible. Surely, her family doesn't expect her to jeopardize everything she's worked so hard for all...

A remarkable couple with different complexions is featured in this interracial romance novel. Their amazing relationship comes together in an unexpected and surprising way, and blooms until one partner leaves town because of the negative reaction of their parents.Stella is smart, sexy, and gorgeous....

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hot Milk moves gracefully among pathos, danger, and humor" (The New York Times).I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I...

A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers. Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest...

This brand new collection of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame's career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories have been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in...

S. Gagliano & Son has been a barber shop fixture in South Philly for decades. Frankie and Michael Gagliano's Italian immigrant father--Luigi to his customers, Papa to his sons--presides over the store, enlisting his children as soon as they're big enough to wield a...

Admirers of Elizabeth Spencer's writing will welcome back into print her first novel, and her new readers will discover the sources of her notable talent in this book. Published in 1948 to extraordinary attention from such eminent writers as Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty,...

The Mormon church may have disavowed the polygamy it became so infamous for in the 19th century, but for some Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, "plural marriage" isn't just ancient history. Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim couldn't be more surprised to learn that her son Kenneth...

A zombie movie-obsessed teen is forced to face a dark family secret in this shocking debut literary novel from a talented new author. "Wow! A crazy, wicked knock-out of a book!" -Garth Stein Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker attends an all-boys Catholic high school where roving...

"Owen writes exquisite stories that lodge somewhere in my chest and keep detonating--loudly, devastatingly--again and again."--Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You In the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan Owen's debut collection, the people of Glass, a picturesque village on the rugged...

How can a woman learn to let go of the people she loves the most? "Lauren Grodstein breaks your heart, then miraculously pieces it back together so it's bigger--and stronger--than before." --Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You Karen Neulander, a successful...

Nine richly varied, often funny, always moving stories that reveal the complex workings of the human heart. Bill Roorbach conjures vivid characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar and extraordinary. He first made his mark as the winner of an O. Henry...

In this modern age, when the means of communication have turned individual and collective history into a spectacle, literature is the privileged place of subjectivity. This book allows us to peer into the fascinating world of characters trapped in their particular deliriums: a club...

A family in modern Botswana is wracked by losses from AIDS and caught in the tension of a society divided between ancient traditions and beliefs and Western thought with white influences. Single parent Mara feels the urgency of holding on to her community's faith...