Fiction - Family Life - General

Welcome to the house of the mosque . . . Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a suitor to knock on the door. Her uncle Nosrat returns from Tehran with a glamorous woman, while on...

Three friends discover that marriage and motherhood have their ups and downs in this warm and engaging family saga. 1960. Having been firm friends ever since they met in a Blackpool boarding house five years before, Val, Cissie and Janice are all now happily...

Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a close attachment to her cousin Edmund, the only person...

Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper-crust Australian world.Lilian Una Singer starts...

Kat only wanted to be part of the convention on how to write successful books, not solve a murder that took place there - the murder of a beloved "tell-all" author. Was that the motive?Greed, revenge, and hatred are also reasons to murder, at...

Human trafficking in the small Colorado town of Cottonwood Springs? That only happens in the big cities, right?Planning a wedding is hard enough without having your florist disappear. And it's even worse when there's a chance that people engaged in human trafficking may have...

A woman's dream, a warning, a murder, but it's the wrong person.When a mistaken identity murder happens at her sister's bookstore in Cottonwood Springs, Brigid has no choice. She has to find the person who intended to murder her sister.Not everyone liked her sister,...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia London launches a triumphant, emotional, heartwarming story about finding love, family and home.Madeline Pruett has made up for a lonely childhood and being raised by an irresponsible single mom by creating a solitary world where...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee comes the newest installment in her popular Weekday Brides series.Gwen Harrison: The beautiful, high-born daughter of an English duke came to America to take over her sister-in-law's matchmaking business. But just because she's the boss doesn't...

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood--in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into...

From the acclaimed author of Girl in the Arena, the story of a hit-and-run accident on an empty road that sets loose forces to tear a young girl's family apart. With the disappearance of her father, Mona's wrenching task is to make herself whole...

Nobody knows why John Baird, a quiet family man, decided one day to pick up a shotgun and murder his wife and children. On the remote Scottish island of Skellag, violent crime is unheard of, and the killings sent shockwaves through this tiny community...

"Zanily inventive . . . This deeply eccentric comedy belongs in the company of the best novels about wildly precocious kids" (The Seattle Times). Al Santamaria is a child prodigy, maybe a genius. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he,...

A child psychologist struggles to come to grips with her own dark childhood memories, in this "mesmerizing, unsettling novel" (The New York Times). When eight-year-old Julia was asked to be a bridesmaid at her cousin's wedding, she was thrilled. Nothing, not even her mother's...

John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes...

From renowned playwright Jackie Alexander comes a captivating, masterfully told coming-of-age novel of a young man struggling through his haunting past to discover and save himself. Stigmatized at birth due to his interracial parentage and reared in a household poisoned by domestic abuse, Kevin...

The title of this book might suggest that I'm saying goodbye to the central subject of my fiction. That is not the case. A fifth and final book in this At Home and Away novel series is in progress because, like the rebirth of...

Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose) - Alphonse Daudet's (1840-1897) first published, though not his first written, novel - appeared in 1868. The first part was composed in that Southern France it describes so charmingly; its first chapters form one of the most touching of...

The Soil (aka The Earth; French original title: La Terre), around which the greatest controversy has raged, is a novel which treats of the conditions of agricultural life in France before the war with Prussia (1870-1871), and the subsequent downfall of the Second Empire....

Winner of the inaugural French Voices Award: " A] masterfully conceived debut, arelentless tale, intricately and irresistibly told" (La Quinzaine Litt raire). Only once in a great while does a new novel come along that takes a literary scene by storm, demonstrating real innovation...

When the going gets tough, the tough hit the beach.After years of being single, Lily's about to head down the aisle again. But just as she's about to take the plunge, she gets cold feet--ice cold.To calm her pre-wedding jitters, Lily and her girlfriends...

The only constants in reporter Savannah Phillips's life are her best friend Paige, her workplace tormenter Joshua, her steady father--and her crazed mother. In spite of that, she agrees to take a Florida vacation with her parents and enjoy some seaside "rest and relaxation"...

A feast of romance and laughter featuring a delightful and courageous heroine that you can relate to no matter what your size. Convinced that her larger size relegates her to wallflower status, Freddie Heinz hides behind the wedding cakes she creates as a professional...

"A timely, sophisticated tale [that] explores what happens when a charmed life loses its luster." -O Magazine From the award-winning author of the new collection Awayland, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its...

From one of the most popular and acclaimed story writers of her generation, a single-volume short story from the author of 2017's Do Not Become Alarmed, a beautifully packaged palm-sized gift book."That the yellow house was thrillingly affordable might have been a warning sign,...

An incredible debut and National Book Award-nominated novel, described as "Memento meets Augie March. Didion meets Hitchcock" by Esquire, from the author of The Volunteer It is August 15, 1953, the day of a boisterous and unwieldy street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian...

National bestselling author Allison Hobbs delivers a powerful novel about a father and son whose relationship is challenged after the son is suspected of crimes in his new neighborhood. Ten years ago when Malik Copeland was a hopeless addict, he signed away the parental...

Filled with scandalous situations and unexpected twists, this sequel to The Joneses follows the eponymous family as secrets are revealed and drama leads to danger--or maybe even death. The Joneses' world is turned upside down as their family liAuthor: Shelia M. GossISBN-10: 1593096208ISBN-13: 9781593096205Publisher:...

Man Booker Prize nominee Peter Stamm explores in his sixth novel what it means to be in the middle of nowhere, in mind and in body. Happily married with two children and a comfortable home in a Swiss town, Thomas and Astrid enjoy a...

An extraordinary debut novel that challenges the definition of family and explores the intricate ties that bind us togetherIda grew up with Jackson and James--where there was "I" there was a "J." She can't recall a time when she didn't have them around, whether...

Growing up in a small upper Midwestern town in the late 1930s, young Tommy MacAllister is scarcely aware of the Depression, much less the rumblings of war in Europe. For his parents and their set, life seems to revolve around dinners and dancing at...

A New York Review Books Original Separated from her mother--the famed author of Suite Française--during World War II, Irène Némirovsky's daughter offers a "nuanced, eloquent portrait of a complicated woman" in a series of memoirs that reimagine her mother's life (The Washington Post)Élisabeth Gille...

The Scarlet Letter: Large Print By Nathaniel HawthorneAuthor: Nathaniel HawthorneISBN-10: 1545592942ISBN-13: 9781545592946Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2017Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.40dLarge Print

Single father, Weston Parker is set in his ways, and raising his daughter is his top priority. But his ten-year-old feisty little girl is growing up faster than he ever realized. Her go-getter attitude is one he's seen before--mainly on himself. When she starts...

This is a must read for anyone touched by dementia. This first person account of end stage dementia will leave you speechless. Join Stephen and Lauren as they try to navigate their ever changing landscape. Delve into a deteriorating mind where you too will...

Gigi is a spunky Grandma that takes Rowen on many adventures. Rowen notices throughout the year that Gigi is always wearing hats & is becoming extremely tired. Despite her battle with cancer she still manages to make amazing memories with Rowen & her family....

A father comes to terms with his mortality and secrets in a heartrending novel of family and forgiveness from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred-Foot Journey.It is a time of reckoning for Jos Mar a lvarez, an aristocratic Spanish banker living...

A page-turning novel of suspense about the perfect family, and the perfect lies, by the bestselling author of When I'm Gone and The Waiting Room.Adopted by her controlling foster mother at the age of eight, twenty-year-old Tara has seen little of the outside world....

What is it about the coast that attracts people running from their past?When Olivia moves to Port Townsend, her marriage is floundering, and her life is in pieces. She doesn't know if things with her husband Mark are truly over, or quite why the...

They all lived through that terrible Christmas. The problem is, they remember it differently...Sisters Penny and Victoria seem to have nothing in common--except perhaps envy. Penny seems blessed with a perfect work-life balance, though only she knows how underpaid and underappreciated she is, while...

The Rainbow is a novel by the British author DH Lawrence, written in 1915. It tells the story of 3 generations of the Brangwen family, farmers in the hinterland of England, their relationships and passions, as well as unveiling the female soul And issues...

Jill Emerson, whose first three works were gentle explorations of the lesbian experience, took a sharp turn toward candor in THIRTY, her first book for Berkley. As I've explained in the book description for that novel, around the time Berkley came calling (via my...

After she decides to sell her beach house, a widow must decide whether to risk trusting a romantic new man in her life with deep, dark secrets -- and possibly her heart. It's been two years since the mysterious accident took Sandra Winslow's politician...

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky shares a cautionary tale of romance, revenge, family relationships and power in this powerful novel. Nothing can prepare writer Hillary Cox for seeing her lover of 27 years, mining magnate John St. George, announce on television that...

Perfect for fans of Rick Moody, Lauren Groff, and Celeste Ng, a propulsive literary breakout about three suburban families whose lives spiral dangerously out of control after tragedy strikes. Who suffers when the privileged fall? One frigid winter night, Mia and Michael Slate's comfortable...

Philip Edward Thomas was born on 3rd March, 1878 at 14 Lansdowne Gardens in Stockwell, Lambeth, which was then a part of Surrey. His family had a rich Welsh heritage.Thomas was educated at Battersea Grammar School before proceeding to St Paul's School in London...

The novel follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, focusing on relations and sexual dynamics of the characters. The Rainbow represents Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual desire and the power it plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force...

Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains. A lake? Blot the shores of it out...

The heat is oppressive and storms are brewing in Brighton in the summer of 1982. Little Gold, a boyish girl on the brink of adolescence, is struggling with the reality of her broken family and a home descending into chaos. Her only refuge is...

'An unforgettable page-turner that will leave you heartbroken... captivating and flawless... will leave you sobbing... grabbed my attention from the start and I could not put it down!' Goodreads reviewer If you could wish one thing for your daughter, what would it be? Jenny...