Fiction - Family Life - General

For most of his life, eighteen-year-old Joel thought his father, Daniel, had abandoned him. He's about to discover how wrong he was. In many ways, Daniel has been a constant influence in the young man's life.On his birthday, Joel learns the truth when his...

It is the first day of seventh grade for Elliott, a student at a Catholic grade school in a conservative, solidly Republican town in northeast Ohio. His entrepreneur parents, considered leftover hippies by most, have always encouraged Elliott to think outside the box. Jeffery...

Wilson Lacy is fast becoming an old man. After a prosperous time as a scientist, teacher, husband, and father, he is now adrift and alone in a shadow-filled house with only his ghosts and memories as companions. Wilson Lacy is beset by a particular...

It is 1904 as Jay and Anna Titus anxiously await the arrival of their first child. But when Jay dies unexpectedly while Anna is six months pregnant, the eighteen-year-old widow is beside herself with grief. Nearly three months later and after hours of grueling...

Matthew Gallagher is a train conductor extraordinaire. He travels about the country, escaping from one life and relocating to another on a daily basis, a status he prefers, with no roots to tie him down. Neddie Anderson is a country girl who has never...

For the first time in his life, twenty-four-year-old Stuart Jones wants to get serious about his lady. Now that Tiffany and her daughter, Angel, live with him, Stuart thinks that maybe it's time to pop the question. After all, at the mature age of...

Corey's quiet, middle-aged life changes the day his wife dies. He quits his job... and takes up wood sculpting. He gains weight... then goes on an odd diet. Stray dogs begin to visit him... and give him advice. He hires a young, headstrong counselor...

"Beautifully written and closely observed, The Summer Cottage captures the deep and complicated love of family. Reading this lovely novel, I felt the embrace of summer on the shoreline." --Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author Spanning two summers decades apart, Susan Kietzman's poignant...

In the quirky Southern town of Cherico, Mississippi, a new library means an exciting new chapter for librarian Maura Beth McShay--and for the friends and book lovers known as the Cherry Cola Book Club... The construction of Cherico's cutting-edge library has been an epic...

First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of Remembrance of Things Past, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually...

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written circa 1798-99....

Throughout this collection are tales honed with a psychological edge and sprinkled with a dash of dark humor, while other stories cross over into the realms of tragedy, coming of age, and the paranormal.DISEASED - When Carter Lynch, a resident of a mental institution,...

A compelling story of a woman's determination and spirit, proof that most things are possible with courage; a faith that indeed moves mountains and opens doors for others to succeed in the generations that follow. At twenty-four Connie Caruso was a secretary in a...

Isabel grew up without a father, so she's never observed firsthand how a man should treat a woman. Although she wasn't looking for love, she meets Juan--an attractive Mexican man who falls in love with her instantly. For the first time in her life,...

Eli left the corporate life in San Francisco and moved with his wife, Frances Amelia, to Goat Mountain, high up on the west side of the Cascade Mountains, near the small town of Colton, Oregon. When his parents died, Eli inherited the 640 acres,...

A young boy with a splendid imagination. He chooses his soup for lunch based on warm and cool colors - red, yellow, orange, purple, green, and blue. Joshua's thoughts, experiences and ideas of what the colors remind him of flow out of his soup...

"Where can you turn when your house is not safe? In a small coastal town in Oregon, Amber and Kelly know the deadliest people sleep down the hall. As they attempt to escape the violent, domineering men in their lives, despair fights against faith...

Based on true-life events, Parris reflects on her struggle with Nature vs. Nurture and the childhood memories of her dysfunctional family. Turning the clock back two generations, Parris's story begins with her grandparents and the events that led up to her family's extreme narcissistic...

At age twenty, Leena O'Neil walked away from her old life. Anything to avoid becoming a lawyer like her mother and older sister, Georgia. Three years later, Georgia contacts her, convinced that her husband is trying to kill her rather than divorce her. Reluctantly,...

Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old member Olive Charles passes away. What's more shocking news is that Olive has left her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds to...

A novel of women's friendship, resilience, and legacy from the author of The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship and Friendship Makes the Heart Grow Fonder. Claire Petrenko always knew it was coming. Breast cancer has already claimed both her mother and her younger...

The new novel in Kimberla Lawson Roby's beloved New York Times bestselling Curtis Black series. "Roby's latest sizzles with scandal. A deliciously decadent beach read of temptation and the wages of sin." -- Kirkus Reviews Raven Black is bouncing back after her very public...

In this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Reverend Curtis Black series, Curtis's secret past returns in an unwelcome--but ultimately healing--visit. Rev. Curtis Black is no stranger to scandal. Throughout the decades, he has done much in the public eye, both good and evil. But...

The new novel in Kimberla Lawson Roby's beloved New York Times bestselling Curtis Black series that "sizzles with scandal" and is a "deliciously decadent beach read of temptation and the wages of sin" (Kirkus Reviews). Raven Black is bouncing back after her very public...

A literary tour de force from the acclaimed author of The Blessings-a riveting novel about one of the most urgent crises of our time. One August afternoon, as single mother Maggie Daley prepares to send her only child off to college, their world is...

A haunting, evocative novel about a woman who might have to face the disturbing truth about her own daughter. Hanna and Joe send their awkward daughter Dawn off to college hoping that she will finally "come into her own." When she brings her new...

Dale M. Kushner's novel The Conditions of Love traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and her overwhelming desire for spiritual and erotic love. In 1953, ten-year-old...

A "splendid" (The Boston Globe) debut novel about the complex bonds of three sisters and their Philadelphia family's legacy, by the author of Reproduction. For more than thirty years, William Adair's faith in life was based on two indisputable principles: the exceptional good looks...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Myth of You and Me, The History of Us is a heartrending story of love, loss, family, and the life you make in the path not taken. Sometimes home is the hardest place to go Eloise Hempel...

This instant New York Times bestseller offers a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding...

A mother's choices in a time of crisis threaten the one person she means to protect--her only daughter--and force her to make the boldest move of her life. A MOTHER'S CHOICES IN A T IME OF CRISIS THREATEN THE ONE PERSON SHE MEANS TO...

In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie asks for a little time to clear his head, but thirty years pass before...

From rising star Amy Hatvany, an engrossing new novel about a woman whose life is turned upside down when the man she's engaged to suddenly becomes a full-time father to the children from his previous marriage. Thirty-six-year-old Grace McAllister never longed for children. But...

National bestseller ReShonda Tate Billingsley spins an irresistible story of romance and faith that will touch every reader's heart. Her novel Say Amen, Again won the NAACP Image Award, proving that ReShonda Tate Billingsley's storytelling "scores a direct hit" (Publishers Weekly), delighting and inspiring...

There's a fine line between love and hate. For five years, Sally and Clive have been lost in a passionate affair. Now he has dumped her to devote himself to his wife and family, and Sally is left in freefall. It starts with a...

Internationally bestselling author Rowan Coleman delivers a heartwarming new tale about a recent divorcee who finds the courage to tackle her weight issues, her love life, and the dark family secret that has haunted her for years. Willow Briar (known as Will) is thirty-six-years...

Critically acclaimed author Joseph Monninger has penned a subtle and heartrending love story of friendship, nature, and the surprising twists that can alter our destinies forever. A lifetime of friendship begins the day brothers Ed and Allard save Sarah from drowning in an icy...

From New York Times bestselling author Susan Issacs, a "deliciously wicked" (Publishers Weekly) story of three cousins and a fortune. Imagine King Lear as a comedy... At seventy-nine, Gloria Garrison must plan for the future of Glory, Inc., the beauty-makeover business that she has...

A chance meeting in a café, a piece of grit delicately removed by a gentleman from a lady's eye, and the affair is born... a brief yet unrelenting emotional tug-of-war between two people whose spontaneous desire clashes head-on with the 'facts' of their existence.There...

Virginius Littlepage is a lawyer working in Queensborough, Canada. Dejected and tired of life, he finds little solace in his family affairs and turns his attentions to his secretary, Milly Burden, in a last-ditch attempt to inject some spice in to his life. With...

Author: Kathryn WalterISBN-10: 1483680711ISBN-13: 9781483680712Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/2013Pages: 118Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between February 1811 and 1813. It was published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached...

Dan is at the top of his game. He and his wife, Carmen, have steadily moved up the economic and social ladder.... until Dan got a bit too greedy Join this Jamaican upper St. Andrew family on their humorous yet real life account of...

Lizzi Young lives in a small New England town with her husband, two teenage sons, and four dogs. At forty-four years old she finds herself living the life she dreamed of, but something has been stirring beneath the foundation of safety and security on...

A disagreement between Madison and her parents and a fateful trip to the mall leaves Madison clinging to life and her family clinging to hope. As she lies in the hospital, powerless and lifeless, a divine veil covers her, bringing with it colorful scenes...

The last part of this book is a true story of how my brothers and sisters, 12 children, remember my mother's love as we grew up on a sharecropper's farm in Lynchburg South Carolina from the 1930's to the 1960's. Pictures of these individuals...

"The Essence of Neverland is a remarkably well-crafted tale, perfect for children and adults. The story spins a colorful web of mystery, suspense, and love. It offers just enough detail to satisfy the inquiring mind, while creating enough curiosity to mesmerize the reader. Always...

"I'm Catchin' Hell," chronicles the life of Joshua Townsend after he experiences a life altering event. Joshua reflects on pivotal moments within his life that explain how he ended up in a place that could ultimately lead to his demise. He remembers important moments...

Set in Eastern Kentucky a few years after the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud, The Devil's Back appeals to a variety of readers. Romantics will find its May-December love story irresistible. Thrill-seekers will delight in its depiction of a daring steamboat race, a home invasion, and...

A Struggling Writer Finds Inspiration in Family History... Deborah's career is at a dead end. After a splashy debut with her first novel, she's languished as a freelancer, her potential unfulfilled. But the death of an elderly aunt provides unexpected source material, as she...