Fiction - Family Life - General

Steel Magnolias meets The Help in Beth Hoffman's New York Times bestselling Southern debut novel, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her mother, Camille, the town's tiara-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughingstock, a woman who is...

A beloved Japanese bestseller, The Menu of Happiness is for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and asks the question: What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? "As warm and nourishing as a good cup of tea...a...

The one you marry isn't always the one you should trust . . .Author: Diane AllenISBN-10: 1447287312ISBN-13: 9781447287315Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2016Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.10d

A sexy, propulsive meditation on modern motherhood, tracking the lives of three women as they struggle to define themselves in the face of new obligations and heightened expectations.Some women, with their perfect children and pricey athleisure, make motherhood look easy. But not Nicole. She...

Shadow Family is the story of a birth mother, an adoptive mother, and their struggles with life's pitfalls. Their son, after searching diligently for his birth mother, brings them together in the end. Told in these three voices, it is a story of perseverance...

The brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father's love, a little boy's journey, and the desperate search for a place to call home, from Number 1 best-selling author Josephine Cox. Eight-year-old Casey's mother Ruth is a cruel woman, with a weakness...

From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don't even know her...

From the Booker Prize finalist and "formidably gifted writer" (New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a woman's descent into illness and insanity. Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together - of her family, stunned by a...

The Mackenzies and the Flahertys, two of the founding families of Port Kenneth, TN, have been feuding for generations. Which means Emerson Mackenzie's decision to move PharmaSci back to its historic roots didn't sit well with the Flaherty family. They have been attempting to...

The brand new emotional and heart-wrenching tale from the author of The Lost Evacuee and The Boy with the Suitcase In a time of war, an orphaned boy must embark on an epic journey... After the death of his beloved father, Arthur and a...

"A riotous exploration of ambition, passion and greed." -Christopher Smith, theater critic, The Orange County Register"A raucous satire of our times that is also an affecting study of family bonds and an acerbic tribute to the flawed, glorious, once-mighty dinosaur that was daily journalism."...

I have to stay awake... I need to keep him safe. I haven't slept properly since Riley was born. I love my baby so much - every noise he makes and every sleepy blink has me rushing to his side to make sure he's...

When unexpected change shatters the well-ordered lives of the citizens of Rockwell, the result creates a profound ripple effect. Loss and uncertainty plague the townspeople, a former resident, and a first-time visitor who wonder if and how the Midwestern community can ever recover. To...

Everything's bigger in Texas, and that goes double at the Texas Rose Ranch, home to the Rose family through five generations of toil, sweat, and scandal. From the moment CanDee McCain is hired to write a history of the Roses' empire, she's bowled over...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER- A superbly crafted novel, Family Tree asks penetrating questions about family and the choices people make in times of crisis. "Family Tree is warm, rich, textured, and impossible to put down."--Nora Roberts For as long as she can remember, Dana...

An inspiring journey across five centuries of art in the company of 10-year-old Mona and her grandfather, Henry. They have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two masterpieces and commit to memory what is most beautiful in the world before Mona loses her sight forever....

Don't miss the next instalment of Fenella J. Miller's brilliant Harbour House series. A gripping tale of wartime bravery and courage. Wivenhoe February 1940 As the war clouds gather over Europe, the Roby family are thankful to have started their new life in Wivenhoe...

#1 bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand teams up with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham, to deliver a dishy, page-turning novel following an intertwined cast of characters over the course of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school. It's move-in day at Tiffin Academy and...

Is evil decided at birth, or is it cultivated? In this rousing mystery thriller, readers may find an answer to the question of why villains choose the dark paths they walk.As a child, Buzz knew one thing for sure: his parents didn't want him....

"A riotous exploration of ambition, passion and greed." -Christopher Smith, theater critic, The Orange County Register"A raucous satire of our times that is also an affecting study of family bonds and an acerbic tribute to the flawed, glorious, once-mighty dinosaur that was daily journalism."...

An elderly mother and daughter retell their century long stories of withheld motherly love. These strained mother-daughter relationships are shaped by major historical events of the last hundred years. From the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic in the 1930's, Woodstock 1969, and the events...

## How far would you go for someone you love? Alison has an excellent relationship with her eighteen-year-old daughter. Lola is a hardworking, straight-A student, bound for university. They tell each other everything. Or so she thought. Lola has a secret: she's been sneaking...

A BRAND NEW emotional read from Louise Guy I loved him... but I loved my daughters more. I knew what I had to do. I had to protect them. When June Marlow was arrested for the murder of her husband nearly thirty years ago,...

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 One of The New Yorker's Best Books We've Read in 2024 "A bright new voice in fiction...A genuine young talent, one who deftly palpates the dark areas of human psyches...we might be staring before long at...

At 68, Debbie Gordon has six months to get a life. Except for a brief, magical year in Manhattan when she was 21, the long-divorced, former legal secretary has always lived in her sleepy New England hometown, always the good girl, the funny girl,...

The BRAND NEW novel from Number 1 Bestselling author Beth Moran. A total joy of a book! One photo and a handful of letters can change everything. Emmie Brown has always known she was adopted. Nellie Brown sacrificed everything to make their life together...

A letter left by her dying mother reveals to Ria the existence of a hitherto unknown family. Following the funeral a grief-stricken Ria travels to country New South Wales to meet this new family and walks into an existence that she had never dreamed...

Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams--with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and...

This captivating story explores the intertwined lives of two families from vastly different social backgrounds in India's government service. The Kapoors represent the upper-middle class, with Mr. Kapoor serving as a high ranking officer in the Ministry of Home affairs. In contrast, the Khans...

The first in a BRAND NEW series from bestselling romance author Sarah Hope Laura wants to shake things up. She's thirty-eight, and has been living in her parents' house since her divorce last year. Her siblings seem to have got their lives together: successful...

"Wonderful. . . . Dark, funny, full of emotional intelligence and gripping from the start . . . beautifully written."--Daily MailThe internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show returns with a tense and darkly comic novel that casts a caustic light...

TheWhite Lie is an up-market historical crime thriller based on the legend of Captain Scott.THE LEGEND1913.Captain Scott and his four companions reach the South Pole to find their Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen has won the race. Defeated, they set out on the 850-mile journey...

In a captivating world of family secrets, forbidden love, and misfortune, Regina Maria Roche's classic gothic horror novel is a testament to her masterfully atmospheric writing. Young orphans Amanda and Oscar Fitzalan are cheated of their rightful inheritance and raised in the confines of...

This will be a series of chapter books with reoccurring and new additions of characters. They will all be narrated by Addie the Lioness.Author: BoobeyISBN-13: 9798368333052Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2022Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.21d

In a single battle in World War One, Tony Perrino was the only survivor in his regiment of twenty-five hundred men. He never understood why he lived when so many died and he spent the rest of his life trying to find the answer.At...

Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction which makes you both laugh and cry. This book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War. Daniel Pitt was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the...

The third installment in Kate Atkinson's wildly beloved series of Jackson Brodie Mysteries: a complex tale of murder, coincidence, and connected lives. On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed...

WINNER OF THE 2016 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE One quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction... A young girl loses her mother when a block of ice falls from the sky. A woman wins the jackpot twice. A man...

Walking by faith is not a process for the faint of heart, nor is it temporal or selective. It is an enduring lifestyle. God's playbook for our lives was designed from the beginning of time. It does not guarantee a life without hurts and...

1980: Josephine flees her home in Ireland, hoping never to return. She starts a new, exciting life in London, but as much as she tries, she can't quite leave the trauma of her childhood behind. Seventeen years and two children later, Josephine gets a...

THE MICHELANGELO OF MARSAY is a contemporary novel (3rd person POV; 71,000 words) set in the fictional county of Walden in Northern Alabama. A father and his son in the Marsay community have had drinking problems. The father, Parker Pudley Sr. has been sober...

It's 1905 in Bisbee, Arizona and copper is queen.Brenna McEvoy's husband vanishes in the Sonoran Desert while seeking his own copper claim. Presumed dead, heleaves her alone to shelter three small children. Despite her privileged, white lifestyle, funds continue to dwindle, andBrenna worries she...

RICHARD AND JUDY SUMMER BOOK CLUB PICK 2018'This big, clever, tender and twisty love story reminded me of One Day & The Time Traveler's Wife' Erin Kelly, author of He Said, She Said **** Robbie and Emily they have been together for decades. Now,...

Sigal Samuel's debut novel, in the vein of Nicole Krauss's bestselling The History of Love, is an imaginative story that delves into the heart of Jewish mysticism, faith, and family."This is not an ordinary tree I am making."This," he said, "this is the Tree...

From the Booker Prize finalist and "formidably gifted writer" (New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a woman's descent into illness and insanity. Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together - of her family, stunned by a...

A prize-winning, boundary-breaking debut exploring family, class, history, and the true idea of the self. A glorious, tender, unsparing exploration of language, family, history, class, and the very idea of the self and the human, Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues begins with the loss of...

Author: Jacinda TownsendISBN-10: 1644453541ISBN-13: 9781644453544Publisher: Graywolf PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2025Pages: 360Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.00d

From a true modern master of noir fiction comes a twisty new tale about two small town crooks who get in over their heads . . . Peck and Al have a good thing going. The two brothers own a bar and a hardware...

Step into the extraordinary with L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 41-an anthology that promises the unexpected, the thought-provoking, and the unforgettable. Celebrating the best new voices in speculative fiction, this collection offers gripping tales of science fiction, fantasy, and beyond....

From the author of Live from Medicine Park, a powerful coming-of-age novel. Set against the closing years of the Cold War, Constance Squires's debut novel introduces the family of Army Major Collins, as told through the eyes of Lucinda Collins-the vibrant, headstrong eldest daughter....