Fiction - Family Life - General

In the follow-up to the controversial and critically acclaimed mystery The Bishop's Wife, Mormon housewife Linda Wallheim finds herself ruffling feathers in Draper, Utah, as she assists a murder investigation that is being derailed by transphobia within the LDS community. In Draper, Utah, a...

Bridget O'Bannon is ready for a do-over. After years of pretending she had a happy marriage and denying that she missed the friends and family she'd left behind, she's headed home to restart her life. But working alongside her family every day at their...

In these ten interwoven stories, two adolescent brothers face a world in which their father has suddenly died, a world dominated by their beautiful and complicated mother. Thirty years later, one of the brothers-the only remaining survivor of a family he seeks both to...

This powerful narrative, winner of the 1993 Associated Writing Programs award for the novel, focuses on Galveston, Texas, and a community of newly arrived Vietnamese. Struggling to maintain a balance between Vietnam and America, they live with one foot in each world. Close-knit families,...

In this sharp-witted and poignant novel, two former friends with a complicated history are thrown together on an unexpected road trip, where old lies unravel and new truths emerge with every mile marker.Ophelia Dahl has just buried her beloved father when she finds among...

When everything was lost, she would seize a new beginning. Rita Bradshaw's Beyond the Veil of Tears depicts one woman's battle for love and her sanity.Author: Rita BradshawISBN-10: 1447217306ISBN-13: 9781447217305Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2014Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.00w x 1.00d

Growing up in Puerto Rico, Maricarmen works hard, getting good grades, and cleaning houses after school. She dreams of becoming a singer. When she meets Rey, a young Black musician, she falls in love with his dynamism, his band, and his voice. But when...

A new holiday-inspired novel from the "master" (Booklist) of Christmas fiction, New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans.Author: Richard Paul EvansISBN-10: 1668014904ISBN-13: 9781668014905Publisher: Gallery BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2025Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.59d

A queer Palestinian refugee plans to come out at his elaborate birthday dinner party in this tragicomic modern reimagining of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Firas Dareer wakes up on his twenty-third birthday with a sense of purpose: today he'll jump from a Stage 3...

A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington. In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. He's entangled in a sexual relationship with a...

"Kathy's journey begins in a turbulent home in Louisville, where her childhood is marred by her mother's volatile anger and abusive behavior. As a young girl, Kathy learns to navigate the treacherous dynamics of her household, holding onto her beloved stuffed rabbit as a...

Dreams Like Thunder takes place on a small Eastern Oregon farm between Baker and Hells Canyon. The story is set over a couple of days in 1959, but part of the family seems less in touch with the twentieth century than with the myth...

*** Now a USA TODAY BESTSELLER ***She's 43 years old......and starting over from scratch.How did this happen? She had it all together. A stable marriage of two decades. Two grown daughters. And now she and her husband, empty nesters, were moving to a beach...

Land of Milk and Money tells the story of the Francisco family, Portuguese immigrants who build a prosperous California dairy farm. With their growing success, plans to return to the Old Country fall by the wayside, and the legacy of the older generation becomes...

An evocative, emotional novel that illustrates life in all its messy beauty from New York Times bestselling author Wendy LindstromOne ordinary day, Kate Weston woke up, drank her coffee, then abandoned her life.Her search for an unapologetically honest existence drives her back to her...

Author: Miranda JulyISBN-10: 0593190270ISBN-13: 9780593190272Publisher: Riverhead BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2025Pages: 400Format: Paperback

As children in Central Illinois, Kate and Martin were never told much about their mother's childhood in East Germany. And they rarely asked questions. They were too busy grappling with the heartache left behind by an absent father and the tough love of a...

Only trouble can bring about the beauty of redemption and grace. In the small town of Grady, Montana, twenty-four-year-old Tad Bungley has a reputation for trouble. When he lands a job at Come Around Ranch, however, his life seems to take a positive turn....

Author: Clare PooleyISBN-10: 0143137948ISBN-13: 9780143137948Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.72d

Author: Helen RolfeISBN-10: 1835611095ISBN-13: 9781835611098Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2025Pages: 282Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Author: Alex BrownISBN-10: 1836030886ISBN-13: 9781836030881Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2025Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.54d

Author: Alex BrownISBN-10: 1836030878ISBN-13: 9781836030874Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2025Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76dLarge Print

Author: Jennifer MosesISBN-10: 029935444XISBN-13: 9780299354442Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2025Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbs

"The perfect cocktail of well-plotted, good-hearted, murderous fun."" --Nina Simon, bestselling author of Mother-Daughter Murder NightThree best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands' life insurance policies... But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darkly funny debut that...

A debut historical fiction for fans of Kristin Hannah and John Steinbeck, Orphans of the Living follows the Stovall family's early 20th-century quest for home and redemption as they confront racism, poverty, and inequality across the American South and West. In the shadow of...

In this captivating novel, a DNA test turns a woman's world upside-down. Will searching for answers give her the peace she craves--or deepen the fractures in her life? On the day of her father's funeral, Dylan Turner receives a life-altering email: her DNA family...

Originally published as The House on Honeysuckle Lane, Mary McDonough's novel is now a Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie, Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane. Join Mary as she welcomes readers back to the small town of Oliver's Well, Virginia, in a story of holiday and...

From internationally bestselling author Christopher Ransom, The Turn is one man's hilarious and heartwarming odyssey through loss and addiction as he desperately fights to shoot par on the back nine of his life.After a divorce and the death of his father, Casey Sweet is...

Three strangers, connected only by a mesmerizing painting named Three Guesses, embark on an extraordinary journey of friendship. Compelled by their agreement to communicate only by mail, Sam Brooks of Memphis, Tennessee, Richard Mabry of Phoenix, Arizona, and Pete Wren of New York City...

What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling comedy from #1 bestseller Mhairi McFarlane 'Think of the great duos of history. We're just like them.' 'You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?'...

Author: Pam RosenthalISBN-10: 045122230XISBN-13: 9780451222305Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2008Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.73dAward: Rita Awards - WinnerReview Citation(s): Romantic Times 11/01/2008 pg. 51 - ExcellentLibrary Journal 10/15/2008 pg. 51Booklist 11/01/2008 pg. 29LJ Best Books of Year 12/15/2008 pg. 67LJ...

Take one woman, her partner Antman and their dog Fleabag, pack up the car, turn up the country music and you've got one spirited road trip makin' room for all the good things in life, like family, laughin', travellin' and, best of all, love....

Carol is living a fortunate life with a devoted husband and three children. She is about to embark on a dream career as a speech language pathologist. And then the couple hear two ominous words in a doctor's office: multiple sclerosis.So begins Carol and...

Emily is drowning in memories. Yet those memories are also the only thing besides her daughter that are keeping her afloat. Emily had a person she loved that she couldn't be with. Now she's in an arranged marriage to a man she does not...

Nick adores his new little brother, but when Oliver goes back to live with his own parents, and Aiden, a new foster brother comes to live with him, he has to face the reality that Oliver may never come back.Even as an adult it's...

In Washington, D.C., life inside the Goldstein home is as tumultuous as the swiftly changing times. In 1979, the Cold War is waning and the age of protest has come and gone, leaving a once radical family to face a new set of challenges....

In the lush North Carolina foothills, the Moon women have put down roots: matriarch Marvelle Moon, who's losing her grip on the world after more than eighty years of life; her daughters, Ruth Ann and Cassandra; and Ruth Ann's nineteen-year-old daughter, Ashley, fresh out...

USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller Pamela Kelley invites readers to experience the warm glow of family, friends, and festivities this Christmas. Come spend the holidays on Nantucket.Nantucket's famous Christmas Stroll is always the first week of December and this year Mimi's Place...

Author: Hiro ArikawaISBN-13: 9798217187188Publisher: Berkley BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Pages: 256Format: Hardcover

Fate reunites a young woman with her ex-husband in a delightful and inspiring novel about family, old loves, and marriage on a dare by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.Furniture artisan Meli Hynes still abides by her uncle's truism: the only lasting love...

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years--an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss "A novel so wonderful, when I got...

In this thrilling, richly woven novel that spans from bustling London streets to the boulevards of Paris, a woman with a dark family secret tries to turn back the hands of time before it's too late. "A wonderful twisty novel of family and secrets--the...

"So, so, so good. An elegant, twisting story of loss and longing, of the ache of the unknown and the drowning weight of past trauma."--Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark EDGAR AWARD FINALIST - A BOOKPAGE...

Winner of the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction "A very good novel indeed, with echoes of Gabriel García Márquez, Katherine Anne Porter, and even Graham Greene."--The New York Times Richard and Sara Everton, just over and just under forty, have come...

Author: Yoko OgawaISBN-10: 0593313410ISBN-13: 9780593313411Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2025Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.81d

A heartbreaking read about the bonds between a mother and her child, and how we will do everything to save them... My son George is everything to me, but he's slipping away, and no one can tell me why. Every test comes back inconclusive,...

Author: Danielle SteelISBN-10: 0593498631ISBN-13: 9780593498637Publisher: DellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Pages: 320Format: Paperback

A knitting retreat gets knotty in this humorous and poignant novel about love, second chances, and the unyielding bonds between mothers and daughters.Maggie Hodges and her daughter Piper are looking forward to a restful knitting retreat in the picturesque village of New Hope, Pennsylvania....

A fast-paced, suspenseful novel that questions desire, painful family dynamics, and the preoccupations with Jihadism. Yacoub, a Kuwaiti man in his sixties, devotes all his time to managing his many successful businesses. His wife, frustrated by the deteriorating situation of their marriage, fills the...

A "seductive, addictive, and penetrating" (Samantha M. Bailey, #1 internationally bestselling author of A Friend in the Dark) thriller set in the vineyards of Napa Valley that asks: what happens when the husband you thought died years ago shows up alive? Ten years ago,...