Fiction - Family Life - General

""The Unwanted is a tightrope of a novel: tense, precise, stunning in its scope and power.""--Tea Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Morningside"Urgently contemporary and prescient in equal measure, Fishman's The Unwanted channels the spectrum of literature's finest, emotionally visceral dystopian masterworks,...

Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li's haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families fighting to inherit it.They...

'Why this novel? Because we need empathy, understanding, some magic and hope more than ever in our lifetimes.' HOLLY RINGLAND 'Most novels leave us with learnings, but very few refine your character. I left more astute, more empathic, and somehow wiser after I read...

A timeless love story set against the backdrop of aristocratic society in Victorian England. Doctor Thorne is a classic tale of romance, intrigue, and scandal that explores the social hierarchies of 19th century England, while also illuminating the timeless struggles and desires of the...

Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf, published on 14 May 1925, that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. The working title of Mrs....

This defiant and unapologetically sardonic debut novel explores the collision between fear and longing. Eyes in Front When Running is a quick-witted family drama that uses humour to tackle heavy topics, such as the crumbling of a relationship, miscarriage, abortion, infertility, and postpartum depression....

Friendships, illness, family troubles, and insecurity.Get Off the Struggle Bus leads you to look for God in the middle of all you don't understand about life.God revealed himself in the Old Testament through names that describe his character and power.Creator, Healer, All Powerful, The...

Chronicling five years of a troubled romance, This Is Between Us offers an intimate view of one couple's struggle--from the illicit beginnings of sexual obsession to the fragile architecture of a pieced-together family. Full of sweet moments, emotional time bombs, unexpected humor, and blunt...

In the small rural community of White River, an old native settlement close to Route 66 in New Mexico, a small city hall and town square, shops, and houses decades old make up the main thoroughfare. A young African American boy, Raymond Chisnek, is...

A brilliant modernist classic--now available for the first time in a stand-alone edition This dreamy, formally audacious story of a summer's day in the life of one family is a small masterpiece by Katherine Mansfield, hailed as "one of the great modernist writers. Virginia...

For over 150 years, Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her "own darling child." Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five...

Twelve tense hours, three women, and the suicide standoff that turns one family's little piece of heaven into a scene from hellRonnie Farnham's husband is supposed to move out today. But when Jeff pulls into the driveway drunk, with a shotgun in the front...

"Beryl Bainbridge, Muriel Spark, and Graham Greene all come to mind, but Azzopardi's style is all her own."--Chicago Tribune New York Times Editors' Choice, the breathtaking third novel from Booker Prize finalist and national best-selling author Trezza Azzopardi is at once a powerful love...

As For Me and My House is an essential Canadian work--a precise and compelling portrait of our culture, our psyche, and the nature of contemporary art itself, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. In the windswept town of Horizon, an unamed diarist paints...

A woman used to taking charge is about to meet a man who'll make her lose control in this novel from the New York Times bestselling author of On Dublin Street. It has always been up to Johanna to care for her family, particularly...

When tragedy strikes across the ocean, Ellie Lerner drops everything--her marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbs--to travel to London and pick up the pieces of her best friend Lucy's life. While Lucy's husband, Greg, retreats into himself, his and Lucy's eight-year-old...

Envision an imaginary dial with which you can turn all sounds from your everyday experience onto the highest level of volume: that is the world of 13-year old Ship Sooner whose incredible ability to hear sounds normally indiscernible to the human ear defines her...

For fans of Midnight Mass comes a haunting new horromance. Something dreadful is festering in the old Thomas Bog. For years, it's done what it has been taught to do--it swallows. But it's done following orders.It's been three years since Mila Thomas' brother Jed...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in TroubleNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - New York Magazine's Beach Read Book...

For fans of Midnight Mass comes a haunting new horromance. Something dreadful is festering in the old Thomas Bog. For years, it's done what it has been taught to do--it swallows. But it's done following orders.It's been three years since Mila Thomas' brother Jed...

A mother- and daughter-in-law. To move on, one of them will have to move out in a hopeful and hilarious novel about widowhood and family friction by the bestselling author of Don't Forget to Write.It's 1963, two years since Barbara Feldman's husband died. Raising...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon gives her beloved fans what they want for Christmas: a new Mitford novel. When Father Tim's wife, Cynthia, asks what he wants for Christmas, he pens the answer in a love letter that bares his most...

From prizewinning Italian author Andrea Bajani: the secrets of a man and his country as seen through the eyes of the homes that have guarded his secrets.The Book of Homes is the story of a man and his friendships, his upbringing, his discovery of...

Some lives are valuable. But none are sacred.The nation once known as the United States of America has fallen. On the West Coast, five cities collectively known as Cinq battle rampant poverty and disease. On the East Coast, the wealthy, technologically-advanced Federation's human population...

Gologorsky returns to the settings of her previous books: the American working class of Long Island and the Bronx, where the last two generations of Americans have been scarred by the legacy of foreign wars and the addictions left in their wake. In The...

Raised by Buddhist monks in Delhi after his mother's untimely and tragic death, Eshaan sets out on the challenging quest to feed and nourish the hungry so they do not suffer her same fate. His attempts to achieve this monumental goal are constantly thwarted....

Anne Powers Book Club edition of her original work (published 2014) is a reformatted production designed for readers' engagement and discussion. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee in the 1950s, with its home fires, small town ways, and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl...

City girl falls in love with country boy in the family saga Locust Hill. Carl Parsons' third novel details the struggles of an independent, small acreage farm family in the Mid-Ohio Valley of West Virginia. With wife Cassandra as the narrator, the novel recounts...

When the Rose Briar Blooms is a love triangle that readers will be eager to debate.Since the first day of sixth grade, Kay and Anna have been inseparable. With fierce and fearless Anna, Kay navigates the middle and high school years of their coastal...

When Willie Pears arrives in Paris, she's looking for adventure and to reconnect with her brother, Luke. Even so, when she takes a job teaching at a center for immigrant girls who are all hoping for French asylum, she does not expect to feel...

The acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel, full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn't go as planned. If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you...

Out of the frayed filaments of the yarn of memory, a cohesive tale is spun.In Starry Starry Night, Shani Mootoo gives us the singular voice of Anju Goshal, a young girl living in 1960s Trinidad. Spanning her life between the ages of four and...

From "the great German-language writer of his generation" (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Christian Kracht's career narrated by an eponymous "Christian" (the first was his bestselling debut, Faserland). Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where Christian has returned to care for his eighty-year-old mother...

Author: Lionel ShriverISBN-10: 0063345404ISBN-13: 9780063345409Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2025Pages: 288Format: Paperback

When once-successful novelist Michael Morrison falls out of love with words he falls out of love with life, spending his days walking the downtrodden streets of a northern city that mirror his own demise.He rediscovers his vigour when he meets mature student Marianna, but...

Forever Friends: Heartbreaking and Touching Dog StoriesDiscover the profound bond between humans and their loyal companions in "Forever Friends: Heartbreaking and Touching Dog Stories." This heartfelt collection of 30 poignant tales delves deep into the lives of dogs and the unwavering love they share...

A friendship is put to the test when a young woman disappears from a quiet community in a dark and twisty novel of suspense by the bestselling author of Open House and The Vacation Rental.Sloane Thompson has a daughter named Daisy, attends school activities...

The BRAND NEW instalment in Sarah Bennett's gorgeous, romantic Juniper Meadows series.When Sadie Bingham's life takes an unexpected turn, her children treat her to a well-earned break at Juniper Meadows, the gorgeous Cotswolds estate owned by the Travers family.The festive season is in full...

Author: Katharine DavisISBN-10: 0451225872ISBN-13: 9780451225870Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2009Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 7.96h x 5.40w x 0.74dReview Citation(s): Romantic Times 03/01/2009 pg. 63 - Excellent

Have you felt so unlovable and out of sorts that when authentic love showed up, it appeared too good to be true?Zora first felt rejection, danger, and pain from her mother at the tender age of five. Despite bouncing from foster home to foster...

Whoever said, "One bad apple spoils the bunch" had the Yarbrough's in mind. Clifford and Darcy Yarbrough are the founders of Lakewood Hospital Center. The only black-owned medical metroplex in the city of Houston, TX. Cliff is the only surgeon to specialize in kidney...

Meet Ezrah King. He's a first responder turned police officer. It was a courageous move being that his father hates cops. He grew up in the civil rights era and is disgusted by his son's choice. Although his friend Ivy Mitchell keeps blasting her...

The epic bestseller and winner of the prestigious Aegon Literary Award in Hungary, Captivity is an enthralling and illuminating historical saga set in the time of Jesus about a Roman Jew on a quest to the Holy Land. A literary sensation in Hungary, Gy...

Spanning from 1902 to 1953, covering four generations, tracing intertwined lives that travel from the dark north country of Europe to challenges and opportunities in America, the novel Beyond the Forest is a story about family, commitment, devotion and love. It begins as a...

In the city of Lagos, the commercial capital of West Africa, Anya, a newspaper reporter and Blossom, a former Miss World, are siblings whose fears and insecurities stem from the habits they picked up in their childhood and adolescence, in a society bedeviled by...

Turtles are well known for their oral tradition, but now, for the first time, one of their stories has finally made it to print. Zack and Mack, a real, and rare, two-headed Red-Eared Slider, entertains us with a tome suitable for all humans. The...

By the Thurber Prize-winner and author of the New York Times bestseller, Love Poems for Married People, Talk to Me is a wry yet tenderhearted novel for our age, and a sharp look at how one man's mistake can be what leads him back...

Ladies & Luggage takes readers on an unforgettable journey of four women transitioning from adolescence to womanhood. As the narrative unfolds, the protagonists must face the stark realities of life, enduring disappointments and grappling with the tough hand they've been dealt. Yet, they're not...

For fans of Elin Hilderbrand, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller Pamela Kelley invites readers to step onto the shores of Nantucket, the perfect backdrop for your summer beach read.Three sisters, each at her own crossroads in life, inherit a Nantucket restaurant and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Danielle Steel delivers a poignant novel about a mother and daughter who must repair their relationship and find a way to follow their hearts. Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome...