Fiction - Family Life - General

New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde returns to the enchanting Hobby Island with a poignant story about two estranged sisters who come together after the passing of their mother, featuring family, love, and one unforgettable summer-- perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis and...

What if the journey of a lifetime began with the turn of a page?When 18-year-old Daniel Marlowe inherits a rare, signed first edition of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, he doesn't expect it to change his life. But alongside his loyal dog--also named Steinbeck--Daniel...

Kilteegan Bridge, Co Cork, Ireland. 1975 Lena Kogan is thrilled when her son Emmet invites her to the opening of his first building in San Francisco. It's awkward that she will be staying with Emmet's father Malachy Berger, but he's in a serious relationship...

A scalding, darkly humorous debut following an enmeshed mother-daughter duo, both best friends and enemies, and the plastic surgery addiction that warps their lives into a perilous spiral At twenty-six, Linli Feng is still trying to escape her mother Fanny's orbit. But after three...

From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles.Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café, a...

A retired surgeon, Jack, set up to investigate the murder of his son Stewart for which new evidence has emerged. Jack senses the opportunity to emulate the investigative detective works of his departed father but soon learns the difficulty of such a job. On...

1929. Holcombe Hall, Lancashire Holcombe Hall's enigmatic owner has passed away, and now as the roaring twenties come to an end the upstairs and downstairs residents of Holcombe Hall begin a new era. Parlor maid Florrie Bickerstaff has always endured the quick temper of...

The Parched Garden continues the journey of the couple from Roses Amidst the Thorn, now navigating the desolation of a broken relationship. Struggling with unanswered questions and God's silence, they remain spiritually connected yet divided by pride and pain. Instead of reaching for each...

Meet my mother-in-law (Susan) . . . Nana to my three boys . . . to my three boys she is/was known as Nana Banana. She was one of a kind, always silly, always trying to make her grandkids smile and laugh with her...

All moms need breaks. No judgment here. In fact, this break is doctor recommend. Cheers! Written in the vain of "Go the F**k to Sleep" this book will make you laugh out loud. It's better than wine itself...almost. A salute to moms everywhere. And...

I'm a Little Cowgirl is a fun little book on a girl who loves the farm and being outside. Enjoy this little adventure of living on a farm!Author: Emily PalmaISBN-13: 9798393331795Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/2023Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.07d

A young boy receives a bottle lamb that everyone has given up on and raises him. Much to everyone's surprise, Sam the Lamb gets healthy, he wins the big competition at the state fair. The boy eventually sets the lamb free to live with...

In the digital age, where every moment is captured and scrutinized, Jess Turner was living the dream. With millions of followers and a life seemingly perfect, Jess was the envy of many. But behind the glitz and glamor, cracks were forming. When Jess receives...

Prejudices and belief systems can be crippling. Sometimes, you may remain completely unaware of your deep-seated prejudice. What if your prejudices, beliefs, and traditions are challenged? What if the shackles of the past, intrude into your present? What if you are forced to make...

Secrecy surrounded Barbara's birth. A bright country girl, she gained a full scholarship as a medical student. One evening, five male coeds violated her and left her pregnant. The university told her not to reveal the incident, as the boy's families contributed large endowments....

Life can be sweet when you're a supermodel icon.Sean Foster's life is like a fairytale. Leaving his North Dakota home, he travels the world with his wife and young daughter, on an adventure funded by his reality star mentor.It's almost enough to make a...

Caitlyn Shaw has it all. Surrounded by loving friends and family, she is excited to begin training for her dream job and become a primary school teacher.But after suffering a traumatic event, Caitlyn's idyllic life is shattered. She finds herself spiralling into an abyss...

Dante Rinaldi is born to Italian immigrants in the West of Scotland. Stranded by World War Two in Italy during a summer with his grandfather, Dante grows roots in his family's rural homeland and, as a young adult, identifies with a band of mountain...

Set in Port Credit, Ontario, Issy Bauer tells the story of her twin, Eric, who returned from Afghanistan one year before unable to cope with civilian life. Having sustained physical injury, human loss, and psychological strain, Eric sought to relieve himself from his tormenting...

Looking back at the life of Dr. Windsor Langford Waterbury III, the reader will be directed to Dr. Waterbury's unexpected revelation of a secret about his highly respected grandfather, which precipitates a review of the earlier part of his own life. Although socially privileged...

Erin McAvoy is thriving-or at least, she'd like to think so. A connoisseur of tacos, snarky T-shirts, and Pinterest projects, she spends her days caring for the incredible animals at one of the country's top zoos. Life is good... except for the life-changing secret...

Marcel Proust praised the "grammatical purity" of Flaubert's style, while Vladimir Nabokov said that "stylistically it is prose doing what poetry is supposed to do". Similarly, in his preface to his novel The Joke, Milan Kundera wrote, "Not until the work of Flaubert did...

"Allison sat on the porch steps and watched as the lady loaded what little belongings she had into the big green car. She tried not to think about what was ahead of her. She had done this so many times before she did not...

Twenty-one-year-old narcoleptic Angel Duet knows her father harbors secrets. He loves and protects her, but his suspicious refusal to discuss her mother's death drives Angel to worship an image created from the little history she does have: her father's sketchy stories and her mother's...

Targeted twice, Emma has done her best to move on with her life. Things are looking up, and the family is headed overseas to take part in a fairy-tale celebration. It doesn't take long for Emma to realize that evil knows no boundaries. The...

A gripping, emotionally charged drama unfolding over a tumultuous week for Anna Mason, a Melbourne doctor: her newborn nephew's life hangs in the balance, her parents meet after years of rage and silence, and Anna's own heartbreak can no longer be denied. Moving, complex,...

Believing herself abandoned by her parents, a young girl sets off on a quest to find them and on the way finds herself. Travelling through Russia, Romania, Finland, Sweden and America, her search is aided at different times by her Aunts Aninya, Elena and...

The novel walks a line between comedy and wrenching sadness. It is fluently written and its depiction of domestic chaos ' is all too recognisable' Sunday Times A Family Man tells the story of thirty one year old Matt Webster, who arrives home from...

Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. The sky and stars as well as river Thames serve as...

Aftershocks is a novel about a young family we meet at a time when tragic news is received surrounded by mysterious circumstances.Diana Moss has woven a heart-rending story around words we may often say, such as - "What if...?"We are shown this young mother's...

Zoe and Ollie Morley tried for years to have a baby and couldn't. They turned to adoption and their dreams came true when they were approved to adopt a little girl from birth. They named her Evie. Seven years later, the family has moved...

Cuts and Bruises is an emotional journey through the eyes of a young lover who has been freshly wounded. Readers witness as the hopeless romantic undergoes a whirlwind of troubled sentiments from exchanges of passionate longing and fabricated recovery to reluctant acceptance. Through the...

It's a mother and a father who have lost their two sons. It's a sister who has lost her two brothers. It's loss and devastation. Acute pain-made more palpable on a day of worldwide, historical significance-brings to the fore the emotional wedge driven between...

Why leave Manhattan for a town in Maine "where no one goes and nothing ever happens"? Confused, bereft, but following a hunch, Lee Baldwin moves to Limmington Mills to revel in solitude and brood about her missing husband. Life has other plans. While never...

Born and raised in the mountains of West Virginia, Amanda Martin has dreamed of becoming a country music singer and songwriter since she was six. Now twenty years later, Amanda is still chasing her dream in Nashville where she is slowly realizing that becoming...

Jill Kreshky is recently divorced. She is doing her best to reclaim her life. After an accident causes her to spend six weeks alone in a hospital, she is haunted by the awareness that she must find a way to once again become part...

This is a book about happy people getting their hearts right. It's about getting away from selfishness, seeing the difference between selfishness and being yourself. What is there to do inside to make happiness? There are things to do. They use a basic, ruthless...

Believing in Tomorrow is a heartwarming saga by Rita Bradshaw, author of the bestselling One Snowy Night.Author: Rita BradshawISBN-10: 1529049865ISBN-13: 9781529049862Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 7.64h x 5.12w x 1.18d

"The greatest writer of his time."-Edmund Wilson "One of the great poets of the novel, a genius of his art"-Edgar Johnson "His characters are marvelous, his insights wonderful...you don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better."-Ruth Rendell The Old Curiosity Shop was...

Evelyn has enjoyed writing since 2008. She is married and has two adult children. Her hobbies include classic car shows, baking cakes and camping with her husband, Kevin. Evelyn is thankful for the writing talent that she has been given and plans to write...

Faith Brooks, prodigal daughter, has returned, attempting to put the past year of rebellion behind her. Remarkably, she's been restored into the loving arms of her family and her old life. But past decisions have consequences-she is now a mere shell of herself-pregnant, penniless,...

Brittani Sonnenberg's "emotionally charged" (Real Simple) debut novel following a family's search for home abroad is now in paperback. Chris Kriegstein is a man on the move, with a career that catapults his family across the globe. For his wife, Elise, the hardship of...

This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace...

Annika from the age of 17 over a 2 year life span experiences suffocation and depression in her traditional and disciplined family. It is her father Tony whom is very controlling and lives back in time therefore, he applies his old fashion customs upon...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

From the bestselling author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier comes an "exhilarating, searing" (The Washington Post) collection of short stories framed by two unforgettable linked narratives. "With this collection, Ann Packer takes her place among today's best authors of literary fiction." --The Minneapolis...

Relatively Dead finds Hayden Willingham, a young mortician, trying to recover from an immense loss and finding a new family with the most unexpected guests. A journey of self-discovery with horror, romance, drama, and a few jokes sprinkled throughout is what you'll find within...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Mansfield Park is a novel written by Jane Austen, first published in 1814. The story is about Fanny Price, a young girl from a poor family who is sent to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle at their estate, Mansfield Park. Fanny is...

The author has seven published novels. His enduring interest in Canadian Army history is based on having attended the McGill medical school through the Regular Officer Training Program which required three summers of basic and field training followed by three years of military service...