Fiction - Family Life - General

"Fabre's unexpectedly touching novel has a laugh of its own behind its low-key, smoothly translated narrative voice ... The city it evokes isn't the Paris of tourists but of local people."--The New York Times"Fabre is a genius of these nuanced, interior moments ... The...

This is the wonderful journal of Cassandra Mortmain, aged 17. A heartwarming and completely original coming-of-age story, it is the account of one year in her life and that of her extraordinary family. With great wit and sensitivity Cassandra reveals her eccentric father with...

A New York Times Notable Book 2016An October Indie Next List "Great Reads" PickAfter the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, copes with the loss by writing his personal history. While researching the letters and journals he left behind, however, she...

An alcoholic on awakening is much like a newborn baby--fragile and without any defense against a very sober world. September Remember begins with a terrifying--and darkly funny blackout--the sort of a blackout that pulls you right into the mind of a drunk on the...

To escape an addiction, a young blind man in California steps into a station wagon with his friends and their foster kids to deliver a handmade casket to a dying grandfather in Florida. As they battle their way across the southern half of the...

The Betty Trask Award winner: A young female convict recounts her life to discover the good in it, and in herself, in this "moving, compassionate" novel (The Sunday Times). Twenty-one-year-old Beth has done plenty of good, grown-up sorts of things--including having a baby. But...

"Hughes is a very good writer, if 'good writing' has to do with precision, eloquence, beauty, and passionately held belief."--Times Literary Supplement Welcome to Crooked River, population 2,851 and falling. Eli has lived in Crooked River his whole life, ever since he was born...

A Globe and Mail Bestseller!Clara Durling, a British widow of the First World War, arrives in Canada as the new superintendent of the Lethbridge Hospital just as wounded soldiers stream home. Lily Parsons is a young, widowed schoolteacher from Nova Scotia who ends up...

Family means everything to widowed Alaskan fisherman Ray Bancroft, raising his granddaughter with help from a multitude of gods and goddesses--not to mention rituals ad-libbed at sea by his half-Tlingit best friend. But statues and otter bone ceremonies aren't enough when Ray's estranged daughter...

Stories chronicle the journey of a Mexican-American immigrant family in Southern California, from the 1920s to modern day.Author: Donna MiscoltaISBN-10: 0932112641ISBN-13: 9780932112644Publisher: BlairLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2016Pages: 305Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Justin's Haythe's remarkably assured debut, The Honeymoon, has been compared to the work of Ford Madox Ford and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in London and Venice at the end of the twentieth century, The Honeymoon follows a young man as he looks back on...

A delightful, witty, passionate novel that follows its hero from the Depression era to the early twenty-first century--from a master of American letters and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.John Updike's twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows Owen Mackenzie from his birth...

Turning Up The HeatBeing an attorney and single mother in a small Mississippi town isn't easy--especially with your rich, appearance-conscious family nearby. After years of struggling, Leona Bingham is finally beginning to redeem herself in her relatives' eyes. This newfound respect is shattered, though,...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel delivers an exciting and moving historical novel about a courageous wife and mother hiding in occupied France. In July 1944, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris. Half French, half German,...

Author: Lisa D. a. RobertoISBN-13: 9798892211598Publisher: Fulton BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2024Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d

A devoted mother outrunning a troubled childhood and adapting to an empty nest is tested in ways she never expected in this suspenseful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. On the occasion of her daughter Valerie's wedding and her upcoming...

Author: Barry KnisterISBN-10: 1959620312ISBN-13: 9781959620310Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2024Pages: 350Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.78d

In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.'s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities--and explosive tensions. In 1945, Charlie Trammell steps off a cross-country train into the vibrant tapestry of...

"[A] provocative page-turner." --People "In Parkhurst's deft treatment, Harmony becomes a story of our time. . . Parkhurst cements herself as a writer capable of astonishing humanity and exquisite prose." --Washington Post "Gorgeously written and patently original." --Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author...

A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer--about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they've inherited, a once flourishing farm that...

Rising above the devastation of World War I, a young half-French, half-American woman remains true to her own independent spirit in this powerful historical novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Alexandra Bouvier is born in Paris in 1900, at the...

From the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping multi-generational story about motherhood, race, and secrets.When 24-year-old Kareela discovers she's pregnant with a child she isn't sure she wants, her struggle to understand her place in the world as a person who...

An all-new stand-alone novel featuring Brenda Jackson's fan-favorite Madaris family. Ninetysomething Mama Laverne is determined to find all of her great-grandchildren their perfect match before going home to glory. So far, her success rate is 100 percent--and she intends to keep it that way....

How can a girl keep hope amid unimaginable suffering?Winter 1945. The Soviet army is sweeping into East Prussia, and they have their sights set on punishing Germans for the Nazis' reign of terror. Thirteen-year-old Giti and her younger brother, Otto, live with their mother...

My wife and I have a happy marriage.I've always tried to be a good husband.She's a good mother.She would never abandon our family.I don't know her at all.I work nights so it's almost 3 a.m. when I get home. It's day ten of the...

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, a "dazzling" storyteller (Washington Post), and a "comedy writer with a heart of gold" (NYT), comes a novel about one woman's quest to build her own life before it's too late. Jess Capodimonte Baratta...

A taut story of hidden violence and self-deception from "an Indian Chekhov" (Suketu Mehta)An upper-middle class couple in Bangalore, Venkat and Viji, find their quiet life upended--and the flaws in their marriage exposed--when two strange young men come knocking at their door in the...

As she gazes at the lights of Siena glowing in the dusk, Jess flips through the yellowing pages of the diary that led her here. Written by her grandfather during the war, it holds the answers to a family secret that might just change...

A sensitive portrait of a vulnerable yet resilient young woman who, with the help of an inner voice and newfound friends, attempts to find her way at the turn-of-the-millennium Manhattan. For as long as she can remember, Peppa Ryan has been guided by a...

Drawing on the author's experiences, this debut novel follows an interracial blended family living in Chicago in the 1990s. James Stewart III's powerful debut novel documents the life of a working-class interracial couple and their children in a Chicago suburb in the early 1990s....

She's either being stalked or losing her mind.A job at a camp in the rustic and often rugged landscape of West Texas offers Maribel Montgomery a chance to escape both, especially if she makes sure no one knows where she's there.But when the body...

From International Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist Shokoofeh Azar, comes a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a love affair lasting decades.Spanning fifty years in the history of modern Iran, this lush, layered story embraces politics...

To protect their lavish allowances, four charismatic sisters in their thirties try to seduce, cajole, and mislead their less well-off neighbor Benjamin, who their father has hired to investigate an attempt to smother him while he was in the hospital recovering from a car...

"We're calling it... Lotte Jeffs' novel is the new One Day." --Sunday Times Style Magazine"The love story we've been waiting for." --ELLE UKAn utterly charming and modern debut novel spanning ten years of extraordinary friendship, about soulmates, unconventional families, and the limitless, ever-changing forms...

Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and...

"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,...

A sweeping historical novel in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O'Farrell set during the time of the Tudors' ascent. The Pretender tells the story of Lambert Simnel, who was raised in obscurity as a peasant boy to protect his safety, believed to...

A piercingly beautiful and candid novel of love, sex and independence in 1920s Japan by a trailblazing Japanese writer "Remarkable . . . [Chiyo] has a hard, unerring eye for the tender detail" -- Financial Times She left her home, just a girl, determined...

Author: Thomas Kinkade, Katherine SpencerISBN-10: 0425253716ISBN-13: 9780425253717Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2013Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from "one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature" (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive). Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women...

Author: Charlotte LevinISBN-10: 1529084113ISBN-13: 9781529084115Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2023Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.89d

Literary legend David Adams Richards follows the epic Miramichi Trilogy with a startling standalone novel of concentrated power. The Raskin brothers were once proud to be producers of a much sought-after material of great benefit to society--asbestos. But now their mine is under close...

From the author of Penelope in Retrograde comes the sparkling story of three generations of women, each trying to live out their own dreams without breaking a leg in the process.Liza Day's mother isn't dead, but leave it to Darla Day to throw herself...

Part coming-of-age tale, part family saga, an extraordinary debut novel set between Berlin, Chicago, and Jerusalem "about being Jewish and German, and all the awkwardness that entails" (The Guardian). It's the hottest of summers in Chicago, and fifteen-year-old Margarita is spending her vacation as...

LanceThe Early Journals of Will Barnett, Book 2 When Lance and Will meet on a windswept ledge on the edge of a desert mountain, neither young man knows the trials by fire they will each face. Lance, the troubled, violet-eyed young man, who has...

A Special Bond Like No OtherA wonderful auntie loves by choice. Embracing children not her own, giving the gifts of time, attention, and fun. With a little learning thrown in along the way.Always receiving more than they give, from ever-changing relationships with fantastic kids...

"And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint"; Luke 18:1 KJV. The bible admonishes that men ought always to pray and though I know it means everyone should be praying, but there...

Why I love my Mommy is a children's book written in the perspective of a little girl expressing her emotions as to why she loves her mommy. Mothers are special. They devout their entire lives making sure that their babies are always happy and...

Just because they're family doesn't mean they are without contradictions or complications...It's the week that won't seem to let up. The sweltering Chicago heat begins to seep into the city and drench everything in a humid haze. An unexpected death, difficulties at work, and...

A case of mistaken identity - Tired of falling for down-on-their luck musicians and nursing a recent broken heart, Serena Moore is determined to make a brand new start--and avoid men for awhile in the process. When she comes back from her Cancun vacation...