Fiction - Family Life - General

In the darkness of the Great War, can she create a brighter future? Martha Owen has not had an easy start in life. Her abusive father dominates the family and she has lost her only friend after a painful falling-out. Her father's reliance on...

Reina Maruyama has always had sweet memories of her hometown of Kyoto, Japan. But when her father dies and her mother relocates her to Tokyo, life for Reina is turned on its head. Longing for the home she lost, she struggles to adjust, until...

An artist and her perfectionist mother unpack a lifetime of secrets while on vacation in Paris in this moving novel--perfect for fans of One Italian Summer. A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes--with a giant Pattersonian...

"Hearts Across Borders" is an inspiring and heartfelt story that delves into the life of a gay couple, Alex and his partner, who embark on a journey to adopt siblings from Cambodia. Their lives are filled with joy and challenges as they raise their...

Mick wants to know when he's going to die. Luckily-or unluckily-there's an app for that . . . Dr. Mick Strong has bought himself something unusual for his seventy-fifth birthday: a LifeTime projection. This new tech crunches data including your medical history, diet, and...

Newly reissued for the modern reader, Martin Amis's Success is "a terrifying, painfully funny, Swiftian exercise in moral disgust" (The Observer). Foster brothers Terrance Service and Gregory Riding could not be more different from one another--Terry "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude" and...

A heartfelt and emotional tale of a woman's journey through love and loss, as she navigates the complexities of family and community in a small southern town.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base...

USA Today Bestselling author Brooke O'Brien takes you on tour with A Rebels Havoc in this close proximity, brother's best friend rock star romance. Grab your copy at the discounted pre-sale price!Tysin Briggs is a player.He's cocky, selfish, and sexy as sin. I've heard...

Ethan is only in grade one and already has been kicked out of one school due to his tantrums and pattern of running away when in a panic. Now, his mom's enroled him in a new school but remains glued to her phone, waiting...

Author: Maxima MozleyISBN-10: 1731560516ISBN-13: 9781731560513Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2018Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.21d

Aaron and the White Sturgeon is a story about a road trip where a family of three sees and helps with the landing of a white sturgeon. The story takes place in the 1950s before freeways.Author: Bobbie KaaldISBN-10: 1516845366ISBN-13: 9781516845361Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

Joy Street is a novel by Frances Parkinson Keyes that tells the story of a wealthy family living in Boston in the early 1900s. The story revolves around the life of the family's matriarch, Mrs. Mariah Talbot, and her struggle to keep her family...

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia.Winner of the 2008 PEN Beyond Margins Award. Identity, friendship, and a long-hidden crime lie at the heart of Naeem Murr's captivating novel about five friends growing up in a small 1950s Missouri river...

Morningside Heights, a Manhattan neighborhood sandwiched between Columbia University and the Hudson River, is home to an eclectic mix of academics, struggling artists, and rooted families. In this distinctive world, Peter Frankel, a successful partner in a prestigious law firm, lives a seemingly contented...

A first-rate, beautifully-written novel about an migr living in the States who goes back to her native South Africa to look for her missing mother--a fictional debut that will be a draw both to critics and to readers of fine, accessible fiction Set against...

"A magical tale of love and redemption that is as wonderfully written as it is captivating . . . Angels earns its wings."-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Margaret Quinn lives alone, quietly mourning the disappearance of her only child, who fled ten years earlier to join a...

Even the closest families have secrets ... it's when they are shared that things begin to change. The lives of three very different sisters collide in this witty new novel from bestselling author Maggie Alderson. Recently divorced Rachel is juggling her new dream job...

Love is FreedomIf we open our eyes and awaken from our dream long enough, we find that the path that leads to our true home is everywhere, in all manifestations of daily existence, and in every imaginable lifestyle. It is there in our vocations,...

From the author of the phenomenal internationally bestselling The Keeper of Stories, The Secrets of Flowers is a heartwarming novel about a grieving woman who rediscovers herself by uncovering the lost story of the girl who arranged flowers on the Titanic.The smallest treasures can...

An Iraq War veteran returns to Puerto Rico to reconnect with--and confront--the past in a heart-wrenching novel about duty, motherhood, and the healing power of home.As a combat medic, Lina LaSalle went to Iraq to save the lives of fellow soldiers. But when her...

Experience the gripping tale of two girls - one an immigrant, the other a physician battling life's adversities with faith, hope, and love. Witness their journey towards womanhood and resilience.Mariposa, a novel steeped in personal struggle and perseverance, follows the life of a teenage...

From the author of the phenomenal internationally bestselling The Keeper of Stories, The Secrets of Flowers is a heartwarming novel about a grieving woman who rediscovers herself by uncovering the lost story of the girl who arranged flowers on the Titanic.The smallest treasures can...

The Language of Love and Other Stories is a diverse collection that delves into the many facets of love. From the tender bonds between parent and child ("Claire Juliana," "The Ferris Wheel") to the deep connections between adult children and their elderly relatives ("Mama,"...

Author: Kimberly DiedeISBN-10: 1961305224ISBN-13: 9781961305229Publisher: Kimberly DiedeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2024Pages: 440Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.98d

A glamorous new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers.Author: Danielle SteelISBN-10: 0593498798ISBN-13: 9780593498798Publisher: Delacorte PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.75d

Life with Father is a charming, humorous memoir that captures the eccentricities of Clarence Day's formidable father and the lively Day family in turn-of-the-century New York. With wit andaffection, Day paints a vivid portrait of domestic life, filled with warmth, laughter, and the quirks...

Fate was working against little Brian Mauretti. The food that was meant to nourish him was poisoning him instead, and the doctors said the damage was devastating and absolute. Fate had written off Brian. But fate didn't count on a woman as determined as...

Author: Jean GraingerISBN-10: 1915790778ISBN-13: 9781915790774Publisher: Gold Harp Media LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2024Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

Author: Niall WilliamsISBN-10: 1639737588ISBN-13: 9781639737581Publisher: Bloomsbury PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2025Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.51w x 1.00d

"Margo's Got Money Troubles is the feel-good novel we need right now." --The Washington Post "[An] enormously entertaining and lovable book." --Nick Hornby, New York Times Book Review A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, new...

Fourteen-year-old Nikki Robinson is shocked and terrified when she sees the positive pregnancy test. An immigrant to Canada from the West Indies, all she wanted was to fit in and feel like she belonged at her new school, but her desperate attempts to be...

A glamorous new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers.Author: Danielle SteelISBN-13: 9798217083558Publisher: Random House Large Print PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 435Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.88dLarge Print

Bella's work life at the Rerun Thrift Store is miserable, especially at day's end when she needs to clean the bathroom owner Marge opens to the homeless men who live in the railyard across the street. Her home life isn't much better, and her...

Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * Time 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 * The New York Times Editors' Choice "A thrilling, futuristic family drama that captures the joys, disappointments, and inside jokes of one Shanghai family in reverse...

An exhilarating, brutally candid saga about sexuality and war, tenderness and trauma, young passion and fierce hate, as a teenage boy's unexpected, complicated relationship with a Nazi officer in a WWII death camp is resurrected in 1960s New York City. We Are Only Ghosts...

A successful journalist returns to her hometown just as her biggest mistake becomes headline news in this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt novel about facing life and the past, and its secrets, head-on. Entertainment journalist Dawn Roberts has a lot to work through: a widow's...

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...and tomorrow...In Julian, California, every day is April 22. Most people have accepted the loop--after all, reliving the same day every day, there's nothing to lose. Day drinking until you pass out? Yes. Partner swapping? Why not.But Carly has woken...

So... you think you want to be a cop? Come for a year-long ride-along adventure with Vermont's 'Green-and-Gold' state troopers and other public safety professionals in this policing and family drama from novelist J. Kilburn. Bruce Sutton thinks he's picked up a cool summer...

Mackenzie and Declan need a miracle. A Christmas miracle. Mackenzie wants to belong - to Declan, her boyfriend, and to Stella Mare, her new Canadian home. Putting on the village's first-ever Sea Stars Festival at Christmas will help, but it must be perfect. She...

Experience the beauty of life now in this unique paperback and be enchanted by stories that touch the heart and make you happy. These inspiring short stories explore themes such as the power of thought, the joy of discovery, or the path to fulfillment...

Although a best seller in its day, The Cricket on the Hearth is seen by many of this generation as standing in the shadow of Charles Dickens' more popular volume A Christmas Carol.Undeservedly so A more-than-delightful trace through a Victorian Christmas, Dickens tells the...

Here we meet again the families from One Step at a Time. The children have all grown up and are leaving the nests to have their own Romances and Adventures. Some are Dangerous and some are Sad. But always the Family is there for...

Amongst fiction historical books and civil war books, you will not find any other as compelling as Harriet. The inspirational stories about family life accompanied by romantic and original poems of love will bring you right into the heart of 1860s America - complete...

This was supposed to be a simple summer for Billy: one more lazy expanse of time before college began. He'd fill the hours playing with Jimmy - his canine best buddy - going camping and doing all the things he promised Jimmy they'd do...

They met at the worst possible moment...or maybe it was just in time. David McClain was about to go to war and Lindsey Wood was there at his going-away party, capturing his heart when falling for a woman was the last thing on his...

*The USA Today Bestseller* Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn. It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that's about to change. With Bart...

The Tagger Herd saga continues with Josey Franklin. Life on the Tagger Enterprise Ranch has been more than Josey could have dreamed. Her life is full of working horses with Grayson, cows with Jessup, and getting to know her newly found sister, Nikki.As much...

Nana Bea & Me is a story of adventure and the love of a grandmother.Author: Julian Parker, Jocelyn DabneyISBN-10: 1544169256ISBN-13: 9781544169255Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2017Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.07d

Nora Tagger----THREE HORSES AND A DREAM"How do you keep from changing who you are and becoming someone that other people want you to be?"Nora's summer is all about horses; eat, breathe, sleep, think, talk, walk. Horse shows, rodeos, ranch work, training; with cutting lessons...

Sloan enjoys a day at the park with her two friends, Violet and Jackson. During their outing, the three friends learn the importance of sharing with one another. The valuable and timeless lessons of sharing and spreading love are throughout this book Each child...