Fiction - Family Life - General

He's used to putting out fires, not starting them. Firefighter Blake Steele is living day-to-day, desperately trying to escape the guilt of his haunted past. He doesn't deserve love after what he did, but when the gorgeous Mary Franks moves in next-door, the conflict...

This is a story of an Italian American family. Giovanni was the son of a tenant farmer who would always be a tenant farmer like his father and his grandfather until he fell in love with the owner's daughter of the estate where he...

The Offshore Pirate is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American author and novelist. The story was first published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1920 and later included in Fitzgerald's collection of short stories titled Flappers and Philosophers. The story...

In these beautifully crafted stories, Graham Swift--author of the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders--presents a vision of a country, England, that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions. Moving from the seventeenth century to the present day, from world-shaking events...

The Escape of Bobby Ray Hammer is a second generation "Grapes of Wrath" novel in that Bobby's parents migrated to California during the 1930s, the "Dust Bowl" days. Bobby is just entering his senior year in high school and eager to graduate and go...

After a harrowing voyage from Italy, during which his mother died, seven-year-old Vittorio arrives in Canada with his newborn half-sister, and is reunited with his estranged father, a dark, isolated, and angry figure he hardly knows. The story that follows spans two decades of...

Faith Freeman has a secret: When she was eleven years old, she caught her stepfather molesting her twin sister, Hope. Years later, Faith is a successful literary agent. Her twin, addled by drugs and prostitution, struggles through life on the Harlem streets. When Hope...

Author: Elizabeth TommeISBN-13: 9798893165845Publisher: Selfpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2024Pages: 434Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

A stunning deluxe edition--featuring sprayed edges, four-color endpapers, and more--of New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren's fan favorite "resoundingly life-affirming tale" (Entertainment Weekly) about childhood sweethearts reconnecting by chance. Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as...

A novel tracing a father's disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise. One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He's carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the...

An epic and powerfully intimate novel about an unconventional and irresistible family--from the New York Times bestselling author of In Love, White Houses, and Away Immigrating alone from Paris to New York after the crucible of World War II, Gazala Benamar, still a teenager,...

Author: B. B. MosesISBN-13: 9798893155075Publisher: Page PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2024Pages: 22Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.06d

Pap worried Harry would be so very far from the farm if he made it to the finish line. He knew his number-three son was not cut out for the life he had chosen for himself. But Cleveland? The city was filled with sin...

The HIGHLY ANTICIPATED adult debut novel from #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Ren?e Ahdieh "I can't remember the last time I had so much fun reading a book!" --Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Park Avenue is all the things I...

A twisty, gripping novel that wraps around a deeply moving love story, from an electric new voice in upmarket women's fiction. Honor seems to have everything: she adores her bright and beautiful daughter, Chloe, and her charming, handsome husband, Tom, even if he works...

Author: Aram MrjoianISBN-10: 0063393522ISBN-13: 9780063393523Publisher: HarperviaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Pages: 288Format: Hardcover

When a tight-knit family moves from Brooklyn to Maine, their lives are upended by an event that will alter their new community forever in this bighearted, sparkling debut for fans of Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Pineapple Street, and Schitt's CreekHazel Blum,...

Author: Sue HalpernISBN-10: 0063415380ISBN-13: 9780063415386Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2025Pages: 352Format: Paperback

Author: Lisa Ridz?nISBN-13: 9798217006731Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.63d

The international bestseller with over half a million copies sold, for fans of Convenience Store Woman and The Kamogawa Food Detectives. Welcome to Tenderness! A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience...

A heart-stirring novel about a mother's love, in all its forms, as a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption when she was a teenager growing up in the Caribbean, from the prize-winning author of Golden Child For much of her...

A charming and comic debut novel about a quirky ensemble embarking on an epic quest to find bigfoot Every month at St. Pete's Tavern in rugged western Montana, a meeting is convened by the Basic Bigfoot Society's members--both of them. Jute and Vergil are...

For readers of Paul Murray's The Bee Sting and Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street, an irresistibly funny and incisive novel about a wealthy family who are confident in their moral goodness--until the discovery that their patriarch has secretly given all their money to charity ruins...

With the scope of a saga and the heart of a thriller, this is an evocative historical novel following a married couple whose idyllic 1950s suburban life is threatened by the promises they made during World War II. Sidney and Ida Whipple are living...

From the author of Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times best seller Nightcrawling, here is an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle. Adela is sixteen...

Over the course of one sunbaked summer vacation, a family is pulled into a web of mysteries that the younger daughter sets out to solve. A tense, page-turning debut of childhood, innocence, and evil. At ten years old, she catches more than her parents...

Set in Paducah, Kentucky, Lee Cole's follow-up to Groundskeeping ("An exacting, beautifully textured debut novel . . . presages a major career"--The New York Times Book Review) is a powerful, page-turning story of two half brothers navigating the complexities of class and privilege in...

A transformative love story about two best friends who fall for each other, fall apart, and try to find their way back together in their tight-knit British-Jamaican community. South London, 1981: Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is...

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...

June views the world differently than others. A keen horticulturist, she can name every flower species in the alphabet (J begins with the Jamaica Plum). Yet, when it comes to people and relationships, she's still cultivating an understanding. After her mother's unexpected death, June...

Author: Lizzie Damilola BlackburnISBN-10: 0593299051ISBN-13: 9780593299050Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.56d

Author: Esther FreudISBN-10: 0063434474ISBN-13: 9780063434479Publisher: Ecco PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbs

Dive into a world of lies, misplaced trust, and lust where there's no right answer. It's sister against sister, friends betraying friends. How many points of view can you see life from?Author: Damian WilsonISBN-13: 9798890615350Publisher: Newman SpringsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2024Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x...

"After decades of bestsellers, Wayward Girls might be Susan Wiggs' opus. A gut-wrenching story of survival, friendship, and justice. Masterful."--Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell"The magnificent Susan Wiggs takes a leap into the history of women..a...

A Simon & Schuster book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.Author: Jon RaymondISBN-10: 1668084910ISBN-13: 9781668084915Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.67d

Joanna Piercy must rescue an elderly man from a hostage situation that has chilling roots in the past in this enthralling mystery. Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy's joy at her close colleague Detective Sergeant Mike Korpanski's return to work is short-lived. Elderly Joseph Holden has...

A sweeping historical romance inspired by the real-life daughter of Miguel de Cervantes, celebrated author of Don Quixote Madrid, 1599. Following her mother's sudden death, fifteen-year-old Isabel goes to live in the family home of her father, the poet and war hero Miguel de...

Author: W. Chase HoltzclawISBN-13: 9798893457780Publisher: Christian Faith PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2024Pages: 20Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.25d

In this compelling narrative, Pila masterfully weaves the intricate lives of her characters against the backdrop of contemporary Nigerian society. The story begins with Isioma, a young doctor navigating the complexities of love, work, and societal expectations. An encounter with a distraught cab driver...

The peace that cousins Niz and Lia McGregor had hoped to find by each coming back to live in their old home town, could well be compromised with the arrival of young Dallisse, Niz's granddaughter, for an extended stay. Ex-resident Finnbarr Reilly's visit after...

In Odysseus Abroad, Amit Chaudhuri charts a day in the life of two Indian men--a twenty-two-year-old student trying (and failing) at being a poet and his bachelor uncle, who has been living in genteel poverty for nearly three decades--as they explore London, the city...

A special paperback edition with colored sprayed edges of this compelling multigenerational novel of survival, love, and the families we make."A family secret, a DNA test, a journey as rich and colorful as the early-day circus itself. Through Cecily Larson's hidden life, Ellen Baker...

Author: Darryl MartelISBN-13: 9798227744180Publisher: Darryl MartelLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2024Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.16d

Frank Pullman was on a path of self-destruction, trying to outrun the shadow of tragedy, until he stumbled across an odd combination of mobile home park and flea market, and its eclectic community. There, he began to heal. But some wounds don't close easily.When...

The BRAND NEW feel-good read from USA Today Bestseller Judy Leigh'We're celebrating life, ' Rose said. 'Life, every single minute of it. Tell me, girls - is there ever anything better to celebrate than that?'Five years after seventy-something Tess jetted off to Paris with...

Who knew a feral cat named Sebastian could observe and share so many different insights about human behavior- all within a formerly abandoned lot?FINDING ZACHARIAH allows you to capture the spirit of what is possible in a community garden. While this remarkable story is...

A powerful story of betrayal, courage, and starting over from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels . . . From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful--at least on the surface. But no one in her...

The BRAND NEW hilarious novel from the #1 bestselling author, Maddie Please guarenteed to make you laugh out loud! Joy Chandler has had enough! All she wanted was a lovely family Christmas with perfect turkey and luxury crackers. Instead, daughter Sara announces she's getting...

The next instalment in Georgina Troy's uplifting Hollyhock Farm series Festival season has come to Hollyhock Farm... Since his sister Lettie took over their parents' farm on the beautiful island of Jersey at the start of the year, Zac Torel's life has changed completely....

In this compelling narrative, Pila masterfully weaves the intricate lives of her characters against the backdrop of contemporary Nigerian society. The story begins with Isioma, a young doctor navigating the complexities of love, work, and societal expectations. An encounter with a distraught cab driver...