Fiction - Family Life - General

Author: Nancy PeachISBN-10: 1804366293ISBN-13: 9781804366295Publisher: Hera EdicionesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2023Pages: 394Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.88d

If someone you love was assaulted, abused, or was a victim of a crime-you are a secondary victim. If the perpetrator is also someone you love, there are no words. Madeline and Summer are more than best friends. They might as well be sisters;...

In Old Pybus, Warwick Deeping tells a poignant tale of redemption and family bonds. As an estranged son returns to reconcile with his father, deep-seated emotions and past grievances surface. Rich in character and atmosphere, this novel explores the complexities of forgiveness and the...

The Royal Tenenbaums meets Fleabag in this hilarious and dizzyingly smart debut about an over-the-top evangelical Texan family--and the daughter at its center racing to finish her very important novel before her ex-boyfriend finishes his. It's 2011, and twenty-three-year-old Joan West is not like...

A witty, atmospheric, and brilliantly told novel that offers compelling portraits of womanhood, motherhood and female friendship, along with the irresistible intrigue surrounding an extraordinary British family Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us--whose writing is "emotionally wrenching and utterly original" (Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)--delivers a tour...

Lakshmi Vikram is grieving for her husband when her estranged daughter announces that she has suddenly divorced. Committing to the hope of reconnecting with her now-remorseful daughter, Lakshmi sells the family's motel in Hays, Kansas, and treks westward to be with Naisha in the...

For fans of women's fiction about difficult ethical choices, The Perfumer's Secret is a mesmerizing novel set in France in which a passionate documentary maker must choose whether to tell the truth--even if it could ruin the lives around her. Zandy Watson, a thirty-year-old...

From "one of the great--if not the greatest--of living Yiddish novelists" (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity "It is me the prophet laments...

Seven Children. Five Mothers. One idyllic commune. What could go wrong?Annabel Cooper wants to save the world. Her story begins in 1964 with her journey to Freedom Summer in Mississippi, where the disappearance of her first love ignites a lifelong fight for justice. Years...

An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter--for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums. Miranda's parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two...

From the award-winning author of Flux comes a dazzling novel about love, family, and the art of sushi that asks: What if you could return to the point of a fateful choice, wiser than before, and find the courage to forge a new path?...

Join Jules Verne on a thrilling voyage with The Castaways of the Flag. Stranded on a remote island, a diverse group of castaways must unite to survive. Faced with danger and discovery, they embark on a gripping adventure that tests their courage, resourcefulness, and...

Love takes center stage when a single mother and her teenage daughters play Juno, Iris and Ceres in a summer production of The Tempest. Jenny Alexander has sought refuge from a troubled past on a tiny, verdant island, off the coast of Washington state....

The threat of losing your child, grandchild, overwhelming you! The devastation of having that child or grandchild already taken! What now, what do you do! Are you feeling defeated: Your adversary is in a better financial position than you! Intimidated into believing you don't...

In this gripping novel of loss and regret, Steve Goldman, about to turn 80, has just buried his wife Evelyn. Alone in his San Francisco home, he ponders his future, wonders if loneliness awaits him as a widower. For that matter, will he want...

SLEEP IN PEACE deals with themes of alcoholism, family secrets, and self-destructive tendencies, this terse but also funny novel is the American version of Fleabag. It's 2007, and while 43-year-old Leanne Spencer's career is building up steam, her love life is a trainwreck. She's...

An aging writer's love letter to his elderly mother, this achingly beautiful work of autofiction traces their family's history in Greece and in exile. Theodor Kallifatides, an acclaimed Greek author exiled in Sweden for more than 4 decades at age 68, visits his 92-year-old...

The previous volume, A Shameful War, ended in 1646 with Royalists forces scattered far and wide. The town of Bovey Tracey and its inhabitants were left to continue their own battles with weather, crops, illness, and general upheaval. A Time of Confusion now takes...

New beginnings don't always mean painful endings . . .A fabulous, timeless story of friendship set in Devon from bestselling author Jennifer Bohnet.As time ebbs and flows over the summer both Katie Teague and her godmother Mattie Cranford discover their lives are at a...

Memories are the ultimate contradiction. They can warm us on our coldest days - or they can freeze a loved one out of our lives forever. The McCarthy family has a trove of warm memories. Of innocent first kisses. Of sumptuous family meals. Of...

Middle-aged Elena Polson has been there, done it, learned from it. Or so she thought. When two teenagers enter her life, her world is turned upside down. All thanks to Hunt Klyce, her significant other. They were on their way to marriage, but so...

Cousin Phillis By Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellAuthor: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN-10: 1985262169ISBN-13: 9781985262164Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2018Pages: 70Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.14d

You are about to walk inside the explicit mind of a teenager, Scotia, a hermaphrodite who suffers from mental illness. Her schizophrenia is characterized by abnormal social behavior, and her failure to recognize what is real and what is dangerous. Scotia lives a life...

Don DiMarco has a very good life - a family he loves, a comfortable lifestyle, passions and interests that keep him amused. He also thought he had time, but that turned out not to be the case. Faced with news that might have immediately...

"Your brother should know the truth." These are the last cryptic words that Ava Barrett's father says before he dies. But Ava doesn't have a brother, as far as she knows, so how can she tell him the truth? She dismisses the conversation and...

Author: Rosie ClarkeISBN-10: 1835181902ISBN-13: 9781835181904Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2024Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.68d

A timely tale of ownership and loss, loneliness and connection, and a meditation on all the stuff in our lives. Home staging is an art of erasure. But in some cases--no matter how much clutter you remove, or how many coats of white paint...

Translated from the Japanese bestseller that was adapted into a popular television series, seven struggling customers take up the unique opportunity to adopt a blanket cat . . . but only for three days, the time it'll take for their lives to change, for...

Author: Teresa RyderISBN-13: 9798893084122Publisher: Newman SpringsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2024Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d

Perfect for fans of The Rehearsals by Annette Christie and What Might Have Been by Holly Miller, All the Other Me is a poignant story of what it means to come to terms with who you are--and who you can be.Isabelle Duprees is one...

Author: Rosie ClarkeISBN-10: 1835181899ISBN-13: 9781835181898Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2024Pages: 234Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Debbie MasonISBN-10: 1538725347ISBN-13: 9781538725344Publisher: ForeverLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2025Pages: 400Format: PaperbackSize: 6.75h x 4.19w x 1.00d

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.Author: Nadia HashimiISBN-13: 9798874818029Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2024Format: MP3 CD

Author: Faye CadyISBN-13: 9798891307711Publisher: Christian Faith PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2024Pages: 236Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.69d

Author: Monique AsherISBN-13: 9798228001282Publisher: Dreamscape MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Format: CD

Author: Camilla IsleyISBN-10: 183633351XISBN-13: 9781836333517Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2024Pages: 194Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Jaimie AdmansISBN-10: 183561762XISBN-13: 9781835617625Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2024Pages: 258Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Author: Jemimah WeiISBN-10: 0385551010ISBN-13: 9780385551014Publisher: Doubleday BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.03d

Rising above the devastation of World War I, a young half-French, half-American woman remains true to her 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 dawn...

It's Georgie's fiftieth birthday, and she's running headfirst into a whopping mid-life crisis. Daughter of a minister and a high school principal, Georgie is a perpetual do-gooder who has spent her entire life putting others first-right down to hosting her own birthday parties. Her...

"This beautiful page-turner kept me reading all night." --Janet Skeslien Charles, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library When a young librarian discovers historic dollhouses in a hidden room, she embarks on an unexpected journey that reveals surprising secrets about the lost...

The New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love.Harlem, 2019. Ardelia and Oliver are hosting their engagement party. As the...

"This beautiful page-turner kept me reading all night." --Janet Skeslien Charles, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library When a young librarian discovers historic dollhouses in a hidden room, she embarks on an unexpected journey that reveals surprising secrets about the lost...

East LA to Encino is a gripping exploration of the profound impact of family trauma, offering an unfiltered glimpse into one woman's journey toward redemption and healing. Elizabeth Dillon, the indomitable survivor, bares her soul in a roller coaster of raw, unvarnished emotions, from...

"Wonderful reading." --Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel--a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle--told in the singular voices of the residents of a Beaux Arts apartment building in Belgium in 1939 On the eve...

A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. "One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank." --The New York Times Something is afoot at the Ivory Gallery in London. A string of suspicious incidents--a Kang-Tse...

""A rich and witty story with two complicated women at its heart, Hate Follow is a beautiful debut. Quinn-Kong's story of an influencer mom sued by her resentful daughter is of the moment, but its exploration of female power and privilege is timeless."" --...

We all need shelter from the storm - it's called home.For years, Carla Douglas has wanted nothing more than to get out of Gloucester forever. She's lived her entire life in the neighborhood called "the Fort" in a small fishing village, but hasn't had...

Lucy Blackman grew up without speech and had problems understanding oher people, but here she gives us six stories which she wrote to show how speech patterns enrich narrative. Subjects range from mythical Greece to Australia in the 1980s, and include fictionalised portraits of...