Fiction - Family Life - General

From bestselling author Nancy Star comes a deeply moving novel about the truths we hide from others and the lies we tell ourselves.To the outside world, beloved advice columnist Lane Meckler has all the answers. What no one knows is that she also has...

After a tragic accident on Martha's Vineyard, keeping secrets becomes a way of life for the Tangle family. With memories locked away, the sisters take divergent paths. Callie disappears, Mimi keeps so busy she has no time to think, and Ginger develops a lifelong...

He's a man who fixes difficult situations. She's the one thing he can't handle--and the one thing he can't resist... ONLY Sebastian Jameson negotiates for high-end clients who need problems taken care of quickly and discreetly. Accustomed to being in control, he's still reeling...

It's Time is a fresh and innovative collection of twelve flash fiction pieces that focus on the immediacy of the moment. With realistic plotlines and vibrant imagery, the stories convey the lesson that the most valuable commodity we have is time - time to...

The Harvard-trained neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice returns with a breathless, page-turning, and heartbreaking novel about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder and the complex effects this has on her identity, her relationships, and her dreams of a...

In a South Florida beach town, a chance meeting unravels a web of secrets in this gripping novel about the consequences of lying to protect the ones we love.Andrew Williams's perfect Delray Beach house has become a pressure cooker. He and his wife, Amy,...

In this luminous prequel to her beloved Cobbled Court Quilts series, New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick takes readers into the heart of a small Texas town and the soul of a woman who discovers her destiny there. . . Welcome to Too...

The "compulsively readable" (Susie Essman, actress, Curb Your Enthusiasm) author of Best Supporting Role delivers a new novel of one woman who's stretched so thin, she almost disappears... Knocking on sixty, Barbara Stirling is too busy to find herself, while caring for her mother,...

These eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, with highly developed thieves, misadventurers, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor themselves in a new home or sometimes a new reality. This book is about young Nigerian immigrants...

This book is a fictional story about a teenage girl that has endured neglect and traumatic experiences prior to moving in with her father. She reflects on the initial traumas and then over her dysfunctional ways of coping through it and how it dramatically...

As the world teeters on the brink of war in 1937, two young souls separated by an ocean are about to discover a connection that defies logic and time.Grace Fitzgerald, a fiery-haired dreamer, longs to escape the confines of her windswept Dingle fishing village....

For the last ten years, Riley Maddox and his twin sister, Noelle, have been the head of their household, working to stay afloat after a tragic accident resulted in their father being held hostage by a dangerous opioid addiction. Regardless of Riley's fractured home...

Author: James GrippandoISBN-10: 0063358034ISBN-13: 9780063358034Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2025Pages: 320Format: Hardcover

Kaitlyn almost fainted when she saw the large dump truck sitting on top of her brother's mangled police car. She doubted he would have survived such a horrific crash.The Legacy Continues on in Tyler Gary D. Williams In this third book of the Faith...

An afterlife sentence. An innocent hanging in the balance. Can this overprotective dad make things right from beyond the grave?Harry Blunt is in a panic. Inconveniently and recently deceased, he's facing cosmic justice for the crime of "interfering with the development of another soul"...

The third of #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels's novels set in the bluegrass, horseracing country of Kentucky. Nobody can measure up to Nealy Coleman Diamond's standards as a trainer, not even her daughter Emmie, who now runs the family's Blue Diamond...

Author: Nancy JohnsonISBN-10: 0063157519ISBN-13: 9780063157514Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 368Format: Hardcover

Anna Wodiszko grew up on a farm in rural Wisconsin during the Great Depression. Her tenacity and determination help her navigate life with an abusive, often violent father. Anna's story is a series of modern-day events with flashbacks to her youth - sometimes tragic,...

From Lynn Steger Strong, critically acclaimed author of Flight, a sophisticated and layered novel about sisters, betrayal, love, and climate change, for readers of The Dutch House and The Most Fun We Ever Had.The Kenner siblings are at odds. Jenn is a harried mom...

Bella, A Montana ranch wife, and Grant, A famous country western singer songwriter, fall in love by correspondence. After several years, the opportunity to be together comes, but there are Montana secrets to reveal and solve. Bella unites with Grant in Nashville and attends...

The Anniversary covers it all, as only family stories can. It is a story of personal resilience for Maggie and her sister Grace after a tragic event changes everything. Life always required navigational skills for the girls, but nothing they couldn't handle together.Although terrified,...

The Anniversary covers it all, as only family stories can. It is a story of personal resilience for Maggie and her sister Grace after a tragic event changes everything. Life always required navigational skills for the girls, but nothing they couldn't handle together.Although terrified,...

The brilliant, brand-new novel from the TOP TEN bestselling author of 59 Memory Lane New friends, new flame, new fun . . . Kate dreamed of a happy marriage, a house full of children and a fulfilling teaching career. But after twenty-five years of...

Where murder mystery and family saga collide-with deceptively charming Charleston as a backdrop. As a middle child, Boston native Kathryn Moore has always struggled to fit into her nouveau riche family and would rather do anything than carry on with the family business. Her...

A Professional Lola embodies the joy, mystery, humor, sadness, hunger, and family that inhabit modern-day Filipino American virtues.Author: E. P. TuazonISBN-10: 1636282342ISBN-13: 9781636282343Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2024Pages: 208Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.63d

Bestselling author James Grippando's legendary criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is back to defend a single mother accused of kidnapping her own child in a perilous case involving politics and international diplomacy that will test his legal expertise and his marriage. Jack Swyteck's new...

Kept In The Dark by Anthony Trollope is a gripping Victorian novel that delves into the intricate web of secrets, deception, and betrayal within marriage and society. Trollope, a master of Victorian literature, crafts a compelling narrative filled with intrigue and misunderstandings, as characters...

National bestselling author Robin Wells weaves a moving epic that stretches from modern-day Louisiana to World War II-era New Orleans and back again in this multigenerational tale of love, loss and redemption. Hope Stevens thinks Wedding Tree, Louisiana, will be the perfect place to...

The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman...

For fans of the international bestselling and award-winning author of AND THEN THERE'S MARGARET comes the perfect family 'dramedy'. AND NOW THERE'S ZELDA takes readers on another relatable 'slice of life' ride as Allison Montgomery realizes the only way to survive the angst of...

Author: Fran LittlewoodISBN-10: 1420516574ISBN-13: 9781420516579Publisher: Large Print PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2024Pages: 512Format: PaperbackLarge Print

A mother and son, estranged but yearning for reunion, reckon at last with the secret that has kept them apart for decades in this highly anticipated novel by "one of the country's most talented writers" (Wall Street Journal​) At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer...

Ten years ago, retired astronaut Jim Mayfield closed himself up inside Bear Creek Inn, and he hasn't been seen since.Just when the small town of Bear Creek had almost forgotten about their reclusive and mysterious resident, a man from out-of-town flies in on a...

An "epic and marvelously entertaining" family saga by award-winning author Linda Grant about the European Jewish experience from WWI to the present day, that "constantly moves forward even as it looks sorrowfully back" (Financial Times). It's 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter...

Lynden Alan Ackerman the third, aka, Seltzer - don't ask how he got the nickname, his younger sister is still traumatized over the whole incident. Seltzer, the lead guitarist for the band Embrace the Fear was caught in a compromising position with the younger...

Fifth in the USA-Today bestselling PACIFIC HORIZONS series!In these interconnected romantic novels, characters facing tragedy, heartbreak, and painful family secrets are drawn to the wild beauty of the natural world. Breaching whales and howling wolves refresh their spirits, but only human love can heal...

Fourth in the USA-Today bestselling PACIFIC HORIZONS series!In these interconnected romantic novels, characters facing tragedy, heartbreak, and painful family secrets are drawn to the wild beauty of the natural world. Breaching whales and howling wolves refresh their spirits, but only human love can heal...

Third in the USA-Today bestselling PACIFIC HORIZONS series!In these interconnected romantic novels, characters facing tragedy, heartbreak, and painful family secrets are drawn to the wild beauty of the natural world. Breaching whales and howling wolves refresh their spirits, but only human love can heal...

Life-long Jewish friends Naomi, Miriam, and Becky are approaching middle-age gracefully and are content-despite a few hot flashes and mood swings-until life tosses each woman a crisis... When Becky, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, learns of her only son's engagement to a non-Jew, she...

'Funny, engaging and beautifully written' M. L. Stedman Sometimes getting it wrong is the only way to get it right . . . Frances Pilgrim's father went missing when she was five, and ever since all sorts of things have been going astray: car...

Diana Gallagher-Cary is at a tipping point. As an OB/GYN at a prestigious Washington, DC, hospital, she uses her career to distract herself: from her grief over her granny's death, from the pain of her breakup with her long-term boyfriend, and from the stress...

In stylish, intimate, and devastating short flashes, The Doctor's Wife tells the story of three generations of a family in the Pacific Northwest. I read Luis Jaramillo's beautiful collection in one sitting. This is a ravishing book. I loved every word. It should be...

In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and pleasant and polite all day as a grocery cashier....

The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven is a novel written by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. It was first published in 1868 and quickly became a bestseller. The book tells the story of a young woman named Mary Cabot who is grieving the...

Stories in the realistic tradition of lives overlooked, voices unheard, and characters trying to overcome and transcend confining circumstances. In The World of a Few Minutes Ago, award-winning author Jack Driscoll renders ten stories from the point of view of characters aged fourteen to...

"Readers won't be able to resist . . . The conclusion will leave them smiling through their tears." Shelf Awareness "Wood's exquisitely crafted prose radiates warmth, perception, and insight . . . Heartwarming, funny, and uplifting." Guardian The story of your life never starts...

Henning Mankell's last novel, about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a...

A debut novel set in Victorian England with a delightfully cheeky heroine who will have everyone talking. Susan Rose is not your average Victorian heroine. She's promiscuous, lovable, plump, and scheming. Luckily for Susan, her big heart is covered by an equally big bosom,...

A spiritual guide, known as Thou-Est, relates the uplifting story of how deep faith and call to service led a physical therapist and her husband to turn an ordinary farmstead into a haven of healing for children who are medically fragile, traumatized or have...

Lest we forget... A poignant tale of love and loss for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn. It's 2003 and at over 100 years old, Selma Dixon is the last link to the hidden truth behind her village's refusal to honour its war...