Fiction - Family Life - General

How long can the shadows of the past hang over one family?Philip Richards puts little value on his life. He avoids close relationships and blames himself for the sexual abuse his sister suffered at the hands of their grandfather. To drown his sorrows and...

LONG-LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - Heartbreaking and redeeming, Pearl is the story of a young woman in a small English village who is struggling with the disappearance of her mother, what feels like a lifetime ago. "Pearl is a gorgeous, swirling, haunted and...

A breathless, riveting novel about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally "normal" life for a career in stand-up comedy. Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams,...

A Secluded Artist in the Scottish HighlandsRhiannon MacDowall has agoraphobia. Traumatized by the kidnapping she and her brother survived as children, she spends her days in her family's castle, creating beautiful paintings of her beloved Highland landscapes. But something is missing. She craves the...

Author: David StanleyISBN-10: 1804399981ISBN-13: 9781804399989Publisher: Olympia PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2024Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.58d

We both say she's our daughter. But one of us is lying...My little girl Lola is my whole world. Three years old and so beautiful - all golden curls and dimpled cheeks.But on our way home from holiday she was stolen, whisked away in...

Her husband is dead. But his secrets live on... When Constance hears the knock on her door, her heart misses a beat in fear. She ushers the police into the lounge, and they tell her to sit down. It's hard to stop her legs...

A motherless daughter. An Italian prostitute. A mail-order bride. Are these women brave enough to change their fates?Demitra's mother died in America in the 1930s when Demitra was three years old. Her father took her home to the Greek island of Cephalonia, where she...

A woman returns to her estranged, magical family in Appalachia but when a man is found dead in the woods nearby, it seems the family has conjured something sinister in this lush, shimmering, and wildly imaginative debut novel that is perfect for fans of...

In this sweepingly emotional story about what it takes to build the life you want, an heiress, her escort, and a young orphan must stick together during the tumultuous beginnings of World War II.When Laura Powell and Henry Salter travel to Paris in 1938,...

Take a stroll down Serendipity Lane, breathe in the beautiful fragrances of the flowers and see if you can spot the love in the air...After years of juggling long hours at work, studying for her dream vocation and struggling for money, Sadie realises it's...

My Hair Is A Mood is about a little black girl and her hair. Her hair describes how she's feeling. This book will also teach little children how to respect other people's boundaries. Children will also learn self-regulations tips, as well as, learning about...

"A sweet, beautiful story with fabulous characters and a powerful message: Value your elders who, beneath their wrinkles, embody fascinating stories of heroism, humor, and perseverance."-Award-Winning Author, Alicia Dean"A powerful reminder that love can move mountains. Through adversity, we find strength. Through self-discovery, we...

Author: Beth Dotson BrownISBN-13: 9798888244487Publisher: Koehler BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2024Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

Author: Michele M. FeeneyISBN-10: 1685134637ISBN-13: 9781685134631Publisher: Black Rose WritingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2024Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Danielle Steel, a stirring novel about a woman striking out on her own after loss as her adult daughters try to find their own independent paths in life. Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from...

In The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton paints a poignant portrait of New York high society in the 1870s, exploring themes of love, duty, and betrayal. Newland Archer's engagement to MayWelland is tested by the arrival of the enigmatic Countess Olenska, challenging societal norms...

Are you ready to embark on an enchanting journey through the realms of life, love, and lessons? Introducing 'Between Yesterday and Tomorrow - Where Imagination and Reality Collide, ' a compelling collection of short stories that will captivate your heart and ignite your spirit....

Cathelina Duvert's debut novel The Box is a soulful exploration of resilience, forgiveness, and the transformative journey of healing. Estranged from her family, grappling with pressures at work, and trapped in the suffocating grip of depression as a result of childhood trauma, magazine executive...

The Morettis are a Sarasota family of Cafeteria Catholics, (rejecting some Vatican doctrines-mainly pelvic issue ones). Widower Dante goes to his first Confession in decades. He confesses gossip: telling his two daughters of his brother Nick's fling with the caterer for his wedding vow...

In the sun-soaked vineyards of Napa Valley, a daughter's destiny is held hostage by a father's secret.Born amidst the dawn of Prohibition, Sofia Russo always dreamed of being her family's next winemaker. But when her father chooses her reluctant twin brother, Alonso, to carry...

Author: Luanne RiceISBN-10: 0143125567ISBN-13: 9780143125563Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2014Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d

Novel 1 - AN ELONGATED SHADOW - Subhas, the pivotal character of this novel observes life at very close quarters. To him the most amazing thing is this human being with whom he interacts. The gradual deterioration of human values, the bizarre society where...

Can the sins of the past be left behind? A gripping, emotional novel of guilt and forgiveness by the bestselling author of Remembering Ellie.Helen Reid has received a devastating diagnosis-and as she contemplates the life she's lived, she is haunted by a terrible mistake...

Small Town...Big SecretGeorgetown, Kentucky, 1939Soon after dawn on a February morning, Elliott Chapel discovers an unconscious, bloodied, young woman lying face up in the cold waters of Penny creek. Days later, awakening from her hypothermic coma, Ellie Evans finds herself on the Chapel Farm....

A funny, achingly sad, sneakily wise story of family and what happens when three men--all of whom are completely ill-suited for fatherhood--take charge of a toddler following his mother's sudden death. Boy-made-good T?o Erskine is back in the north London suburb of his youth,...

A rich, deeply moving portrait of a young Korean woman in 1930s Japan who is torn between two worlds and must reclaim her true identity to provide a future for her family.1928, Japan-occupied Korea. Eleven-year-old Miyoung has dreams too big for her tiny farming...

An elderly woman recounts her Dutch family's survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations. Eighty-year-old Mieke Geborn's life is one of quiet routine. Widowed for many years, she enjoys the view from...

In this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves.Erudite Evelyn, her cynical daughter Charlotte, and Charlotte's optimistic...

Neil Callery, Sheila's father, has vanished without a trace following his wife's death. He has been missing six years. Sheila refuses to believe her father is dead, convinced that she would have felt it deep within her soul if he was.Now Sheila discovers that...

From the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Girls Who Disappeared One of them lied. One of them died. When one sister dies, the other must go to desperate lengths to survive ... Haunted by her twin sister's death, Abi is making...

Lord Bryson Mackenzie Fraser is in need of a wife, but not just any bride will do. He needs someone unaware of his reputation in the Highlands, or the stipulations behind his inheritance. On the pretense of visiting his aging aunt in London, he...

The movement of the ship seals his fate. He could be sailing anywhere, anytime, but he's not, he's going to the other side of the world. He could be anyone, but he's not, he's the son of a respectable London businessman. His crime? An...

A poignant and humorous story of love despite dysfunction among an assimilating extended Jewish family riddled with secrets in suburban Cleveland during 1961.While in today's world they would just seem a bit eccentric, in 1961 suburban Cleveland, the Katofskys of 2207 South Green Road...

This is the third volume in the series. Continuing with characters introduced in In "Heaven Can't Wait or Can it? Dreams Of Love, Deceit and Hope" and Heaven Can't Wait or Can it? The Sequel, this novel, "Heaven Can't Wait: or Can it? THE...

Nothing can knock someone off their feet harder than discovering things about their family and their past they never knew existed. Cristian embarks on a journey to the Dominican Republic that will uncover the truth about his family and his ancestry he had no...

Set against the backdrop of the deadly 2007 wildfires that forced the evacuation of half a million San Diego residents, Debra Ginsberg's new novel, The Neighbors Are Watching, examines the dark side of suburbia--a place where everyone has something to hide. Aside from their...

The Howells family are revisited in the summer of 1991. David, 18, is preparing to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity for the Howells.Author: Robb Forman DewISBN-10: 0316890685ISBN-13:...

Have you ever done something that you'd give anything to take back? Bruce did. And back-paddling to try to justify his actions occupied a lot of his time. Choices had consequences, and looking back, he wondered if what he lost was greater than what...

"If you enjoy Susan Wiggs and Kristin Hannah, you'll love Greiman's stories of redemption and renewal." --New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Eagle "Greiman's writing is warm, witty and gently wise." --New York Times bestselling author Betina Krahn Bravura Lambert has a daughter to...

"An arresting account of the contemporary Haitian-American experience." --Publishers Weekly "This novel in short stories will appeal to readers of literary and Caribbean fiction." --Library Journal, Xpress ReviewsKatia D. Ulysse's debut provides the rare opportunity to peer into the private lives of four secretive...

ACCLAIMED NEWFOUNDLAND AUTHOR Jill Sooley's second novel, Baggage, examines the step family. Drawing on humour and heart¬break, as she did in Widows of Paradise Bay, this story unfolds from the perspectives of three women - Marie, mother and stepmother; Floss, Marie's daughter who grew...

A comic novel about the ups and downs of Mr Polly's life as a drapery assistant and later owner of his own shop. He is in an unhappy marriage and bankruptcy is nearing when he decides to commit suicide. His attempt spectacularly fails but...

When Viola learned of her husband Humphrey's affair, it seemed obvious that she must divorce him so he could be with the woman soon to bear him a child, but now she must deal with her highly-strung and sensitive son Hilary and her sister...

Author: Antoinette R. DavisISBN-10: 1490900780ISBN-13: 9781490900780Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2013Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d

Finding Bobby Ray is the story of a youngster who is abandoned by his mother, who is en route to assist his father in escaping from a notorious prison. He is discovered on the steps of a church by a miner, Dwane Benny Baird,...

"A fast-paced, entertaining summer read" (People), The Why of Things is a "keenly observed" and "richly drawn" (The New York Times) novel about a family fighting towards hope in the wake of a terrible tragedy. Since the loss of her seventeen-year-old daughter less than...

BRUISER is the story and the nickname of a nine-year-old boy living in a highly dysfunctional family in the 1970's (a bit like "The Ice Storm" on the Upper West Side) whose search for meaning and answers leads him to the open road and,...

Introduction by Hortense Calisher Commentary by Edmund Wilson, Henry Seidel Canby, and Arthur Mizener Fitzgerald's second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy....

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), Saul and Patsy is "stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight" (The Los Angeles Times). Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul...