Fiction - Family Life - General

Author: Elena E. SmithISBN-13: 9798227037688Publisher: Elena E SmithLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2024Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d

Author: Scott GordonISBN-13: 9798990103528Publisher: Maxwell Street BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2024Pages: 348Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

Author: Christi PopeISBN-10: 1977275575ISBN-13: 9781977275578Publisher: Outskirts PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Rosario FerreISBN-10: 0452277485ISBN-13: 9780452277489Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1996Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.12h x 4.84w x 0.47dReview Citation(s): New York Times 11/10/1996 pg. 68

The author of The September Queen explores Tudor England with the tale of Bess of Hardwick--the formidable four-time widowed Tudor dynast who became one of the most powerful women in the history of England. On her twelfth birthday, Bess of Hardwick receives the news...

There's nothing like a death in the family to stir up old loves, rivalries and hatreds . . . In a world of winners and losers; friends and lovers; horses and dogs, Bramble, Felicity and Helena are sisters - but three very different women....

A beautifully written novel with great emotional appeal, set in Cornwall and Canada. Marine historian Mark Hannah finds a hauntingly beautiful figurehead in Newfoundland. He traces her ship, The Lady Isabella, back to a small port in Cornwall where he meets Gabrielle Ellis, the...

Barbara Winslow, Rebel This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting...

The first book in Pat Conroy's Story River Books new southern fiction series is now available in paperbackAuthor: John WarleyISBN-10: 1611175607ISBN-13: 9781611175608Publisher: University of South Carolina PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2015Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d

An electrifying New York Times bestselling novel about marriage and deceit that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and relationships are unraveled. With her inimitable...

This is a modern day version of the Houdini brothers - Harry and Theo. Follow these two brothers as they discover magic, and how their lives revolve about performing. However, when one brother is offered an opportunity and the other isn't, their lives become...

From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story--by turns heartbreaking and life-affirming--of a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis and learning to live and love anew. "The bravest book you'll read all year."--Jodi Picoult "What Does It Feel Like? is fiction, but it...

Fortuna is a tall, elegant grandmother from Northern New Mexico who is living on the streets of Albuquerque after fleeing her abusive husband. She witnesses the aftermath of a crime and is entangled in the lives of the criminal and others who become connected...

Lexi Forester, a spoiled fourteen-year-old growing up in the suburbs of Northern Virginia, sees her parents' relationship dissolve overnight into a troubled marriage. Two months later, her father, Tom Forester, is killed in a military training accident. Lexi is lost in grief, and she...

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the...

"Author A.P. Murdock is a newcomer to the Literary Guild. However, is no stranger when fiction meets resiliency."- Steven-Mikal BrownFormer On-Air Radio Personality and Program DirectorE.J., a precocious nine year old tries to prevent his mother, Dionne, from marrying her young paramour, Mr. Red,...

WW II soldier Bud falls in love over letters with Speed, who becomes his wife. They recall what it took to develop their forever marriage, all while leaning on family and their unshakeable faith.On a snowy Christmas, Bud and Speed recall the origins of...

In the ancient Chinese game of mah jongg, each player must make the most of the tiles they've been given. It's the same in the game of life.When Roseann is called away to a family emergency, her mah jongg pals bring in a new...

This is a dual-language book with the French text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. Translated by Eleanor Marx, Karl Marx's daughter. See more details about this and other books...

As Cynthia Wright's marriage implodes, she is forced to raise her teenage son, Isaiah, alone. The pressure of providing for them through her salon is a full-time job in itself. When Cynthia sees Isaiah pulling away and escaping into video games, tensions rise and...

It's 1970, and on the Windy Creek Reservation in South Dakota, amidst the rise of AIM in neighboring Pine Ridge, a baby boy appears nestled in a box of Styrofoam peanuts on the doorstep of St. Rose Catholic Church. His appearance disrupts the predictable,...

Sissy is used to being on the outside. The new kid at school, in the West Country of England, she observes the other girls like they're foreign creatures. At home, her troubled mother lets Sissy fend for herself.But after Sissy fights a boy in...

An outlandish comedy of morals and manners about a highborn British family of outrageous characters, by the acclaimed author of The Improbability of Love and House of Trelawney Eight years have passed and in 2016 many things have changed for the eccentric Trelawney family....

"Ring" takes you on an unforgettable odyssey through the depths of human emotion, from the hollows of grief to the heights of newfound hope. In the backdrop of a snow-covered sanctuary designed to aid the dying, Lee, a middle-aged non-binary person from the Midwest,...

"How can someone care so deeply about me, enough to bring me to my favorite spot when I need it most, when I don't even give him half the effort? How can someone want to help me when I am so unloveable? How can...

An engrossing work of autobiographical fiction about the relationship between an actress daughter and her larger-than-life father--the astonishingly assured debut novel of Sonya Walger, actress on Lost, For All Mankind, and more. Lion is about an unlikely parent, more legend than presence in his...

A restless New York artist searching for purpose returns to Barbados and stumbles into the role of activist in this scathingly funny and brilliantly observed satire about privilege, family discord, and performative do-gooding.Dark, lanky, and bald, New York-raised photographer Sabre Cumberbatch can't tell if...

La sorprendente primera novela de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ganadora del Commonwealth Writers' Prize como Best First Book. Una conmovedora historia sobre una virulenta relación familiar ambientada en un África de conflictos políticos y sociales. -Edición especial limitada con prólogo de Gabriela Ybarra- La joven...

She was so sure she knew her family's story . . . Now she wonders if she was wrong about all of it.1969. When Mattie Taylor's twin brother was killed in Vietnam, she lost her best friend and the only person who really understood...

It is a bright, clear Saturday morning when Ken Graham's ex-wife stumbles through the front gate of his sheep farm, having walked, inexplicably, from the hospice facility where she has been spending her last days. Lena, suffering through a rare form of dementia compounded...

Joan (Murphy) Lail was a renowned Hickory Daily Record and Charlotte Observer newspaper columnist. With her insightful and thought-provoking writing style, Joan brought a fresh perspective to various topics that resonated with readers.Her journalism career started in her sophomore year of high school and...

Joan (Murphy) Lail was a renowned Hickory Daily Record and Charlotte Observer newspaper columnist. With her insightful and thought-provoking writing style, Joan brought a fresh perspective to various topics that resonated with readers.Her journalism career started in her sophomore year of high school and...

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Stunning." --People * "Dazzling yet devastating...T?ib?n is simply one of the world's best living literary writers." --The Boston Globe * "Momentous and hugely affecting." --The Wall Street Journal * From the beloved, critically...

Mothers talk about impossible choices. But, as I look at my daughter in a hospital bed, her red hair fanning out around her, my heart feels literally torn in two. Should I risk my son's life to save my daughter, or keep my little...

In the ancient Chinese game of mah jongg, each player must make the most of the tiles they've been given. It's the same in the game of life.When Roseann is called away to a family emergency, her mah jongg pals bring in a new...

What do you know about your ancestors?This book, the third one in the ANCESTORS series is based on the lives of the authors parents.Dot and Ben were born in the 1920's, lived and fought in WW2 and their story continues until 2014. What was...

In the wake of the Great Depression, during the 1942 bombings off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Deacon family has lost the life they knew before the Second World War. As the family and their closest friends struggle to make sense of...

Josh Olsen is seventeen years old and a junior at Middletown High School in Florida. He seems to have everything a teenage boy would want. He is the son of a former professional football player, the star of the varsity football team and soccer...

A small Southern town. An ordinary Saturday night. A little boy disappears without a trace.Everyone in Wynotte, North Carolina, knows the name Davy Malcor. Knows the video clip of him juggling four balls, "All at the very same time!" Knows the Marty McFly jacket...

She thought she knew her best friend...She was wrong.The weatherworn cottage Clachan has always been Jo Wilding's sanctuary, a blissful escape from her tumultuous home life. From the first summer Rachel invited her to join the Willoughby family in the wilds of Scotland, she...

In this tale of darkness and radiance, trauma and healing, innocence lost, and forgiveness gained, Zoe Thomas comes to terms with the death of her adored, idealized father. As in the mythic tale of Persephone and Demeter, Zoe is taken down into the Dark...

Hannah always finds a way to get what she wants.Daughter to Chloe Cartwright, an eccentric prize-winning writer more interested in politics than parenthood, and sister to a rugby-star brother, Hannah has never excelled at much besides shoplifting. Discovering a talent for petty crime, she...

Penny Baker is winning at life. Sort of. Her work is demanding, her kids are demanding and her husband seems to be undergoing some weird midlife crisis but she is juggling it all - with the added delights of the menopause. But when the...

Looking out over the twinkling city lights of Florence, Claire thinks of the letter that has brought her here. Written by a woman who escaped the Blitz, it holds a secret kept for a lifetime... but can Claire make the woman's dying wish come...

A heartwarming story from the author of the Mountain Women Series In a remote mountain town, an extended family looks forward to gathering at Christmas. But one of them is missing-Charlie, a deputy sheriff. Though loved and admired, Charlie is not well understood, and...

The devastatingly original debut novel from a winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. "Profoundly moving . . . I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this." --Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace First published by a small press...

Reminiscent of Hello Beautiful and The Lying Life of Adults, this powerful narrative delves into social changes from 1970 to 2000 and captures a woman's journey in a pre-#MeToo era via the tale of a mother who returns to her hometown to face the...

Bestselling author Kris Radish takes the emotional measure of mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends in her wise and wonderful new novel of a woman unsure if she's on the verge of a breakdown--or a breakthrough.... After all these years is there any way you...

Dare to dream... George Fraser has a mission. Owner of catering firm Finger Food and black sheep of her family, she's determined to succeed in business where she's so far failed in her personal life. Asked to cater for gorgeous rock star Quinn Blake's...

It only took a moment for everything to go wrong. In the blink of an eye, the birthday party became a nightmare when we heard the screams... How did this happen? And who is to blame?I'm so happy as I walk to pick up...