Fiction - Family Life - General

Clemmie, a small fluffy white dog, loves the mailman. He comes to her rescue inthis story of adventure and puppy love. Based on a true story with photos of real pets at the end.Author: Dan Pasley, Mary Ann WittmanISBN-10: 0985282592ISBN-13: 9780985282592Publisher: R. R. BowkerLanguage:...

Social media's wilting civility spills dangerously into local bars.As temperatures rise during an unusually hot summer in the town of Mancheville, Pennsylvania, debates become heated and citizens find themselves more divided than ever. When social media arguments enter real life and are fueled by...

"Vivid descriptions of characters and the beauty of a remote region of Oregon are the highlights of this work of literary fiction with distinct messages of redemption, forgiveness, and tolerance." -Sublime Book ReviewJoe Wallace returns to this remote Oregon valley from self-imposed exile to...

Aidan is a little boy who loves life and loves his family. He enjoys doing many interesting things both indoors and outdoors. Colorful artwork and interactive prose will entertain any child as they have fun along with Aidan.Author: Brenda MickelsonISBN-10: 151868405XISBN-13: 9781518684050Publisher: Createspace Independent...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

After her father's heart attack and subsequent surgery, Helen Atherton returns to her hometown of Washington, D.C., to help take care of him and, perhaps more honestly, herself. She's been living in Los Angeles, trying to work in Hollywood, slowly spiraling into a depression...

The much-anticipated second novel by the Man Booker Prize finalist and national best-selling author of The Hiding Place is a harrowing, elegant, and vivid portrait of a lost life at last reclaimed. Winnie would say she's no trouble, content to let the days go...

Melanie Marsh is an American living in London with her British husband, Stephen, and their two young children. The Marshes' orderly home life is shattered when their son Daniel is given a devastating diagnosis. Resourceful and determined not to acceptt what others, including her...

The author of the critically acclaimed The Book of Jonah explores questions of love and choice, disappointment and hope in the lives of two strangers who meet by chance in this mesmerizing tale that unfolds over one Thanksgiving Day.Adam is a former musician and...

In the spirit of Nicholas Sparks comes If Wishes Were Horses. Author Robert Barclay has crafted a deeply moving story of love, hope, and forgiveness, as two damaged souls torn apart by a common tragedy slowly find a way to heal. Destined to be...

'Thank you for inviting me, ' says the woman at the door. I've never seen her before, but she pushes past me and throws her arms around my husband's neck. I'm frozen in shock. Who is she? When I hear her name, the world...

Sweet Row Baptist Church is ready for their monthly Potluck, but the pastor is prohibited from being there to pray over the meal. What will happen to the event and are future meal events threatened? A 'crisis' becomes a surprising opportunity for the small...

Sweet Row Baptist Church is ready for their monthly Potluck, but the pastor is prohibited from being there to pray over the meal. What will happen to the event and are future meal events threatened? A 'crisis' becomes a surprising opportunity for the small...

As Pamela sits heartbroken in her favorite chair following the death of her beloved husband, Takis, she attempts to unravel the layers of her existence whose very first memory could have been her last. We follow her through her cinematic reality, rewinding time and...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel's deeply moving novel is the story of a woman whose life is turned upside down while living temporarily in the French countryside. Oona Kelly Webster has much to be grateful for... A striking woman with red...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Perfect Things comes a moving novel about the bond between a five-year-old abandoned by his mother and the man who raises him. "This novel will envelop you like a fuzzy blanket." --USA Today After accidentally...

Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival. With Adam playing Santa while draped in Mrs....

Author: Jeffrey ArcherISBN-10: 1250363284ISBN-13: 9781250363282Publisher: St. Martin's GriffinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/26/2013Pages: 512Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.14d

Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, The Golden Land digs deep into the complexities of family history and relationships. Etta Montgomery is a Boston-based labor lawyer coming to terms with the love and loss...

As America enters WWII, two women on the home front strive to stay strong in a heartfelt novel about hope, friendship, and family by the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus and Golden Poppies.Kay Lynn Brooke is a wife and mother in Berkeley, California, building...

From the author of The Astonishing Thing and Something Worth Saving comes a tender, wise, and insightful novel of a family cat, a second chance, and the love that persists through the deepest heartache . . . They say that cats don't like change....

From acclaimed author Craig Lancaster, a two-time High Plains Book Award winner, comes a story of family violence, dysfunction, and, perhaps, redemption, told across four timelines.More than a decade into the 21st century, Nate Ray is down and in the final throes before he's...

In a smoke-filled room in a seedy motel, Heidi Lonsberry cried out to Jesus to rescue her. The 31-year-old single mother on welfare, estranged from her mother and abandoned by her father, had a hard life. Addicted to the cocaine that was available down...

The year: 1967. The place: Hollywood. The script: impossible. * A blizzard hits America in July. Why? * She hates him. Can she get away with poisoning his coffee? * Why did the world's greatest theater director vanish? * Two small-town lawyers fake a...

In this uplifting story about friendship, love, and growth, one woman must untangle herself from a past that's holding her back in order to move forward into the life that will set her free.Penelope Auberge is at her breaking point. With an overbearing mother,...

Cranky, aging newspaper publisher Anne Canfield is determined to live forever, no matter what. Young, brilliant writer and teacher Indira Anand thinks she wants to die. But the winter morning Anne saves Indira Anand from drowning, everything changes. That evening, Anne stumbles and falls....

Of Fathers & Gods is a debut collection of short fiction that delves into the relationships between fathers and their children: the good, the bad, and the awful. In these emotionally charged stories, a young expectant father, on the edge of homelessness, loses his...

In this award-winning novel that Maureen Corrigan of NPR's "Fresh Air" deems “exquisitely crafted...witty, nuanced, and ultimately moving,” a wise, septuagenarian woman who has lived life on her own terms finds herself thrust into the center of her family's various catastrophes. A Best Book...

A mother defeated by anxiety. A daughter determined not to become her mother. Can one month in Europe reunite them? Anita Lorello is paralyzed by grief. When her husband dies in an accident the night before a long-awaited retirement trip, she's devastated by the...

'Angelica had always known her lack of high birth, fortune or influence debarred her from being presented as an eligible young woman worthy of marriage. To cap it all, being an actress assured she was utterly beyond the pale of respectability.'Nightly at the Covent...

It's so kind of our neighbours to throw this party welcoming us to our new home. My husband and I finally moved to the right place. A happy, safe street where nobody knows about my mistakes. But I soon learn their smiling faces hide...

Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, Like the Appearance of Horses immerses us in the intimate lives of a family whose fierce bonds have been shaped by the great conflicts of...

Preorder the next Primrose Woods story now!Primrose Hall is more than Jackson Moody and his fianc馥 Pia's home - it's the heart of the community.The Sunday craft fairs in the renovated stables are a popular draw for the locals and tourists alike, enticed by...

Welcome Ramadan is a story book for children aiming to introduce Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims, through a series of events and activates of a Muslim family preparing and practicing for the fasting of the month.Author: Bayu Parhara, Assel SallumISBN-10: 8709717617ISBN-13: 9798709717619Publisher: Independently...

In this moving new novel, a slight Midwest youth deals with a rough high school and a vanishing factory town through a devotion to his running sport and his caring family. Aided by a spunky girlfriend, a humble-wise coach, loyal teammates, and his earned...

Ardy is done. She's had it up to here. Something has to change. For better or for worse. The realization comes while she's on her hands and knees cleaning up someone's vomit. Her job sucks.A life-altering event moves her from the Midwest to the...

The Bucklin family loves each other too much to stay away. . . but not enough to behave Being rich is fine, but when wealth comes from striking oil, it's a slippery mess for a family who doesn't know what to do with it....

Henry James (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer who traveled Europe for much of his younger life. Born to a wealthy family that emphasized education, James was tutored by teachers from all over Europe during his adolescence and briefly...

John and Dot Peerybingle's marriage is threatened by a wide difference in their ages. Worried that Dot might be unfaithful, John consults the spirit of the Cricket on the Hearth whose chirping Dot has said brings luck. The cricket assures John that all will...

A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her son between worlds with the help of her Jewish mother-in-law as she wrestles with grief, loss, and--strangest of all--joy.Shortly after her husband Levi's untimely death, Kyoko decides to raise...

A darkly humorous family saga set in Nova Scotia about a young woman coming of age in a family that believes it's cursed, for fans of Emma Straub and Lesley Crewe. Kitten Love's family is haunted by the memory of her teenaged aunt, Nerida,...

When seasoned combat medic Linus "Doc" Winehouse embarks on a seemingly routine mission in Afghanistan, he soon finds himself and his squad ensnared in the fiercest battle they have ever encountered. With unwavering determination, Doc fights relentlessly to protect his comrades, pushing himself to...

With "echoes of Of Mice and Men"(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers--on the run after a hit-and-run accident--who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern...

Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members!When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming self-sufficient. But in truth, it's not the 'good life' she'd imagined, as three hours of digging barely yields a single...

"Sandwich is joy in book form. I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life.""--Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom...

From New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel, a beautifully repackaged and updated edition of "one of her best" (RT Book Reviews) historical novels. Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad walked out on the family when she was a just a...

Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, Like the Appearance of Horses immerses us in the intimate lives of a family whose fierce bonds have been shaped by the great conflicts of...

Looking Up From The Bottom is the story of a family that was almost permanently torn apart by regrettable errors in judgement that set off a dismal chain of events. A three-person family can be likened to a tripod - the family members holding...

Does the love for a wife and the jealousy of an infant, warrant murder? After ten years of bad dates and worse relationships, Stan is in heaven, for he has finally found his soul mate, Erica-a beautiful, caring woman who shares all his beliefs,...

A piercingly original debut about the limits of forgiveness, from an award-winning Scottish poet * A Scotsman 'Best Book of 2023' * From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgiveness How far would you go to overcome the limits...