Fiction - Family Life - General

Author: Rosanna ChiofaloISBN-10: 1496716388ISBN-13: 9781496716385Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2018Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d

A sequel to his first book, Archie Stanley's Journeys II offers alternative family migrations that parallel the DNA-based migrations described in Journeys. These alternative migrations branch off from the main family migration pathway from Africa to North America, and could account for many relatively...

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Life under Brazil's brutal "cordial racism" comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons.How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for himself in the objects his father left behind: the layers that make up...

Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize"This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear the attention away. Energy and inventiveness distinguish every...

Josephine Daudry: the story of a woman who has had a somewhat rough start in life...not unlike many of us. She wants to be special - she daydreams of being a super person... 'Lacey MacClean'. This is the story of how she finds her...

Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer's Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster, is returning home at last, ready to reckon with her violent past.As a rebellious...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties that bind us Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the...

Four friends, one big secret... and the journey of a lifetime.It's nineteen years since they stopped speaking to each other, but now Morgan needs to contact her three best friends from school: Paige, Emily and Tiff.Her teenage son wants to meet his dad and...

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve.Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life...

Welcome to England's beautiful Lake District, where a reluctant reunion forges a new bond between a daughter and her wayward mother . . . Abby Rhodes is just starting to get her life on track. After her fiancé's unexpected death, she returned with her...

Author: Suzanne BerneISBN-10: 1476794278ISBN-13: 9781476794273Publisher: S&s/ Marysue Rucci BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2024Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.68d

From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unexpected rewards that come from life's detours. Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful...

Eve is a frustrated sixteen-year-old who uncovers a dark family secret. Muriel is trapped in managed care by the son who stole her fortune. Taking advantage of a twisted moment, this unlikely pair embark on a murky mission to rectify their wrongs. Together they...

It is 1999, the year of the Millennium. Meet six unforgettable characters in this gripping, emotional novel and immerse yourself in their struggles, dilemmas, and dreams.How will sheltered young wife Louisa cope with her alcoholic husband while raising their rambunctious twins? Can aging rocker...

Poppy Banks would rather be writing mysteries than writing listicles for her dead-end job at Thought Buzz. But after a series of rejections, she's ready to accept life on the sidelines as a plus-size woman. Her aunt Margot is the one person unwilling to...

In the heady days before a New Year's Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil's Copacabana Beach, a family reckons with a matriarch's long-awaited return, causing old secrets to come to light in this infectiously vibrant debut that explores the heartbreak and hope...

A heartwarming novel about a loving dad who drags his eleven-year-old daughter to "father-daughter week" at a remote summer camp--their last chance to bond before he loses her to teenage girlhood entirely. After his daughter, Avery, was born, John gave it all up--hobbies, friends,...

Habits of the Heart is a moral adventure based on a real family's saga. A story within a story, it opens in the chaotic days of 1967 when Jim, a sophomore in college confused by the times, finds a respite from the storm at...

What happens when a person who is supposed to guide you is lost herself? Would you continue to forgive someone you loved when they persisted to hurt you repeatedly through the years? Darrius McMillian loves his mother, Adrienne, but after years of hoping she...

From a village in Nova Scotia to the trenches of France, P. S. Duffy's astonishing debut showcases a rare talent emerging in midlife. When his beloved brother-in-law goes missing at the front in 1916, Angus defies his pacifist upbringing to join the war and...

Months after a tragic accident, Ella O'Hanlon flees to London in an attempt to escape her grief, leaving behind the two people she blames for her loss: Aidan, the love of her life, and Jess, her spoiled half-sister. Taken in by her beloved uncle...

Bright, witty, and covered in homemade play-dough, Jennifer Bradley has traded her fabulous job at a New York auction house for the life of a stay-at-home mom. No one said it would be easy. Between the alpha moms all around her and a backstabbing...

October Rain by J.W. Dunn is a historical novel relating the story of Thurston Knox and his family as they struggle to survive and prosper on his eighty-acre farm in North Louisiana in 1906. Beset by weather, a son's rebellion, sickness, and death of...

The tenth child of a fantasist mother and an absent millionaire, Matty Crickholme is growinginto a sexually bewildered, neurotic young man. Through the collected paraphernalia of anunconventional childhood, Alex Kovacs creates a quirky, kaleidoscopic rumination on family andhow it shapes us--for better or worse.Sexology...

BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTIONReader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors.Claim Me, Cowboy by New York Times bestselling author Maisey YatesWhen Joshua Grayson's father places an ad in the local paper searching for a wife for his son, Joshua formulates a plan of his...

Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when...

From New York Times bestselling author Laurie Frankel...Not all adoption stories are filled with pain and regret. A propulsive, sharply funny and strikingly tender novel. India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards (which, torn into...

The Past is a novel written by Ellen Glasgow. The story revolves around the lives of two sisters, Laura and Lavinia, who live in Virginia during the early 20th century. Laura is a successful writer who has moved to New York City, while Lavinia...

Pete is content in his simple life in a remote Montana town, but elderly widow Wilma is busy meddling in Pete's life to make up for past wrongs. When the sister Pete was separated from as a child shows up, Pete must confront a...

"I have no doubt that it will stand the test of time and become a classic in its own right." -Behind the BookshelfIt's Christmas Eve in western Kansas and a snowstorm is gaining strength as Bear Bailey, a devoted Great Pyrenees, tries to comfort...

Their love will ignite a war in this Romeo and Juliet retelling from gripping New York Times bestselling author Chantal Fernando. Romeo I was born to rule the Devils MC. Every decision, every move I made was to further that goal--until I met Julianna....

Author: Lola Akinmade AkerstromISBN-10: 8885795420ISBN-13: 9798885795425Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2024Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20dLarge Print

In this classic novel that inspired the TV series The Waltons, a father struggles to support his large family in Depression-era rural Virginia. For generations, the Spencers lived on the mountain that still bears their name in the Blue Hills of Virginia. But the...

Barbara Pym affectionately skewers the charms, eccentricities, and secret yearnings of British middle-class life Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane is married to a vicar, has a daughter she adores, and...

On a sultry South Carolina island, sunlight teases out the darkest secrets of the heart, in this novel from the author of An Undisturbed Peace. Joe and Abigail Becker, a Jewish couple from Boston, have inherited a house on Sweetgrass Island in South Carolina's...

Barbara Pym's first novel offers a self-assured slice of small-town life as it takes us into the lives of two sisters living in post-World War II England Belinda and Harriet Bede live together in a small English village. Shy, sensible Belinda has been secretly...

A retired musician returns to performing in this "soul-satisfying" novel from the award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time (Norman Lear). Now in her seventies, Katherine Vigneras, n馥 Forrester, has returned to New York City after a successful career touring as a concert pianist...

A grieving English teacher. A handsome actor. A new start with fresh possibilities . . .. but the past is in the way.Two years ago, Elana Jeffries lost both loves of her life in Boston. Now she is starting over in beautiful Seahaven, located...

From the National Book Award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time, an atmospheric novel of a young British bride in the American South after the Civil War. When nineteen-year-old Stella marries Theron Renier, she has no idea what kind of clan she's joined. Soon...

Author: Elizabeth MillaneISBN-10: 1504086317ISBN-13: 9781504086318Publisher: Bloodhound BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2023Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.71d

A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them--and their families--changed forever. "A transcendent, cross-cultural, and cross planetary journey into...

"An unusual and beautiful book," the first novel by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time explores the life of a young artist (Los Angeles Times). At only ten years old, Katherine Forrester has already experienced her fair share of upheaval. It has...

On a sultry South Carolina island, sunlight teases out the darkest secrets of the heart, in this novel from the author of An Undisturbed Peace. Joe and Abigail Becker, a Jewish couple from Boston, have inherited a house on Sweetgrass Island in South Carolina's...

A Real Simple Must-Read Book of Summer 2023 "Mai Nguyen has proven herself to be a real standout." --Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will do whatever it...

Author: Brad HeyenISBN-13: 9798887934549Publisher: Page PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2023Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d

Long out of print, the second novel by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time looks at the darker side of love in a Southern town. From the moment Henry Porcher first sees Ilsa Brandes, he worships her. Despite controversy surrounding the young...

"Lonesome Dove meets Where the Crawdads Sing" in this "gripping saga about a perilous time in our nation's history and a woman who survived it against all odds" (Patricia Wood, author of Lottery, shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction). "I could not...

An innocent Texan beauty teaches a wealthy, cold-hearted rancher how to love in this classic romance by a New York Times-bestselling author. While he's very rich and very handsome, Colter Langston is not a good or kind man. But he understands that his young...

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of North and South: The first in a saga about a German immigrant and his family's rise in 20th-century America. The tide of the twentieth century is rising upon the world, and on its crest rides the...