Fiction - Family Life - General

These days, Bonnie Saks is lucky to gets four consecutive hours of shut-eye, what with her bed-wetting young son, her unfinished doctoral thesis, her meager teaching salary, and the fact that she's pregnant by a lover about as reliable as her ex-husband. Meanwhile, Ian...

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...

In the tranquil wilderness of Northern Michigan, school custodian Buddy Robertson finds all that he needs: the rhythms of nature, the unpretentious companionship of Mags and their seven cats, solitude from others - and a safe escape from the loss and abuse of his...

Victoria Patterson, whose writing Vanity Fair has called "brutal, deeply empathetic, and emotionally wrenching,"" returns with a new collection of stories that contains echoes of Denis Johnson and Raymond Carver, along with the emotional depth and density of Elena Ferrante. There's a pitch-perfect blend...

A Journey of Defiance, Grief, & Hope: Rediscover Life After Loss.In Soulless, Fatoumata Nabie Fofana crafts a poignant narrative that captures the essence of a young woman's struggle against a tapestry of cultural expectations, yearning for self-identity.Manatou Lahai, raised in a strict Islamic household,...

Author: Aimie K. RunyanISBN-10: 006332928XISBN-13: 9780063329287Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2024Pages: 368Format: Paperback

Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband, Ennis, have built a modest but happy life for themselves, raising two sons, fifteen-year-old Henry, and eleven-year-old Robert, on their small subsistence...

Newly heartbroken, a woman embarks on a glamorized summer of couch surfing to rediscover herself and learns that though life may not go according to plan, there is magic in the unexpected. Avalie Monfared has a theory about saying "I Do"--that the magic ends...

In the multi-ethnic immigration paradise of Minnesota's Iron Range, a woman's suspicion that her husband might be cheating on her leads to the unexpected response from the private investigator she hired. He is, instead, spending the time investigating his adoption at the request of...

In the novel Securely Insecure, four strangers meet at a Delaware college in the hope of leaving their abusive childhoods in the past. Lynnie, Myra, Jessica, and Amanda are kindred spirits, soon forming an unbreakable bond through a shared commonality of trauma. As the...

A debut literary page-turner from a new South African voice about fatherhood and family, loyalty and betrayal, inheritance and belonging. Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. A young gay man...

The printed book is finally here, containing the E-books: Smoke in the Distance and The Search for Home. The year is 1852. Tragedy strikes the once lively town of Wasa, when an innocent flame sets the whole community ablaze on a hot summer's day....

For decades, the Campbell women have reunited at the family's rambling seaside cottage known as Beech House to celebrate life's many occasions. But this year, they will be called back to Martha's Vineyard for a celebration of a different sort: their beloved matriarch Cora...

Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the...

My Twin Friend takes AJ on an adventure with his best friend Blake. They spend spring break together at AJ's house. The boys always have fun together. AJ learns a valuable lesson about embracing the diversity of their personalities after he makes a wish...

Pap worried Harry would be so very far from the farm if he made it to the finish line. He knew his number-three son was not cut out for the life he had chosen for himself. But Cleveland? The city was filled with sin...

A romantic break-up . . . A shocking break-in . . . They say bad things come in threes . . . so, what's next? When thirty-seven-year-old Sarah Harding tries to piece her life back together after losing her boyfriend and some of her...

Walking down the aisle in the packed church, sunlight glints off my ivory silk gown. This should be the happiest day of my life. But as I carefully lift my veil and greet my husband-to-be, my heart is pounding with fear. Does someone out...

Meet Tilda Wright...Tilda has done everything she can to make her life neat, protected, tidy. No longer the girl who was scared of everything, whose family pushed her away, who hit rock bottom. Now she runs her life - as she does her successful...

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize From New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape of California Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can...

When Lila returns to India from the United States after inheriting an ancestral home, she must confront a culture that has always been a part of her, her mother from whom she has been estranged for a decade, and her family (grandmother, aunts, uncles,...

Infertility put her dearest wish out of reach. Now, at 55, she has a newborn and unexpected fame. How can she possibly cope with the demands of both?Hannah Murrow finally has what she's always wanted. The shocking late-in-life pregnancy that turned her into unlikely...

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 as her parents', pop out a couple of kids, and...

Don't miss the BRAND NEW series from bestselling author Stephanie HarteMeet the Kennedy twins and get ready for trouble!Twin sisters Lily and Daisy Kennedy live a life ruled by their controlling father, Des. Desperate to salvage his own shattered dreams, he forces his girls...

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming debut about a zany case of mistaken identity that allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family."Would you mind terribly, old boy, if...

A moving story of family, loss, love, and hope.Noah Nicholson has a gift. He is blessed with extraordinary hand-eye coordination. This gift has helped him build a successful career as a minor-league hockey player. But Noah is damaged; his parents died in a car...

An Intimate Guyana Journey is a spellbinding tale of love and legacy with characters as rich and diverse as the landscape. Set in the lush and wild coast of Guyana, An Intimate Guyana Journey is a coming-of-age story about a boy uncovering his roots...

When Mayadevi, aged 70, 75 or 80, depending on her mood, decides to goto London, she knows it will mean a year of penance to wash away the sins ofcrossing the ocean. But if her son will not come to her, Mayadevi must go...

From the author of the Read with Jenna Bonus Pick A Little Hope, an uplifting and emotionally resonant novel set in a Delaware beach town about a local restaurant owner at a turning point.Three generations of Schmidts have run their family's beachfront restaurant and...

Mersey Square, Stockport. Can she give her young sons the life they deserve, or will taking them away from their father destroy them all? Singer Olivia Grant has recently separated from the father of her two small boys and knows that the best place...

Mersey Square, Stockport, 1984. Can she find the courage to overcome a devastating tragedy? Sammy and Roy Cantello have been inseparable since they were teenage sweethearts. Married for twenty years, their eldest son is the apple of Sammy's eye. When the police arrive, telling...

Mersey Square, Stockport. With her daughter in danger, how far will she go to save her? Every day for the last sixteen years, Olivia Grant has longed for her daughter. Forced to give her up at birth, Harley has been raised by her father...

My Three Dogs is a charming and heartfelt new novel from the #1 bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose, about humankind's best, most loyal friend, and a wonderful adventure of love and finding home. When a tragic accident separates three dogs from their human,...

An impulsive, madcap, and newly concussed young woman comes of age as she navigates her Ghanaian American identity, her relationships, and the muddled landscape of history, memory, imagination, and delusion. Twenty-four-year-old Akosua is easily knocked off her feet. When she falls and hits her...

The irresistible, utterly satisfying new contemporary novel from No. 1 bestselling Sheila O'Flanagan Izzy is in the Caribbean on the honeymoon-that-isn't after her fiancé broke her heart. She's not looking for someone new. But when she meets Charles Miller, a successful writer holidaying alone,...

Old secrets are brought to light when a family matriarch returns to Brazil after years away in this "original and highly immersive" (Good Morning America) debut that explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes, two peoples, and...

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful...

Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic...

Written by iconic Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, this classic of love, desire, and family breakdown smashed through taboos when first published in Arabic and continues to captivate audiences today It is 1950s Cairo and 16-year-old Amina is engaged to a much older man....

James Newham sat gratefully down on a fallen tree trunk that flanked the side of the road where once had stood a dwelling of some sort. He was hot and tired and desperately sad. The Sri Lankan sun beat down upon his back. The...

"With tremendous intellect and her irreverent wit, Wiener rescues an intimate story from the family archive, a story that is also the infamous history of our continent. Her prose, sober and forward, is a breath of fresh air; her view allows us to be...

Generations of Sassers have made moonshine in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Their history is recorded in a leather-bound journal that belongs to Jessie Sasser's daddy, but Jessie wants no part of it. As far as she's concerned, moonshine caused her...

Author: Donna EverhartISBN-10: 166528739XISBN-13: 9781665287395Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2016Format: CD

Author: Donna EverhartISBN-10: 166525985XISBN-13: 9781665259859Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/26/2017Format: CD

Author: Tiffany Morgan, Donna EverhartISBN-10: 1665216115ISBN-13: 9781665216111Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2019Format: CD

Love or money? Kate Toscano's life is upended when her sister Cassy is killed in a car accident. This jet-setting writer for a trendy Las Vegas magazine, is now the guardian of her five-year-old, autistic nephew, Jimmy. She's forced to move back home. Kate's...

Join Oliver, his Nana, and their spunky chickens as they learn about how plants grow, turning tree branches to mulch, and the circle of life as one brave chicken stands up to a weasel with bad intentions. This book is the perfect conversation starter...

Porter Ellis once believed he would be a famous painter -- until a decade of eking out a living as a graphic designer crushed his dreams.Suddenly his wife, Lucy, dies of breast cancer, and Porter discovers that he can't deal with her parents. Sneaking...

"...in the end, those of us who knew him best were just waiting for him to die." In the Southeast corner of rural Nebraska is a quaint little town that sits along the Platte river. It is a place in which decades of betrayal...

In the fourth and final book of The O'Shaughnessy Chronicles, septuagenarian Catherine O'Shaughnessy spends her days tending her English cottage garden and basking in memories of lost loved ones. If only her son, Bill, wouldn't worry so much about her living alone. His concerns...