Fiction - Family Life - General

The story's protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class,...

The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven is a novel written by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The story revolves around a young woman named Mary Cabot, who is grieving the loss of her brother Royal during the American Civil War. Mary struggles to...

The road to higher ed is paved with good intentions. The desire for relevance--and to save his marriage--is ultimately what pushed Peter Cook to leave his beloved Alaska for the prestigious Parker College. Lured by the chance to work with his childhood political idol...

Charlotte Mary Yonge was a prolific English novelist in the 19th century. Yonge was born to a Christian family and her values played a strong role in her writings. Yonge's books earned much praise during her lifetime including from other esteemed authors such as...

"One of those books you're likely to remember all your life." --Alexandra Shulman, Vogue (UK) For readers of The Orphan Train and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes "not just a story of love but a story of loss, one whose...

Lilith: A Novel is a classic work of fiction by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, first published in 1890. The story follows the life of the beautiful and mysterious Lilith, who is shrouded in secrets and darkness. Lilith is a woman of great beauty...

The Silver Cord is a play written by Sidney Howard, first published in 1926. The play revolves around the lives of a married couple, Robert and Christina, and their struggles with their son's impending marriage. The son, David, is engaged to a young woman...

The Last Asset is a novel written by Edith Wharton, an American author known for her works on social commentary and the upper class. The story follows the life of a young woman named Lydia, who is born into a wealthy family but is...

Birthright is a novel written by T. S. Stribling. The story is set in the American South during the early 20th century and follows the life of a young man named Peter Grimm. Peter is the son of a wealthy plantation owner who is...

When Lizzy is forced to move to the Adventist commune of Stillwater, she is sure the end times have begun. She's not wrong. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy is trapped, caught between her passion for science and the teachings of her Seventh-day Adventist father and Mennonite mother....

Ethan Frome is a novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1911. The story is set in the fictional town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, during the late 19th century. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a poor farmer who is married to a sickly and demanding woman...

BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTIONReader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors.A Daring Vow by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl WoodsShe scandalized an entire town and ensnared the upright Taylor Matthews...but that was long ago. Now grown up, Zelda Lane is back in...

An injured army veteran. A near-fatal car accident. And a snow-capped Martha's Vineyard Christmas--the kind that can mend any broken family.Andrew Montgomery is the black sheep of the Montgomery family. Seventeen years ago, Andy and his best friend, Kurt, took off for the army...

Winner of the 2000 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short FictionWelcome to the strange, wonderful world of Brock Clarke. Here you will meet florists, dental hygienists, high school teachers, and peddlers of porno novelty items, all trying to be normal, good people and failing miserably....

In this classic novel Richard Yates, hailed as a preeminent chronicler of the American condition and author of the acclaimed Revolutionary Road, weaves a masterful, unflinching tale of two families brought together by chance, desperation, and desire. Evan Shepard was born with good looks,...

When he was entering into his 100th year, instead of feeling happy, Sundar felt quite irritated and sorrowful. He requested his granddaughter Rupa not to make any arrangements for the celebration of his birthday. Without bothering with his protestations, Rupa made the arrangements for...

The islands of the Caribbean have long been steeped in mystery and danger. From the 1650s through the 1730s, literally thousands of marauding pirates, like Blackbeard and Calico Jack Rackham, used the island chain as a safe haven as well as a place to...

Gus Reppo's parents have everything figured out for their son, right down to the county where they hope he'll practice dentistry. And when they follow him to the air force base where he enlists--who else will make sure he's served adequate meals?--he realizes it's...

An injured army veteran. A near-fatal car accident. And a snow-capped Martha's Vineyard Christmas--the kind that can mend any broken family.Andrew Montgomery is the black sheep of the Montgomery family. Seventeen years ago, Andy and his best friend, Kurt, took off for the army...

Is it ever too late to overcome the adversities of our past? Set in the South during the 60s and 70s, The Art of Straightening Nails follows Robert Rhodes as he reminisces about his life. His childhood had not been a pleasant, innocent experience....

For fans of Alison Hammer and Caroline Leavitt, Kalyn Fogarty weaves an emotionally rich tale in her powerfully moving novel Everything's Still There, exploring postpartum depression, female friendship, and new motherhood. Professional party planner turned stay-at-home-mom, Brynn Hallman always imagined she'd be the ideal...

A story about Mops, the Mob and the FBI. Elaine, widowed the night her son was born, believes she will never be able to give her middle-school age genius son the opportunities he deserves, Then opportunity and romance show up the same day, only...

Reel follows two lives that collide at a Seattle punk show, and the strange consequences that arise. Timon serves as the hyperobservant western outpost of his family's business, verifying artifacts and losing himself in deafening music and isolation. Marianne fears stagnation, and has begun...

More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19-year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections...

""Love And Self Love"" by Louisa May Alcott is a collection of essays and stories that explore the themes of love, self-love, and relationships. The book is divided into two parts: the first part is dedicated to love and the second part to self-love....

A Tragedy of Error is a novel written by the renowned American author, Henry James. The story is set in the mid-19th century and revolves around a young woman named Catherine Sloper, who lives with her wealthy father, Dr. Austin Sloper, in New York...

Aleisha Turner was young and attractive, a mother of three beautiful children.Aleisha was also a heroin addict.An overdose sends the young woman's life into turmoil when her children are taken away from her. She finds herself in a Rehab center, the first step in...

The year is 1850, and Susannah Charlesworth loves the estate and open air life of the North Lincolnshire Wolds. She stands to become a very rich woman too - inheriting the estate, as well as her father's and uncle's wealth, one day. But then...

In a moving, unforgettable Southern saga of lost and found, a woman who was stolen as a toddler from a poor but loving family must journey through a maze of heartbreak before she can reclaim her true identity. Now in trade paperback for the...

Welcome to Charlotte, hometown of the Coach's Boys romance series. Settle back, put your feet up, and enjoy your visit. Who knows? You may want to stay for a while. Or forever because nothing is sweeter than small town romance.When she promised 'until death...

New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2018 - Amazon Editors' Top 100 of 2018 Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle comes "a novel you must read" (The Washington Post) about a mother who is trying to forget her past as a young ballerina in Paris who fell into a passionate romance with a Soviet...

From acclaimed, award-winning novelist Mark Helprin, a lush and literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war.Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea,...

Elie Wiesel's Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings. "The author . . . has built knowledge into artistic fiction." --The New York Times Book Review Elisha is a young...

A woman is forced to face her past in a heartbreaking and triumphant novel of old wounds and family secrets by award-winning author Joy Castro.Isabel Morales is a successful Chicago sculptor hiding a brutal family history--one not even her husband knows. After decades of...

In this beautifully crafted second novel in the Mitford series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon delivers a love story that's both heartwarming and hilarious. Father Tim--Mitford's rector and lifelong bachelor--is in need of divine intervention. His attractive neighbor is tugging at...

Three friends, two secrets, one love--and the journey of a lifetime.Every week for twenty years, three friends meet in a leafy enclosure under the Verrazzano Bridge: Gertie, a feisty Norwegian divorc馥 and former athlete; Maria, a family-obsessed Italian American widow; and Corinna, a book-loving,...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours comes a heartfelt novel about the bonds of family and the power of second chances. When Kate Bowman temporarily moves to her grandmother's Missouri farm...

A new paperback edition of Rachel Cusk's debut novel, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award. In Saving Agnes, Agnes Day--subeditor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire--has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused...

Young architect Michael Hillyard and artist NancyMcAllister are determined to get married despitehis wealthy mother's disapproval. Then, minutesbefore their wedding, a terrifying accident and acruel deception separate Michael and Nancy --perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life -- Nancy inCalifornia, Michael in New York....

An Unorthodox Match is a powerful and moving novel of faith, love, and acceptance, from author Naomi Ragen, the international bestselling author of The Devil in Jerusalem. California girl Lola has her life all set up: business degree, handsome fianc , fast track career,...

Set adrift by his wife's suicide and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. To his son, waiting patiently in the car while his...

New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank evokes a lush plantation in the heart of modern-day South Carolina--where family ties and hidden truths run as deep and dark as the mighty Edisto River.... Caroline Wimbley Levine always swore she'd never go home again....

Introduction by Colm Tb匤In fifteen funny, colorful, poignant and mysterious stories, the irreverent modernist Katherine Mansfield, a friend and contemporary of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, examines a range of themes integral to the human experience, from marriage, family, and death to duty,...

In this poignant epilogue to his bestselling The Bridges of Madison County, Waller tells the remainder of the story of photographer Robert Kincaid and farmer's wife Francesca Johnson. Author: Robert James WallerISBN-10: 0446613061ISBN-13: 9780446613064Publisher: Grand Central PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2003Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.93h x...

The hero of Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high...

At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant. But it is when Horace undergoes an altogether unforeseeable change of heart that the real difficulties...

The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert...

We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's award-winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This...

Perennial New York Times bestsellers and Audie Award finalists The Christmas Shoes and The Christmas Blessing have become inspirational holiday classics, and Donna VanLiere's The Christmas Hope, adapted to a movie of the same name, is poised to become a seasonal favorite in its...