Fiction - Family Life - General

She's forced to return to her hometown...... and he isn't supposed to be there.Indy Stone is a well regarded professional therapist with her life all planned out. She's spent her life trying to escape her dysfunctional upbringing in Peach Valley. But when fate intervenes...

Part novel of suspense, part family drama, The Return follows six characters originally introduced in Roland Merullo's bestselling novel Revere Beach Boulevard. Kirkus Magazine praised Boulevard in a starred review saying, "If Coppola or Scorsese ever repent for their glamorization of the underworld, this...

The Lies We Tell is a coming-of-age novel set in 1974, after the Watergate scandal has left the country grappling with an unnerving sense of deceit. Although she doesn't fully understand, thirteen-year-old Martie Wheeler, whose father has suddenly dropped dead of a heart attack,...

An engrossing novel that examines the intricacies of marriage, friendship, and the power of unexpected connections... Annabel Ford has everything under control, devoting her time to her twin boys and keeping her household running smoothly. But when her husband of a decade announces that...

An Oprah.com Best book of the Year Nine-year-old Miles Adler-Hart's mother, "the Mims," is "pretty for a mathematician." Miles and his best friend Hector are in thrall to her. When her marriage starts to unravel, the boys begin spying on her to find out...

Grandbaby's Morning Lullaby celebrates grandmothers around the world who live with gratitude and love with their whole heart!Grandmothers play an important role in the lives of their grandchildren. With years of parenting experience behind them, they have developed wisdom and new perspective that deepens...

Grandbaby's Morning Lullaby celebrates grandmothers around the world who live with gratitude and love with their whole heart!Grandmothers play an important role in the lives of their grandchildren. With years of parenting experience behind them, they have developed wisdom and new perspective that deepens...

Can the future be rewritten?On the verge of her second marriage, Carla Carter knows she's finally found the one. She and her fiancé, Tom, met through Logical Love, a dating agency she founded for the pragmatically minded, and she's confident that, together, they will...

It's day one for newly hired hospice nurse, Amelia Bowden, 26 years old. Anxious and eager to prove herself as competent and caring, she is assigned to Carol Schultz, a sweet elderly woman on palliative care in need of assistance. Yet when Amelia arrives...

Life is short. We blink, and it is gone. In a world filled with joy and pain, beauty and magic, how does one even attempt to experience it all? How can a person possibly find that moment of nirvana and hold on to it...

"Be quiet and listen: He is cheating on you. The name of your soulmate is Alistair George Arthur Lennox. You will be passed over for the promotion. The winning numbers are 5-8-12-24-39-43. And I'm very sorry to tell you this, but you will die...

Meet Steve Smith, an Aussie bloke grappling with a year of surprises. Between incorrigible mates, perilous half-truths to his wife, petty conflicts with neighbours and a variety of dubious life choices, things turn crazy for him. One Mad Year is Mike Lathouras's hilarious debut...

From the author of the novel, The Hummingbirds, comes the debut story collection, Below the Falls. Two climbers in the North Cascades risk their friendship and lives ascending a frozen waterfall. The girlfriend of a famous comedian in Greenwich Village must decide whether she...

Born to a thirteen-year-old in the bathroom of his family's small apartment, Abraham Singleton enters a world laden with the obstacles inherent in an impoverished urban community. But when his mother becomes addicted to crack and his uncle--the family's basketball prodigy and their potential...

There's only one way to be virtuous. Or is there?In the two years since her mother's death, seventeen-year-old Hope Wagner has single-handedly raised and homeschooled her ten younger siblings while keeping her father's house. When her father marries the strange newcomer to their church,...

It is 2013 and Calgary's Bow river is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend-an accident? Taking cover downtown that night, Shermeto intervenes in the attack on a bar patron, and finds himself laid...

One lie changes a family's path for generations-and finally brings them back to Ireland, in this saga by the author of The Devil's Own. In May 1917 the Americans sailed into Cork to join the Great War. When they left two years later, they...

A glamorous French weddingIt's set to be one of the society weddings of the year, but thriller-fan Hetty Jones is feeling out of her depth. She's already picking up on family tension between her boyfriend Davey and his twin sisters Ailsa and Juliette, which...

It's been three years since the detrimental night that tragically transformed Callie Hayes's existence in the quiet mountain town she calls home. Counting every hard-earned penny, she longs to leave behind her tainted legacy, seeking solace in the company of her faithful companion, Opie,...

Except for her mother in a mental institution, the President of the United States, KC Kingsley, was the only person who knew that Katherine Ross was his biological daughter. The baby girl, crying and squirming, came from the womb to the guilt ridden mother...

The lush, majestic mountains of Western Pennsylvania are ever changing. Fog, mist, glorious sunrise, sunset, and tumultuous storms set the patterns of continuity. The mountains are as old as time.As one looks down from the top, a panorama of contrast is evident. Dense forest,...

From a "fresh and fun new voice in women's fiction" a divorcee finds her voice and courage thanks to an account of war and survival out of her family history.Patricia Moore is coming of age. The age is menopause. And she might not survive...

The author, Judy Kay, has written a compelling family story that will keep you in tears (both happy and sad). You will laugh until your stomach hurts and feel the intense urge of sexy romance. Mary Ann is a divorcee and mother of four....

Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial,...

The perfect family-dad, mom, one boy and two girls-or is it?-Is there room for one more?Jimmy's Home is a soul-searching look at one couple's journey from young romance to marriage and raising a family. In addition to parenting their three children, Liz and Rand...

Adoption can be tough yet rewarding to both children and their new families. Read Strawberry Dreams with your children and explore how one little girl's dreams come true. Strawbella's story is a great way to start conversations with your children about difficult topics like...

Many things prompt someone to marry another person Chiedu thought in one of his quiet moments. He is a very meditative person and enjoys sitting alone with his thoughts. He has almost convinced himself that the first point of attraction in any relationship is...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - A novel about grifters with issues, by the acclaimed cult author of Anonymous Rex and Casual Rex Roy and Frankie are matchstick men--con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have...

The Hollow Middle follows Albert Lesiak, an aging English teacher in Connecticut, who receives a windfall in delayed acknowledgment of the government's complicity in his father's cancer death and decides that it is time to live a different life on land he owns in...

Mark Richmond is up in Scotland getting to know the Crawford family, but the health of his father-in-law, Peter Kingsley, is deteriorating in England. As Peter continues to struggle, it seems the Richmonds and the Kingsleys are inextricably entwined by the sins of their...

This is a relaxing, lighthearted story centered on the memories of Philip Lawson and his attachment to a piece of farm machinery. Philip and his wife Clarisa are products of the baby boomer generation. Now in their mid-fifties, Philip and Clarisa frequently reminisce about...

Old Man moves from riches to rags. His life falls apart. Throughout years of difficulties, his internal and external struggles take their toll. Nevertheless, even in the hardest of times, Old Man manages to make a difference in the lives of those he meets....

An uproarious novel about a man's often sordid, lifelong search for his possibly imaginary half brother My German Brother is the renowned Brazilian musician and author Chico Buarque's attempt to reconstruct through fiction his obsessive lifelong search for a lost sibling. In 1960s S...

""A Gold Slipper"" is a short story by Willa Cather, an American author known for her vivid depictions of life on the Great Plains. The story follows a young woman named Edna who is living in poverty in New York City. One day, she...

Will Angelina survive the predicament a jealous psychotic jock puts her in? Will her martial arts training save her? Will she survive to be able to race her dream car that she just received for her 18th birthday? How will her new friends support...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep...

Rastafarians, reggae music lovers, and teachers from around the world converge on a small community in Florida called Coreville to rally around and show their support for an elementary school teacher who was suspended for allowing one of her students to do his oral...

From the author of This Is Happiness, a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas season that transforms the small Irish town of Faha. Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying...

An Epic saga exploring the violence and traditions of rural Africa. Scott Decker and Zol Ndhlovu are partners in a private game ranch in Zimbabwe. They have a friendship borne from Africa - a brotherhood that endures the generation gap - and crosses the...

Book Three in the Farmer's Market Story series This couldn't be happening...not to him! For Charlie Wainwright, the only way to live is according to plan. But a corporate layoff and one hot night with Meg Carmichael has thrown him off course. He doesn't...

Birdie's world is forever changed when she discovers the lifeless body of a fisherman on a Scottish beach. This tragic event brings back haunting memories of her older brother's mysterious disappearance from her family when she was just eleven years old. Birdie was told...

From No. 1 bestselling author Beth Moran comes a story about family, friendship and community.As Faith tries on her future mother-in-law's wedding dress in preparation for her own wedding, her tears are not of joy. The hideous frock is nicknamed 'The Ghost Web' by...

"This Man Called Bunk" follows a man who went to work in Baltimore City in 1926 and never returned, leaving his wife and four young children with no explanation. His wife raised the children with the help of her brother and sister and never...

Take a stroll down Serendipity Lane, breathe in the beautiful fragrances of the flowers and see if you can spot the love in the air...After years of juggling long hours at work, studying for her dream vocation and struggling for money, Sadie realises it's...

Despite knowing it's a mad idea, Lily agrees to take her mother on one last road trip around the UK, in this new novel by the bestselling author of His Other Woman. This trip will be challenging because Lily's mother can no longer be...

The long, tarnished chain and heart-shaped pendant is heavy in Paige's hand. Carefully prying it open she can just make out the tiny engraving inside. What she reads will change everything she ever believed about her great-aunt Violet, and their family history...When newly single...

An expected phone call from her obstetrician turns the world of pregnant Rachel and her husband upside down. Thrilled at what they consider to be a miracle pregnancy, they learn that their unborn child has a genetic condition called Klinefelter syndrome, which can cause...

It is 2013 and Calgary's Bow river is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend-an accident? Taking cover downtown that night, Shermeto intervenes in the attack on a bar patron, and finds himself laid...

Discover the Power of Mindfulness: A Journey to Inner Peace and Well-beingIn today's fast-paced world filled with constant distractions and pressures, finding inner peace and achieving a sense of well-being can seem like an elusive goal. However, there is a powerful practice that has...

This is a sequel to Forest City to Ascension and They Became Game Wardens.The sly fox from Forest City, Game Warden Lloyd Bonney, becomes the Chief Game Warden. And after the Tomah Stream moose case, he is determined to find a way to bring...