Fiction - Family Life - General

Swimming to Jerusalem is the story of Bram Goodman; his family, friends, colleagues, and demons.Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Israel and moved to Brooklyn as a teenager. When he flunks out of college, Bram returns to Israel in an effort to...

Widowed and now the last lonely inhabitant of a small island in Northwestern Ireland, Sean is tired, grieving, and ready to be done with his life. Long estranged from his only child, and spurred by his wife's last words to him, Sean dreams up...

Twenty-five years ago, Oriana hid a devastating professional mistake--and now must face the consequences. Oriana Coleman is one of the most sought-after art dealers on the east coast, renowned in New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. She fought tooth and nail to get to...

Twenty-five years ago, Oriana hid a devastating professional mistake--and now must face the consequences. Oriana Coleman is one of the most sought-after art dealers on the east coast, renowned in New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. She fought tooth and nail to get to...

Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, who is addicted to drugs, has just had a baby, Lily. Ruth adjusts herself in ways large and small to give to Eleanor what she thinks...

Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, who is addicted to drugs, has just had a baby, Lily. Ruth adjusts herself in ways large and small to give to Eleanor what she thinks...

What secrets are hiding behind the imposing gates of Indigo House? Oregonian Julia Van Wyck lives in her famous father's shadow and struggles with a stagnant career. When she loses her parents in a car crash, her father's literary agent tells her that Charles...

Twelve-year-old Asia Wallace's life changes after her mother dies, and her father leaves with the mother's identical twin sister. Thirteen years later the young woman has to face another life-changing event as she deals with a devastating loss. Buried secrets surface, and put Asia...

Brothers Paul and David Ambrose leave the toil of everyday life and head west, finding a place to call home against the light and sparkling waters of the Elizabeth River, surrounded by the dark and threatening woods of St. George's Valley. With their friends,...

Set in fictional Fort Angus, Maine, Show Me Good Land tells the story of a small rural town struggling with poverty and decay after decades of prosperity. Loosely linked through a grisly murder, its characters must navigate the ambiguous moral landscape of a waning...

Her acclaimed debut, The Song Reader, won her praise as a "brilliant new literary talent" (The Albuquerque Tribune). Now, Lisa Tucker returns with a starkly lyrical novel of page-turning intensity and rare emotional power. Patty Taylor can handle anything. So what if the guys...

"Where'd You Go, Bernadette? meets Eat, Pray, Love." --The SkimmThree beautiful French sisters entrust an American hiker with the mission of rescuing their mother high in the Alps. But what if she doesn't want to be found? Recently fired from his high-power finance job...

"In this spellbinding novel, Meye presents a woman who emerges from the battlefield of domestic violence completely bloodied but unbowed. The hauntingly disturbing story keeps readers on the edge, until the brutalized victim, through sheer force of resilience and unshakable faith in her personal...

"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine GordimerMehring...

Two best friends rewrite the rules of friendship, love and family...and change everything they thought they knew about motherhood Paris Kahn Fraser has it all--a successful career as an assistant district attorney, a beautiful home in New York City, and a handsome, passionate husband...

Author: VariousISBN-10: 0140246991ISBN-13: 9780140246995Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/1980Pages: 576Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.88h x 5.12w x 1.02d

Larry Ahearne's death in Afghanistan has had a traumatic effect on his friends and family back in Painter's Springs. His best friend Alaric Morgan-who witnessed Larry's last moments-suffers from PTSD-induced mutism, which has forced him to leave the army; only his young niece Isabella...

It's the Holiday Season on a Saturday morning, and I-55 is as busy as ever. One distracted driver, on his way north to see his mother through her dying process, manages to deeply offend another driver who has nothing left to lose. A man...

The importance of baseball in the author's life is evident in his short story "The Legacy of the Diamond." I park the Dodge station wagon in front of Graceland Cemetery, where Chicago history is carved into large granite tombstones. Famous names adorn these structures:...

Huntington Valley was a haven for family and friends who lived and worked together for generations. A community that would be no longer, with the proposed highway coming through the heart of it, all in the name of so-called improvement. Maureen, like all the...

Rescued by God's Mercy is a heart-filled narrative, explaining how each of us can move into a more intimate relationship with God. It uses the Old Testament book of Isaiah to explain how God longs to restore us to fellowship with himself and give...

In 2009, at the tender age of 51, I was thrust into a new phase of my life, "Papa Hood". Now I'm a singer - songwriter, a rock n roll kind of guy and there was no way that I was going to be...

Humans have the inherent need to belong. Young Joshua, a four-year-old boy, is set to be moved to his second foster family home. He has lived with Nanny and Pops for most of his early years and only visited is biological family for minimal...

THE Madam is reaching out to press the bell next to her bed.She doesn't know who will answer the bell, or if it will be answered at all. If the bell is answered she will know it is not a Thursday. If the bell...

The importance of baseball in the author's life is evident in his short story "The Legacy of the Diamond." I park the Dodge station wagon in front of Graceland Cemetery, where Chicago history is carved into large granite tombstones. Famous names adorn these structures:...

From the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of The Last Girls. Author: Lee SmithISBN-10: 0425245462ISBN-13: 9780425245460Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2011Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d

A daughter examines her complicated relationship with a charismatic, narcissistic mother who now lives with alcohol-related dementia. When Cassie Wolfe brings her mother, Nina, to the Albuquerque Presbyterian Hospital to be detoxed, the doctors ask her to write a profile of the patient. But...

When two doctors unexpectedly gain custody of a baby, they're forced to confront their differences--and unwanted attraction! Read on in Rachel Dove's latest medical romance... FRENEMIES TO FOREVER FAMILY? Pediatrician Lucy has had a hate-hate relationship with infuriating, sexy emergency doctor Jackson for years....

In 1924, at Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital, Ruby del Palacio delivers a blue baby weeks early. The baby girl dies for want of oxygen. Within a year, Ruby delivers another baby girl named Alice.Gradually realizing that her sole role in the del Palacio household...

"...another irreverent, complex lawman." --Library JournalFollow Buddy Steel on his most difficult and dangerous investigation yet as he stumbles upon corruption in his own backyard. When San Remo County Acting Sheriff Buddy Steel is deputized by the California Coastal Commission to investigate a reclusive...

A mother and daughter in Appalachia unpack the traumas of the past in a powerful and reflective novel about family, healing, and moving on by the author of A Woman in Time.Jenny Caudill grows up in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in a...

At dawn, Cass slips quietly out the front door of the Blue House, not meaning to upend the lives of those she leaves behind. Cass, a gifted but emotionally unstable mathematician, and her sister Sylvia, an artist, have never agreed on motherhood, on marriage,...

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own. The...

While pregnant Nora relaxes in her best friend's Bucks County pool in this updated version of the Blackbird Sisters' favorite, she doesn't have far to look for her next big story. A Broadway show is in rehearsal next door and the home of legendary...

WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION AT THE 2023 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humor Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie,...

Alice never imagined she would end up like this, so anxious after hearing about the dangers of meteorites that she makes her children wear bike helmets in the wading pool. Her husband, David, has taught their four-year-old to list every animal represented in Prokofiev's...

For eighteen years, she tried to believe she had made the right decision--for him. But if she never saw him again, how could she ever be sure? Melissa had clung to the thin thread of hope given by the adoption agency that someday her...

Our band's stunning, untouched new assistant was completely off-limits. But that didn't stop me.A car crash. A fake story at the hospital. She warned me when I dragged her from the nightmare that was her life that she could very well destroy mine. I...

He Wasn't Supposed to Want Her. She Wasn't Supposed to Love Him. When Heart and Loyalty Collide, Rules Don't Apply.Brotherhood. Family. Club.They live and die by their own rules.These are the men of the Royal Bastards and they'll ride through Hell for each other.Hollywood...

As a parent we want to plant little seeds of wisdom in our children's life that will hopefully one day flourish and bloom along with them as they enter adulthood. I have often heard them referred to well known facts. I decided that it...

When I first sat face to face with the reality of looking out for my soul mate by browsing through an App that supposedly connected families I was completely against the concept. I honestly did not even know how to go about with the...

Maryann D'Agincourt's stunning novel in sketches follows Jocelyn from childhood to middle age, starting at the moment in her youth when she first hears the name of the mysterious Canadian painter, Alex Martaine, whispered by her parents. Each of them--Jocelyn, her art-loving mother, and...

Look out Here comes Miss Poly Loly and she means Magic Sure to be favorites on the early readers book shelves.Short sweet picture book with an important message, real family situations, and funny wordplay make the Poly Loly story books an ideal choice for...

Young children live moment to moment, only vaguely aware of how protected they are by the adults around them. In this story, when Maudie is compelled by curiosity and longing for friendship to break the rules, she gets a glimpse of the protective world...

Most people who visit coastal Maine see only the stark and rugged beauty of the pine groves and rocky beaches. But for those that live and work there, it's very different. The Cove tells the tale of a family, deeply rooted in Maine, and...

Stunning flash fiction by a seasoned writer. The stories deal with human relationships and with a sense of living and meaning today.Author: Robert MiltnerISBN-10: 1933964960ISBN-13: 9781933964966Publisher: Bottom Dog PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2014Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.29d

Julie is a woman who marries to discover that marriage does not bring her the happiness she long dreamt of. Her extramarital relationships end up in failure. More, childbearing did not comfort her in the absence of love and satisfaction. This novel is an...

Philomena meets The Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit--the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other.In 1950s Quebec,...

With The Wild Geese is a novel written by Emily Lawless and published in 1902. The story is set in Ireland during the late 17th century and follows the life of a young woman named Honor Lacy. Honor is the daughter of an Irish...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...