Fiction - Family Life - General

In this gripping follow-up to The Reluctant King, the "Monarchy" of New York City's Five Points is in total disarray, giving way to a bloody battle for the crownAuthor: K'WanISBN-10: 1636141765ISBN-13: 9781636141763Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.Language: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2024Pages: 200Format: Hardcover

Starting over can be hard to do...So when mum of two Beth moves out of her beloved marital home and into an unloved and unkempt cottage, she can't help but feel demoralised. Faced with months of DIY and dust, her children Jacob and Olivia...

Discover a fascinating tale of family, courage, and determination that spans years amid the Civil War Era. The unnaturally-strong son of a struggling widow learns of life, love, and more during his work on a plantation.In 1815 Charleston, South Carolina, Esther Fowler, a struggling...

A recipe book is an odd thing to give to someone who doesn't cook, so when Kat Bower is bequeathed a book of secret family recipes by her recently deceased mother, Ella, she is puzzled. Along with the recipes, lovingly handed down from generation...

Tales, Tails and more Tales is a witty collection of short story gems. The author delivers funny "slice of life" stories with occasional dark humor that range from introspective to irreverent. A fun read.Author: Stacey AndradeISBN-10: 0982775369ISBN-13: 9780982775363Publisher: TeaseaproductionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2012Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize:...

"This was the moment I had been dreading the most. Jack couldn't help. The lies that I would tell would be mine and mine alone." Charming Adeline Harris thinks she has it all figured out. That is, until she unthinkingly betrays Jack, her friend...

"A searing and beautiful novel." --Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes and The Illegal Featured on CBC's "30 books to read now" A portrait of a Muslim family--from the heady days in Uganda to hard times in a new country, and the...

When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. A charismatic R&B singer who gave up his career to assume responsibility for the safety of Atlanta's West End community, Blue had created an African American urban oasis where crime and...

We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them . . . Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented...

Can a Greek escape be the start of something special?Xanthe Fox has it all: a famous, drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend, a dream career and bright future - until heartbreak sends her life into a tailspin.So when Xanthe's Greek godmother unexpectedly leaves her a villa on...

In this third novel in the beloved Lighthouse Sisters series, Celeste Deveaux struggles to find her way back to joy, love, and meaning after a painful relationship almost shatters her life.Celeste Deveaux, a bestselling country music singer with fans around the world, never planned...

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...

When my best friend's teenage daughter comes to see me, I know something is wrong. With tear-filled eyes, she says she's pregnant and begs me not to tell her mother. I know I'm betraying my best friend but as I look at Chloe's terrified...

The narrator of Always Coca-Cola, Abeer Ward (fragrant rose, in Arabic), daughter of a conservative family, admits wryly that her name is also the name of her father's flower shop. Abeer's bedroom window is filled by a view of a Coca-Cola sign featuring the...

This is a story about a man named King who transformed an abusive childhood into a criminal enterprise worth millions. He left home with his younger brother when they were teenagers to escape constant hunger and violent abuse of their mother. They used what...

The Strong family has survived against all odds, but their greatest test is still to come.After a seemingly endless labour, Horatia Strong is delighted to announce that she's given her husband, Tom, a much-needed son and heir to the entire Strong fortune. But the...

The first in an explosive series featuring the Strong family and a legacy of lies that leads to passion, love, murder and heartbreak...Barbados 1818One fateful night, a terrible tragedy occurs at the Strong family sugar plantation on the paradise island of Barbados. The Strong...

Nana's death forces college coed Chandra Howard to return to her Third Ward shot gun home and the four-year-old daughter, Lyric, Chandra left in Nana's care. An estranged daughter, a tenuous relationship with boyfriend, James Dexter, and the return of her volatile ex, Tommy...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Whip-smart and compulsively readable. . . both a wildly entertaining adventure story and a meditation on what it means to love your children--fiercely and imperfectly."--Oprah Daily "Springs alive to explore questions that stump scientists and families, problems of the head and...

A summer getaway triggers a psychological game of cat and mouse in a novel about the frightening damages of love, family, and obsession by the bestselling author of Open House and We Were Mothers.When Georgia rents her country home for the month of August,...

Joanne knows how lucky she is--Richard is a wonderful husband, Evie is the most gorgeous baby girl, they live in a beautiful house--life couldn't be better. But then Richard's twenty-year-old daughter Chloe turns up. Chloe hasn't spoken to her father since the day he...

A smart, juicy, and page-turning novel about celebrity, fandom, and the price of ambition following a journalist's obsessive search for a missing Hollywood starlet When Echo Blue, the most famous child star of the nineties, disappears ahead of a highly publicized television appearance on...

Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optometrist in suburban Boston, he is sure that he and his wife, Viv, who runs the local stables, are both devoted to their two children and to each other. Then Mercury--a gorgeous...

Author: Brian DoyleISBN-10: 8200039889ISBN-13: 9798200039883Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2014Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 5.67h x 5.83w x 1.10d

Kaaren Christopherson's brilliantly observed novel captures the glamour and grit of one of the world's most dazzling cities during one of its most tumultuous eras--as seen through the eyes of a singularly captivating heroine. . . In 1890s New York, beautiful, wealthy Francesca Lund...

In this contemporary romance, Stephanie Porter walks off the plane with no intent of falling in love with her new boss who is a widower caring for a small son. Her goal is to succeed in a new and challenging environment as a landscape...

Meeting author Callum Wilde is the catalyst that turns Marianne Fairchild's fragile sense of identity on its head, evoking demons that will haunt two families. She is seventeen and has spent her life fighting off disturbing memories that can't possibly belong to her. His...

In mid-nineteenth century India, the Sepoy Mutiny and subsequent massacre of Indian soldiers by the British led to the devastating displacement of thousands of families. Ackbar Khan, the son of a slain Sepoy, is looking for a new beginning for his young family and,...

1920 textile mill towns attracted immigrant families grateful wages that barely addressed minimal living conditions. WWII imposed additional hardships and the combination of laughter, tears, pain, sorrow, love, joy and disappointments created a cacophony of Tenement Echoes.Author: Robert E. Kellan MDISBN-10: 1719478767ISBN-13: 9781719478762Publisher: Createspace...

A dual Kirkus Best Fiction and Best Debut Fiction selection, this stunning novel is an emotional fable about love, forgiveness, and what most makes us human. At the outset of this extraordinary first novel, eight-year-old Jess finds herself in heaven reviewing her short life....

At the midpoint of his life, Jerry Marlow finds himself on a bus taking him from Milan to Strasbourg. Sitting slightly off-center on the long back seat, he takes stock of the wreckage strewn behind him--a failed marriage, a daughter going astray, and an...

Pride is an emotion, as well as a devotion. To stand by your pride could leave you standing all alone ... How easy is it to apologize for hurting someone you love? How simple would it be to accept that apology? This is the...

Set in Paris in 1819, Father Goriot follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot; a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin; and a naive law student named Eug ne de Rastignac. The novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought profound...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: George Barr McCutcheonISBN-10: 154420003XISBN-13: 9781544200033Publisher: Createspace Independent...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an unforgettable story of courage and finding forgiveness in an unforgiving wilderness.Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny,...

Dance me When the Witnesses are Gone is first novel from Trilogy Dance Me. The cover of the book represents a spirit of her fictional heroine, Sasha. According to Rebecca Wiles, "Red bird of fire comes forth through the ashes; a new bird shedding...

Listed on Hasty Book LIst's "Most Anticipated Contemporary Fiction of 2024" Bella Fontaine is on her own. Fresh out of college and with the winnings from her first international photography competition, she decides to leave Los Angeles to forge a new life in New...

"What is grief, really? It's just a love that refuses to die..."Election fever has gripped the village of Little Bassington and the race for the Town Hall has intensified - with the fate of the Water Tower at stake.But as ghosts of the past...

Dark clouds are hanging over Little Bassington. Winter is here. A storm is coming.As the secrets of one woman's hidden past are laid bare, journalist Adam Chapman reaches a crossroads in his life. The devil is at the door. This time, there will be...

The votes are in. The die is cast. The Water Tower's fate has been sealed.Riding the shockwave of an unforeseen betrayal, journalist Adam Chapman is forced to re-evaluate everything he thought he knew. In a world where secrets abound, and nothing is quite what...

Suddenly widowed with no means of support, Evelyn Peerbaugh hangs a "for rent" sign in front of her large Victorian home and her life changes in ways she never dreamed of.In a matter of days she becomes the owner of a busy boardinghouse and...

"I loved you like there was no tomorrow. And then, one day, there wasn't..."The clock is ticking. The end is nigh. There's something in the air.The Water Tower has been condemned. Someone's final hour is close at hand.The past is over now. The seeds...

A young mother is left alone to tend a lighthouse in nineteenth-century Key West, until an unexpected beacon of hope arrives, in this "compelling" novel (Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter). On the rugged, remote Florida island known as Wreckers' Cay, Emily Lowry's husband...

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss--and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life--from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth...

A woman faces the past she fled in a heart-stirring novel about unforgettable love and indomitable courage by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Lighthouse Keeper.Rainey's grandmother makes a startling request: Take me home. To Ireland, the country she fled post-World War II....

Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel about a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars, from the New York Times bestselling author.In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal...

The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie--about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself--a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence--until...

A novel about the unpredictability of parenthood, a journey into the unchartered territory that is having a child, especially when that child turns out to be different.Rose Drury has just learned that her son, Roger, is below average--at the third-percentile rank, according to the...

A mother and daughter adrift, a friend in need, and a village to call home...When Kate O'Hare discovers she's pregnant, she is determined to return to her hometown of Sandycove in Dublin.On the other side of the Atlantic, her estranged mother, international superstar, Lola,...

From nationally bestselling, award-winning author Liam Callanan, the story of an opportunity to start over at midlife, a chance to save a struggling convent in the Eternal City, and the dramatic re-emergence of an old flame . . .Claire, fifty-two, desperately desires a fresh...