Fiction - Family Life - General

Author: Joyce Carol OatesISBN-10: 0452277205ISBN-13: 9780452277205Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1997Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.99h x 5.98w x 0.98dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.4Point Value: 30Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 56913 / We Were the MulvaneysReview Citation(s): New York Times 09/07/1997 pg. 40NY Times Notable Bks...

A war widow and a neglected boy form a chosen family in a profoundly moving multigenerational saga about the transformative power of kindness by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.It's 1970 in rural California where Shirley Bennett, a forty-year-old Vietnam War widow,...

Introducing Althea Adler, accomplished thief and daring heroine with a mysterious link to Sherlock Holmes. A heart-racing game of wits, murder and romance is about to commence . . . London, 1911. Althea Adler receives a mysterious postcard with just four words, 'Holmes away...

Will Chaffee has done everything right.At thirty-two he's built Sawbuck - a fintech platform serving the people the system was never designed to help - and just closed a billion-dollar Series A. He has the right apartment, the right woman on his arm, the...

Collateral damage. That is how a shattered Darlene Donahue feels when actor Peter Chandler walks out on her after a five-year relationship. Transitioning from a hit television show to filmmaking, he has always said he wanted to put the past five years behind him....

A moving and emotionally charged story, The Bond explores the powerful ties of love, duty, and sacrifice. The Bond portrays the ideal relationship between a daughter Dipika and her mother, the sense of duty of a son Peter for his ailing parents, and the...

The human body needs two hundred grams of salt to survive. The ocean needs far less to erode an island.Three days each week, a man lives alone on Bardsey Island, off the Welsh coast. Wind, stone, tide: a place where nothing accumulates. The other...

The story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty. Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country...

No family is perfect, and neither is Alan's. Alan-like many-is born into a seemingly loving family. The only problem is, he has a twin sister, and from the moment she was born, she stole the spotlight. As they grow older, Alan feels cheated out...

She didn't lose her faith. She lost herself.And in the silence of her breaking, God rebuilt her.In Delivered, a woman walks through grief, disappointment, and the quiet shame of not being as strong as everyone thinks she is. When the pressure to "be okay"...

Set between 1953 and 1968, Talk Teeny is a novel in linked vignettes that traces a childhood shaped by perception, instability, and constraint. Claire, born to intelligent but unreliable parents, reads by the age of three and enters adult spaces early, expecting language to...

Will Chaffee has done everything right.At thirty-two he's built Sawbuck - a fintech platform serving the people the system was never designed to help - and just closed a billion-dollar Series A. He has the right apartment, the right woman on his arm, the...

Against All Odds: Forever Yours Faithfully Series Book Five Dr. Liliana J. Patrick has spent her life overcoming challenges.The smallest one on her college basketball team? Nailed it.NCAA Champion? Absolutely.Pioneering, award-winning neurosurgeon? Why not? Yet there is one battle Lilly hasn't truly conquered.Her traumatic...

A brilliantly funny, relatable read from BESTSELLER Clodagh Murphy Two former almost-somethings. One very messy reunion. Could this finally be their time? As teenagers, Ella and Roly were an unlikely duo with big dreams and even bigger plans for the future. Ten years later?...

In the forgotten corners of the city, where hardship lingers and hope feels distant, Rising from Shadows tells a deeply human story of resilience, love, and quiet determination.Through the lives of Jamal and his mother Denise, this powerful narrative explores what it means to...

Some losses are never explained. Some words are never read.Jan Lawyer was counting the days until Army helicopter pilot Barry Ridger came home from Vietnam. Their relationship was brief-but the letters they exchanged over the past year were deep, intimate, and full of promise....

Sonoran Sky: A Story of the American West A Western Family SagaSet in the sweeping ranch country of the Arizona desert, Sonoran Sky is a gripping Western family saga filled with clean romance, small-town tension, generational drama, and slow-burning suspense.After a tragic truck accident...

Kenny Ruddman faces a perilous journey as he battles inner demons and becomes entangled in a terrorist plot. His fate hangs in the balance as he navigates the treacherous Bering Sea, where survival is uncertain and danger lurks at every turn.In Pacific Trawler, Ruddman's...

Would you invite her into your home? Amanda Fitzroy has everything she ever wanted: a successful husband, a beautiful home, and a precious young son. When the pressure of juggling work and motherhood becomes too much, hiring a nanny feels like the perfect solution....

You think that you've made some questionable life decisions? You're in good company. In Finding Your Way . . . in the Fog of Life, William M. Scovell presents a lively collection of short, fictional tales that shine a light on the humor, mystery,...

Snow drifts against the windowpanes of a small New England town, where the hush of winter is broken by the rituals and warmth of a family gathering for Christmas. Against the backdrop of frosted fields and candlelit parlours, the intimate rhythms of holiday life...

"Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms" continues the journey of one of literature's most enduringly optimistic characters. In this sequel to the beloved classic series, Pollyanna Whittier has grown into a young woman ready to embark on the greatest adventure of her life: marriage. Following...

A Black couple leaves their downtown Chicago condo for a new suburban subdivision, only to find themselves at the center of a maelstrom in this gripping page-turner from the award-winning author of Three Girls from Bronzeville.Tired of the daily drama in his emergency room,...

From the author of Death of a Flying Nightingale comes the moving story of a solitary seventy-year-old curmudgeon embracing the connection of family and daring to follow her dreams.Primrose Honeychurch doesn't really "get" people. Books, though, make perfect sense.At seventy, the sharp-tongued recluse prefers...

Sometimes, the second chance we truly need is the one we give ourselves. Ginny Carmichael feels trapped in her abusive relationship until an otherworldly visit ignites her determination to break free. With her baby daughter in tow, she embarks on a courageous road trip...

The Power Behind Closed Doors Behind every closed door lies a story no one else sees. The Power Behind Closed Doors is a powerful and emotionally gripping exploration of the hidden forces that shape our lives, secrets, control, resilience, and the quiet strength it...

LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARDS "Powerful and unrelenting prose.... I loved this book." --Reema Patel, author of Such Big Dreams Gorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's...

A Voodoo Binding Is Not Enoughby Evelin Jonathan Concepción DuarteSome loves do not belong to this life.Some promises are too ancient to break.In a story where memory and destiny collide, A Voodoo Binding Is Not Enough follows two souls-Kamaria and Jonathan-bound by a love...

"From the dusty plains of 1980s California rises a tale of family, loyalty, and the untamed spirit of a young boy caught between duty and dreams."Fifteen-year-old Hank Miller works tirelessly on his family's struggling ranch, shouldering responsibilities far beyond his years while his older...

American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but they have not figured out...

Ana was born in a world plagued with poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and misery. In a world that "men commanded" and women had no say on their decisions or wishes. Women had to be submissive and obedient to their parents and later to their husbands....

"The Felons' Ball is full of secrets--ones that refuse to reveal themselves and ones that refuse to stay buried. It's also full of wit and empathy and characters as real as your own family members. This novel is assured, propulsive, and thrilling, and I...

A dynamic, honest, and beautifully written novel about a young mother who returns to her small-town Wisconsin home after living in a cult-like "Mommune," and what happens with the other women in her family as they each navigate the constraints, complexities, and joys of...

Olive Thornbury only had one crush in high school, and his name was Asher Gallo. She was smitten with him from the first time she had laid eyes on him. But instead of acting on how she felt, she kept her nose stuck in...

Gulliver's Travels has been called many things: Menippean satire children's story proto-Science Fiction and even the forerunner of the modern novel.Published seven years after Daniel Defoe's wildly successful Robinson Crusoe Gulliver's Travels may be read as a rebuttal of Defoes optimistic account of human...

***MATURE AUDIENCE 18+*** Living Dead Lovers follows the life and times of famed psychic-medium, half-Romani gypsy, Valentina 'Cabbage' Moone, from her mute infancy trawling the roads of Europe to a fiery-tongued, hard-drinking, speed-loving clairvoyant with a complete disregard for human life, including her own...

Bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beloved stories--about a woman who must look past the surface to see true beauty within ... Allison Scott has her mind on her career. As an up-and-coming photographer, she has neither the time nor the...

All Over HimThe Early Journals of Will Barnett, 3A Two Brothers Press Bookby Ronald L. Donaghe In this third and final book of the Early Journals of Will Barnett series, Lance Surfett is living in San Francisco, enrolled in a two-year art program, while...

Full text.A naturalist, psycho-realist work written by Guy de Maupassant, and a fantastic study of dysfunctional family situations.Pierre and Jean, this is one of those sad, sad stories about families and their inability to be good for and to each other!Author: Guy de MaupassantISBN-10:...

'Breathless, red-raw and brutally honest' -Tracy Fells, 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize WinnerThere's no such thing as a perfect family. A perfect life. A perfect man. Frank is proof of this. He's everyman and yet as unique as a fingerprint. With a wonderful wife...

"For readers weary of literary fiction that dutifully obeys the laws of nature, here's a story that stirs the Brothers Grimm and Salvador Dali with its claws . . . as gorgeous as it is devastating."--The Washington Post In this epic, mythical debut novel,...

Red Paint calls itself "the friendliest town in Maine," a place where everyone knows one another and nothing too disturbing ever happens. Native son Simon Howe is a sturdy family man--a good father and husband--and owner-editor of the town's newspaper. Because there's rarely any...

Readers received a refreshing introduction to the Sims and Catts families in Owens' first novel, My Brother Michael, narrated by the inimitable Gabriel Catts. Here to tell her side is Myra Sims, the apex of a love triangle that includes Gabe and his brother,...

Teenage years can be complicated, even when you haven't been abandoned by your mother at age ten. It is the 1980s and teenage Gemma lives with her well-meaning father, Nathaniel, goes to 'art therapy' once a week and tries to come to terms with...

Winner of the ALA Reading List Award Difficult and obstinate. Thriving under a set of specific and limited conditions. That pretty much describes me. Maybe that's why I like these roses so much. Roses are Galilee Garner's passion. An amateur breeder, she painstakingly cross-pollinates...

Jake Stone has always been an outsider, even in his hometown. As the misfit son of the town drunk and a descendant of Fortune's mysterious founders, he's spent his whole life not living up to expectations. So when Apple Woodman comes poking her pert...

An Oprah's Book Club Pick#1 New York Times Bestseller"A mystery, a thriller, a ghost story, and a literary tour de force . . . an authentic epic, long and lush, full of back story and observed detail . . . the author exercises a...

In the summer of 1919, a family is quietly torn apart. A sickly father can no longer work and a mother at the end of her strength makes a desperate decision-leaving her three youngest daughters at an orphanage, believing it will only be temporary....

In the summer of 1919, a family is quietly torn apart. A sickly father can no longer work and a mother at the end of her strength makes a desperate decision-leaving her three youngest daughters at an orphanage, believing it will only be temporary....

Author: Harry HollandISBN-13: 9798996165919Publisher: Moonfly PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2026Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d