Fiction - Family Life - General

The Abadi Family saga begins when a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story between a Palestinian and a Jew ends in predictable tragedy. The family flees to America to mend, but encounters only more turmoil that threatens to tear the family apart. In the wake...

A father's silence. A mother's memory. A brother's grief. In seventeen unforgettable stories, Donald Carreira Ching offers a powerful and deeply intimate portrait of contemporary life in Hawai'i.On the Windward side of O'ahu, change moves fast--developers buy up neighborhoods, locals move away, and families...

Praise for Judith McCormack and BackspringNominated for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel Award"A well-written and smart novel that unfolds many moments of profound and subtle beauty. McCormack's treatment of details and prose are refreshing, confident, and attentive."--The Winnipeg Review"A joy to read."--Nino Ricci"A wonderfully...

A Quill & Quire Best Book of the YearA Globe & Mail Best Short Fiction TitleA National Post Best Short Fiction TitleA January Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2014 Ethel Wilson Fiction PrizeLonglisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award "Complicated, passionate,...

"If Colette Maitland were a musician, you'd say she had perfect pitch."--Isabel Huggan A soldier's wife struggles to reconnect with her daughter after her husband is killed overseas. A baby abandoned at the rectory door inflames a town with gossip. A dog is shot....

The BRAND NEW hilarious, feel-good read from #1 bestselling author Fiona Gibson Is it ever too late to bloom? Meet Celia. Life hasn't worked out quite how she'd planned. Since her son left for university, Celia has felt stuck at home - battling with...

A moving saga about love and forgiveness from a bestselling author. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Sheila Newberry and Rosie Goodwin. Abby Reed, grieving after the loss of her mother, finds an unexpected source of comfort exploring the rugged, snowy countryside with the...

In 1837, a young Henry David Thoreau sets out to lead an extraordinary life in Concord, Massachusetts, combating formidable obstacles. He struggles to find work as a teacher, to discover his voice as a writer, and to realize true friendship and romantic love, battling...

From the author of The Deepest Lake comes a gripping novel of psychological suspense that unravels a mother's worst fear--that her son played a part in two murders. Over one terrible weekend, two teenage girls are found dead in a wealthy Chicago suburb. As...

John and Erica Mason-Grey are hard-working artists and loving parents--but when John dies, their teenage daughter Mona's casual drug use spirals into heroin addiction. She and her mother soon begin an anguished game of hide-and-seek leading to countless arguments, arrests, thefts, rehabs, and relapse,...

From the award-winning author of The Book of V., an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontier When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America as a mail-order bride, she dreams of a young, wealthy husband, a...

This is the story of Ruby Wilson whose beauty was something startling. She was born somewhere and brought up in the back of a hat shop owned by her Aunt Carrie. Men always slipped in and out of Aunt Carrie's life. Ruby was never...

Seventeen-year-old Alice Marie Krayenbraak is beautiful, witty, a star student, and a gifted athlete. On the surface, she has it all. But in Alice's hometown of Dutch Center, Iowa, nothing is as it seems. Behind the façade of order and tidiness, the family farm...

From the author of book club favorite The Salt House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of home. Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives...

How do you cope when your husband of more than 30 years announces he's leaving -- and you didn't see it coming? Ellen is blindsided by her husband's request for a divorce and the news that everything she thought they jointly owned is in...

Aristotle "Aris" Thibodeau is 12.5 years old and destined for greatness. Ever since her father's death, however, she's been stuck in the small town of Kanuga, Georgia, where she has to manage her mother Diane's floundering love life and dubious commitment to her job...

Edna Ferber's "So Big" is a powerful story of family relationships set against the backdrop of early 20th-century farm life. This literary classic explores the complexities of the mother-son relationship and the challenges of rural existence. The story champions determination in the face of...

"The Children of Alsace," originally titled "Les Oberlé," is a powerful family saga set against the backdrop of Alsace's turbulent history. This meticulously prepared edition allows readers to immerse themselves in a story deeply intertwined with French history and cultural identity. René Bazin's work...

When his best friend is murdered in a fit of jealous rage, Izzy Schneider is compelled to reconstruct the relationship and exhume a hidden past that tests the authority of truth and weighs the burden of history. In A Good Man, critically acclaimed novelist...

Julia Franck's German-Book-Prize-winning novel, The Blindness of the Heart, was an international phenomenon, selling 850,000 copies in Germany alone and being published in thirty-five countries. Her newest work, Back to Back echoes the themes of The Blindness of the Heart, telling a moving personal...

A stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Moving from Pakistan's sophisticated cities to its most...

Oprah's Book Club Pick for Summer 2024"An extraordinary journey that brilliantly interweaves history, philosophy, adventure, and mysticism to explore the meaning of love, friendship, and living your life's true purpose."--Oprah WinfreyThe follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story...

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,...

Best friends Kyler and Mark both led busy lives. Between their jobs and endless dates, hoping to find their forevers, they instead found something else on their annual guy's trip-a new business venture. Eighteen months and a dozen cabin renovations later, they finally open...

This is a collection of stories, some fact, others fiction. The author has written them all during the many years he has been a member of the El Castillo Writing Group. He is a 95-year-old resident of a Life Care Retirement community in Santa...

Social Workers: overworked, under-resourced, misunderstood. Still showing up.Have you ever wondered what it might be like to work with some of the nation's most vulnerable children and families?Jenny Hurst is a Child Protection Social Worker entrusted with the Season children. Can she support this...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change--or even make our peace with--the path we've taken. "Sparks is superb at what he does. The...

Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853. The novel has many characters and several subplots and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly...

The Spence Women is the contemporary story of three women - Pearl, Audrey, and Maegan Spence.Pearl at 82 is the matriarch who holds the family together. Before the story begins, she has migrated with her husband from Ozark country to a small desert town...

Promoted to the position of foreign war correspondent by The Illustrated London News, Brandon Jonathan Stewart has moved his family to the seat of the Civil War-Charleston, South Carolina-in the summer of 1861.In this second novel in the Absence of Light series, the Stewarts...

We are all surrounded by darkness. And we are all drawn to the light.The Orkney Islands north of Scotland are steeped in stories of selkies, seal folk who swim in cold ocean waters and shed their skins to sing and dance on land. One...

Serious and quiet, Silas hardly seems like the kind of man who would be out drag racing in the wee hours of the night. Unwilling heir of her family's multimillion dollar ranching operation, Gladys Lefrak is a daredevil who vows to never settle down....

From the Four Winds by John Sinjohn is a poignant tale of resilience and displacement. Set in a world of shifting fortunes, it follows a young man's journey through hardship, love, and self-discovery. With lyrical prose, Sinjohn crafts a timeless story of longing, identity,...

"A spirited romp on the Caribbean seas, Salty is an upstairs-downstairs tale with Kate Myers' signature colorful characters and a setting to die for. For fans of Below Deck and beyond, Salty belongs in your beach bag this summer. A fun and frothy treat!"--Rachel...

Experience the raw and powerful emotions of the human journey through this collection of poetry. With intimate poems and evocative drawings, the author explores themes of abandonment, abuse, rejection, and loss. Each piece is a window into their soul, offering heart-wrenching tales of love...

The past has a tendency to catch up to us in the blink of an eye. It's no different for Brooke Altman, a 17-year-old girl who is graduating from a local high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with big dreams of becoming an interior designer....

In this fearless novel from the award-winning author of Girls Burn Brighter, a couple from India--so different from generations of white colonialists who came before them--move to Montana, only to discover how brutal and unforgiving hubris can be. Janavi and Sagar were never meant...

Rediscover a timeless gem with "Cloudy Jewel" by Grace Livingston Hill, a captivating tale of love, resilience, and transformation. Once lost to the sands of time, this enchanting novel has been lovingly restored and republished by Alpha Editions, making it a must-have collector's item...

A novel about fatherhood, grief, unanswerable questions, and the small, magical moments that make up life.Keith has always striven to break rules as he navigates full-time parenting and supports the career of his successful photographer wife. Her unexpected illness and death leaves both him...

Third-generation apple farmer Will Parson must find a distributor and laborers for his harvest-and a way to placate his wife, who yearns for luxury. How can he hold on to Applewood Orchard amid the Great Depression?Eighteen acres separate Will's farm from the estate owned...

Having escaped with his family to Western Sydney in the 1970s from a military dictatorship in Uruguay, Juan is in his seventies and a widower. He misses his wife, does not know how to be alone and has become dependent on his daughters, particularly...

From the bestselling author of Worn Out Wife, Seeks New Life, comes a funny and heartwarming story about the highs and lows of parenting.Can she really have it all?Ambitious, successful, attractive, and newly married, Bella Browning is determined to Have It All. She wants...

I gaze into my fiancé's eyes as I toast to our love, relieved that tomorrow we'll be married. After we say 'I do', no one from my past will ever be able to find me.On our wedding day, I wake with a smile. Today...

A Perilous Life, this novel originally published in French in 2017, is a must-read. The award-winning author, Lociano Benjamin, paints with maestria the life journey of an unfortunate soul who left his birthplace behind to settle in New York City where he would find...

Inspired by True Events Mama didn't want me. In fact, she would've traded my soul back for someone different if God would've let her, but he didn't, so she was stuck with me.For eighteen-year-old Lacey, life at home is a rollercoaster. She doesn't think...

Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip and incident, capturing a Germany now lost to time. Gabriele Tergit's Effingers is a novel both...

A startling mystery and a longing for love link two women, a century apart, in a haunting novel about family secrets by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Lost Letters of Aisling.Jewelry designer Lindsey McKenna is thrilled to be working at an antique...

A struggling family-man's tale with satirical wit "straight out of Catch-22 and an unsung genius who might have wandered in from A Confederacy of Dunces" (Ben East, author of Sea Never Dry). On the day of his firing, Sam Bennett packs his things, smokes...

The U.S. demographics are changing. It is increasingly getting minority, in particular Latino. They are actually 53 million estimated Latinos in the U.S., making the 2nd most country in the world, only after Mexico with most Latinos. In addition the U.S. is the 5th...

When Ava was pregnant with her second son, her first son was diagnosed with autism. She still hadn't cracked the code, yet she knew dignity had to have something to do with the code. There was a time in her life when she believed...