Fiction - Family Life - General

The word atavism, coined by a botanist and popularized by a criminologist, refers to the resurfacing of a primitive evolutionary trait or urge in a modern being. This inventive collection from Lydia Millet offers overlapping tales of urges ranging from rage to jealousy to...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven, a novel about America's favorite TV family, whose perfect façade cracks, for fans of Lessons in Chemistry and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy...

"Round the Corner: Being the Life and Death of Francis Christopher Folyat, Bachelor of Divinity, and Father of a Large Family," by Gilbert Cannan, offers a compelling look into the complexities of family life in the early 20th century. This domestic fiction explores the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this inspiring novel from bestselling author Danielle Steel, the life of a Parisian woman changes in a heartbeat when she's trapped by wildfires in Napa Valley. Born to a French mother and American father, graceful Dahlia de Beaumont...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Mckenna Grace, Mason Thames, Allison Williams, and Dave Franco.From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of...

Infidelity is a very heartbreaking experience when discovered.Many find it difficult to move on with life or forgive their spouse .Infidelity is one of the most common factor of a broken home. It is difficult to overlook such occurrence but healing from it is...

Author: Christi PopeISBN-10: 1977282997ISBN-13: 9781977282996Publisher: Outskirts PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2025Pages: 326Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d

Author: Kate FrostISBN-10: 1836039026ISBN-13: 9781836039020Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2025Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.84d

Author: Lorin Lee CaryISBN-10: 1549726676ISBN-13: 9781549726675Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2017Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d

Jacquelyn Pajot is a nine-year-old American girl whose excitement over a solo visit to her grandmother in Paris is soon diminished by the discovery that the grandmother is far more devoted to dragging her to church every day than she is in showing her...

Author: Carol Ann MartinISBN-13: 9798349336676Publisher: Rowanwood ArtLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2024Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

Author: Carol Ann MartinISBN-13: 9798349330483Publisher: Rowanwood ArtLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 144Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

A woman embarks on a cross-country search for meaning that takes her exactly where she needs to be--with those she needs the most. When Charlotte "Charlie" Hasting's father dies, she knows her life will never be the same. Since her mother left after her...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the beloved classic of girlhood with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, and a silk ribbon bookmark. "Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another." The four March girls live together, as different...

The Campbells have been part of Sullivan County for as long as anyone can remember-a family built on hard work, love, and a little bit of stubbornness. Their land holds stories of generations past, their brewery produces beer as familiar as an old friend,...

Author: Stacy WindahlISBN-10: 1965278698ISBN-13: 9781965278697Publisher: Mission Point PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2025Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d

Author: Stacy WindahlISBN-10: 196527868XISBN-13: 9781965278680Publisher: Mission Point PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2025Pages: 318Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

From a remote Italian village to the chaos of Ellis Island--one widow's bold leap into the unknown will define generations to come. That Was Enough is a sweeping immigrant saga inspired by the true journey of Francesco and Concetta Nardi, who leave behind their...

An engaging, totally relatable and feel-good read from TOP TEN bestselling author Celia Anderson 'Celia tells a story with warmth and heart - you'll be rooting for her wonderfully vivid characters, and want them to be your friends too!' Fiona Gibson Forty-something Molly is...

A BRAND NEW instalment in the wartime saga series from May Ellis 1917: As the war reaches its final moments, the families of the Somerset village of Street take comfort in new arrivals among them, but can they allow themselves to hope, or are...

The BRAND NEW instalment in the uplifting Escape to the Lakes series from MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Jessica Redland Melanie knows she's been running away... For the last seven years Mel has been hiding; from life, from her friends and from those who love her...

Thirteen-year-old Alice Truelove can't take another day of her father's cruelty.Better a life on the streets than being constantly blamed for her mother's sad death, or that's what Alice thinks as she packs up her meagre possessions. But fending for herself in the Black...

Author: Liz LawlerISBN-10: 1805500120ISBN-13: 9781805500124Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/2025Pages: 360Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.80d

The BRAND NEW read from Saturday Kitchen's Helen McGinn When a heartsick Maggie is sent on an errand by her mother to Cannes, she is keen to get it over with as quickly as possible. She has been tasked with collecting a treasured box...

It's 1867 and the Munros have lost their entire homestead to a wildfire. The whole family-Moses, Grandma, Pa, Ollie, Judith, and newlyweds Jimmy and Celine-flee north and return to Rupert's Land. Desperate for work, Moses, Jimmy, and Celine gratefully accept the offer to guide...

This book is for anyone who has experienced loss. To lose someone you love brings overwhelming, sometimes unexpected emotions that can be hard to navigate for anyone, including a child. This book helps to validate some of the feelings experienced during the different stages...

Author: Wendy HartISBN-10: 1763548929ISBN-13: 9781763548923Publisher: Wendy HartLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2024Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.77d

"A clever, amusing, and satisfying read." -Carolyn Korsmeyer, author of Little FolliesWhen recent widow Lily Simone discovers that her husband has squandered their savings in risky crypto investments, imperiling her comfortable Marin County lifestyle, friends encourage her to turn her attractive coastal home into...

"Isabel Colegate has no rival." --The Times "I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed." 1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, talk of civil war in Ireland. But...

1933 bank closing in mid-Michigan piles calamity on top of disaster. Separated from his family, Eldie Craine is up to his eyeballs in unfamiliar territory: someone else's clothes, a new school, new faiths, a new school, new rules. On top of that, now there's...

The White Lotus meets The Last Thing He Told Me in this domestic mystery about a luxury sailboat found floating adrift in the ocean and the secrets of the missing family who set sail aboard it weeks before..."Emy McGuire's tense and claustrophobic debut is...

On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. Although Maria was once a student radical and still proudly lives by her beliefs,...

THE UNFORGETTABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SIGHT OF YOU "People kept telling me it was impossible that, aged eighteen, I'd found the person I wanted to spend my life with. And yet, here we were." Childhood sweethearts Neve and Jamie...

Finalist for the Desmond Elliott PrizeA "superb debut"* novel--based on the story of the author's grandmother--following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian) Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a...

While on a turbulent flight to Vancouver for a business endeavour, Camrea Ricen hits her head and falls into a coma. When she wakes up weeks later, she learns that a fellow passenger, Marces Cadeon, claimed to be her fiancé and stayed by her...

Anne Douglas Sedgwick's "The Third Window" is a powerful work of psychological fiction exploring the aftermath of World War I. Set in England, the novel delves into the lives of those touched by the conflict, particularly focusing on disabled veterans and the profound impact...

Return to the heartland with Gene Stratton Porter's "Laddie," a timeless tale of family, love, and growing up in rural Indiana during the early 20th century. This meticulously prepared edition brings to life a classic story of a close-knit family navigating the joys and...

A sincere and touching novel on dead ends and new beginnings from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. The year Susannah Nelson turned eighteen was the last time she saw her boyfriend or her brother--Jake broke up with her, and a few...

Read Tanya Egan Gibson's posts on the Penguin Blog. A playful, witty, and remarkably accomplished debut novel about how reading can save your life Asked to name her favorite book, sixteen-year-old Carley Wells answers, "Never met one I liked." Her parents are horrified and...

"Part road odyssey, part coming-of-age tale, King's novel achieves the exact right balance of humor, redemption, and reconciliation." -BooklistJames King's acclaimed debut novel is a rich multigenerational saga that soars with compassion and insight into the pain and joy of family life. Confronted with...

Banked Fires This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting &...

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...

From island life in the Caribbean to a new beginning in France, a young man comes of age in a sweeping and lyrical novel about family, loss, secrets, and finding freedom from the past.Eighteen-year-old Salomon Destin graduates high school and anxiously trades life on...

From the million copy bestselling author of In a Single Moment and Reluctantly Home comes a gripping novel that asks: how big a lie would you tell to protect the ones you love?When Loretta Ashton dies suddenly, her family is shattered. As a devoted...

Dogs are the best judge of character. Eliza Jacobson has always been the black sheep of her mega-successful family, who runs the HealthNut Corporation. She's not as pretty, talented, and business-savvy as her older sister. But she loves volunteering to work with the dogs...

Following an underdog orphan's journey to becoming an industrious CEO, Noah Rising is a tender story about an unexpected rise to the top. Noah Jeremiah North has nothing-no mother, no father, and not a friend in the world-except his conniving Uncle Willis. That is,...

The author's next adult fiction novel is the third book in the Beauregard Family series about family ties, long-buried secrets, dead bodies, and a middle-aged woman facing the tragic circumstances of her past decisions.Born into prominence, Scarlet has followed in her mother's footsteps and...

We all have best friends. But if you have a dog that shares an unconditional love relationship with you, then you really have a best friend. Your best friend will stand by you through the good times and the bad, the happiness and the...

Author: Brian RudolphISBN-13: 9798894279961Publisher: Fulton BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.67d

THE TRIBUTARIES of ALEX BECKHAM is a series of connecting novellas which begins by escorting an innocent boy of three on a downstream journey to appreciate the preciousness of life and family. The book begins in 1953 when life was quite different for children;...