Fiction - Family Life - General

As a longtime maternity nurse at a Northern Ontario hospital, Bets has experienced the daily creation of new families. Yet this sixty-something "matriarch" of the hospital has only experienced personal loss; most recently, her husband Raz. When she meets Hannah, a high-school student who...

"The Magpie Funeral is a story of seeking: family, culture, but most of all, understanding-to understand others, and to be understood. The characters that make up Adam Galanski's tender-hearted, quiet novella find themselves attempting to communicate to one another, but because of their language...

Is it harder to keep a secret when the world is watching - or to tell the truth when no-one is listening?Belle Simon was just 12 years old when she was one of six girls plucked from obscurity to star in reality TV sensation...

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale: an elderly woman recounts her Dutch family's survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations. Eighty-year-old Mieke Geborn's life is one...

*Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Good Housekeeping, AARP, and more* From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding,...

Harry was just a year out of college when he tried taking census in New York City's Lower East Side during the summer of 1970. He was sweaty and he tied a bandana around his head to keep his long hair from falling over...

The movement of the ship seals his fate. He could be sailing anywhere, anytime, but he's not, he's going to the other side of the world. He could be anyone, but he's not, he's the son of a respectable London businessman. His crime? An...

An unexpected feel-good moment!Jules is thirteen and knows that his fate is sealed ... But Jules has a dream: to meet his lifelong idol, Roger Federer.For that, he is ready to brave all the tests. Alone with his father, Jules will try to get...

The book deals with the subject of Autism Spectrum Disorder. This somewhat fictional account tells the story of a man in his forties named Tim. He lives in Delaware and is struggling to make ends meet. The story explains situations of what led to...

Large Print Edition His heart broke when she died. Her life was robbed by loss. Betrayed by a mountain of lies, can two lost souls rebuild their stolen romance?Jackson Waller thought fulfilling his dream would set him free. Despite his excitement to be taking...

This somewhat unpleasant tale, published as a novelette in the "Smart Set" in July, 1920, relates a series of events which took place in the spring of the previous year. Each of the three events made a great impression upon me. In life they...

The adult debut from bestselling, award-winning young adult author Jaclyn Moriarty--a frequently hilarious, brilliantly observed novel in the spirit of Maria Semple, Rainbow Rowell, and Gail Honeyman--that follows a single mother's heartfelt search for greater truths about the universe, her family and herself.Twenty years...

At age sixteen, Anne is grown up... almost. Her grey eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love...

Crimson Hill comes from the fine old literary tradition of Great Expectations. There's the outrageous fortune bestowed upon the poorest family in town ... there's the envy of friends ... there's three generations overcome by poverty in the beginning and wealth in the end....

An out and back is a run that starts and ends at the same point. Along the way we are changed. In the end we are back where we started. Amber runs every morning, bakes home cooked meals, and keeps a spotless home. She...

Giving up her baby girl for adoption isnt the mistake Ally is running away from, but everyone else seems to think it is. As Ally tries to move forward in her life, her past keeps pulling her back, and she wonders if she will...

The Patient Griselda is a novel written by David Murray Smith. The story follows the life of Griselda, a young woman who is forced into a marriage with a cruel and abusive man named Walter. Despite the mistreatment she endures, Griselda remains patient and...

"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 homeland--told in the voices of four...

Journalist Chris Baxter is at a crossroads. He has an enviable life as a journalist in the U.S. and the prospect of an exciting new post in Thailand. But his needs aren't the only ones he must consider. His daughter is struggling with the...

Socially awkward, anxiety-riddled Beverly Bonnefinche only loves three things in life: her parents, books, and a homeless man named Bill. Without them, the only way Beverly manages to get by each day is with the help of a peculiar coping mechanism that allows her...

In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship--until a deathbed revelation ripples through their families and tears them apart. After Fran輟is Duvalier's rule...

A poignant and evocative novel that explores the bounds of familial love, the high stakes of parenthood, and the tenuous divide between fiction and reality. Thirteen years ago, Sylvia Gray's young daughter, Faye, attacked her babysitter in order to impress the Kingman, a monster...

Author: Ellen UllmanISBN-10: 1250023963ISBN-13: 9781250023964Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2012Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.85dReview Citation(s): New York Times Book Review 01/27/2013 pg. 24

A gorgeously uplifting story about memories, storytelling, love and friendship, about the journeys we take and the people we meet, what we remember and how there are some things we can never forget.Alex would like to believe she's a woman who has it all....

We make hundreds of choices a day. Some seem of no consequence, and yet . . . are they really?A strange man goes around town delivering unusual invitations. The recipients are invited to visit an odd-sounding place called the Discovery Room. Why? So they...

The island of Key West located on the Southernmost Point of the United States has always been a place known for its uniqueness and mystery. Many people that don't know the island, perhaps, believe it is a place to just have fun, relax, and...

Amelia Riley and Ben Lawson have something in common - fathers who have kept secrets.On the day of his father's funeral, Ben's life changes forever when a woman he's never met shows up claiming to be his sister. As he investigates the past, Ben...

Dear Edie, I wanted you to know so many things. I wanted to tell you them in person, as you grew up by my side. But it wasn't to be...When Jess gives birth to Edie, it's the happiest day of her life. She knows,...

The brand new novel from the #1 bestselling author, Maddie Please! The Old Ducks are back and they are naughtier than ever'I've loved all of Maddie Please's books but this is my favourite so far - superb characters and a warm, wonderful story. Bravo!'...

A family home, full of secrets.Number Thirty-Two was once a family home. Anna was once a mother and a wife. Now, she is in arrears and alone.With little choice but to sell up, she is forced to confront the memories of the people who...

I use the wall as the tapestry to weave together times throughout history. Carruthers informed me. We are, after all, connected. Don't you think? By the gentle sweeping of a grandfather clock's pendulum, Christmas returns each year to provide us with some of our...

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them. In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and...

"This book brought me to tears and a greater understanding of my own possibilities." Terresa Cooper Haskew, author of Winston's Book of SoulsAn email from a stranger tells Alison Earley that her natural father, whom she has known for only six years, has died...

The contemporary figure has somewhat similar characteristics to his father, grandfather, and great grandfather; a soul-searching thinker, all the same, departing from the ruinous while conserving the beneficial side of the culture, customs, and manners in which he was raised and the larger generational...

"An audacious, wildly funny, completely unpredictable novel by a writer so singular that it's hard to compare her to anyone else . . . absolutely brilliant." --Kevin Wilson A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, new...

When Mitch Quillen's life begins to unravel, he fears there is no escape. His marriage and career are both failing, and his relationship with his father has been a disaster for decades. Approaching forty, Mitch doesn't want to become a middle-aged statistic. When his...

What choices would you make if you knew you may die soon?From the multi award-winning, best-selling author of four books, including Here, Home, Hope, a gripping and heart-wrenching novel about a young mother who has it all. The only problem is she may be...

Three women, three generations, shifting landscapes. From Pasadena in the 1920s to La Jolla in the midcentury to the Central Coast of the 70s, Molly Wyer tracks the social, psychological and spiritual progress, life decisions and opaque paths of three daughters, three wives, three...

"Powerful, touching, and poignant, this family's love story had me in tears." --Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost A triumphant story of a father and his little boy--and a love that knows no limits. Rob Coates is a...

A young immigrant from an impoverished village in southern Switzerland finds love in Victoria, gold in New Zealand and fulfilment in the goldfields of Western Australia.This story is based on the life of the author's great grandfather.Emigrating to the Victorian goldfields Joseph settles in...

All her life Ellie Enderlin had been known as Lila's sister--until the day Lila, a top math student at Stanford, was murdered, and the shape of their family changed forever. Twenty years later, Ellie is a professional coffee buyer who has never put down...

"An immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &...

A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe...

One summer, something happened that changed everything forever... Born and brought up in an artists' commune in Derbyshire, Oriana Taylor had freedom at her fingertips in a home full of extraordinary people. The Bedwell brothers, Malachy and Jed, shared their childhood and adolescence with...

Hope never dies... The dramatic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of NOBODY'S GIRL. After losing everything in the Blitz, Hilda Stone and her 14-year-old daughter Ellen are desperate for a miracle. But their world is shattered when a telegram informs them that...

A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter before undergoing heart surgery in this tender and twisty debut novel. Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments...

TWO LIFELONG FRIENDS. Jess loves her work as a high-profile lawyer in Charleston. But when her marriage implodes, she retreats to her childhood home on Cape Cod with her thirty-year-old daughter, Caitlin, hoping to regroup with her longtime best friend, Alison. ONE BOOKSHOP BY...

After their no-strings fling in paradise, Lyric and Devon never thought they'd see each other again. Until they did. Now they have very different ideas about what the future holds... Sometimes you just have to take the leap... What happens in Aruba, stays in...

On the outside, Samantha has it all: money, looks, opportunity, love. But on the inside, Samantha is different. She can't stop making bad choices. She's restless and often reckless. In The Wrong Life, we meet Samantha's family, friends, doctors, lovers, spouse, and her children,...

Six-year-old David learns quickly that life is not always what is expected. He has just overheard a devastating conversation between his parents and his understanding of the world has just been shattered. Because of this, David begins making choices that are not always the...