Fiction - Family Life - Siblings

Set in high-society Georgetown, an irresistible family drama about two sisters and the public scandal that just may lead them to rewrite the rules..."A stellar novel that celebrates sisterhood and the way women can step out of flawed men's shadows. I delighted in every...

Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradise, as secret lives and new loves emerge under the bright Caribbean sky. A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father...

In this heart-wrenching, emotionally gripping USA Today bestseller, a woman with a seemingly perfect life finds a mysterious letter that reveals dark secrets from the past that threaten to destroy her family. Lara's life looks perfect on the surface -- gorgeous doting husband, Massimo;...

An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language. From the author compared to Nora Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. The Grammarians are Laurel...

'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Rankin'Funny, rumbustious, unstinting and wonderfully Hogarthian' The Observer'His relish is infectious' Times _____________________________What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny,...

"Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family." -- Washington PostFrom New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story...

When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place...

The newest novel by Prix Medicis-winner Anne Garréta, In Concrete is a feminist inversion of a domestic drama crossed with Oulipian nursery rhyme.Author: Anne GarrétaISBN-10: 164605055XISBN-13: 9781646050550Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2021Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 05/10/2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes a "compelling and heartbreaking" (Jojo Moyes) novel about three strangers who are brought together by the father they never knew. Lydia, Dean, and Robyn don't know one another. Yet. Each is...

"An unbreakable bond is formed among the knitters in this poignant story of real women with real problems becoming real friends." --Booklist A place of welcome and warmth, of friends old and new. Watch three women discover how knitting can change their lives in...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Sparkling... A sure hit with women's fiction fans." --Publishers WeeklyTwo best friends jump-start their lives in a summer that will change them forever...Single mom Ellen Fox couldn't be more content--until she overhears her son saying he can't go to...

When Jim's big brother Jack is released from prison, the brothers-along with their broken father and Jack's menacing best friend-decide to charter an ocean fishing boat to celebrate Jack's new freedom. Once the small crew is far out to sea, however, a mutant species...

Already a worldwide success in mass market and trade paperback formats, Susan Mallery's newest hardcover is an emotional, witty, and heartfelt story about a woman who takes a trip to California to figure out her life and get a break from her family...only to...

A widowed artist. An old crush. One summer to get her life back.Ivy Marin's life implodes after discovering that her late husband had spent their life savings on a beach house. Strapped for cash as an art teacher and with nowhere to go, Ivy...

"In true Susan Mallery fashion, strong female characters, friendship, and family are at the center... You're sure to laugh and cry along the journey and delight in the happy ending."--Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Virgin RiverStep into the vineyard with...

Have you been bad enough?When her stepmother dies unexpectedly, Caro returns to her childhood home in Derbyshire. She hadn't seen Elizabeth in years, but the remote farmhouse offers refuge from a bad relationship, and a chance to start again.But going through Elizabeth's belongings unearths...

It's Jill Shalvis meets Susan Mallery in this gorgeous novel by New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde about three sisters, one small town, a wedding, and the summer that changes everything.Welcome to Moonglow Cove, Texas, a place where your neighbors know your name...

It's Pittsburgh, 1910--the golden age of steel in the land of opportunity. Eastern European immigrants Janos and Karina Kovac should be prospering, but their American dream is fading faster than the colors on the sun-drenched flag of their adopted country. Janos is exhausted from...

The high summer season. A long-awaited wedding. Surprises at a historic beach inn.*From a USA Today Bestselling Author*At the historic Seabreeze Inn, a summer beach wedding has sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay busier than ever with wedding plans. New guests arrive, bringing with them...

From the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes the first book in a trilogy about love, betrayal, and the secrets families keep.Forced to choose between abortion or adoption, Olivia Carson's younger sister, Lily, runs away from home. Sixteen and pregnant, she...

From Sandie Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of the Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, comes The Half Sister; a compelling new domestic suspense novel about a family who is forever changed when a stranger arrives at their door.Meet the...

A Sarah Selects Book Club Pick!"As sophisticated and delicious as lobster bisque." --Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author A shimmering summer read set in Maine about family secrets, marriage, motherhood, and privilege, from the bestselling author of Two Truths and a Lie...

Two siblings encounter an otherworldly force that possesses one of them on a cross-country road trip. They are forced to fight for their lives as they're pursued across the American Southwest by malevolent forces both supernatural and terribly human. Author: Matthew LyonsISBN-10: 168442710XISBN-13: 9781684427109Publisher:...

Mumford, Texas, the summer of '69. Matt Ruggirello believes he is doomed to enter the farming life, just like everyone else in his family. Josh, his middle brother, wants nothing more than Papa's approval. While little brother Tommy observes all the happenings in and...

"A tense, simmering, fast-paced mystery."--Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of The Last House Guest and The Girl from Widow HillsThe New York Times bestselling author returns with an unsettling but riveting psychological thriller about a captivating woman who joins a family and...

A woman returns to her small southern hometown in the wake of her mother's sudden death--only to find the past upended by stunning family secrets--in this intimate debut novel, written with deep compassion and sharp wit. "A deeply moving work of Southern fiction that...

Winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best NovelIn a small seaside city on the Jersey Shore, three half-siblings confront the death of a distant and bullying patriarch. They now have the chance to imagine new relationships and new futures, ones that would have...

"All three narrators are Puerto Rican-born and deliver the Spanish passages with musical grace, thereby enhancing an already fine novel." --The Washington Post A blazing new talent debuts with the story of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her absent mother, her glittering career...

Lilah Calhoun falls in love with a man who harbors scandalous secrets about her family. During a storm off the coast of Maine where her home, the Towers, stands, Lilah Calhoun rescued a mysterious stranger from the turbulent sea. Professor Max Quartermain believes he...

A fresh start. A sunny beach town. One summer to rediscover her life.**NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!**A new beach read series set in the beloved village of Summer Beach.When Marina Moore's life blows up on national television, she seeks refuge at her grandmother's beach...

From the USA Today bestselling and Edgar-nominated author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters--one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies. Welcome to Wisewood. We'll keep your secrets if...

Untangling secrets at a historic beach inn has unimagined surprises.With the high summer season underway at the Seabreeze Inn, Ivy Bay faces new challenges. She has just one season to make the inn a success to pay the tax bill her late husband left...

Efficient Amanda Calhoun finds easy-going architect Sloan O'Riley insufferable - and irresistible. To keep their family mansion, the Towers, standing tall on the coast of Maine, the Calhouns have hired architect Sloan O'Riley to perform long-needed repairs. Amanda Calhoun is responsible for overseeing Sloan's...

A widowed artist. An old crush. One summer to get her life back.Ivy Marin's life implodes after discovering that her late husband had spent their life savings on a beach house. Strapped for cash as an art teacher and with nowhere to go, Ivy...

"A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformed"--Luanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners "Joyce Maynard has outdone herself in this...

At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make...

From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood. Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery pens a love story of a different sort...a heartfelt tale of friendship between two women who used to be sisters.Once upon a time, when her dad married Sage's mom, Daisy was thrilled to get a bright...

Lisa Hodges needs to make a decision fast. Thanks to her dead husband's gambling addiction, their savings is almost gone. In her early fifties with a large, waterfront home on Nantucket to support, Lisa hasn't worked in over thirty years, has no in-demand skills...

Abigail Gibson is gone. The morning after Christmas Day, she walks out of her home in the leafy suburbs of Westchester, New York, leaving behind a strange note on the kitchen table... and her ten-year-old son, Sam.When her sister Gillian gets the call, she...

For readers of Waitress, Jill Shalvis, and Jenny Hale―love blossoms in the most unlikely of places in a charming novel about family, first impressions, and finding the courage to belong! Harper Anderson has a to-do list longer than the Colorado River and fields of...

This historical novel begins with the adventures of teenage brothers Adam and Henry Baird, as well as Adam's future wife, Catherine Malcolm. The three young Scots venture separately, and overcome great peril traveling to America in the 1860s, leaving forever the Baird's large, close-knit...

From number one New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery comes a story of friends who become family, giving each other courage to start over.When fate brings three strangers to a charming space for lease on the California coast, the Boardwalk Bookshop is born....

"The perfect summer read." --British Vogue A whip-smart novel about modern motherhood and sibling rivalry, from one of Norway's rising stars--perfect for fans of Emma Straub and the films of Greta Gerwig! Exhilarating, funny, and unexpectedly devastating, Grown Ups is for anyone who has...

"Published in 2021 by arrangement with Tin House Books, LLC."--Title page verso.Author: Claire FullerISBN-10: 1432890506ISBN-13: 9781432890506Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2021Pages: 502Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.67w x 0.94dLarge Print

PARADE's Best Books to Read this Summer"A rich historical novel that illustrates why connection is more important and more vital than ever." -New York Times bestselling author Lisa SeeDaniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his...

The power of love and the strength of women working together are proved once again.Alex Thurston, the one man she's ever truly loved, and to come to Palm Desert, California, she doesn't hesitate. He's dying of cancer and needs her help in overseeing the...

Brenda Janowitz writes with extraordinary humor and heart. --JANE GREEN, New York Times bestselling author Three siblings. A priceless family ring. One legendary love story. In 1978, Lizzie Morgan and Ritchie Schneider embark on a whirlwind romance on the bright beaches and glamorous yachts...

Ana and her brother Jared's short trip back to their childhood home in Tanzania should benefit everyone. He'll volunteer as a surgeon at a remote hospital, and she'll seek projects for her university's global health program. When Jared disappears, Ana's work and life fall...

The high summer season. A long-awaited wedding. Surprises at a historic beach inn.*From a USA Today Bestselling Author* (Large Print Edition)At the historic Seabreeze Inn, a summer beach wedding has sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay busier than ever with wedding plans. New guests arrive,...