Fiction - Family Life - Siblings

Russia 1948.Stalin is purging everyone he sees as a threat.Gulags and shallow graves are full of writers, scientists, artists, journalists, politicians, academics and poets.Ludmila Sirotovska, a young militia officer, comes to a remote outpost in Central Siberia to investigate a murder.On the trail of...

Ross Susans and Luke Moffat live on opposite sides of London, and opposite sides of the personality spectrum. Ross is intelligent, driven and committed, whilst Luke is chaotic, aggressive and reckless, but they have the same demons. Ross has dreams of getting into Harvard...

It is September 1940, Maggie and her young siblings, Grace and Billy, are living in the East End of London with their parents. Their father has been killed at Dunkirk and their mother goes into hospital to have her fourth child, leaving the children...

'A hugely promising debut' Irish Independent'Gripping and pacy' Steve Cavanagh, Sunday Times bestselling author of Fifty Fifty'They're dead. They're all dead. It's my fault. I killed them.'Those are the words of Iona Gardener, who stands bloodied and staring as she confesses to the murder...

At twenty-seven, Shannon Murphy has just discovered that she has two sisters she never knew. Now, through Shannon's loving persistence, the three of them are moving in together above her dance studio in Bridgeport. Shannon is excited to make a home with her sisters...

⭐ Don't miss the new uplifting historical saga series from Molly Green, set at famous Bletchley Park: Wartime at Bletchley Park - available to pre-order now! ⭐Her duty is to keep smiling through...When World War II breaks out, Suzanne's dream of attending the Royal...

From the award-winning author of Bound South comes a powerful, moving novel of family loss and sisterly redemption. For more than ten years, Naomi and Phil Harrison enjoyed a marriage of heady romance, tempered only by the needs of their children. But on a...

From celebrated author Susan Higginbotham comes an incredible book about Abraham Lincoln's First Lady and, on the other side of the Civil War, her sister.A Union's First LadyAs the Civil War cracks the country in two, Mary Lincoln stands beside her husband praying for...

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...

A husband's secret life, a wife's new beginning: escape to the Caribbean with #1 New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. Irene Steele shares her idyllic life in a beautiful Iowa City Victorian house with a husband who loves her to sky-writing, sentimental extremes....

Two estranged sisters reunite in an emotional novel of family, forgiveness, lost hope, and new beginnings.They had a forever bond, until a sudden tragedy thrust them apart. Now, each at a crossroad in her own life, two sisters' paths are about to intersect.Broadcast journalist...

When the innocence of fairy tales meets the terror of a Stephen King thriller... This international bestseller by French author Adeline Dieudonn is one girl's bitingly funny coming-of-age tale within a violent, savage family. At home there are four bedrooms: one for her, one...

Four adult siblings reconnect on a brief adventure through the Loire Valley in this international-bestselling novel by the beloved French author of Billie. Simon and his two sisters, Garance and Lola, flee their cousin's dull wedding--and Simon's judgmental wife--to visit their younger brother, Vincent,...

A third-generation Greek American visits his ancestral homeland, and discovers a century of family secrets, in this "hauntingly poignant" novel (World Literature Today). From the burning quay at Smyrna to present-day Manhattan, the Argyriou family has been pursued by disaster. In the 1922 Greco-Turkish...

Sisters Mattie, Nell and Renie have all managed to escape their oppressive and bullying father, but now separated, the girls must draw upon their strength and courage to build new lives for themselves.Renie, the youngest sister, is living with the newly married Nell, happy...

"Rosen paints a vivid picture of a family torn apart then shows us what true family means." -Pamela Taylor, author of the Second Son ChroniclesIn 1915, jealous, bitter Rebecca Roth cuts all ties with her life-long friends, the Pearls. Eight years later, Rebecca's son...

Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel.Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they...

Sometimes the deepest wounds come from the ones who love us most. In her lab, Kate McDonnell's world is stable and predictable, just the way she likes it--and life outside her lab is anything but. Kate just wants a life where she's in control,...

From the critically acclaimed author of Standing Still comes a psychologically charged novel about the power and failure of family.Author: Kelly SimmonsISBN-10: 1439160937ISBN-13: 9781439160930Publisher: Atria BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2011Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.21h x 5.38w x 0.79dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 11/15/2010Booklist 01/01/2011 pg. 41Library Journal...

Mystery, romance, adventure, and more are in store for the youngest of five sisters, lawyers all, when she signs up to work at a lavender farm in Provence in Lost in Lavender, a Bennett Sisters Mystery.Facing a crossroads-- both career and personal-- the youngest...

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...

Pennsylvania Powwow is the story of a heartbroken woman, Leora, who leaves Atlanta and her young family, and drives nonstop, traveling back to Pennsylvania where she spent her formative years. Through the aid of a longtime friend, Leora accepts a job watching over a...

"A well-crafted tale about trauma and miracles." -Kirkus ReviewsNicky Covo is a Holocaust survivor. In 1990, Nicky - a Brooklyn psychiatrist - receives a letter from Abbess Fevronia, the head of a women's monastery in Greece. Although Nicky believes the rest of his family...

Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag.'Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly faceted and...

'Both heartbreaking and heartwarming' - ***** Amazon reviewer'Emotional, charming and uplifting' -***** Amazon reviewer A message in a bottle. One summer. A family to reunite. Lou suffers from a rare type of dementia and dies in her fifties. She leaves behind a message in...

A sparkling Christmas read from the Sunday Times bestseller-perfect to snuggle up with this winter!Hannah and Nico are meant to be together. But fate is keeping them apart ...As soon as Hannah bumps into her brother Rob's best friend Nico in Stockholm, the two...

Taliesin MacGuire promises his grandmother he will discover why his father left thirty years ago and never returned to his family. Finn MacGuire was the seventh son of a seventh son, and the legend of shapeshifter followed him throughout his life in Southwest Virginia.Was...

Audrey Moretti always knew she wanted to be a police officer, but she never expected it would take her on the most harrowing venture of her life-the search for her sister on September 11th, 2001... Audrey has made it to the final weeks of...

Jane Austen's Mansfield Park is now available in an exclusive collector's edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and ribbon marker, ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Austen fans who appreciated the Seasons collection will love...

In the wake of a personal tragedy, four women face the past, their futures, and each other in a novel of broken ties and healing by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids.When famed chef Augustus Beauvais dies, he leaves...

In this rapturous coming-of-age debut, a naive-yet-determined Appalachian boy will go to any length to save his family over the course of one life-changing summer."If you're famous, you don't have to go to war."Summer 1968. When thirteen-year-old Jack Elliot overhears the barbershop men grousing,...

In this stark and unsparing coming-of-age story, the shy and intelligent Joel watches helplessly as his alcoholic and abusive paramedic father spirals ever downward and out of control. Joel's life crumbles further when his older brother, disturbed by the drunken violence inflicted on their...

"Yates packs an emotional punch with this masterful, multilayered contemporary...pitch-perfect plotting and carefully crafted characters make for a story that's sure to linger in readers' minds." --Publishers WeeklyNew York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates dazzles with this powerful novel of sisterhood, secrets and how...

One of the year's most anticipated by Marie Claire, Essence, Debutiful, & GoodreadsA brilliant debut by a British-Nigerian author--a heartfelt family drama that will delight book club readers and fans of books like The Girl with the Louding Voice and Erotic Stories for Punjabi...

Three daughters of a famed and eccentric puppeteer must confront their family divisions and tenuous relationships with their father and each other when, sinking into dementia, he announces there is a fourth daughter in this powerful story of family, ambition, and legacy. Author: Heather...

The bestselling status (and subsequent blockbuster film adaptations) of Bridget Jones's Diary and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is proof of the enduring strength of this category. Although the novel is invented, Robinson is a successful Hollywood producer whose credits include Braveheart and...

Adam Austin hasn't spoken to his brother in years. When they were teenagers, their sister was abducted and murdered, and their devastated family never recovered. Now Adam keeps to himself, scraping by as a bail bondsman, working so close to the town's criminal fringes...

The Murphy family has never tried to be different; they just are. When Yasmin, the youngest sibling, was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, her older siblings learned to adapt to less attention and more responsibility, to a sister with "special abilities" that no one, not...

USA Today BestsellerNew York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis returns to Wildstone with the touching story of finding your place in the world--and the people who make it home.Piper Manning's about as tough as they come, she's had to be. She raised her siblings...

"A haunting, magical, modern-day fairytale. A feast for the senses." --Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times bestselling author of First FrostWith echoes of the alchemy of Practical Magic, the lushness of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, and the darkly joyful wickedness of the Witches of Eastwick,...

Welcome back to Fairfield Orchard, where apples and romance are ripe for the picking...Actor Tyler Fairfield is Spencer Hollow's only home-grown celebrity. To Brianna MacDougall, he's a friend who became a lover over the course of one wild night in New York City. They...

From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her mother's hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family foreverMattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked...

In a gripping novel of secrets and survival from an acclaimed, emerging literary voice, the collision between a budding forensic investigator, his tormented mentor, and the haunted woman who emerges from the wreckage of his past will have fateful results for all. Following his...

The lives of brothers Charlie and Owen Bender are changed forever on the night their father walks into the Vermont woods with a death wish and a shotgun. The second shock comes when his suicide note bequeaths the family's restaurant to Charlie alone, while...

'A heart-warming tale' Woman & Home'Uplifting . . . a hug in book form' Heat***********************************Mae has watched as her three older sisters have gone through the process of finding their place in the world and faced the challenges of parenthood head on. Now ready...

In this novel "full of music, magnetism, and familial obligation" (Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here) a dying billionaire matriarch leaks news of her death early so she can examine her legacy--a decision that horrifies her children and inadvertently exposes secrets she has...

From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story. Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment...

The award-winning author of The Gifted Gabald Sisters returns with a new novel about a woman who craves solitude, only to find family more fulfilling. In Buddhism, there is a place where hungry souls gather between lives awaiting rebirth so they can finally satisfy...

"Ingenious . . . Mary B is a tribute not just to Jane] Austen but to defiant women of any era."--USA TodayThe overlooked middle sister in Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the...

Pears on a Willow Tree is a multigenerational roadmap of love and hate, distance and closeness, and the lure of roots that both bind and sustain us all.The Marchewka women are inseparable. They relish the joys of family gatherings; from preparing traditional holiday meals...