Fiction - Family Life - Siblings

Leizar is a gripping story through five generations, of one man's journey against incredible adversityIt's 1843 in a little shtetl village in Russian occupied Poland. The baby is delivered amidst blood and pain into squalor. Mother dies in childbirth.......Through 100 years and five generations...

When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they've long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward.Frances Mae Livingston's firm...

One fortysomething mama with an empty nest. One middle-aged witch who fights wraiths. For each of the Sanders sisters, looking at her twin is like gazing at her reflection in a funhouse mirror--warped, twisted, and a little bit scary. Donna Sanders has done everything...

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Dictionary of...

"Enthralling. . . . A story that burns with intensity and daring." --Iain Reid A propulsive novel about the power and paradoxes of desire, from the acclaimed author of The Amateurs. As small children, Francine and her twin Philip shared a seemingly unbreakable bond--but...

A widower and a spinster, Ambrose and his sister Mattie are the last of the Bancrofts. Now they have returned to London, ready to rejoin society. But death is not something one can outrun. Ambrose tries to draw Mattie out of her grief with...

There's no place like home for the holidays...As a girl, single mom Lauren Maxwell hated Magnolia, South Carolina. And she thought she'd left her hometown in the rearview mirror years ago, but a message from her beloved baby brother, Brody, changes all that. He's...

As long as she can remember, it's been Nicola and her sister Viv against the world. Abandoned by their parents, the two of them managed to raise themselves. They turned out pretty well too: Viv is a successful surgeon with a husband and a...

SECRETS. We all have them. Little things we keep to ourselves. But what if your family found out?Carl and Ruth Wallace thought they raised their children to have no SECRETS . . . but they were wrong. Steven has come home and his SECRETS...

Alec and Ollie, grappling with the recent death of their father, are sent to a desolate year-round boarding school atop the icy peak of Mount Easton. There, Alec hopes to have a fresh start where both he and his younger brother can find temporary...

A cozy sci-fi novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: BrotherhoodThe only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them.Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda's ready to give up everything to start anew....

Longlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller PrizeGlobe and Mail 100 Best Book of 2023CBC Books, Best Canadian Fiction 2023Apple Books, Best Canadian Debut 2023 and Best Book of the Month for September 2023"We all lined up for our whipping by the shouting beauty and...

A very inspiring children's book about faith, strength and survival. A book filled with emotions and anger, yet very comforting to the hearts of young children and adults who believe in the power of prayer.A touching story about seven little girls living at an...

When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit...

Novelist and award-winning cookbook author Bharti Kirchner has written a sweeping family saga, a first class fiction about forbidden love and family honor. Set in the mountainous tea plantations of Darjeeling, India and in New York City, Darjeeling is the story of two sisters...

There's no place like home for the holidays...As a girl, single mom Lauren Maxwell hated Magnolia, South Carolina. And she thought she'd left her hometown in the rearview mirror years ago, but a message from her beloved baby brother, Brody, changes all that. He's...

Though retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, Henrie O to her friends, once turned down a marriage proposal from Jimmy Lennox, he's still one of her most cherished friends. So when he asks for her help on behalf of his wife, world-famous documentary filmmaker...

A catastrophe forces Jocelyn Durand, the author of a decades-old and quite accidental publishing one-hit-wonder, to meet her idol, best-selling suspense writer Asher Cray. Each harbors a literary crush on the other, but if gossip rags are to be believed, Asher is a philandering...

​"I bought the house," Butch says over the phone. Art Deats does not have to ask which one. His brother has been fixated on their childhood home deep in the swamps of lower Alabama ever since they fled the place in terror forty years...

At last, a long-awaited honeymoon for Ivy and Bennett...but it's unlike any other.After embarking on a second marriage, Ivy and Bennett are eager to enjoy a relaxing holiday. However, when their flight to sunny shores is rerouted to a glittering city by the sea,...

France, 1942: With Europe struggling under German occupation, Sophie Bélanger, grieving the deaths of her brother, fiancé and friends, is no longer prepared to stand on the sidelines. Risking everything, she becomes increasingly involved in helping to save those on the run - even...

Featured in Buzz Books 2023 Great Reads Fall/Winter"A wealth of keen insight and just the right touch of delightful humor." --Sigrid Nunez, author of The FriendA kaleidoscopic story, unspooling over the twenty-four hours of a very contemporary woman's sixtieth birthday.Nine years have passed since...

Uncle Sam leaned back in his chair to light a new Cignals, the dead one smoldering in the ashtray, smoke settling over his shoulder before squiggling in ribbons to join the coiled clouds hanging from the ceiling. After another drink and another suck, he...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!Winner of the NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Literary Work, FictionShortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeFrom National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of...

At last, a long-awaited honeymoon for Ivy and Bennett...but it's unlike any other.After embarking on a second marriage, Ivy and Bennett are eager to enjoy a relaxing holiday. However, when their flight to sunny shores is rerouted to a glittering city by the sea,...

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn't Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet.After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest,...

A very inspiring children's book about faith, strength and survival. A book filled with emotions and anger, yet very comforting to the hearts of young children and adults who believe in the power of prayer.A touching story about seven little girls living at an...

A new bookshop on the beach. A sizzling summer ahead. Join a new book club at the Seabreeze Inn.**From a USA Today bestselling author.** When sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay form a book club to help support a local bookshop on the beach, friends...

A heartwarming story about sisters, falling in love, and discovering life's greatest adventures are made with those who matter most by New York Times bestselling author Shirley Jump. The youngest of the three close-knit sisters, Emma Monroe is the family wild child. She's never...

California girl Allie Hudson Monroe can't wait for the day when the renovations on the Sugarhouse Theater are complete so she can finally collect the inheritance from her father and leave Pennsylvania.Author: Mariah StewartISBN-10: 1643582127ISBN-13: 9781643582122Publisher: Center PointLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2019Pages: 500Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.45lbsSize:...

When Isa, a closeted lesbian with conservative Mexican parents, has a one-night stand that results in an unwanted pregnancy, her sister, Cristina adopts the baby-but twelve years later, Isa, who regrets giving up her child, threatens to spill the secret of her daughter's true...

For fans of Practical Magic and Gilmore Girls, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic is a debut novel that explores the shields we build around our hearts to retain our own magic.Sadie Revelare has always believed that the curse of four heartbreaks...

At last, a long-awaited honeymoon for Ivy and Bennett...but it's unlike any other.After embarking on a second marriage, Ivy and Bennett are eager to enjoy a relaxing holiday. However, when their flight to sunny shores is rerouted to a glittering city by the sea,...

Mad Dash is the first installment in a contemporary Western romance saga. If you like witty characters, gritty storylines, intrigue, and heart-fluttering romance, then you'll love Sage Evans' series starter.I went to jail for my younger brother's crime and lost everything.I plan to take...

IN 19TH CENTURY ENGLAND, Jane Kershaw, at ten years old, works every morning in a Lancashire cotton mill, and then goes to school in the afternoons. She is the youngest of eight sisters who all work in the cotton industry.Each sister has a tale...

The beloved classic is now available in an affordable softcover edition featuring a striking cover and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for lovers of classic fiction, readers in high-school and college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading"...

The Mozinskis experience music like no family you've ever met. Struggling musicians Vincent Mozinski and Grace Klinefelter marry in the early 1960s, drawn together by the shared ability to see the music they play. The two pass this unique skill along to their ever-growing...

A "beautifully written" (Hilary Mantel) story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renowned 1700s English painter Thomas Gainsborough, who struggle to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits. Peggy and Molly...

The MacLeans have suffered being thrown off their land, emigrating to the New World, surviving in the forest wilderness, and losing their father Gillan in a bizarre murder.Now, ten years later, the two youngest emigrants will split the family across an ocean.Sheena pursues a...

Nat Shepherd has no desire to come home for Christmas. After her beloved mother and brother died when she was a teenager and her grief-stricken father abandoned the family, she left home for college and never looked back. Her sister, McKenna, handled her grief...

An enthralling novel about the corruption of power and the power of corruption from one of our greatest writers, the award-winning, bestselling author of The Innocents "POTENT...A VIBRANT HISTORICAL NARRATIVE"--The New Yorker "A FLAWLESSLY CRAFTED NARRATIVE" --Wall Street Journal "MASTERPIECE" --Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)...

Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This is a warm, keenly perceptive novel of sisterhood, heartbreak, home, and what it takes to remake a life at its halfway point, for fans of Ann Patchett and Emma Straub. Meet the Geller sisters: Beck,...

Keeping a family promise can be the beginning of a whole new life for everyone in town.Danielle "Dani" Gilford eagerly accepts her share of the gift of a cottage on the property of the Lilac Lake Inn in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire....

Brooklyn's Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and everyday life changes forever in the life of Zev Altshul. He is first placed into the care of the closed and close-knit community where he grew up, but soon realizes...

Read one of the most popular books of all timeThe definitive edition Large Print 16-point font for easy reading Professionally typeset for premium-quality print Features an uplifting extended biography of the life and experiences of Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice is the most popular...

Set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, Little Miseries is a Midwestern Gothic where sometimes the misery is just that--little--and sometimes it is epic and yawning, capable of swallowing every childhood memory. There are the miseries the Castles will talk about--old...

One of The New York Times Top 10 Books of the YearWinner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year, the Nero Gold Prize, and the Nero Book Award for FictionShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Writers' Prize for FictionFinalist for the...

The author of the critically acclaimed A Cupboard Full of Coats makes her hardcover debut with a provocative and timely novel about an emotionally devastated mother's struggle to understand her teenage son's death, and her search for meaning and hope in the wake of...

"[Thayne] engages the reader's heart and emotions, inspiring hope and the belief that miracles are possible." --Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author Come home to Shelter Springs this Christmas, where hearts are warm and hopes are bright... Growing up at the Shelter...

Martin Delany University has provided home, career, and stability for generations of Bennets. It's 1999 and the latest generation of Bennets prepare for the new millennium, unaware of the changes the year 2000 will bring.For Professor Elizabeth Bennet, that means questioning her position and...