Fiction - Family Life - General

Riley's Outdoor Adventure is about a young girl named Riley who spends the day with her Grammy, who is a Wildlife Biologist. They walk through five different habitat types and see what animals live in these habitats. They also notice different trees that grow...

"A stylish, highly original and completely addictive take on du Maurier's Rebecca. Read it!" --Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door "Dark and richly atmospheric. . . A bewitching novel about love, lies, and the ghosts that never quite...

Life can change in the blink of an eye. As Paul, Hannah, Riley, and Brenna are soon to find out. Four all-American teenagers living the all-American dream. High school, college, their paths are laid out in front of them. Until one fateful night that...

In this sequel to 'Joy Came in the Morning, ' Cobola Ennison, now in her mid-seventies, has resigned herself to an uneventful and lonely old age in the village when a family crisis makes it necessary for her to move temporarily to her son's...

Every family has a story. Every story, eventually, must be told. For most of their lives, Julian Perel and his sister, Paula, lived in a house cast in silence, witnesses to a father struggling with a devastating secret too painful to share. Though their...

This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. Like its predecessor, The Hamlet, and its successor, The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being...

From "Morocco's greatest living author" (The Guardian), an internationally bestselling novel of universal appeal--about the powerful pull of home and the lengths to which a parent will go to bring his family together Mohammed has spent the past forty years working in France. As...

When the star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student, their secrets--and the secrets of their parents--threaten to shatter their entire community in a gripping novel of race, class, and privilege from the author of Members Only....

Henry James is one of the giants of American literary history. From the novella "Daisy Miller" and classic short stories such as "The Turn of the Screw" to the popular short novel Washington Square and intricately woven and highly complex later novels such as...

A BRAND NEW romance from international bestseller Mandy BaggotThings aren't going well for travel writer Orla Bradbee.With Christmas fast approaching, her boss is insisting Orla must travel to a rural village in France to interview a man who doesn't speak. But with trouble at...

In this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author C. G. Cooper, a college football star struggles to pull himself free from his father's tangled past.It's 1989, and college freshman Michael Greco is ready to leave his dreary small town--and the grief of his...

Major Khaled Ali's heroics during a successful assault on a Kargil post earn him widespread respect during Pakistan's otherwise bungled incursion into Indian-held Kashmir in 1999. He discovers, to his horror, that President General Deemuk has disowned his dead and captured comrades. Pakistanis talk...

Bestselling author James Grippando's legendary criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is back to defend a single mother accused of kidnapping her own child in a perilous case involving politics and international diplomacy that will test his legal expertise and his marriage.Jack Swyteck's new client...

Family Secrets Unravel in a Tense, wryly funny Drama: Wealth, Betrayal, and a Mysterious Death Stir Up a Perfect Storm in an Elite New York Family.In A Fall from Grace, we delve into the life of Daniel Walsh, a man seemingly blessed with a...

All These Days finds humor, resilience, and unconditional love that can only be unearthed in trying times as it tells the story of an American family.Jera McKay is resourceful and wildly independent. Her roll-with-the-punches personality allowed her to accept responsibility for her aging mother,...

The BRAND NEW emotional, heartfelt book club pick from Samantha TongeElena Swan believes she's going to die. And soon.She's not ill. She's not in imminent danger. But she is sure it's going to happen.Because many years ago... she'd made a promise to a stranger,...

This story is about three puppies lost in the meadow, and a magical queen finds them and gives them a place to call home. The puppies are grateful for what the queen has given them, and for that the three puppies vow to protect...

From Booker Prize finalist David Szalay, a propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man whose future is derailed by a series of events that he is unable to control. Teenaged Istv?n lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new...

Stacy Halloran has lived most of her life in 1950s-era housing development Arboria Park. But her beloved neighborhood may not survive much longer. Despite her parents' entreaties to "stay in the yard where it's safe," the Park is where young Stacy roams in quest...

An aspiring feminist and underappreciated housewife embarks on an odyssey to find human decency and goodness--and her high school English teacher--in this quirky ode to love, faith, and hair metal--a "lovely, entertaining book" (New York Daily News) from the New York Times bestselling author...

Life with Mother by Clarence Day offers a delightful portrayal of family life in early 20th-century New York. Through humorous vignettes, Day captures the quirks and charm of his spirited mother, creating a timeless, heartwarming tribute to the enduring bond between mother and son....

What happens to the children when Christmas is taken away Angela lost her husband in a sudden auto accident, leaving her three children fatherless. Dory, Angela's oldest child, is having problems distinguishing fact and fiction, because of the dreams she's having about her daddy....

The BRAND NEW emotional, heartfelt book club pick from Samantha TongeElena Swan believes she's going to die. And soon.She's not ill. She's not in imminent danger. But she is sure it's going to happen.Because many years ago... she'd made a promise to a stranger,...

Nikkal and her husband, Tobi, help manage the family's farm near the city of Rabbah. Although the birth of their first child has brought them joy, the past several years saw drought, famine, and pestilence in the land of Canaan. Furthermore, after forty years...

The BRAND NEW emotional read from the NUMBER ONE bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel BeaumontYou've heard of the Afterlife. Welcome to the Beforelife.There are four of us: Samuel, Lucy, Thomas, and me - Eliza.We came into being the day Becca Valentine...

Kirsti Blackburn reveals a long-kept secret: she has a 28-year-old son, Cole, who was fathered by former teen idol Logan Vandermark. Cole now has a son of his own, Parker. Kirsti's dying wish is to protect Parker from his formidable maternal grandparents, the Richardsons,...

As a member of an organized crime family, remaining loyal and keeping one's mouth shut is the only option for staying alive. But for duplicitous hitman Devlin Davenport, staying alive isn't part of the plan. Handpicked to be the right-hand man of Mob boss...

The BRAND NEW instalment in the Skylarks series from bestseller Helen RolfeA hidden secretLive every day as if it were your last - that's the motto Bess has lived by since her father died unexpectedly. As a critical care paramedic, Bess sees every day...

How far would you go to save a stranger?As a 77-year-old with advanced Parkinson's disease, Mr. Niyogi's days are saturated with the pain gradually taking over his monotonous routine. Although the future seems bleak, he's left wondering if he still has a purpose. Will...

Ivy Fields might be alive, but life in Crescent Hills is still anything but boring.Newlywed Audrey realizes married life isn't everything it's cracked up to be, and whether her marriage to Sawyer lasts remains to be seen. Marcia is moving on with her life...

Ten years ago, retired astronaut Jim Mayfield closed himself up inside Bear Creek Inn, and he hasn't been seen since.Just when the small town of Bear Creek had almost forgotten about their reclusive and mysterious resident, a man from out-of-town flies in on a...

From a New York Times bestselling author ("One of our wisest storytellers"), a story collection that is funny and tragic in equal measure, about crimes large and small (Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers). Beloved author Jill McCorkle offers an intimate look at...

Although the news bulletin confirmed her decision to evacuate, Elise didn't want to hear another minute of forecasts, preparations, and predictions. Brad searched until he found a nice easy listening channel, and drove through the rain on surprisingly deserted roads. Apparently, the rest of...

It's been two years since aspiring novelist and English teacher Malcolm Aton has had any contact with his family. Ever since his divorce and the loss of his mother to cancer, his relationship with his father has been strained.When he receives an urgent text...

Life is a series of lessons. We learn them from many sources. God's Word teaches us to become as a little child to inherit the Kingdom. Children are undoubtedly one of the sources God uses to teach us our lessons. We all need reminders...

Lynette is sick and tired of being sick and tired. Faced daily with a verbally abusive brother, an alcoholic father still grieving for his deceased wife and overbearing siblings, the only light that seems to shine in Lynettes life is the love of her...

100 years after a Nuclear Holocaust, Henry and Melva Call and three generations of descendants adapt new methods and few materials to survive. Faced with a hostile environment, burning sun, no metals and rote-memory educations, most people are content with the status-quo. Not so...

Lane Parker has suffered a terrible loss: a loss he can't get over, not even years later. Burdened by secrets he won't tell his closest friends and focused on only one goal, he finally gets the phone call he's been waiting for. Luck gives...

Nobody expected an airplane carrying a hundred people to crash, least of all Lenny, a young passenger who finds himself transitioning to the other side and adjusting to an entirely new existence. From his new perspective, Lenny witnesses the ways in which his death...

People keep a house alive, not the other way around. Alex Proctor has seen the truth of this in every empty, rundown property she's bought and renovated since her divorce almost three years ago. She's also experienced the thrill of making each one into...

Author: Nicole A. SeitzISBN-10: 1410417123ISBN-13: 9781410417121Publisher: Large Print PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2009Pages: 351Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90dLarge Print

In her highly acclaimed first novel, Anywhere But Here, Simpson created one of the most astute yet vulnerable heroines in contemporary fiction. Now Mayan Atassi--once Mayan Stevenson--returns in an immensely powerful novel about love and lovelessness, fathers and fatherlessness, and the loyalties that shape...

When Rick Wheeler's wife walks out on him, he nearly drowns in despair. So the RC Cola salesman throws himself into work -- setting sales records, winning a promotion, burying himself in the lonely present while he scours the past for hope. Then at...

Emma Holly turns up the heat in this sinfully sensuous story of a family plagued by scandal--and a shy young woman who discovers a passion beyond her wildest dreams...When her beloved father passes away, Florence Fairleigh finds herself alone in the world. All she...

New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain goes to the heart of what it means to be a woman, a wife, and a friend, in her powerful new novel--a story of love and betrayal that measures the limits of loyalty, friendship, and forgiveness. They...

M. Leighton's Down to You was just the beginning. "Up to Me has even more shockers in store " (Examiner.com) For Olivia, romantic bliss has never felt so right as it does with Cash. Unpredictable, except when it comes to satisfying her desires, Cash's...

For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers of family life, with a singular gift for laying bare the interior lives of...

Once thought to be destined for spinsterhood, Aunt Meterling seems to have found love at last with a short, elegant Englishman who wears white suits. But while all the tongues on the small island of Pi start to wag as soon as their engagement...

Henry Cage seems to have it all: a successful career, money, a beautiful home, and a reputation for being a just and principled man. But public virtues can conceal private failings, and as Henry faces retirement, his well-ordered life begins to unravel. His ex-wife...

Naomi and Scanlon Pratt are at the threshold of a new life. East Coast transplants to small-town Oregon, Scanlon has a position at the local university--teaching mass movements and domestic radicalism--and Naomi is pregnant with their first child. But everything changes when they meet...