Fiction - Family Life - General

Author: Gwen TuinmanISBN-10: 1039008607ISBN-13: 9781039008601Publisher: Random House CanadaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2024Pages: 440Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.16w x 1.34d

Becca Garvey's average life has just been upended by her husband's announcement he is moving to Florida to pursue his "dream" of becoming a full-time surf instructor, part-time beach bum. Left solely responsible for their thirty-acre hobby farm in Maryland, Becca is determined to...

Revenge is a dish best served cold--especially when it comes in the form of one of Grandma's "special" pies. Get the best of family hijinks, girl power, and hilariously justifiable crime in the latest novel from award-winning author HelenKay Dimon.Kasey Nottingham needs a splashy...

It was June 15, Liz Frances's fifty-fifth birthday, and only five years behind on her life's plan, when she took her first step onto the Appalachian Trail. Leaving behind her two sons, her "other," Dan, and the rest of her family with the exception...

For some families, a year can feel like a lifetime. The Harrisons were always a close-knit family. But with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood, the four children of the middle generation find themselves equally lost in...

From the author of The Lies Among Us comes a magical tale about mothers and daughters, choices and consequences, and the real meaning of home when every place feels like a cage.Ten months. That's the longest Elisa has stayed anyplace, constantly propelled by her...

"Half Portions" by Edna Ferber is a poignant novel that epitomizes American literature, delving into the complexities of family dynamics, ambition, and success against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Set in Chicago, Ferber's narrative unfolds across generations, portraying the immigrant experience and the...

Love, second chances and new beginnings...When Kim Reynolds learns how unhappy her daughter is, she realises the perfect remedy is a completely fresh start.Giving up the corporate job she's worked towards her entire life, Kim is determined to make Berry Grove Bed & Breakfast...

To find herself, Nina must first unravel her past.After eight years abroad, twenty-nine-year-old Nina returns home to Slovenia to attend to her ill father. Plagued by painful childhood memories, poor health, and a broken heart, she struggles to reconnect with her father. When she...

Move over, Dickens--America's favorite storyteller has written a gift, "a delightful Christmas story to be shared by the whole family" (Kirkus), destined to become as treasured as A Christmas Carol. At Christmastime, a family of three are missing someone dear to them. Until unexpected...

After the death of her beloved James, one woman faces a future of feeling adrift and must find a reason to go on without the love of her life, from the bestselling author of Wish Me Home. When Caroline McClellan's beloved husband passes away,...

When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. Ideally, a steady income and a good husband. But when Green turns up with her...

Imagine if one moment of indiscretion changed the entire course of your life, catapulted you into single parenthood, and required that you give up all of your youthful dreams. What would you do? For Mary Watson, the feisty protagonist of No Love Is Greater...

This novel by Edith Wharton tells the story of Fanny de Malrive, a Frenchwoman who marries a wealthy American but finds herself torn between loyalty to her family and the demands of her new life. When her brother returns to Paris to ask for...

Can Melina give away her husband's possessions because they've always said that 'what's mine is yours and what's yours is mine'? Will the 'Sleep Doctor' deliver on his promises? How will the young Sicilian duke, Pericle, help his friend get married? Five humorous and...

Author: Robinne LeeISBN-13: 9798200651696Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 5.67h x 5.83w x 1.10d

Jill, at thirteen, was looking forward to a spring visit from her favorite cousins. But for the first time she was anticipating that because she'd turned the corner of puberty. And her older male cousin, Bill Thompson, was one handsome, desirable hunk How does...

Describes how a mother endured the death of her daughter.Author: Lashan Denise GunnelsISBN-10: 8669951150ISBN-13: 9798669951153Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/27/2020Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d

A young woman, who has left Galicia to go and study marine biology in Mexico (Baja California), is recalled to Galicia when it is found out that her mother is very sick. Her aunt would like her to sign some papers agreeing to take...

A Revealing and Intimate Story of What a Mother Will--and Will Not--Do for Her Daughters What kind of women do daughters become when their fathers are missing and their mothers can't love them? How do they find love and ways to love themselves? Nearly...

In Japanese-occupied Malaya, lives are shattered and a woman discovers her inner strength in a world ravaged by war.Following the death of their matriarch, the lives of Chye Hoon's family are turned upside down. Now that the British have fled and the Japanese have...

This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Ch teau de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social...

In this stunning novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames-recently widowed, coping with grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her-is beginning to depend...

Longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award for FictionAshaunt Point, Massachusetts, has anchored life for generations of the Porter family, who summer along its remote, rocky shore. But in 1942, the U.S. Army arrives on the Point, bringing havoc and change. That summer, the...

Author: Charles DickensISBN-10: 0809500418ISBN-13: 9780809500413Publisher: WLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2024Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20dBinding Material: Paper

Starting in the 1600s, French settlers migrate to northeastern America, to a land called Acadia. They quickly become pawns, caught between two superpowers-the French and the English.After several generations in America, they evolve into Acadians and no longer consider themselves French. In 1755, their...

Author: Kate HewittISBN-10: 1836032420ISBN-13: 9781836032427Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2024Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.64d

Author: B. R. BentleyISBN-10: 103831898XISBN-13: 9781038318985Publisher: FriesenPressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2024Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.78d

A gifted Ukrainian-Canadian child has one of the biggest challenges of her life ahead of her-one that could put her in the world spotlight. Vnucka, a child-genius, who was born in Canada to the daughter of Ukrainian-Canadian parents, has come up with a novel...

My first mistake was raising my daughter to be just like me...His death is reported on the morning news. The man my daughter's been dating. Dead. Gone...I blink slowly - once, twice, three times. The hair on the back of my neck rises as...

Author: Justin WeberISBN-13: 9798990146006Publisher: Blacktip BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2024Pages: 302Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Author: Cheyenne LaroqueISBN-10: 195164848XISBN-13: 9781951648480Publisher: Parrhesia PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2024Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Laura PearsonISBN-10: 1836034458ISBN-13: 9781836034452Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2024Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.72d

Author: Faye CadyISBN-13: 9798891307704Publisher: Christian Faith PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2024Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.54d

Author: Nancy PeachISBN-10: 1804366293ISBN-13: 9781804366295Publisher: Hera EdicionesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2023Pages: 394Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.88d

If someone you love was assaulted, abused, or was a victim of a crime-you are a secondary victim. If the perpetrator is also someone you love, there are no words. Madeline and Summer are more than best friends. They might as well be sisters;...

In Old Pybus, Warwick Deeping tells a poignant tale of redemption and family bonds. As an estranged son returns to reconcile with his father, deep-seated emotions and past grievances surface. Rich in character and atmosphere, this novel explores the complexities of forgiveness and the...

The Royal Tenenbaums meets Fleabag in this hilarious and dizzyingly smart debut about an over-the-top evangelical Texan family--and the daughter at its center racing to finish her very important novel before her ex-boyfriend finishes his. It's 2011, and twenty-three-year-old Joan West is not like...

A witty, atmospheric, and brilliantly told novel that offers compelling portraits of womanhood, motherhood and female friendship, along with the irresistible intrigue surrounding an extraordinary British family Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us--whose writing is "emotionally wrenching and utterly original" (Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)--delivers a tour...

Lakshmi Vikram is grieving for her husband when her estranged daughter announces that she has suddenly divorced. Committing to the hope of reconnecting with her now-remorseful daughter, Lakshmi sells the family's motel in Hays, Kansas, and treks westward to be with Naisha in the...

For fans of women's fiction about difficult ethical choices, The Perfumer's Secret is a mesmerizing novel set in France in which a passionate documentary maker must choose whether to tell the truth--even if it could ruin the lives around her. Zandy Watson, a thirty-year-old...

From "one of the great--if not the greatest--of living Yiddish novelists" (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity "It is me the prophet laments...

Seven Children. Five Mothers. One idyllic commune. What could go wrong?Annabel Cooper wants to save the world. Her story begins in 1964 with her journey to Freedom Summer in Mississippi, where the disappearance of her first love ignites a lifelong fight for justice. Years...

An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter--for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums. Miranda's parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two...

From the award-winning author of Flux comes a dazzling novel about love, family, and the art of sushi that asks: What if you could return to the point of a fateful choice, wiser than before, and find the courage to forge a new path?...

Join Jules Verne on a thrilling voyage with The Castaways of the Flag. Stranded on a remote island, a diverse group of castaways must unite to survive. Faced with danger and discovery, they embark on a gripping adventure that tests their courage, resourcefulness, and...

Love takes center stage when a single mother and her teenage daughters play Juno, Iris and Ceres in a summer production of The Tempest. Jenny Alexander has sought refuge from a troubled past on a tiny, verdant island, off the coast of Washington state....

The threat of losing your child, grandchild, overwhelming you! The devastation of having that child or grandchild already taken! What now, what do you do! Are you feeling defeated: Your adversary is in a better financial position than you! Intimidated into believing you don't...

In this gripping novel of loss and regret, Steve Goldman, about to turn 80, has just buried his wife Evelyn. Alone in his San Francisco home, he ponders his future, wonders if loneliness awaits him as a widower. For that matter, will he want...