Fiction - Family Life - General

SLEEP IN PEACE deals with themes of alcoholism, family secrets, and self-destructive tendencies, this terse but also funny novel is the American version of Fleabag. It's 2007, and while 43-year-old Leanne Spencer's career is building up steam, her love life is a trainwreck. She's...

An aging writer's love letter to his elderly mother, this achingly beautiful work of autofiction traces their family's history in Greece and in exile. Theodor Kallifatides, an acclaimed Greek author exiled in Sweden for more than 4 decades at age 68, visits his 92-year-old...

The previous volume, A Shameful War, ended in 1646 with Royalists forces scattered far and wide. The town of Bovey Tracey and its inhabitants were left to continue their own battles with weather, crops, illness, and general upheaval. A Time of Confusion now takes...

New beginnings don't always mean painful endings . . .A fabulous, timeless story of friendship set in Devon from bestselling author Jennifer Bohnet.As time ebbs and flows over the summer both Katie Teague and her godmother Mattie Cranford discover their lives are at a...

Memories are the ultimate contradiction. They can warm us on our coldest days - or they can freeze a loved one out of our lives forever. The McCarthy family has a trove of warm memories. Of innocent first kisses. Of sumptuous family meals. Of...

Middle-aged Elena Polson has been there, done it, learned from it. Or so she thought. When two teenagers enter her life, her world is turned upside down. All thanks to Hunt Klyce, her significant other. They were on their way to marriage, but so...

Cousin Phillis By Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellAuthor: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN-10: 1985262169ISBN-13: 9781985262164Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2018Pages: 70Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.14d

You are about to walk inside the explicit mind of a teenager, Scotia, a hermaphrodite who suffers from mental illness. Her schizophrenia is characterized by abnormal social behavior, and her failure to recognize what is real and what is dangerous. Scotia lives a life...

Don DiMarco has a very good life - a family he loves, a comfortable lifestyle, passions and interests that keep him amused. He also thought he had time, but that turned out not to be the case. Faced with news that might have immediately...

"Your brother should know the truth." These are the last cryptic words that Ava Barrett's father says before he dies. But Ava doesn't have a brother, as far as she knows, so how can she tell him the truth? She dismisses the conversation and...

Author: Rosie ClarkeISBN-10: 1835181902ISBN-13: 9781835181904Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2024Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.68d

A timely tale of ownership and loss, loneliness and connection, and a meditation on all the stuff in our lives. Home staging is an art of erasure. But in some cases--no matter how much clutter you remove, or how many coats of white paint...

Translated from the Japanese bestseller that was adapted into a popular television series, seven struggling customers take up the unique opportunity to adopt a blanket cat . . . but only for three days, the time it'll take for their lives to change, for...

Author: Teresa RyderISBN-13: 9798893084122Publisher: Newman SpringsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2024Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d

Perfect for fans of The Rehearsals by Annette Christie and What Might Have Been by Holly Miller, All the Other Me is a poignant story of what it means to come to terms with who you are--and who you can be.Isabelle Duprees is one...

Author: Rosie ClarkeISBN-10: 1835181899ISBN-13: 9781835181898Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2024Pages: 234Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Debbie MasonISBN-10: 1538725347ISBN-13: 9781538725344Publisher: ForeverLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2025Pages: 400Format: PaperbackSize: 6.75h x 4.19w x 1.00d

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.Author: Nadia HashimiISBN-13: 9798874818029Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2024Format: MP3 CD

Author: Faye CadyISBN-13: 9798891307711Publisher: Christian Faith PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2024Pages: 236Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.69d

Author: Monique AsherISBN-13: 9798228001282Publisher: Dreamscape MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Format: CD

Author: Camilla IsleyISBN-10: 183633351XISBN-13: 9781836333517Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2024Pages: 194Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Jaimie AdmansISBN-10: 183561762XISBN-13: 9781835617625Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2024Pages: 258Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Author: Jemimah WeiISBN-10: 0385551010ISBN-13: 9780385551014Publisher: Doubleday BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.03d

Rising above the devastation of World War I, a young half-French, half-American woman remains true to her independent spirit in this powerful historical novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Alexandra Bouvier is born in Paris in 1900, at the dawn...

It's Georgie's fiftieth birthday, and she's running headfirst into a whopping mid-life crisis. Daughter of a minister and a high school principal, Georgie is a perpetual do-gooder who has spent her entire life putting others first-right down to hosting her own birthday parties. Her...

"This beautiful page-turner kept me reading all night." --Janet Skeslien Charles, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library When a young librarian discovers historic dollhouses in a hidden room, she embarks on an unexpected journey that reveals surprising secrets about the lost...

The New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love.Harlem, 2019. Ardelia and Oliver are hosting their engagement party. As the...

"This beautiful page-turner kept me reading all night." --Janet Skeslien Charles, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library When a young librarian discovers historic dollhouses in a hidden room, she embarks on an unexpected journey that reveals surprising secrets about the lost...

East LA to Encino is a gripping exploration of the profound impact of family trauma, offering an unfiltered glimpse into one woman's journey toward redemption and healing. Elizabeth Dillon, the indomitable survivor, bares her soul in a roller coaster of raw, unvarnished emotions, from...

"Wonderful reading." --Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel--a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle--told in the singular voices of the residents of a Beaux Arts apartment building in Belgium in 1939 On the eve...

A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. "One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank." --The New York Times Something is afoot at the Ivory Gallery in London. A string of suspicious incidents--a Kang-Tse...

""A rich and witty story with two complicated women at its heart, Hate Follow is a beautiful debut. Quinn-Kong's story of an influencer mom sued by her resentful daughter is of the moment, but its exploration of female power and privilege is timeless."" --...

We all need shelter from the storm - it's called home.For years, Carla Douglas has wanted nothing more than to get out of Gloucester forever. She's lived her entire life in the neighborhood called "the Fort" in a small fishing village, but hasn't had...

Lucy Blackman grew up without speech and had problems understanding oher people, but here she gives us six stories which she wrote to show how speech patterns enrich narrative. Subjects range from mythical Greece to Australia in the 1980s, and include fictionalised portraits of...

"Everyone needs love. From a family member, a spouse, or a friend, and only those who have experienced love in some form or another can feel what it really means to be in emotional pain, or how would you know the difference?" "In this...

Finalist for the Townsend Prize "Pelletier's writing is moving and enthralling . . . [she] keeps readers hooked right up to the book's satisfying conclusion." -- Publishers Weekly "A poignant, sometimes heart-rending, beautifully crafted, always gripping tale of loss and love, and the human...

The English debut of a bestselling novelist, kin to Penelope Fitzgerald and Louis Begley in style and subtlety. At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own families,...

Black Rock is a coming-of-age story about a gang of children living in an urban neighborhood filled with immigrants, generational poverty, and families with marginal incomes where they experience violence, racism, and threats to life and limb but also the best times of their...

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Maria stood above the harbor aimlessly watching the activity on the water. Skiffs were moving back and forth preparing a merchant vessel, the Portsmouth, to sail the next day. Watching the crew and the native longshoremen lifting bale after bale of goods onto the...

It's Washington, D.C. in 1990 and yuppies Lauren and Mack Weiss seem to have it all - great jobs, nice cars, and each other. All they desperately want is a baby to complete the picture. Laugh and cry your way through their five-year quest...

Christopher Burton, the protagonist of this masterful novel, is one of Britain's foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton receives a phone call at the reception...

Recollections? Y'all want to talk about recollections? Why, I'm full to bustin' with recollections. I can recollect on the time my Great-Granddaddy was sold into slavery, bless his soul. Or the time my brother like to died in the Mighty Mississippi River. And child,...

The further adventures of a drifter-turned-pastor and a trio of loveable orphans in this second installment of her series.Author: Patricia HickmanISBN-10: 0446692336ISBN-13: 9780446692335Publisher: FaithwordsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2004Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.06h x 5.03w x 0.85dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/19/2004 pg. 38Christian Retailing 06/01/2004 pg. 26Library...

St. Elizabeth, Georgia, offers charm, Southern hospitality--and the occasional murder. This time, when a new hair salon tries to steal business, it's someone's life that gets cut short... Violetta's salon is up in arms. Business is dead. Snippets, a big box haircutting chain, has...

The third novel in the Millwood Hollow Series about an unlikely hero and a ragtag trio of orphans in racially segregated 1930s Arkansas.Author: Patricia HickmanISBN-10: 0446692344ISBN-13: 9780446692342Publisher: FaithwordsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2005Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.14h x 5.56w x 0.71dReview Citation(s): Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 119Library...

Not all journeys come to an end.... 1867. Ruth Holtz has more blessings than she can count--a loving husband, an abundant farm, beautiful children, and the warm embrace of the Amish community. Then, the English arrive, spreading incredible stories of free land in the...

Author: Hilary LiftinISBN-10: 0143109383ISBN-13: 9780143109389Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/07/2016Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d

When her estranged daughter asks to hear the one story she doesn't want to tell, a woman spins lie after lie to protect her perfect life in this gripping novel.Amy Linden has a loving husband, an adorable son, and a glamorous career as the...

It was fear of missing out on life and succumbing to cats that drove 49-year-old Fenella Woodruff into a house share with young, free singletons. Juggling her job at a gallery with the demands of an invalid mum, the arrival of a handsome new...