Fiction - Family Life - General

"[A] funny and a wickedly accurate picture of the life of a particular breed of Manhattanites--and it's also thought-provoking and deeply moving."--Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness ProjectA young woman deals with the aftermath of her father's death while she...

"A brilliant book. Karim Issar is one of the freshest, funniest heroes I've come across in a long time." -- Ben Fountain, bestselling author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara"An innovative and incisive meditation on the wages of corporate greed, the fundamental darkness of...

"Brilliant....Stepmothers, stepfathers, stepchildren: all, I think, will find amusement and comfort in its pages."--Nigella Lawson "I really, really loved it."--Marian Keyes You can choose your family--but are you sure you want to? That's the question Samantha Baker poses in The Other Mothers' Club--a fresh,...

If what you wish for is a delightfully bittersweet novel filled with endearing, eccentric characters and situations in the vein of Jennifer Weiner, Jane Green, Marian Keyes, and Meg Cabot, then Kerry Reichs's What You Wish For is the answer to your prayers. The...

Can lighting really strike twice? Just ask Eve, whose husband walks out on her in the middle of a garage sale.Eve's beloved Ivan died thirteen years ago in an automobile accident. Her charming, boyish Chuck has taken a different exit out of her life:...

"Powerful. . . . Twisty, brimming with dark humor and keen moral insight, The Weight of Heaven packs a wallop on both a literary and emotional level. . . . Umrigar . . . is a descriptive master." -- Christian Science Monitor From Thrity...

New York Times BestsellerThe profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True"The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a...

In bestselling Irish author Chris Binchy's first U.S. publication, a lifelong Dublin friendship is strained to breaking when two young men fall in love with the same unforgettable woman. The Irish Independent Review has called Binchy's writing "wide-ranging, complex, profound, and very satisfying," and...

The author of The Average American Male and The Lie returns with a shocking, salacious, and surprisingly subtle new novel of the average American family. Like Neil Strauss and Nick Hornby, Chad Kultgen has the capacity to enthrall and astonish even the most ardent...

"Stay With Me accomplishes all we might ask of a novel....It reminds readers what great pleasures and surprises are to be found inside such rare, fine, and atmospheric novels when we're lucky enough to find them."--Laura Kasischke, author of In a Perfect World Stay...

They are Microserfs--six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going...

Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buck-ley had been a normal geeky teen-ager, hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of...

It is August of 1963, the year of the Taylor/Burton film epic Cleopatra, showcasing a passion too grand to be contained on the movie screen. The women of the Kalyna Beach cottage community gather for gin and gossip, trading the current racy bestsellers among...

"At once a harrowing mystery, an illuminating psychological novel of subverted love and family dysfunction, and a powerful commentary on class structure in America . . . [Banks is] one of America's finest contemporary fiction writers." --Boston GlobePart love story, part murder mystery, set...

"At once a harrowing mystery, an illuminating psychological novel of subverted love and family dysfunction, and a powerful commentary on class structure in America . . . [Banks is] one of America's finest contemporary fiction writers." --Boston GlobePart love story, part murder mystery, set...

Nothing scares Tessa King more than the thought she will never have children. It doesn't matter how good her life is, and it is, it never feels good enough. She has four godchildren and dozens of friends, yet love eludes her. She knows how...

"Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss."--Johanna Edwards, author of The Next Big Thing "Funny, touching, tender, true....I loved it."--Pamela Redmond Satran, author of SuburbanistasA Redbook Magazine Editor's Choice,...

In her electrifying first novel, Nicole Richie tells the sensational story of Chloe Parker, a rock royalty princess and a card-carrying member of Hollywood's inner circle. At the age of seven, Chloe was adopted by a music superstar and his wife, transforming her life...

Forty-two-year-old Shelley Marino's desperate yearning for a child has led her to one of the only doors still open to her: foreign adoption. It is a decision that strains and ultimately shatters her relationship with her husband, Martin--the veteran of an Asian war who...

"Eddie's Bastard" is William Amos Mann IV, known as Billy -- the son of a heroic pilot killed in Vietnam and an unknown woman. The last in a line of proud, individualistic Irish-American men, Billy is discovered in a basket at the door of...

Then call us Rebels if you will we glory in the name, for bending under unjust laws and swearing faith to an unjust cause, we count as greater shame. -- Richmond Daily Dispatch, May 12, 1862April 12, 1861. With one jerk of a lanyard,...

Sipping on "kiddie" cocktails, eight-year-old Catherine plays a game called "What's the Girl Worth?" with her father and the rest of the regulars at the Blue Lagoon bar. That would be Catherine's last memory of her father ... before he abandons her. Catherine --...

On a stormy November night in 1848, a ship carrying more than a hundred Irish emigrants ran aground twenty miles off the coast of Maine. Many were saved, but some were not -- including a young girl who died crying out the name of...

Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more troubling still is the news...

When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common, until they meet a runaway -- a girl-woman named Lottie Parker -- on the train that takes them from Augusta,...

Ramona Drottoveo, an albino, is a chambermaid at a lush Italian estate. Distinguished by the intoxicating scent she exudes, Ramona is despised by all women and adored by all men, whose inexhaustible lust she eagerly satisfies. Life changes when her husband dies after discovering...

When thirty-four-year-old Chloe Morgan appears on Hank Oliver's doorstep in Cameron, Arizona, she arrives with more than her old white German shepherd, Hannah, and a rambunctious young horse in tow. Chloe is pregnant with Hank's child, and she's as tough-talking and vulnerable, skittish and...

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh--bestselling author of Faith and The Condition--returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and...

Jane Austen in Boston: a modern retelling of Persuasion in which the sensible daughter of a flighty Brahmin family finds love against all oddsJane Fortune's fortunes have taken a downturn. Thanks to the profligate habits of her father and older sister, the family's money...

Mack and Jodie have no idea how much their lives are going to change when they decide to give up farming. Mack is hospitalized with depression, Jodie finds herself tempted by the affections of another man, and their teenage children begin looking for answers...

From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky comes Rekindled, featuring two unforgettable novels together in one volume.Delinsky has enthralled millions of readers with her emotionally powerful stories of love and loss, commitment and betrayal, and finding the strength to survive and succeed. In...

I have been used, abused, lied to, and cheated on, blamed, shamed, screamed at, and ridiculed. I've been scammed and damned, had my ass kissed, my reputation dissed, and my face spat on. All in the name of working as a celebrity personal assistant...

Woodrow McIlmore is leading the perfect life in Paris, Arkansas: married to his high school sweetheart, he has two wonderful children and a warm circle of family and friends. When Wood's daughter announces that she wants to marry a college classmate, Wood is stunned....

Many men aim high; Tom Farrell dares to be average. While his friends accumulate wedding rings, mortgages, and even, alarmingly, babies, Tom still lives alone in his rented apartment with nothing but condiments and alcohol in his refrigerator. He spends Saturday mornings watching cartoons...

"With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor, Prose captures the centrifugal and isolating force of grief. . . . "[Goldengrove is] a moving meditation on how, out of the painful passing of innocence and youth, sexuality and identity can miraculously emerge." -- Los...

A New York Times Notable Book"A wonderful and wise novel, a story told with unflinching courage and honesty, and with keen insight into the most universal of all conditions, the struggle of the human heart." -- Ken Wells, author of Meely LeBauve"Lyrical and honest....Moynahan...

A New York Times Notable Book"Haunting, disturbing, often radiantly intense, these protean stories change shape as if they are made of fire. They are on the side of things lost, they are pushed by the emergency of our lives-yet in the dazzle of their...

'Cathy's warmth and gentle humour shine through - a really enjoyable read.' Judy Leigh, author of A Grand Old Time 'Funny and feelgood' Good Housekeeping On a trip of a lifetime to India, Bea is given an unexpected fiftieth birthday present - an hour...

'Perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine' Hello 'Extremely charming' Marian KeyesNot every journey takes you far from home...Mr Doubler is an expert in many things. He can bake the fluffiest lemon drizzle cake, distil divine gin, and grow perfect potatoes. But...

'My name is Alice. And my son is a murderer.' Deborah's son was killed four years ago. Alice's son is in prison for committing that crime.Deborah would give anything to have her boy back, and Alice would do anything to right her son's wrongs.Driven...

'Breezy, funny and winning' Daily Mail 'Packed with humour and warmth' Heat 5* 'A lovely story about family, faith and self-acceptance' Red magazine* * * * * The four Amir sisters - Fatima, Farah, Bubblee and Mae - are the only young Muslims in...

A heart-warming story of friendship and family during the first Christmas of World War Two.Autumn 1939 and London prepares to evacuate its young. In No 5 Jubilee Street, Bermondsey, ten-year-old Connie is determined to show her parents that she's a brave girl and can...

The classic follow-up to A Bit of A Do, about the comedy of Yorkshire life, told through seven more do's. Life is still a social minefield in this small Yorkshire town. From the opening of a vegetarian restaurant to the inauguration of the Outer...

Join a Young Boy in His Fantastical AdventureAndy Buckram has many uses for tin cans: keeping worms, bailing the boat, storing screws and washers and nails and whatnots. He has made a few things out of tin cans as well, such as cowbells and...

From the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist, whose short stories received instant acclaim ("Sparingly told, evoked with lacerating intimacy . . . Extraordinary"--Esquire), a debut novel about a young woman's coming of age, and the singular friendship that challenges her values, her beliefs, and...

This gothic masterpiece is set against the backdrop of scenic Sicily in a hauntingly beautiful castle as young Julia battles to be free from her family's long line of betrayal and secrecy. Follow the misfortunes of the noble House of Mazzini as young Julia...

Every mom has a secret. Will anonymous social media posts expose hidden truths and burn down the internet?Snarky comments and rude behavior. Laura Perry is fed up. She hopes the new anonymous posting feature on her social media page for moms will remind everyone...

Join a Young Boy in His Fantastical AdventureAndy Buckram has many uses for tin cans: keeping worms, bailing the boat, storing screws and washers and nails and whatnots. He has made a few things out of tin cans as well, such as cowbells and...

Hailey undergoes a stressful childhood life and later gets sold off to the wealthiest Alpha. She unknowingly got caught up in the alpha's mysterious dramatic life. She ends ups meeting her real family and discovering she posses magical supernatural powers. Author: DamaraISBN-10: 822324604XISBN-13: 9798223246046Publisher:...

Caroline is seven years old when her family flees Pinochet's regime, leaving Chile for Montreal on Christmas Eve, 1986. She fears Santa won't find them on the plane but wakes to find a new doll at her side, her mother preserving the holiday even...