Fiction - Family Life - General

Sissy is used to being on the outside. The new kid at school, in the West Country of England, she observes the other girls like they're foreign creatures. At home, her troubled mother lets Sissy fend for herself.But after Sissy fights a boy in...

An outlandish comedy of morals and manners about a highborn British family of outrageous characters, by the acclaimed author of The Improbability of Love and House of Trelawney Eight years have passed and in 2016 many things have changed for the eccentric Trelawney family....

"Ring" takes you on an unforgettable odyssey through the depths of human emotion, from the hollows of grief to the heights of newfound hope. In the backdrop of a snow-covered sanctuary designed to aid the dying, Lee, a middle-aged non-binary person from the Midwest,...

"How can someone care so deeply about me, enough to bring me to my favorite spot when I need it most, when I don't even give him half the effort? How can someone want to help me when I am so unloveable? How can...

An engrossing work of autobiographical fiction about the relationship between an actress daughter and her larger-than-life father--the astonishingly assured debut novel of Sonya Walger, actress on Lost, For All Mankind, and more. Lion is about an unlikely parent, more legend than presence in his...

A restless New York artist searching for purpose returns to Barbados and stumbles into the role of activist in this scathingly funny and brilliantly observed satire about privilege, family discord, and performative do-gooding.Dark, lanky, and bald, New York-raised photographer Sabre Cumberbatch can't tell if...

La sorprendente primera novela de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ganadora del Commonwealth Writers' Prize como Best First Book. Una conmovedora historia sobre una virulenta relación familiar ambientada en un África de conflictos políticos y sociales. -Edición especial limitada con prólogo de Gabriela Ybarra- La joven...

She was so sure she knew her family's story . . . Now she wonders if she was wrong about all of it.1969. When Mattie Taylor's twin brother was killed in Vietnam, she lost her best friend and the only person who really understood...

It is a bright, clear Saturday morning when Ken Graham's ex-wife stumbles through the front gate of his sheep farm, having walked, inexplicably, from the hospice facility where she has been spending her last days. Lena, suffering through a rare form of dementia compounded...

Joan (Murphy) Lail was a renowned Hickory Daily Record and Charlotte Observer newspaper columnist. With her insightful and thought-provoking writing style, Joan brought a fresh perspective to various topics that resonated with readers.Her journalism career started in her sophomore year of high school and...

Joan (Murphy) Lail was a renowned Hickory Daily Record and Charlotte Observer newspaper columnist. With her insightful and thought-provoking writing style, Joan brought a fresh perspective to various topics that resonated with readers.Her journalism career started in her sophomore year of high school and...

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Stunning." --People * "Dazzling yet devastating...T?ib?n is simply one of the world's best living literary writers." --The Boston Globe * "Momentous and hugely affecting." --The Wall Street Journal * From the beloved, critically...

Mothers talk about impossible choices. But, as I look at my daughter in a hospital bed, her red hair fanning out around her, my heart feels literally torn in two. Should I risk my son's life to save my daughter, or keep my little...

In the ancient Chinese game of mah jongg, each player must make the most of the tiles they've been given. It's the same in the game of life.When Roseann is called away to a family emergency, her mah jongg pals bring in a new...

What do you know about your ancestors?This book, the third one in the ANCESTORS series is based on the lives of the authors parents.Dot and Ben were born in the 1920's, lived and fought in WW2 and their story continues until 2014. What was...

In the wake of the Great Depression, during the 1942 bombings off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Deacon family has lost the life they knew before the Second World War. As the family and their closest friends struggle to make sense of...

Josh Olsen is seventeen years old and a junior at Middletown High School in Florida. He seems to have everything a teenage boy would want. He is the son of a former professional football player, the star of the varsity football team and soccer...

A small Southern town. An ordinary Saturday night. A little boy disappears without a trace.Everyone in Wynotte, North Carolina, knows the name Davy Malcor. Knows the video clip of him juggling four balls, "All at the very same time!" Knows the Marty McFly jacket...

She thought she knew her best friend...She was wrong.The weatherworn cottage Clachan has always been Jo Wilding's sanctuary, a blissful escape from her tumultuous home life. From the first summer Rachel invited her to join the Willoughby family in the wilds of Scotland, she...

In this tale of darkness and radiance, trauma and healing, innocence lost, and forgiveness gained, Zoe Thomas comes to terms with the death of her adored, idealized father. As in the mythic tale of Persephone and Demeter, Zoe is taken down into the Dark...

Hannah always finds a way to get what she wants.Daughter to Chloe Cartwright, an eccentric prize-winning writer more interested in politics than parenthood, and sister to a rugby-star brother, Hannah has never excelled at much besides shoplifting. Discovering a talent for petty crime, she...

Penny Baker is winning at life. Sort of. Her work is demanding, her kids are demanding and her husband seems to be undergoing some weird midlife crisis but she is juggling it all - with the added delights of the menopause. But when the...

Looking out over the twinkling city lights of Florence, Claire thinks of the letter that has brought her here. Written by a woman who escaped the Blitz, it holds a secret kept for a lifetime... but can Claire make the woman's dying wish come...

A heartwarming story from the author of the Mountain Women Series In a remote mountain town, an extended family looks forward to gathering at Christmas. But one of them is missing-Charlie, a deputy sheriff. Though loved and admired, Charlie is not well understood, and...

The devastatingly original debut novel from a winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. "Profoundly moving . . . I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this." --Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace First published by a small press...

Reminiscent of Hello Beautiful and The Lying Life of Adults, this powerful narrative delves into social changes from 1970 to 2000 and captures a woman's journey in a pre-#MeToo era via the tale of a mother who returns to her hometown to face the...

Bestselling author Kris Radish takes the emotional measure of mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends in her wise and wonderful new novel of a woman unsure if she's on the verge of a breakdown--or a breakthrough.... After all these years is there any way you...

Dare to dream... George Fraser has a mission. Owner of catering firm Finger Food and black sheep of her family, she's determined to succeed in business where she's so far failed in her personal life. Asked to cater for gorgeous rock star Quinn Blake's...

It only took a moment for everything to go wrong. In the blink of an eye, the birthday party became a nightmare when we heard the screams... How did this happen? And who is to blame?I'm so happy as I walk to pick up...

The emotional and gripping Victorian saga series from Fenella J Miller 1840s Colchester A tragic loss, a new path? When her family is struck by a terrible tragedy, Sarah Nightingale is forced to go into service at Grey Friars House as an under nursery-maid....

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future.In Shock Induction, the best and brightest...

It's 1970. Bashful Susie, a pill addict's daughter, sets out to build a better life for herself. Fellow Mennonite Simon loves Susie's courage-and her. He proposes. But marrying him comes with a pushy, sanctimonious mother-in-law. Adeline manipulates Susie and Simon into leaving their beloved...

From award-winning writer Mortada Gzar, author of the acclaimed memoir I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?, comes an enthralling and lyrical novel about a girl's liberating self-discovery in Iraq.Fifteen-year-old Charlotte is restlessly coming of age in early twentieth-century Basra, Iraq. The daughter of a...

White Picket Fences is a heartfelt family drama fueled by an honest story of motherhood, written for those of us caught up in our own self-searching journeys. The one thing Julie Cahill knows because of her transitory upbringing as a military brat is that...

The small town of Green Valley Wyoming has seen many changes, the biggest being the new Target Store, bringing many new people to town. There have been changes at the K-12 School too. Have there been problems for the towns people? Sure, but with...

The BRAND NEW instalment in Sandy Barker's laugh-out-loud romantic comedy series Greta Davies, the features editor at a women's magazine, is accomplished and successful. That is, in all areas except her love life. Determined to help, Greta's boss - and friend - secretly enlists...

Written in a seamless, entrancing style, Gainesville follows the twisted branches of a restless family tree in a small Texas town. Originally published in the novella collection, Fondly, this new edition features a foreword by Brian Evenson."This is a book I first read at...

'A beautiful, meticulously researched story that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.' USA Today bestseller, Genevieve Graham A story of loss, hope and redemption against impossible odds... 1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Nora Crowell wants more than...

Patricia Harris's book "Love in the Second Chapter- Finding Companionship and Romance After Loss" is a sensitive and insightful book that guides readers through the challenging process of looking for love after suffering a loss. Drawing from the author's own experience, this book offers...

A bureaucracy with the power to heal or hurt, and a child caught in their storm...Clare Rafienne and her daughter, Sloan, live a simple life in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania. The last thing Clare expected was to have social services show up on...

The first in a new series from bestselling author, Julie Houston! Robyn Allen is finally getting closer to her dream of West End stardom. And along with her role dancing in the latest hot musical, she's being wined and dined by an equally hot...

So much can be lost and found in one summer ​Set against the backdrop of New York City's vibrant Greenwich Village in 1978, TheSummerBetween is the bittersweet, unsparingly honest coming-of-age saga of Andrew Jackson Pollock. Three days before high school graduation, Andy, a New...

The emotional next book in the Victorian saga series from Fenella J Miller Dangerous times, new fortunes London October 1843. Sarah Nightingale is a strong young woman who keeps her head high and faces every new adversity with courage. So when Daniel Cooper, a...

Lu Ann, thirty-three-year-old, high school dropout, works in a bakery and lives with her two kids in a small Midwest town. Her husband was killed in the Iraqi War. Their star high school wrestler son, Billy, falls into a tower of tires and disappears...

"Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down." Publishers WeeklyFor fans of Jodi Picoult and If Only I Could Tell You, Penny Hancock's The Choice is an engrossing, thought-provoking novel about family secrets and the way that even the smallest decisions can sometimes have...

Zoey is a kind-hearted, lively young girl with a taste for adventure and mystery. See the world through her eyes as she experiences life, friendship, loss, and growth, with the support of family and friends and her entire community. Her rite of passage will...

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 2 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy--just ask his mother. Back are all...

It's the beginning of the 21st century and Charles Rivers, a Black college professor and Vietnam vet who came of age during the freedom struggles of the 60s, is worn down by the routine of teaching and grading at his New York City university....

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...

Three's a Crowd: The absolute must-have friends to lovers sexy read for fans of Christina Lauren and Tessa Bailey. Right guy, wrong time... Daisy's perfectly content with her life. She's got a job she likes, a nice enough flat, and in a relationship with...