Fiction - Family Life - General

A brutal fable full of poetry, desire, and blood, where the naïveté of a young Haitian girl struggling against impossible odds collides with the unrelenting cruelty of the world."You will be alone in the great night." That's what Papa has always prophesied to her....

Addio, Love Monster is a novel told in linked stories spanning generations on the "regular" yet remarkable Singer Street of fictional midcentury Mulberry Park, just outside of Chicago. Marrocco transports you fully into this small world where Signora Giuseppa, the "iron fist" of Singer...

"Those children are our life, Rachel. You can't take them from us. And I will not stop until those children are back where they belong, with their blood family!"When Rachel met handsome Irish widower Lorcan it was a whirlwind romance. Her family back home...

A man well into retirement and growing old takes two sibling child vagrants he meets by chance at a local store into his home. Unbeknownst to the aging retiree the children are being targeted by a violent gang for revenge on the older brother's...

A widowed father and his young daughter embark on a life-changing journey in a heartening novel of family and second chances by the bestselling author of The Singing Trees.Adjusting to the death of his wife hasn't been easy on Baxter Shaw--or on their eight-year-old...

"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin A young woman arrives in Los Angeles determined to start over and discovers she doesn't need to leave everything behind after all, from Abbi Waxman, USA Today bestselling author of...

A widowed father and his young daughter embark on a life-changing journey in a heartening novel of family and second chances by the bestselling author of The Singing Trees.Adjusting to the death of his wife hasn't been easy on Baxter Shaw--or on their eight-year-old...

A cherished heirloom opens up a century of secrets in a bittersweet novel about family, hard truths, and self-discovery by the author of Millicent Glenn's Last Wish.Melanie Barnett thinks she has it all together. With an ex-fiancé and a pending promotion at a Kentucky...

A young newlywed couple embark on their new beginnings. The groom decides to move them out of the country to Japan shortly after they wed. The new bride isn't happy about the uncharted territory and the fact that their new home isn't ready for...

Things finally begin settling down for Eric after he returns back to M.U. after winter break. Roth knows he and Kayden have feelings for each other and is, surprisingly, okay with it. But what happens when Susan finds out? Not all is well for...

Bill was the best friend a girl could ever ask to have. He made certain I always had a good time and checked in to keep me from completely isolating myself from the world. He was kind, caring, and considerate at all times even...

From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family.Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van...

A woman challenges the constraints of life in Prohibition-era Appalachia in this sweeping and richly rewarding novel about endurance, survival, and redemption.The McKenzie women, empowered with a formidable history rooted in the foothills of Appalachia, have passed down their folk-healing wisdom through generations. Rosalee,...

The breathtaking and long-awaited new novel from the author of 'the fable with a heart'. This novel centres on four generations of a once terribly wealthy and influential timber family who have fallen from grace; a mysterious yet majestic mansion, crumbling slowy into the...

A woman challenges the constraints of life in Prohibition-era Appalachia in this sweeping and richly rewarding novel about endurance, survival, and redemption.The McKenzie women, empowered with a formidable history rooted in the foothills of Appalachia, have passed down their folk-healing wisdom through generations. Rosalee,...

A gritty and gripping saga set in London's East End in the 1930s - the heyday of London's music halls. They'd give up everything to dance on stage, but could they lose each other? London's East End, 1934 Eighteen year old twins Marie and...

Mitchell Tucker has come back to the small Texas town of Gila Rock looking for something Julianne Boyce has no intention of giving him: forgiveness. It's been eight years since Mitch went to jail for starting a fire that claimed her husband's life--and longer...

Kate Everett is about to begin her "second act." She's been a widow for eight years and thinks it might be time to start looking for someone to share her life with again. She quits her high-pressure job for something that will allow her...

A modern-day take on Vanity Fair, from bestselling novelistElizabeth Buchan. Love, money and children... Life is a risk, however much we try to protect ourselves... Unlike the Frants living their quiet ordered lives in the village of Appleford, Tess and Becky are of the...

A kid walks into your bookstore and... Guess what? He's your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! And a huge surprise it is. It's a huge surprise to his adoptive mother,...

A gorgeous, haunting and captivating novel of a century-long family mystery in the wilds of Scotland, and one woman's hunt for the truth. Scotland, 1949: Caroline Gillan and her new husband Alasdair have moved back to Kelly Castle, his dilapidated family estate in the...

A kid walks into your bookstore and... Guess what? He's your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! And a huge surprise it is. It's a huge surprise to his adoptive mother,...

How do we take stock of a life--by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about the enigmatic...

One of the most influential authors of the late nineteenth century, and a former editor of the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine, William Dean Howells wrote more than fifty novels, as well as plays, memoirs, and poetry collections. Opposed to the sentimentalism, contrived heroism,...

Named by Etaf Rum as one of the Best Beach Reads of All Time for "Read with Jenna!"Reminiscent of Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt, Leah Franqui brings us an engrossing, deeply personal novel with a mystery at its heart as a daughter returns...

In this epic story of love, commitments, betrayal and acceptance, Tamanna sets herself on a journey to an unknown destination with a weird looking stranger to ran away from a life that destroyed her and those around her.Set in a lonely and bleak countryside...

The journey of a thousand miles begins with sequins and a beehive wig in this sharply funny and achingly tender debut novel about mothers, daughters, and the surprising power of Elvis. Grace Johnson can't escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot--until her...

One disastrous blind date might just lead to something else...After being dumped, Annie Beasley moves to New York City to create a new life for herself. When her sister gets engaged to her ex-boyfriend's brother and decides on a Christmas wedding, Annie knows she...

The only child of an iconic American novelist discovers a shocking tangle of family secrets that upends everything she thought she knew about her parents, her gilded childhood, and her own stalled writing career in this brilliantly observed standout debut.Growing up in the nineties...

Adam Young, a builder and general contractor from Albuquerque, is addicted to opioids and alcohol. His marriage to Maria falls apart one day when he is the only one present to the SIDS death of their daughter, Ava. Although ruled a "crib death" by...

BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - A NEW YORKER AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - GMA BUZZ PICK - A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and political corruption from the celebrated author...

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - Against the Country is a gift for fans of Southern Gothic and metafiction alike. Set in the Virginia pines, and...

Easy-on-the-eye very large print. Will Melina regret faking to be ill to avoid doing her chores? Can Don Pericle organise a wedding for a groom who doesn't know? Who has stolen the marble pisces from the cathedral's floor?Twelve humorous short stories dripping with the...

A woman challenges the constraints of life in Prohibition-era Appalachia in this sweeping and richly rewarding novel about endurance, survival, and redemption.The McKenzie women, empowered with a formidable history rooted in the foothills of Appalachia, have passed down their folk-healing wisdom through generations. Rosalee,...

The fur is about to fly between a cheerful cat sitter and a grumpy hockey nerd in this hilarious and charming rom-com by the New York Times bestselling author of Meet Cute. Kitty Hart has become internet famous as the Kitty Whisperer for her...

Suitable for audiences aged 6 to 14, Louisa Middleditch's second book will keep readers hooked thanks to the funny pranks the main characters - two young teenage sisters - play on each other. However, it also explores the themes of sibling rivalry, family relationships...

A boy named Benjamin enters a magical world. There he meets his best friend, a bear named Griff. Benjamin becomes lost and tries to make his way back to Griff. Along his journey, he meets new friends and learns some valuable lessons. "Just Pay...

"A complex and captivating tale" (The Boston Globe) which takes an engrossing look at the darker side of a marriage--and at how an ordinary family responds to an extraordinary crisis, forcing a couple to decide when a marriage is too broken to fix. Maddy,...

The third novel in Bostwick's Cobbled Court quilting series brings together themes of female friendship, small-town life, and love to dazzling effect.Author: Marie BostwickISBN-10: 0758232160ISBN-13: 9780758232168Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2010Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 03/22/2010 pg....

From the author of A Little Hope--a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick--comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people...

For nearly two years, seventeen-year-old Scott Furman and his girlfriend, Briana Johnson, have managed to keep their true love relationship a secret from her parents with the aid of Peter Anderson, Scott's long-lost twin. Unwilling to jeopardize their relationship, Scott and Briana continue to...

***Unmissable, hilarious and kind, this is the first novel from Kathryn Wallace, who blogs as I Know, I Need to Stop Talking***"SAM! AVA! Get downstairs, NOW. Have you done your TEETH? HAIR? SHOES? Come on, come on, come on, we're going to be bastarding...

Tenley Moore's rendition of "Amazing Grace" at her adoptive mother's funeral became the catalyst that catapulted her to superstar status at only ten years old. Now in her mid-thirties, Tenley is a famous icon and has millions of fans around the world. Tristin Scott...

JONAS BELLIGNHAM AYRE is always looking out of his own eyes, as though seated in the last row of a movie theatre. On the screen? The outside world and the part he plays in interacting with it. Uprooted from his native South, Jonas finds...

A story of love, courage, and compromise set in the multi-cultural backdrop of pre-war PenangAnna, the pampered daughter of a maverick Englishman and his local Muslim wife, has been promised the unprecedented freedom to marry for love. Her young life, like the island she...

CBS New York Book Club with Mary Calvi and Belletrist Book Club Pick "Raw, complex, and utterly unforgettable." --Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author The only child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything she thought she...

"A beautiful writer." The Times When war widow Irene Sandle goes to work in New Zealand's tobacco fields in 1952, she hopes to start a new, independent life for herself and her daughter - but the tragic repercussions of her decision will resonate long...

A woman challenges the constraints of life in Prohibition-era Appalachia in this sweeping and richly rewarding novel about endurance, survival, and redemption.The McKenzie women, empowered with a formidable history rooted in the foothills of Appalachia, have passed down their folk-healing wisdom through generations. Rosalee,...

From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family.Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van...

Love is supposed to be the happy ending. Maybe it's only the beginning.... Fashionable Sophie Mills was a corporate manager on a fast track to success. Then, in the space of a heartbeat -- the time it takes for a car to crash --...