Fiction - Family Life - General

'Perfect... From the cover to the final page. It delivers it all. An emotional, tear-prodding, thought-provoking, heart-warming, life-affirming 5 star read... that will leave every reader knowing the hours they've spent in Emma and Nathan's company are up there with their best.' NetGalley Reviewer,...

For fans of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series comes a captivating family saga focused on a willful young woman's struggles against her oppressive small town by acclaimed Italian author Rosa Ventrella.In old Bari, everyone knows Maria De Santis as "Malacarne," the bad seed. Nicknamed for...

EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS. SOME ARE JUST TOO HARD TO TELL---BUT TOO HOT TO KEEP. . . It's been fifteen years since the Bennetts were all in one place, at one time, and now at a total blowout of a reunion four special...

A hauntingly beautiful, wickedly funny, and devastatingly moving novel of innocence and dreams that announces the arrival of a major new talent to the literary sceneIn the attic room at 26 Waifer Avenue, identical twins Georgia and Bessi Hunter share nectarines and forge their...

A bride withholds a shocking secret from her new husband. Could you keep a secret from your daughter forever? Louie plans to. Is love enough to keep the marriage together? When a quiet Midwestern family receives flawed medical advice, psychotic post-partum depression is misdiagnosed...

A compelling family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller.Florence Stanville is a woman with a past. When she moves to Guisethorpe on the east coast of England, the townsfolk are intrigued by the glamorous and mysterious stranger.Florence doesn't care about the gossips - she's...

From USA Today bestselling author Jenny Hale comes a heartwarming Christmas story about the magic of childhood memories, the strength of family, and the joy of falling in love when you least expect it.Carrie Blake loves her job as a nanny, but while her...

Sometimes love finds you when you least expect it . . . To Benita Ford, Tallgrass, Oklahoma, will always be home. It's where her beloved grandmother raised her and where she rode bikes with her two best friends-the man who became her husband and...

A Grown Up Kind of Pretty is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb -- spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood...

A buried cache inspires the ladies of Covington to plan an unforgettable Christmas for two families forever changed by a long-ago war.A rusty old tin box holding nineteenth-century letters and diaries is unearthed at the Covington Homestead, and the contents reveal a thrilling drama...

A stunning new novel--full of wit and warmth--from the bestselling author of The Mango Season.In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs--a loving husband, a career, and a home--but the one thing she wants most is the child she's unable to have. In...

Weaving together the strong threads of family and friends in a pattern of grace, forgiveness, and kindness, A Can of Peas invites readers into a place where every day brings a new story and neighbors are more than just people who live down the...

A Key to Treehouse Living is the adventure of William Tyce, a boy without parents, who grows up near a river in the rural Midwest. In a glossary-style list, he imparts his particular wisdom on subjects ranging from ASPHALT PATHS, BETTA FISH, and MULLET...

A Novel of Redemption from Addiction and a Broken Family"A Clean Heart picks at the knot of addiction and recovery insistently and with a wholesomeness intriguingly at odds with its subject. I enjoyed this book." -Thomas Beller, author of The Sleep-Over ArtistCarter Kirchner struggles...

Sudden luck strikes the one person who won't share the news.It's a mega win on a weekly lotto ticket; a ton of cash.But even though Christina's howls of triumph scare the cat, she can't tell her stepdad Harrison. Not even when a frustrated, off-the-cuff...

James Connor, burdened with guilt from a tragedy during India and Pakistan's Independence and Partition, has dedicated his life to serving India. His estranged daughter, Ruth, believing she came second to her American parents' missionary calling, rebelled as a teenager. This triggered her own...

A Dateless Bargain (1887) is a novel by Catherine Louis Pirkis. Known for her contribution of Victorian detective fiction, Pirkis wrote over a dozen novels and countless stories throughout her brief career as a professional writer. Among them, A Dateless Bargain is an undervalued...

This "brutal and brave" (Booklist) novel transmutes the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation--physical, spiritual, or both. A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student...

John Green is not happy.The world as he knows it is about to be destroyed. He knew it was going to happen, maybe not when, but as a regular traveller in time, 'when' was always a bit of an issue.He knew he'd be able...

#1 New York Times bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron's A Dog's Perfect Christmas is a beautiful, poignant, delightful tale of what can happen when family members open their hearts to new possibilities. You'll find love and tears and laughter--the ideal holiday read. The problems...

"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love." --New York Times Book Review "When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she...

At the age of eighty-three, Jack Bordelon slips away from his life on Earth. He leaves behind a suspicious will which states that he has left all of his estate, including thirty acres of land inherited from his first wife, Maggie's, family, to his...

Enjoy Christmas in Colebridge in the final installment of Ann Hazelwood's Colebridge Community Series. Main street is busy with the Mistletoe Market and the quilt show in the depot. Folks in Colebridge help one another, especially at Christmas. Through love and loss, the townspeople...

A Few of the Girls brings together, for the first time, thirty-six of Maeve's very best stories--some published in magazines, others written for friends as gifts, many for charity benefits, all of them filled with her trademark warmth, wisdom, and humor. Written over a...

She's only ten years old, but she knows something is wrong with daddy. Her mother keeps saying he just needs time to rest and get his energy back. Then they'll be able to live in a house again. Once daddy feels better, they'll have...

In the first years of Kenyan independence, three young women return to the East African highlands where they shared a carefree childhood. Hannah is struggling to preserve her heritage at Langani Farm, where a series of unexplained and violent attacks threaten her security and...

Two brothers, as different as night and day: one, charming and ruthless, buys his way into Harvard, Wall Street, and high society; the other brother remains by his mother's side and makes his way to the top without the influence of money or prestige.Raised...

From the outside, Blake Harperʼs life looks perfect. She's young and attractive and has an enormously successful career as an emergency room nurse practitioner. She loves her work and has always placed it high on her priority list. But suddenly her life is turned...

Jonathan Yardley called A Family Trust "his longest, his most ambitious and his best a book with serious purposes that manages to entertain at the same timerich in carefully observed details, in quick, sharp perceptions that reveal more than one at first understands fine,...

The winner of the National Book Award returns with a moving story of a family of women drawn together by the trials of the times. The women in the Hand family are no strangers to either controversy or sadness. Those traits seem, in fact,...

It's 1979 and Tom Buzby is thirteen years old and living in the small working- class city of Chatham, Ontario. So far, so normal. Except that Tom's dad is the local tattoo artist, his mother is a born-again former stripper who's run off with...

Tom Adornetto tells the story of a family thrust into uncertainty and explores whether the bonds of love and marriage can withstand life's tragedy of an unexpected divorce. There is intervention by the jealous neighbor, the greedy psychologist, the aggressive attorney, the shelter for...

A Bad Guy begins at 1972 with a street fight in the gritty north end of Regina. Half a lifetime later leads to the ball diamonds and hockey rinks of Calgary Alberta.Through it all, this story is about male influences - good and bad....

How far will a man go to protect his own? Jacob Franklin Myles loves his family; so much so that the young deacon will travel to the ends of the earth to protect them. Fortunately, Chicago will be enough. Jacob Myles, rancher, farmer, and...

'Tis Herself: Short Story Collection, focuses on the small, and the not so small, events in the lives of ordinary people. These stories will move the reader to laugh and cry as they encounter the twists and turns of dealing with everyday life. Each...

This is the real-life story of two brothers and beary-best friends for life They came to our home as adopted, welcomed and wanted bear-kids. They bring such spirited joy and enthusiasm to our lives, we simply couldn't imagine life without themAuthor: Cheryl L. RiesISBN-10:...

What if you closed your eyes, blew out the candles, and your wish came true? Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old who feels she has more in common with her twenty-nine-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, than her fifty-five-year-old daughter, Barbara. Ellie's done everything she can to...

Families always have secrets. And secrets have the power to heal--or hurt. Now beloved author Donna Hill's enthralling novel explores the wrongs we do for the right reasons, and the ways we struggle to reconcile the truth. Journalist Zoie Crawford had to leave New...

Singer-songwriter Courtney Yasmineh packs a stormy ballad's punch and showcases a lyrical style in her first novel. Set in the late '70s, A Girl Called Sidney: The Coldest Place by rock musician Courtney Yasmineh is a searing, nerve-rattling story of a mature 17-year-old whose...

The 18th installment of the bestselling Joanne Kilbourn series from the "queen of Canadian crime fiction" (Winnipeg Free Press). When, at the age of sixty, Joanne learns that Douglas Ellard, the reserved general practitioner whom she had grown up believing to be her father...

NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Addison MooreCosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books...easy, frothy fun!3: AM Kisses a USA Today Bestseller!A sassy young coed who falls hard for her BEST FRIEND'S BROTHER. Romantic ComedyShe's my best friend's kid sister. I...

Violet Knowlton is betrothed to the sensible, if tedious, Sir Godfrey Maitland. When Godfrey escorts her to a fencing demonstration, she looks forward to the adventurous diversion, but everything changes when she realizes the swordsman displaying his skill-and dashing good looks- is none other...

"Hodgkinson's portrait of the primal bond between mother and child . . . leaves an indelible impression." --The New York Times Book ReviewDebuting its first week on the New York Times bestseller list and earning comparisons to Sophie's Choice and Sarah's Key, 22 Britannia...

Before Downton Abbey, there was Abingdon Pryory...The third installment in Phillip Rock's trilogy that came alive with The Passing Bells and continued with Circles of Time, begins with the fading of the Jazz Age in England, and ends with German bombers on the horizon.A...