Fiction - Family Life - General

Author: Kate HewittISBN-10: 179999998XISBN-13: 9781799999980Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/12/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Lindsay Nicole Snider was not yet nine years old when her father passed away. It was after his funeral that Lindsay's mother made the selfish and cruel decision to isolate her only child from her daddy's side of the family. Fifteen years later, following...

Bestselling author Holly Chamberlin's touching and thought-provoking novel about a mother's struggle to reconnect with her long-lost daughter... Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into a bottle and launches it into the waves. It's...

A wise and hilarious novel morality and what it means to be a "goof person" from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Just Like you, Funny Girl and High Fidelity. A brutally truthful, compassionate novel about the heart, mind, and soul of a...

It's a winter of joy on Christmas Street . . . Jack is one lucky dog, adopted by the families of every house on Christmas Street. Or is it the other way around? For Sam, a widower recently returned to London, Jack is Christmas...

A beloved book from one of the greatest writers of science fiction ever, restored with its original ending that was changed by the original publisher.The Podkayne of Mars follows a teenage girl named Podkayne "Poddy" Fries and her younger brother, Clark, who leave their...

They've been trying to avoid each other.But this town has other ideas... When Berkley Carr opened The Love Shack Animal Haven, she thought she'd finally put her past behind her. But sometimes she feels the sting of the scandal from her youth, especially when...

Before. During. After. is a novella-in-flash which presents a sequence of life-changing moments for a cast of twenty interconnected characters. The book is set in a small town in the USA, and focuses on the lives of students, teachers and parents of the local...

In this deeply moving novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a determined young woman must survive a series of abandonments to find a love that is worthy of her. When she is only six years old, Allegra Dixon's party-loving mother...

"A remarkable achievement . . . a story of commitment, identity, and familial loyalty that will leave one in tears. Five out of five stars."--New York Journal of BooksIn her mesmerizing adult debut set on the shores of the Great Lakes, critically acclaimed children's...

A secret that bound them together... And split them apart! Decades earlier, Sage Dalton gave a family their greatest gift: their daughter, Loren. But when an unwanted connection sparked between the surrogate and the father-to-be, they immediately cut contact. Years later, when widowed Grayson...

Christian was the only son his parents had, but both died before he had the chance to know them. He grew up with friends who became part of his life for many years. They all had very tragic stories to tell and were all...

"I have no doubt that it will stand the test of time and become a classic in its own right." -Behind the BookshelfIt's Christmas Eve in western Kansas and a snowstorm is gaining strength as Bear Bailey, a devoted Great Pyrenees, tries to comfort...

Sometimes the path to love isn't a direct flight. Everywhere she turns, nurse Sophie Lane seems to bump into pilot Meyer Cartell. And now he's moving in next door! Handsome and always charming, Meyer is hard to resist. That's probably how her sister felt...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community.Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your life--the mundane, the trivial,...

Black Cake meets Death at a Funeral in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grappling with their matriarch's sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back--from an author with a "razor-sharp, smart, and...

What happens when the man you love most in the world unexpectedly disappears and takes your small child with him? Emma Fedor's "wonderful, haunting, and original" (Katherine Faulkner, author of Greenwich Park) debut explores the fierceness of first love and how far one woman...

Perched right on the Mason-Dixon line, tiny Runnymede, Maryland, is ripe with a history almost as colorful as the women who live there--from Celeste Chalfonte, headstrong and aristocratic, who murders for principle and steals her brother's wife, to Fannie Jump Creighton, who runs a...

Elin thought she had shaken all the skeletons out of her closet after leaving rehab, but then some disturbing, strange things begin to happen. A young girl goes missing and the police are struggling to find a motive. Someone is following Elin but they...

Set against the picturesque backdrop of the Hudson Valley and New England, this touching narrative embarks on a journey from the ashes of a failed and loveless marriage to the rekindling of love in the life of fifty-something Savannah. Embracing the roles of a...

*The USA Today Bestseller* Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn. It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that's about to change. With Bart...

A totally heart-wrenching but ultimately uplifting historical novel from bestselling author Pam Howes, about young women facing dark times together with friendship and courage. Fans of Nadine Dorries, Diney Costeloe and Nancy Revell will be captivated. Mersey Square, Stockport, 1959. Jane Wilson's parents met...

After Hurricane Michael destroyed her home and sense of peace, a good-hearted but wounded lady ends up in an idyllic town in Mississippi. Her life blossoms as she meets God's people, the salt of the earth. They give her the foundation to build again...

Carmel, a 40-year-old Irish woman, is living a life that's fine, not exciting or awful, just fine. She has a house, a husband, it's all okay. She never had kids, but that's just life, right? She knows she should be grateful. She's better off...

A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show"If you like Practical Magic... you will love Black Candle Women." --Jenna Bush HagerNamed a Best Book of the Month by: Shondaland, MS. Magazine, TODAY.com, Reader's Digest, Katie Couric Media, AARP Sisters,...

A family full of secrets...and one girl who must survive.Sixteen-year-old Alison Brennan's mother, Bernadette, is an agoraphobic hoarder, and her father Harry seems to have no past. Struggling every day, Alison seeks the help of a school counsellor.When an old homeless man is found...

Author: Kate HewittISBN-10: 1982530839ISBN-13: 9781982530839Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2015Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs

Two Children. One Home. Nothing in Common. When eleven-year-old Phoenix finds his Mother unconscious from a drug overdose he has a choice. 'Never call the services, ' his Mum had always told him. They had already run away from social services once. Phoenix knows...

A stunning fable about life and death and what it means to choose. Cherrie Adams lovingly pays tribute to her late son, accompanied by full colour illustrations by Lucinda Gregory.'I want to go down there. I want to be a human boy.' A long...

Are you misunderstood?If you are, it may no bet the words you use but the way you move.Want to boost your confidence with the skills you already have?Reading other people's body language is an ability we learn throughout our lives. It's an automatic process...

Anne McClain Bradley has returned to Legend, Tennessee after a personal tragedy sent her successful, well-ordered life reeling. Midnight Shelby McClain has offered Anne the apartment over The Emporium, and Anne is cautiously hopeful that her heart, and her family connections in Legend, can...

"A witty, roller-coaster ride of uncertain identity set against the gritty certainties of New York City. In compelling, unadorned prose, Richard Wiley gives us a bewitching and ultimately moving tale." --Caryl Phillips, author of A Distant Shore and The Lost Child Dr. Ruby Okada...

Author: Rosanna ChiofaloISBN-10: 1496716388ISBN-13: 9781496716385Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2018Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d

A sequel to his first book, Archie Stanley's Journeys II offers alternative family migrations that parallel the DNA-based migrations described in Journeys. These alternative migrations branch off from the main family migration pathway from Africa to North America, and could account for many relatively...

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work....

Life under Brazil's brutal "cordial racism" comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons.How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for himself in the objects his father left behind: the layers that make up...

Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize"This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear the attention away. Energy and inventiveness distinguish every...

Josephine Daudry: the story of a woman who has had a somewhat rough start in life...not unlike many of us. She wants to be special - she daydreams of being a super person... 'Lacey MacClean'. This is the story of how she finds her...

Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean Greer's Arthur Less: Honey Fasinga, the glamorous daughter of a notorious New Jersey mobster, is returning home at last, ready to reckon with her violent past.As a rebellious...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties that bind us Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the...

Four friends, one big secret... and the journey of a lifetime.It's nineteen years since they stopped speaking to each other, but now Morgan needs to contact her three best friends from school: Paige, Emily and Tiff.Her teenage son wants to meet his dad and...

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve.Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life...

Welcome to England's beautiful Lake District, where a reluctant reunion forges a new bond between a daughter and her wayward mother . . . Abby Rhodes is just starting to get her life on track. After her fiancé's unexpected death, she returned with her...

Author: Suzanne BerneISBN-10: 1476794278ISBN-13: 9781476794273Publisher: S&s/ Marysue Rucci BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2024Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.68d

From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unexpected rewards that come from life's detours. Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful...

Eve is a frustrated sixteen-year-old who uncovers a dark family secret. Muriel is trapped in managed care by the son who stole her fortune. Taking advantage of a twisted moment, this unlikely pair embark on a murky mission to rectify their wrongs. Together they...

It is 1999, the year of the Millennium. Meet six unforgettable characters in this gripping, emotional novel and immerse yourself in their struggles, dilemmas, and dreams.How will sheltered young wife Louisa cope with her alcoholic husband while raising their rambunctious twins? Can aging rocker...

Poppy Banks would rather be writing mysteries than writing listicles for her dead-end job at Thought Buzz. But after a series of rejections, she's ready to accept life on the sidelines as a plus-size woman. Her aunt Margot is the one person unwilling to...

In the heady days before a New Year's Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil's Copacabana Beach, a family reckons with a matriarch's long-awaited return, causing old secrets to come to light in this infectiously vibrant debut that explores the heartbreak and hope...

A heartwarming novel about a loving dad who drags his eleven-year-old daughter to "father-daughter week" at a remote summer camp--their last chance to bond before he loses her to teenage girlhood entirely. After his daughter, Avery, was born, John gave it all up--hobbies, friends,...