Fiction - Family Life - General

"I couldn't put this down . . . Loved this! This is a really gripping story . . . I was addicted from the start." --Amazon reviewer, five stars A mother is gripped by fear as her daughter approaches adulthood, in this novel of...

"Wow . . . one of the best books I have read!" --Goodreads reviewer, five stars A widower lets a new woman into his heart and his home--but she has her own agenda, in this thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl I...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desire, guilt, and grief in this darkly comic, highly anticipated debut novel from Kimberly King Parsons, author of the story collection, Black...

In this engrossing novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a top Hollywood executive seeks a new beginning when his career takes an unplanned turn.As the head of a prestigious movie studio for nearly two decades, Andy Westfield has had every conceivable...

"Well-written tension and forbidden longing. The angst in this was incredible! Loved every second!" --Penelope Douglas, New York Times bestselling author of Credence When I was five years old, I told Toren Grace we were going to get married someday. He'd been my closest...

When two students are found dead in their small Florida hometown, an aging brother and sister are forced to confront their own dark past while on the hunt for a murdererAs a successful news photographer, Francis Brimm has lived a life of adventure, traveling...

Natalie Hope takes over the reins of the Sugar and Spice bakery and café with the intention of injecting some Christmas spirit. Something her regulars badly need.Newly dumped Rebecca is stuck in a job with no prospects, has lost her home and is struggling...

The New York Times-bestselling author of the Americana series asks if love can truly overcome any hardship--"Dailey remains the best!" (Affaire de Coeur). Stacy and Cord Harris had the perfect marriage. Their love, they thought, would see them through any troubles that came along....

The Birthday Picture and Other Stories is a collection of genre-bending short fiction written by Alaskan author Caitlin M.S. BuxbaumA publication of Red Sweater PressThese stories are the results of an imagination at work over a span of 10 years, from 2010 to 2020....

Do you love to talk as much as Karsyn? In this story you'll meet a fun, energetic, spunky five year old who loves to talk. Girls and boys will be drawn to the illustrations and the fun repetitive words throughout the story. This fun...

Jeff Lockler is a happily married banker, with an incredibly bright sound future. When one night tragedy strikes and Jeff's future, faith and life is put to an incredible test. Almost giving up something amazing happens and Jeff is tested with something he will...

Hermann Stehr (1864-1940) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller aus der Grafschaft Glatz. Das Erscheinen seines Bestsellers "Der Heiligenhof" 1918 befreite ihn aus seinen finanziellen N ten, und er stieg zu einem gefeierten Dichter auf. Aus dem Buch: "Das westf lische M nsterland wirft gegen den...

When a husband convinces his wife to join him in a tryst with another woman, there are unintended consequences in this sharply observed erotic tale about the challenges of modern marriage As a divorce lawyer for Manhattan's elite, David Greenfield is privy to the...

Generation X cult classics Our Noise and Geniuses of Crack chronicled a group of friends just out of college who lived in a small town, cared more about their record collections than their careers, and never imagined they'd have to grow up. Losing Our...

Two sisters fall for the same man in this New York Times-bestselling novel of WWII-era England by an "immensely readable" author (Elizabeth Jane Howard). Rickie Masters is married to Madeleine, who is sitting out the war in the country with their children. Their domestic...

Dennis McFarland's acclaimed debut novel, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "a rare pleasure . . . Remarkable from its beginning to its surprising, satisfying end"Musician Marty Lambert's life is already falling apart when he receives the phone call that changes...

Given only weeks to live, Kenny Drummond finds a mystery worth dying to solve In this gripping psychological thriller from the creator of Luther, Kenny Drummond has been diagnosed with late-stage brain cancer and is writing a list--a list of all the people he...

A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author's "gripping thriller" (Reginald Hill). Poppy Tasker never imagined this would be her life at age fifty: divorced, living alone, and stuck caring for a...

New York Times Bestseller: Two Texan half sisters battle over their father's fortune, risking their relationships with the men who love them.Standing over her father's coffin, Abbie Lawson wonders if he ever actually loved her. Yes, he'd given her wealth, a place in the...

A stirring story of love and passion on the Trail of Tears from New York Times-bestselling author Janet Dailey, America's first lady of romance.Temple Gordon's family is one of the oldest, and proudest, to call Cherokee country home. Although their house may look like...

The Neighborhoods is a genealogy starting with an emigration from Ireland to the Michigan upper peninsula and the tough individuals meeting the challenges of the first half of the twentieth century. Nineteen young men from a small neighborhood were closely bonded and went off...

The first novel by Newbery Award-winning author Nancy Willard: A stunning story of magic and miracles, and a testament to the enduring power of faith and love Ben and Willie Harkissian are twin brothers (think Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau) growing up in...

From the author of 365 Days comes a poignant, personally inspired tale of a rookie doctor fighting for the life of a desperately ill young girl--a story that grows ever more relevant in this world of increasingly sophisticated and technical medical careIn this riveting...

A novel about learning to live in a world stranger than any tabloid headlineThough she's written dispatches from across the globe--covering the Loch Ness monster, live dinosaurs, and the ever-enigmatic yeti--Vera Perl never leaves the offices of This Week, a supermarket tabloid covering the...

"I am thirty-four years old, married, a professor of neurobiology; I have two sons, aged nine and seven. I grew up in Brownsville and I left it behind, and I was diagnosed as having cancer in January. I know that these facts are connected;...

"Maybe we live our lives constantly becoming and rebecoming. Maybe we're always in the process of metamorphosing into something new."In her journal, writer Piper George notes the change of seasons. Each entry marks the passage of time since she became a teen mother and...

A New York Times BestsellerA #1 Indie Next PickA National Book Award-winning AuthorRunning into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything -- until it wasn�t. For August...

'Totally addictive . . . a WOW read that will have the readers hooked. Absolutely brilliant, will blow your mind!" --Booklover Bev, five stars A routine family meal turns into a nightmare in this terrifying psychological thriller by the author of Shh . ....

The bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel "illuminates with great compassion how love can so easily go off the rails" (Daily Mail). In the shadow of Heathrow airport, a girl grows up in a family of four with her unaffectionate, absent mother,...

A daughter visits the island of Guernsey to unearth horrifying family truths and solve a decades-old mystery surrounding her mother, in this historical page-turner. 1958. Esme, a novelist, finds a potential new literary project. A housemaid named Clara was convicted of murder, perhaps unjustly,...

"Brilliant . . . made me laugh out loud . . . I loved it." --Amazon reviewer, five stars A rollicking tale of a bride, a groom, and two out-of-control Mumzillas from an author with "a brilliant writing style" (Donna's Book Blog). Tessa and...

"Absolutely brilliant . . . had me hooked . . . heart-wrenching." --Goodreads reviewer, five stars Can she discover the truth about her long-lost mother before becoming a mother herself? A tale of fear and family secrets by the author of The Missing Husband....

"Disturbing and witty . . . A deftly-described odyssey that places the battle of the sexes in a new arena" from the author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (The Sunday Times). Meet Desmond Fletcher. At forty-two years old, his marriage has ended and...

For one 1970s teenager, winning at poker and winning on Wall Street go hand-in-hand: "A coming-of-age story for the ages." --Peter Lattman, vice chairman, The Atlantic In the wake of his mother's death, Rogers Stout has no choice but to grow up fast. By...

FREEDOM WORTH FIGHTING FOR. LOVE WORTH WAITING FOR Escape this summer with the unforgettable wartime love story and Richard & Judy Bookclub pick 'The French House is a beautifully wrought exploration of love of all kinds. It's utterly gorgeous, convincingly written and completely captivating....

No one has ever felt sorry for Genevieve Beaumont. After all, she has everything money can buy. That is, until she discovers her fiancé has been two-timing her and she's left with two choices: marry the philanderer to please her controlling father or be...

JohannaJo Mueller quits her awful job to accompany her grandmother to Ireland to visit her lifelong friend. Although money is tight, her grandmother's friend comes up with a solution: work as a paid companion for her grandson, Ian while she's in Ireland. Jo's remit:...

Step into the groundbreaking drama of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in this beautifully designed edition. This play follows the story of Nora, a woman who must confront the societal expectations placed upon her as a wife and mother. With a new introduction and...

Lexi's marital problems are the least of her worries after terrorists invade her small town. To keep her family safe, she must stick with her would-be ex-husband. But gun-wielding men have other ideas. Sent to separate modern-day concentration camps, people they've known their entire...

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you won't want to hang up on."Brilliant . . . Melissa Mogollon did not come to play."--Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age "Yes,...

Can the entire course of a life be traced back to a single moment?On a coveted two-week beach vacation, working mom Kate Baker's nine-year-old daughter, Olivia, vanishes suddenly among the waves--a heart-dropping incident that threatens to uproot her entire reality. But in the next...

Perfect for fans of Mary Kay Andrews, Susan Mallery and Brenda Novak, The Seaside Sisters will delight and charm you as easily as an ocean breeze. One summer can change everything. Brooklyn-based Hannah is a bestselling author struggling to write her second book after...

She believed those on the other side were able to contact the living. The man she cared about deeply did not. Kate has had many experiences in her life that caused her to know loved ones can reach out to us from the afterlife....

Salty Saltzmanous's life was pretty dull. After years of hopping from trailer park to trailer park with his family, he thought he would get a new start in a little house deep in Mennonite country; but all that's there to do is work, drink,...

Affectionately called "Jaybird" by the father she adores, Josie Flint's idyllic childhood in 1960s Atlanta is defined by her role as the oldest of the three Flint sisters and crowned with the presence of her grandmother, Annie Jo- the maypole that centers the Flint...

The New York Times bestseller by the author of the forthcoming novel Alice & Oliver Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters A New York Times Notable Book "One word: bravo."--The New York Times...

Amora Smith the eldest of her parents two children, struggles to adjust to her parents recent divorce. Her world comes crashing down when her mother begins dating the Pastor at a local church. Life comes at young Amora fast as she deals with the...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Colors and Breakwater Bay comes this heartwarming story of love, family, and redemption. Two young girls pledged to be best friends forever. Separated by circumstance and hurt, they are reunited years later as they struggle...

Wilson's ambition alone is exciting. . . . His] writing has a Houdini-like perfection, wherein no matter how grim the variables, each lovely sentence manages to escape with all its parts intact." --Boston GlobeThe eagerly-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Family...

A witty and irresistible story of a mother and daughter regarding each other through the looking glass of time, grief, and forgiveness.In two beautifully counterpoised narratives, two women--mother and daughter--try to make sense of their own lives by revisiting what they know about each...