Fiction - Family Life - General

Walking down the aisle in the packed church, sunlight glints off my ivory silk gown. This should be the happiest day of my life. But as I carefully lift my veil and greet my husband-to-be, my heart is pounding with fear. Does someone out...

Meet Tilda Wright...Tilda has done everything she can to make her life neat, protected, tidy. No longer the girl who was scared of everything, whose family pushed her away, who hit rock bottom. Now she runs her life - as she does her successful...

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize From New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape of California Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can...

When Lila returns to India from the United States after inheriting an ancestral home, she must confront a culture that has always been a part of her, her mother from whom she has been estranged for a decade, and her family (grandmother, aunts, uncles,...

Infertility put her dearest wish out of reach. Now, at 55, she has a newborn and unexpected fame. How can she possibly cope with the demands of both?Hannah Murrow finally has what she's always wanted. The shocking late-in-life pregnancy that turned her into unlikely...

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 as her parents', pop out a couple of kids, and...

Don't miss the BRAND NEW series from bestselling author Stephanie HarteMeet the Kennedy twins and get ready for trouble!Twin sisters Lily and Daisy Kennedy live a life ruled by their controlling father, Des. Desperate to salvage his own shattered dreams, he forces his girls...

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming debut about a zany case of mistaken identity that allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family."Would you mind terribly, old boy, if...

A moving story of family, loss, love, and hope.Noah Nicholson has a gift. He is blessed with extraordinary hand-eye coordination. This gift has helped him build a successful career as a minor-league hockey player. But Noah is damaged; his parents died in a car...

An Intimate Guyana Journey is a spellbinding tale of love and legacy with characters as rich and diverse as the landscape. Set in the lush and wild coast of Guyana, An Intimate Guyana Journey is a coming-of-age story about a boy uncovering his roots...

When Mayadevi, aged 70, 75 or 80, depending on her mood, decides to goto London, she knows it will mean a year of penance to wash away the sins ofcrossing the ocean. But if her son will not come to her, Mayadevi must go...

From the author of the Read with Jenna Bonus Pick A Little Hope, an uplifting and emotionally resonant novel set in a Delaware beach town about a local restaurant owner at a turning point.Three generations of Schmidts have run their family's beachfront restaurant and...

Mersey Square, Stockport. Can she give her young sons the life they deserve, or will taking them away from their father destroy them all? Singer Olivia Grant has recently separated from the father of her two small boys and knows that the best place...

Mersey Square, Stockport, 1984. Can she find the courage to overcome a devastating tragedy? Sammy and Roy Cantello have been inseparable since they were teenage sweethearts. Married for twenty years, their eldest son is the apple of Sammy's eye. When the police arrive, telling...

Mersey Square, Stockport. With her daughter in danger, how far will she go to save her? Every day for the last sixteen years, Olivia Grant has longed for her daughter. Forced to give her up at birth, Harley has been raised by her father...

My Three Dogs is a charming and heartfelt new novel from the #1 bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose, about humankind's best, most loyal friend, and a wonderful adventure of love and finding home. When a tragic accident separates three dogs from their human,...

An impulsive, madcap, and newly concussed young woman comes of age as she navigates her Ghanaian American identity, her relationships, and the muddled landscape of history, memory, imagination, and delusion. Twenty-four-year-old Akosua is easily knocked off her feet. When she falls and hits her...

The irresistible, utterly satisfying new contemporary novel from No. 1 bestselling Sheila O'Flanagan Izzy is in the Caribbean on the honeymoon-that-isn't after her fiancé broke her heart. She's not looking for someone new. But when she meets Charles Miller, a successful writer holidaying alone,...

Old secrets are brought to light when a family matriarch returns to Brazil after years away in this "original and highly immersive" (Good Morning America) debut that explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes, two peoples, and...

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful...

Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic...

Written by iconic Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, this classic of love, desire, and family breakdown smashed through taboos when first published in Arabic and continues to captivate audiences today It is 1950s Cairo and 16-year-old Amina is engaged to a much older man....

James Newham sat gratefully down on a fallen tree trunk that flanked the side of the road where once had stood a dwelling of some sort. He was hot and tired and desperately sad. The Sri Lankan sun beat down upon his back. The...

"With tremendous intellect and her irreverent wit, Wiener rescues an intimate story from the family archive, a story that is also the infamous history of our continent. Her prose, sober and forward, is a breath of fresh air; her view allows us to be...

Generations of Sassers have made moonshine in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Their history is recorded in a leather-bound journal that belongs to Jessie Sasser's daddy, but Jessie wants no part of it. As far as she's concerned, moonshine caused her...

Author: Donna EverhartISBN-10: 166528739XISBN-13: 9781665287395Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2016Format: CD

Author: Donna EverhartISBN-10: 166525985XISBN-13: 9781665259859Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/26/2017Format: CD

Author: Tiffany Morgan, Donna EverhartISBN-10: 1665216115ISBN-13: 9781665216111Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2019Format: CD

Love or money? Kate Toscano's life is upended when her sister Cassy is killed in a car accident. This jet-setting writer for a trendy Las Vegas magazine, is now the guardian of her five-year-old, autistic nephew, Jimmy. She's forced to move back home. Kate's...

Join Oliver, his Nana, and their spunky chickens as they learn about how plants grow, turning tree branches to mulch, and the circle of life as one brave chicken stands up to a weasel with bad intentions. This book is the perfect conversation starter...

Porter Ellis once believed he would be a famous painter -- until a decade of eking out a living as a graphic designer crushed his dreams.Suddenly his wife, Lucy, dies of breast cancer, and Porter discovers that he can't deal with her parents. Sneaking...

"...in the end, those of us who knew him best were just waiting for him to die." In the Southeast corner of rural Nebraska is a quaint little town that sits along the Platte river. It is a place in which decades of betrayal...

In the fourth and final book of The O'Shaughnessy Chronicles, septuagenarian Catherine O'Shaughnessy spends her days tending her English cottage garden and basking in memories of lost loved ones. If only her son, Bill, wouldn't worry so much about her living alone. His concerns...

A PICTURE ON FACEBOOK... AN OUT-OF-TOWN WEDDING... AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER... ALL HELP TO BRING A WOMAN ONE STEP CLOSER A DECADES-OLD MYSTERY.Tess Thompson always hoped the mystery surrounding her father's untimely death only days after Christmas when she was a child would one day...

Arm yourself against my dawn, which may at any moment cast you and Harry into obscurity, Alice James writes her brother William in 1891. In Judith Hooper's magnificent novel, zingers such as this fly back and forth between the endlessly articulate and letter-writing Jameses,...

Even as a child all Vicky wants is love. She seeks it from her governess; she expects it from the lowly, loyal gardener, Andrew; but most of all, she is desperate for it from the one person who can't see beyond shadows of the...

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was a well known British novelist at one of the peak eras for female writers in England. A novelist and short story writer at the height of the Victorian Era, Gaskell's novels weave a comprehensive, detailed image of the lives of...

"Abigail Tarttelin is a fearless writer." --Emily St. John Mandel, author of the National Book Award finalist, Station Eleven From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Golden Boy comes Abigail Tarttelin's debut novel, written when she was just nineteen and never before published in...

Aspirations Of The World: A Chain Of Opals is a book written by Lydia Maria Francis Child and first published in 1878. The book is a collection of essays on various topics such as religion, politics, and social issues. The title of the book...

A witty new novel about three self-proclaimed "old bags" who run off to a Greek island Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset by children again--this time, their grandchildren. In...

Some artworks appear chaotic, but it all depends on the eye of the beholder.Brody and Madison Peterson have the picture-perfect marriage. Or so it seems. But their teenage daughter Charity knows only too well that that's not the case. Frequent heated arguments-the bane of...

It's almost Christmas in Red Rock, Wyoming. Come on in and sit a spell in Mrs. Williamson's fabulous bakery. Visit with dear old Mr. Hubert. Get to know the precocious McKinley twins. Tis the season Laura Arthur has lived in Red Rock her whole...

This is a story of John, a 16 year old who loses his mother to cancer. During the last year of her life she writes a series of eight letters for her son to read after her death. Designed as a treasure hunt, the...

The author of Her Ladyship's Companion once again pushes the erotic boundaries of Regency romance. Destitute after her father's death, Rose Marlowe has debts to settle and a younger brother to support. But she also possesses a matchless beauty-one that could command quite a...

Gary and Susan Hazen--high school sweethearts married for many years, born and bred in the Adirondack community of Lost Lake--live a simple and honest life and have instilled values in their two grown sons by example. But despite their efforts, Gary senses that his...

Bestselling YA author Kate Klise flies high with her first novel for grown-ups. In the Bag is You've Got Mail meets The Parent Trap in the 21st century--an absolutely enthralling story of globe-hopping, lost luggage, found opportunities...and the old-fashioned art of flirtation in a...

Raised in the steamy bayous of New Orleans in the early 1900s, LeRoi "King" Tremain, caught up in his family's ongoing feud with the rival DuMont family, learns to fight. But when the teenage King mistakenly kills two white deputies during a botched raid...

Berlin, Germany The son of a sweetmaker, Karl Jochum has ambitions for a life beyond his father's shop. Through hard work and perseverance he determines to open a café in Berlin where the Emperor will one day dine. As the city grows and prospers,...

Berlin, Germany The son of a sweetmaker, Karl Jochum has ambitions for a life beyond his father's shop. Through hard work and perseverance he determines to open a café in Berlin where the Emperor will one day dine. As the city grows and prospers,...

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a curse that reverberates across generations--"Fuentes has achieved something rare and indelible with this story of complex women." (Erika L. S疣chez) In 1951, a mysterious old woman...