Fiction - Family Life - General

Author: Wally LambISBN-10: 1797188364ISBN-13: 9781797188362Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Format: CD

A stylish wedding. A reunion of old friends. A cause for celebration. But beneath the surface, secrets simmer and soon spiral into a storm of betrayal, guilt and heartbreak...Meg hasn't felt as close to her university friends in recent years. They've all moved on...

From internationally bestselling author Christopher Ransom, The Turn is one man's hilarious and heartwarming odyssey through loss and addiction as he desperately fights to shoot par on the back nine of his life.After a divorce and the death of his father, Casey Sweet is...

For everyone who loved The Bear! An utterly winning, crowd-pleaser of a novel about a disgraced celebrity chef, her striving prot?g?, and their path through the kitchen to redemption.Regina Benuzzi is Queenie B--a culinary goddess with Michelin Star restaurants, a bestselling cookbook empire, and...

In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten magic--of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories they contain back to life--holds the power to transform a young woman's relationship with her grandmother, and to mend long-lost connections across time and space.Monica Tsai spends most...

From Booker Prize finalist David Szalay, a propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man whose future is derailed by a series of events that he is unable to control.Teenaged Istv?n lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in...

Dan West wonders which is more important to him: Helping his long-time friend win back his business after being accused of stealing money from the company, or coaching his eleven-year-old son's soccer team trying to win an improbable championship.Money and prestige don't motivate Dan....

The most romantic place she never wanted to be . . . Pepper Knight moved to Everland, Georgia, as step one in her plan for a successful legal career. But after this big-city gal's plans go awry, going home with her tail between her...

A brilliant, beautiful story from the bestselling author of A Single Act of Kindness How far would you go for a perfect life? Back in her troubled school days, kind-hearted Violet always dreamed of a life where she was happy. Now it feels like...

Secrets implode and generations of lies boil over into deadly consequences when a suspicious fire breaks out Christmas Night on Cape Cod. This enthralling and darkly humorous debut novel of abortion, adoption, and long-buried truths will captivate readers who loved Lessons in Chemistry and...

Rich in emotions of love, loss, and future happiness. Ava struggles with self-love, insecurities and a silent heart as she grieves the death of family members and the end of her marriage.After dating her old high school friend and crush, Ben Wolfe, for the...

Benito looked at the empty huts. There stood his mothers hut which was the biggest of them, where he had spent his early years with his parents and his two brothers. Then there was Araujo's hut, where he spent many happy hours during the...

Author: Kristy Woodson HarveyISBN-10: 1668117169ISBN-13: 9781668117163Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Format: CD

Beasley's Christmas Party by Booth Tarkington is a delightful short story that explores themes of love, loss, and redemption. The story follows David Beasley, a well-regarded but quiet politician who begins behaving strangely, leading to rumors and concerns among the townspeople. His odd actions...

Melissa Hendrickson is tired of being a good sport, one of the guys. She wants to find love and settle down in Lilac Lake with the man of her dreams. She thinks she's found the man, but he doesn't know she exists. After she...

A brilliant, beautiful story from the bestselling author of A Single Act of Kindness How far would you go for a perfect life? Back in her troubled school days, kind-hearted Violet always dreamed of a life where she was happy. Now it feels like...

A brilliant, beautiful story from the bestselling author of A Single Act of Kindness How far would you go for a perfect life? Back in her troubled school days, kind-hearted Violet always dreamed of a life where she was happy. Now it feels like...

"Will consume any reader who picks it up." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post A brilliant and riveting story of ambition, love, family secrets, and unintended consequences, from "bold storyteller" (The New Yorker) and two-time Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen...

The BRAND NEW book club pick from bestseller Sian O'Gorman Three generations; Two families; One secret. After another relationship disaster Alice Littleton returns home to spend summer in Dublin's Sandycove with her Mum, Ciara and beloved grandmother Eva at their family deli and grocers....

"What begins as a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience."--The New YorkerThe story of three women tangled up in a family dynamic at turns hilarious and tragic.When Rosa Achmetowna discovers that her seventeen-year-old daughter Sulfia is pregnant,...

THE UNFORGETTABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF FOUND IN A BOOKSHOP AND LOST FOR WORDSHow can you believe in luck, when you have nothing? September is at her wits' end. For all the hours she works, there's never enough money to support her...

For everyone who loved The Bear! An utterly winning, crowd-pleaser of a novel about a disgraced celebrity chef, her striving prot?g?, and their path through the kitchen to redemption.Regina Benuzzi is Queenie B--a culinary goddess with Michelin Star restaurants, a bestselling cookbook empire, and...

From the critically acclaimed author of Flight comes a sophisticated and layered novel about sisters, betrayal, love, and climate change, for readers of The Dutch House and The Most Fun We Ever Had.The Kenner siblings are at odds. Jenn is a harried mom struggling...

From the critically acclaimed author of Flight comes a sophisticated and layered novel about sisters, betrayal, love, and climate change, for readers of The Dutch House and The Most Fun We Ever Had.The Kenner siblings are at odds. Jenn is a harried mom struggling...

""This beautiful page-turner kept me reading all night." --Janet Skeslien Charles, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library When a young librarian discovers historic dollhouses in a hidden room, she embarks on an unexpected journey that reveals surprising secrets about the lost...

The BRAND NEW instalment in the Skylarks series from bestseller Helen RolfeA hidden secretLive every day as if it were your last - that's the motto Bess has lived by since her father died unexpectedly. As a critical care paramedic, Bess sees every day...

Author: Brenda L. BakerISBN-10: 0451236890ISBN-13: 9780451236890Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2012Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.00w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/16/2012

Jackie Stinson's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie wants to be many things, but a martyr has never been one of them. She is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long...

A story of the effects of trauma across three generations of family. A boy dies and a boy is left to navigate an un-envisioned adulthood. Members of subsequent generations find their individual way to function, each driven by the enigma that is virtue.Author: Peter...

In A Slice of Life, Another Slice of Life, and The Rest of the Pie, average people face extraordinary circumstances, their own veritable moment of truth. They stand at the proverbial fork in the road faced with choices, whether their own or life's dictates.The...

An Australian Outback Story (Book 4) It's breaking all the rules but when it's two consenting adults, does it even matter? Dr Sara Winters leaves Sydney and her ex-husband behind, swearing off men and romance in general. What she didn't expect in the quiet...

LYRICS EDITION: Features all-new original lyrics and music from the Wynter Wild seriesA bittersweet tune...Three years ago, Xay left Wynter to face the nightmare alone. She's been searching for him ever since-and now he's found her first.Can he pick up the pieces of a...

One man, two centuries, in America's last continental frontier. Adapting to a new language during the early years of the family featured in this novel proved to be more difficult for adults than for their children who had the benefit of formal in-class schooling....

I was inspired to write this book, Poetry of Life, because I looked back at my life and sawall the things that the Lord has brought me through. I realized that I could have helpedsomeone to overcome what they were going through with the...

The emotions unleashed in this tale . . . are painfully universal. Yet you know exactly where in the universe you are. This is the hallmark of great short stories, from Chekhov's portraits of discontented Russians to Joyce's struggling Dubliners.--Radhika Jones, TimeNaja Marie Aidt's...

In her fiction debut, Alice Albinia weaves a multithreaded epic tale that encompasses divine saga and familial discord and introduces an unforgettable heroine. Leela--alluring, taciturn, haunted--is moving from New York back to Delhi. Worldly and accomplished, she has been in self-imposed exile from India...

When four-year-old Bo is orphaned in the car accident that kills his mother, he becomes the focus of a fierce custody struggle and flees into himself -- away from the sea of strangers -- where he inhabits an eerie inner landscape. The world of...

An antiques dealer and an enigmatic heiress embark on a revelatory friendship in a haunting and hopeful novel about family ties, secrets, and belonging by the bestselling author of A Heart Like Home.Cautious Claire Shelton, employee at a Maine antique shop, is surprised when...

Inheriting a seaside cottage comes with strings attached in this touching romance where an introverted remote worker must leave her city apartment and learn to connect with others--and find love--in real life. Mallory Rosen takes her remote tech job seriously. She values routine with...

From the author of the phenomenal internationally bestselling The Keeper of Stories, The Secrets of Flowers is a heartwarming novel about a grieving woman who rediscovers herself by uncovering the lost story of the girl who arranged flowers on the Titanic.The smallest treasures can...

From the author of the phenomenal internationally bestselling The Keeper of Stories, The Secrets of Flowers is a heartwarming novel about a grieving woman who rediscovers herself by uncovering the lost story of the girl who arranged flowers on the Titanic.The smallest treasures can...

She returned to prove her father's innocence, but there's no telling what she'll find... It's been fifteen years since Lucy Sinclair saw her father. Fifteen long years since she sat in a courtroom and watched him sentenced to life in prison. He murdered three...

From the author of the phenomenal internationally bestselling The Keeper of Stories, The Secrets of Flowers is a heartwarming novel about a grieving woman who rediscovers herself by uncovering the lost story of the girl who arranged flowers on the Titanic.The smallest treasures can...

She returned to prove her father's innocence, but there's no telling what she'll find... It's been fifteen years since Lucy Sinclair saw her father. Fifteen long years since she sat in a courtroom and watched him sentenced to life in prison. He murdered three...

An enthralling debut, Above the Fire crystallizes the relationship between a father and son as they survive a winter of isolation. Perfect for fans of The Dog Stars by Peter Heller and The Road by Cormac McCarthy.Laboring under a shared loss, Doug and his...

"Like Lorna Landvik and J. Ryan Stradal, Jan Lefebvre has a wonderful ear for the cadence of Midwestern life, and an appreciation for the small moments between us that are so much bigger. There's heartbreak in this book, but also so much good humor,...

Author: Jonathan MitchellISBN-13: 9798891302952Publisher: Christian Faith PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/09/2025Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

'Remember I Love You will break you heart and put it back together again... this novel will captivate you and leave you feeling uplifted and hopeful' Sinead Moriarty Recently-widowed father of one Luke is desperate for a sign. Since his beloved wife Helen passed,...

The third in Trollope's six-volume Palliser series, The Eustace Diamonds boasts an extraordinary heroine in Lizzie Eustace, a lying schemer in the mould of Thackeray's Becky Sharp. A pompous Under-Secretary of State, an exploitative and acquisitive American and her unhappy "niece," a shady radical...

'Remember I Love You will break you heart and put it back together again... this novel will captivate you and leave you feeling uplifted and hopeful' Sinead Moriarty Recently-widowed father of one Luke is desperate for a sign. Since his beloved wife Helen passed,...