Family life fiction Books

What would you do if, in one moment, you learned your entire life was a lie? "I did it." These three words, uttered by Brianna's father, changed her life forever. Confident in her father's innocence, Brianna had been convinced that the jury had made a...

The stunning new novel from Bella Pollen

Brila Landry, a twenty-nine year old living in Texas, lost a part of herself the night her sister, Angelle, died in a tragic car accident. When she ends up on the wrong end of budget cuts at work a few months later, Angelle's words from her last birthday...

On the border of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Eastern Montana, two executives reunite at a pheasant lodge for five days of upland hunting. But when the unthinkable occurs in those prairie grass fields with their guide and man's best friend,...

Come on an adventure with the Masti brothers and discover what it is like to play and have brittle bones. Imran doesn't let his Osteogenesis Imperfecta get in the way of his imagination. He and his super team always find a way to have fun and stay safe...

She was taught to submit, to obey . . . but she dreamed of an empire.The sole heir to the House of Omura, a venerable family of Kobe sake brewers, nineteen-year-old Rie hears but cannot heed her mother's advice: that in nineteenth-century Japan, a woman...

The acclaimed novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist brings us a warm and very human look at life among the white "Florida Crackers." "A moving novel."-- "Saturday Review of Literature" "A simple, colorfully written, and moving novel ." "--Saturday...

From the bestselling author of THE SPACE BETWEEN US comes an emotionally-charged story about unexpected death, unhealed wounds, and the price one father will pay to protect himself from pain and loss."Powerful. . . . Twisty, brimming with dark humor and...

A classic novel from an exceptional storyteller, A Woman Betrayed, first published in 1991, is a stunning tale of troubling secrets that can hide beneath the placid surface of a seemingly good marriage--and the courage that's needed to move on.Laura Frye...

Rebecca Martin is a single mother with an apartment to rent and a sense that she has used up her illusions. I had the romantic thing with my first husband, thank you very much, she tells a hapless suitor. I'm thirty-eight years old, and I've got a...

In a neighborhood on Chicago's outskirts, Fabio and Lucia Comingo have built a new American life--and struggle to comprehend the influences that distract and change their restless young sons. Through this masterful evocation of a time and place, Tony...

The five members of the Truants -- Richie, John, Brian, Jerry and Tim -- graduated from toney Chase Academy in New Hampshire 30 years ago. Before they left, they managed to record an album called "Out of Site." Nearing the age of 50, they learn that a...

"A first-rate collection of novellas that will break your heart and fill you with hope at the same time." --Denver Rocky Mountain NewsIn the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes Wives and Lovers, from the author the Boston Globe...

It hasn't been easy for Ruth Rothwax, the proprietor of a successful letter-writing business, to branch out into a new greeting-card line. Her father, Edek, is driving her crazy at the office. Other women, who she thought would be supportive, are being...

The river can take you home. But the river can also drag you under...'It's something she learned years ago - the hard way - and that she knows she will never forget: even the sweetest fruit will fall and rot into the earth, eventually. No matter how deep...

Mammy O'Mara would cordially like to invite you to the wedding of...well now that would be telling.The date's set for the wedding of the year, Valentine's Day no less but with less than eight weeks to pull off her dream day will this anxious bridezilla...

Feel part of the family Christmas in Book 5 of the Guesthouse on the Green.Two Christmases, two second chances. A heart-warming O'Mara family Christmas story that will have you laughing out loud...Roisin O'Mara has already suffered through a...

It's 1952 and Mabel is feeling the weight of being a mother to three young children and running the bakery. And now that Mark knows he is Matthew's father, she's afraid Luke will discover the truth.In this gripping story about family, fate, and...

From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her mother's hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family foreverMattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked...

National Book Award FinalistNo one in 1917 New York had ever encountered a woman like the Bar-oness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven -- poet, artist, proto-punk rocker, sexual libertine, fashion avatar, and unrepentant troublemaker. When she wasn't stalking...

Many men aim high; Tom Farrell dares to be average. While his friends accumulate wedding rings, mortgages, and even, alarmingly, babies, Tom still lives alone in his rented apartment with nothing but condiments and alcohol in his refrigerator. He spends...

Aren't dreams meant to be pursued? Are dreams worth the pain and dedication it takes? The ups and downs of life, for your dream. Eric and his friends, Jeremy, Jacqueline, and Angelo, all have dreams they are seeking. Basketball, acting and modeling,...

Tomas and the Gypsy Violin is a simple but powerful tale about the transformative and healing power of music. It concerns an orphaned Roma child, Tomas, who is adopted by a Toronto couple. The traumatized boy is unresponsive to his new environment and...

From Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears, an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching effects of cultural prejudice, forbidden love, and hidden histories...

A Daughter Betrayed is a story inspired by true events that shows not only can partners hurt you, but that family can have a far greater advantage of hurting and pretending that you were the one who did it to them instead. Tamara Se'Atkins has always had...

War. Heartbreak. How much can one family lose?The McKay family's idyllic life in Iowa is about to implode. A mysterious rosary found by soldier John McKay in war-torn Iraq foreshadows an obscure prophecy. As the rosary's mystique grows globally, his...

Rumors. Romance. And more than a little espresso.Santa Lucia has seen a lot of changes, and they've made life for the villagers harder than they ever imagined. Creating a working vineyard. Parenting a teenage daughter. Romance with the mayor. Being gay...

Tyrone Tyler is now divorced, and he is back with a vengeance.  He is scheming to get back the twenty and a half million dollars in alimony that he had to pay his ex-wife Vanessa for cheating on her; but she is a lot stronger and wiser and she is...