Family life fiction Books

Becoming Debra Wright is a candid memoir that paints Debra Wright's journey through the tumultuous experiences of life. With cadences of blatant intimacy tenderly caressing the reader's emotions, Debra's childhood memories leap through the...

The Turbulent Twin is a story that takes place in the small town of Chelmsford, New England, and the exciting streets of New York City. IT takes place during the late nineteen forties through to the seventies, causing stress during the time of the...

Ein kleines Mädchen wartet am Ufer des Ontariosees auf ihre Mutter, die sie abholen soll. Sie hat gesagt, dass sie gleich wieder da ist, aber die Sonne geht gerade unter und es wird dunkel. Wo ist die Mutter des Kindes? Ist etwas passiert, das sie an der...

What do you know about your ancestors?This book, the third one in the ANCESTORS series is based on the lives of the authors parents.Dot and Ben were born in the 1920's, lived and fought in WW2 and their story continues until 2014. What was their day to...

Ben was told by his father-in-law to Grow Up. He tried, with adventures on the high seas, in the old Deep South, in the frigid north. With his constant search for love and redemption, Ben usually just found bullies.This is his memoir, for real this...

When a serial killer buys you a drink you probably shouldn't fall in love with him... Falling head over heels for Jonathan is not in Faith Brandt's plans, but his good looks and charm win her heart. She quickly learns how amazingly kind, thoughtful,...

Judge Jackie Martin's job is to impose order on the most chaotic families in New York City. So how is she blindsided when the man she loves walks out on her?Jackie Martin is a woman whose intelligence and ambition have earned her a coveted position as a...

Deirdre Lincoln is a middle-aged nursery owner who has escaped the confines of her New England upbringing to make a new life for herself with her husband, Jeremy, in the Pacific Northwest. Her peaceful world is interrupted by an unexpected phone call...

This is a true story about my cat Tosha, who was convinced that he was God, while making his own rules at his Master's house.  He sought to conquer everyone in the house.  But once he visited a prestige resort town on the Black Sea...

On the surface, Melanie Kingstad-Keyes’s life is the picture of success. She’s a tenure track professor at a prestigious university and has a perfect husband. But a recent miscarriage has left her reeling and her marriage tenuous. Selling her...

Amy Impellizzeri's paraquel to her award-winning debut novel, LEMONGRASS HOPE.I KNOW HOW THIS ENDS commences at a graduation ceremony in Spring 2020 for a very special class all born to mothers who were in and around the twin towers on 9/11,...

Maxine returns to her childhood home on the charming island of Magnolia Key. She's hiding a secret and seeking refuge. Maxine reunites with her childhood friend Beverly, the owner of the beloved Coastal Coffee shop.As Maxine navigates the complexities of...

What if your best friend returns to town and helps you snag a date with the guy you've had a crush on since you were sixteen? That would be fabulous. Or would it?Tara helps her brother run their family's restaurant in Moonbeam. Not that their parents...

She thought the cute country bungalow would provide a perfect sanctuary for healing, but someone is turning her dream into a nightmare.On the first day in her new home, Trinity finds out her husband lied to her about the former occupants. Determined not...

The Masks on Grandmother's Wall is about the power of storytelling and how it connects, inspires, teaches, and heals us. It is about the elusive nature of truth and the illusion of safety. In the end, it is about the search for identity, and finding a...

he works by R.B. Cunninghame Graham in this volume were published between 1895 and 1899. Notes on the District of Menteith (1895), while not a collection of stories, is included because it was Graham's first book, a brief survey of the district of...

HOW many words does it take to end a life?On a rainswept hallowe'en night two decades ago, it was only five: "She's there with him now." These few syllables sealed the fate of Amy Langford, in one cruel moment turning a student navigating love and life...

"Love always comes after marriage, like monsoon follows the hot summers," replied the astrologer.When brothers Taj and Sandip leave London to travel together across India, they meet holy men, yogis and the inventively scammed as well as those who bear...

"Love always comes after marriage, like monsoon follows the hot summers," replied the astrologer.When brothers Taj and Sandip leave London to travel together across India, they meet holy men, yogis and the inventively scammed as well as those who bear...

This chronicle covers just over a year in the 1960's. It alternates between the perception of Tabitha, in her early twenties, and her mother. Starting with the same spring weekend when Tabitha is at home in Sussex while Victoria Langton visits the...

Claire doesn’t care about how she looks at school, what she said at the Valentine’s Day dance, or whether the radio is tuned to Madonna or Cyndi Lauper. But she always knows exactly what time it is, what she had for lunch last Wednesday, and...

Beneath Her Lies is a beautifully twisted thriller that weaves together the dark past of a 32-year-old recovered drug addict, Ruby, with the delicate new life that she is trying to obtain.It has been said that you can't go home again. You can't go...

Scarlet's Inescapable GraveIn this fictional piece by Cash Onadele (Aiyeko-ooto), set in Lagos, Nigeria, and Savannah, Georgia, we find a hardly comedic but spicy take on the careful reach from the grave of a likeable, but repeatedly cheated, man and...

The Tiny Gift Shop is a non-fiction novel drawn from its author's childhood memories. All names have been changed. It is the story of how one family survived domestic violence and the challenges they had in coping with its aftermath. It is a story of...

In a smoke-filled room in a seedy motel, Heidi Lonsberry cried out to Jesus to rescue her. The 31-year-old single mother on welfare, estranged from her mother and abandoned by her father, had a hard life. Addicted to the cocaine that was available down...

Bishop Julian Houston of the New Liberty Baptist Church and First Lady Jewel dated during their teenage years and married after graduation. Together they had five children. Years later they realize they are no longer attracted to each other and have no...

Divorce was never in the plans for Genevieve Stewart. Only four years into marriage, and everything has gone wrong. Why stay where she's never going to be happy? If only she could find her way back to the way things were before Scott's job took all his...

Drei Hochzeiten und ein Foodtruck ... Es ist Hochzeitssaison in Summer Beach, und ihr seid eingeladen! Ein neuer Roman in der USA Today-Bestsellerserie. Der Sommer ist so geschäftig wie immer im Coral Cottage. Marinas Schwester Kai hat ihre Hochzeit...

Tre matrimoni e un food truck... È la stagione dei matrimoni a Summer Beach, e siete tutti invitati!Da una serie bestseller di USA Today. Al Coral Cottage d'estate si è tutti piuttosto indaffarati, come sempre del resto. Kai, la sorella di Marina,...

In the second part which is the sequel to The Forgotten Child Trevor and Norman Kingsley go up to the attic to retrieve an old photo album and come a portrait of a woman who bears a striking resemblance Trevor they then go on a surprise trip to Key West...

Sixty years after a tragic accident on the Mississippi River, Doctor James Earl Pierre Thibodeaux, nearing retirement, decided now to find and conclude the written story of his Grandparents Rebecca and Nathan Thibodeaux. He was estranged from family by...

A frazzled suburban mom's life is upended when she is pushed too far by the ruthlessness of modern motherhood and goes on a do-or-die road trip to Las Vegas with her therapist.

For suburban mom Veronica, the real trouble with growing into who she should become isn't that it's hard on her; it's that her husband can't handle it. But once you've woken up, can you go back to sleep?

The Runaway Robot: A DJ Benson Adventure features DJ, a twelve-year-old boy who lives on a farm in the Australian countryside. DJ is curious about the world around him and all things scientific. His best friend is Becky Martin, whose father owns the...

As a child, Billie Lualan grew up in the home of her aunt, where she had been dumped by her father when she was no more than a toddler. Unwanted and unloved, she developed an attachment disorder, which followed her all her life. She eventually married a...

Artist Dian Brennan has just escaped an abusive, grim marriage. Just as Shanghai, Abu Dhabi, and Prague are all reinventing themselves after times of great turmoil, Dian's life shifts dramatically as she emerges from darkness and enters into a happy...

100 years after a Nuclear Holocaust, Henry and Melva Call and three generations of descendants adapt new methods and few materials to survive. Faced with a hostile environment, burning sun, no metals and rote-memory educations, most people are content...

A love story woven into the events of WW11. The Great Depression had sucked the life blood from rural Alabama far Yellowhammerming communities. The frugal Crowder family was struggling to feed five children. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, men...

Finding Bobby Ray is the story of a youngster who is abandoned by his mother, who is en route to assist his father in escaping from a notorious prison. He is discovered on the steps of a church by a miner, Dwane Benny Baird, who takes him home to his...

Another day, another death, might not be unusual in FBI Agent Ellie Conway's world but a baffling series of naked, bloodless, blondes in pristine showers makes her wonder if she is dealing with a genuine vampire. Investigating the deaths of these women,...

Amy James is a good wife and a good gardener. Married to renowned architect Graham James and employed as a part-time garden columnist, Amy has almost enough to keep her happy. Engaged in researching a new book-a collection of essays about women who...

Family, Health, Fitness & Nutrition expert Donna Schuller offers advice for improving health and wellness including the benefits the and paybacks of being honest with others; how wellness thoughts contribute to your being healthy; the significance of...

Lazare Mir, a young Parisian journalist, wanders through the night in the suburbs, tired of his life and looking for meaning. To rest and change his mind, he decides to spend a few days' holiday in the south, in Collioure, where he had gone with his...