Family life fiction Books

We always can count on the bad things, to happen, but we never count on the good things. This is just a reminder to express gratitude for the good things that are in our life.

Birdie's world is forever changed when she discovers the lifeless body of a fisherman on a Scottish beach. This tragic event brings back haunting memories of her older brother's mysterious disappearance from her family when she was just eleven years old...

Alyssa Megson had a rough start to her life, but now, things seem to be going well. Her bestfriend, Heidy, lives in her apartment building and is a great confidant, and she couldn't be more in love with her husband, Evan, with whom she is trying to start...

Will Alexander is on a journey of the heart and soul, searching for something elusive, something missing from his life-something obscured by the chaotic circumstances of his life and the mists of uncertainty. Blind to obvious truths, he is unable to see...

In the poignant tale of Madiya and Dalim's offspring, we witness the profound impact of a loveless childhood on the fragile fabric of adult life. The narrative spotlights the children, now bearing the scars of emotional neglect, navigating a world where...

Tales, Tails and more Tales is a witty collection of short story gems. The author delivers funny "slice of life" stories with occasional dark humor that range from introspective to irreverent. A fun read.

Millie Bryson discovers Shawnee Indians in her family's past. It's 1925 and memories of the Indian Wars, and what happened to some of the early settlers, are still fresh in some of their minds. The kids in her eighth grade class at school tease her and...

Lilpah Owen and Jac Owen are siblings torn apart, one taken, one broken and they are separated for thirty years. Will they find a way home, or is that a journey too far? In 1839, the fallout of the miner's deadly Newport Rising in Wales savages a...

When her friend asks, Why did we never have children?, Nell struggles to answer.She has a career, she married late...there are any number of reasons but fate seems set on making her face up to the realities of her past. A casual observer would say that...

Sarah Erskine was the third generation of the McGowan tea planter family in India. Her life underwent a major upheaval when she was wrenched from the life she had known and, like so many 'expats' at that time, at age seventeen, she was sent 'home' to...

Her husband is killed by the Taliban, now Rukhsaar is a widow with a ten-year-old child, Masih, in a land where the colour drains from faces when they hear, "It's a girl."Reminiscing about her past, Rukhsaar and her son wander the bazaars of Kabul,...

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...

In a matter of minutes, I gained two kids, a house, a dog . . . and a hot doctor-farmer guy for a neighbor.I never anticipated being a single mom, but I did expect to get pregnant first. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined taking custody of...

The Worrys are a family of weasels. They live under a truck muffler dumped in a ditch on 13th Street. They steal chickens and cats if they can get them. They'll steal more than that given a chance. That makes them sound terrible, but they live in a...

Crystal Nguyen, a young investigative reporter, wants to make her mark in the world of television. Sidelined at first from reporting on her passion for environmental issues, Crystal finds an unusual way to get her news director's attention-and the...

WWII, two boys, a fateful rivalry."... thoroughly enjoyed the book. The research is meticulously done with convincing historical detail..." Historical Novel Society.1937 Tensions are brewing in England as World War II threatens. In South...

A new novella from the mind of author Garrett Francis.The murder of seven-month-old Cameron Harris has rocked the town of Ludington, Michigan. Beyond dominating the media cycle for months, the murder continues to burrow its way into nearly every...

These eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, with highly developed thieves, misadventurers, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor themselves in a new home or sometimes a new reality. This...

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...

Das Buch ""Das Spielmannskind Der Stumme Ratsherr: Novellen (1900)"" von Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl enth�����lt eine Sammlung von Erz�����hlungen. Die erste Erz�����hlung handelt von einem Spielmannskind, das aufgrund seiner musikalischen Begabung eine...

Das Buch ""Das Schloss am Rhein, Teil 3: Oder Die Verschiedenen Standpunkte (1851)"" von Johannes Carsten Hauch ist ein Roman, der im 19. Jahrhundert spielt. Es ist der dritte Teil einer Trilogie und setzt die Geschichte der Familie von Hohenstein fort,...