Family life fiction Books

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 letters take John to a place his mother...

A recipe book is an odd thing to give to someone who doesn’t cook, so when Kat Bower is bequeathed a book of secret family recipes by her recently deceased mother, Ella, she is puzzled. Along with the recipes, lovingly handed down from generation...

Naked. Confused. Selkie Moon can’t remember.When Selkie Moon finds herself naked on a Hawaiian beach, she has no memory of the past two weeks. Recovering at a friend’s house, she wakes to find a bizarre collection of items scattered across...

Eddie is a hot-headed young man struggling with the monotonous and meaningless drudgery of work in the corporate world. So, finally, he decides to do something about it – Eddie quits his job and moves to Rio de Janeiro. The wonders of this...

My parents never prepared me for life without them. I haven't been taught all the things I need to know to survive alone.When Sara Johnson's parents are killed in a car accident her oppressive world is suddenly shattered wide open. She's now faced with...

Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday.

When 34-year-old Chloe Morgan appears on Hank Oliver's doorstep in Cameron, Arizona, she arrives with more than her old white German shepherd, Hannah, and a rambunctious horse in tow. Chloe is pregnant with Hank's child, and she's as tough-talking and...

"Beautiful....Compelling entertainment."--New York Times"A heart-rending epic...truly marvelous."--Chicago TribuneOne of the most beloved novels of all time, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark...

***NYC Big Book Award 2024 Distinguished Favorite for Women's Fiction***Whoever said you can't go home again didn't know Sadie Jane Klein.When mechanically-minded Sadie Klein, Ph.D., finds herself poufy dress-deep in a well-meaning scheme gone awry, she...

From the author of Outside the Limelight-named a Kirkus Best Book of 2017-comes a story about parenting, the performing arts, surviving high school and fighting back, in this gripping finale to the Ballet Theatre Chronicles.Katrina Devries,...

Lost Wings : A Mother's Quest

This book is regarding the upcoming of four generations of a family. It states the history the family from year 1900 to 1980. It fingers out the changes in social, political and hence family relations. Even though the writer states about his family, its...

Thirty-year-old Molly Miraldo is trapped in a shroud of amnesia caused by a traumatic accident at the age of four. Raised by her narcissistic grandfather and philandering father, she relies on their words as they insist her mother and twin perished under...

How does love change one's life? When love blossoms, the love is lost due to the play of fate. Will that love happen again? Read the story and find out.

Hardened Hearts is a mind-blowing psychological drama that explores how unhealed childhood wounds spill over into the future with dire consequences. Parrish is moving up in the world: she received the Employee of the Year award at the domestic violence...

WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO SAVE FROM A MADMAN'S BULLET? THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE OR YOUR CHILD?When an unmarried man, a writer, and a married woman, a decorated cop, who are conducting an affair accidentally run into a man in the supermarket with their...

தன் காதலி இறந்துவிட்டதால் அவளது பிரிவை தாங்க முடியாது, திரும்ணமே வேண்டாம் என்றிருக்கும் நாயகன்... சில சூழ்நிலையால் திருமணத்தை தவிர்க்கும் நாயகி. இவ்விருவரும் கடைசி வரை நண்பர்களாக இருக்கலாம் என்று தங்களுக்குள் டீல் போட்டு கொண்டு திருமணம் செய்து...

Ex musician, assembly line worker and alcoholic, John Coleman Sr. is a man with deferred and shattered dreams. Living in a Chicago housing project during the 60's he is a father raising his eight-member family; four girls, two musical prodigy boys and a...

第一冊、第二冊簡介：《湖天一覽樓》以一個家族的回憶為藍本，蘇北古城高郵為背景中心，縱觀數代人的悲歡離合、命運浮沈，印證了時代洪流不可抗拒的巨大威力。同時也橫向展現了不同歷史時期具象化的社會風貌。 崔陽春，本在廣州行醫，陰差陽錯成為太平軍戰將。天京突圍後，為護忠王之女，隱身高郵湖畔。 吳玉棠，清朝舉人，在京任微職，恰遇「庚子國變」，因禍得福，獲太后封賞，衣錦還鄉。 崔瑞亭，進士及第入仕。因受革命黨案的牽連入獄丟官，繼而雙目失明，家境轉貧。 ...

Mothers die with impeccably bad timing. Sons and daughters plant them in the ground and go on with their lives. But not so with Colton's mother. She wouldn't have it that way. It couldn't have come at a worse time for Colton — his...

As a young farm girl, Bonnie, lives through tragedy when her younger brother dies in a fire. Just as Jonah from the Bible did, she learns how to continue her faith in God with the help of her family.This journey through heartbreak and hope in small town...

Petro wants to wrestle, but her parents prevent her as female wrestling and boxing is against the law and their conservative values.When an exchange student from Germany joins their family, Petro is exited to learn she also enjoys wrestling.. They...

When she needed a hand, she found a paw. Tessa's dream of becoming a veterinary tech crashes after her fiercely supportive fiancée dies in a tragic accident. Mourning her loss and desperate to move forward, Tessa must prove she can handle the...

«... Le parc est très étendu. Il y a un siècle, les domaines des comtes de Lendau occupaient une grande partie de la contrée ; mais, peu à peu, tout s’est fondu, absorbé par les prodigalités...

Ce recueil contient trois nouvelles d’importance majeure dans l’œuvre de Bernanos : «Madame Dargent » (1922), «Une nuit» (1928) et «Dialogue d’ombres» (1928). Ces dernières montent un...

Mouchette, c’est l’enfance meurtrie, c’est la pauvreté marginalisée, la différence rejetée. Elle est, forcément, la traînée que tout un village de bien-pensance s’autorise à...

« La Tour de Percemont » est le dernier roman achevé de George Sand. Son histoire est datée de 1873 et située en Auvergne. Il consacre le républicanisme modéré après la Commune de Paris...

Lorsque le poète Le Guernez, décide d’envoyer la jeune orpheline Gaïta en pension, cette dernière connaît des heures d’amère révolte. Pourtant elle s’attache peu à peu à ce...

«... Nathalie sentit son cœur battre plus vite. Elle éprouvait une sorte de déception contre laquelle elle réagit, car elle se rendait compte qu’un tel sentiment était vraiment ridicule. Steve ne lui...

«... Mon père était toujours resté sur l’impression fâcheuse produite par notre double naissance. Tandis qu’il montrait une excessive indulgence pour notre frère, Alexine et moi ne trouvions chez lui...

«... Quand la musique vient de loin, les souvenirs qu’elle éveille sont ceux de l’enfance, de soirées ou nous n’avions pas la permission de sortir cependant que sur la place retentissait la fanfare d’un cirque....

Ce roman raconte la quête insatiable d’un garçon, Jean-Noël, qui veut trouver l’affection et la reconnaissance d’une mère. La sienne étant défaillante, il reporte naturellement ses attentes sur sa...

Der erste Kontakt zwischen der neuen Mitschülerin Gloria Braun, die mit ihrem Vater aus München in den kleinen, bayerischen Ort in der Nähe von Garmisch gezogen ist, und dem dort aufgewachsenen Henry Gordon, dessen Mutter den örtlichen Laden ihr Eigen...

In Teil 1 des Buches mit dem Titel Mein neuer Daddy from Germany erzählt eine junge Filipina von ihrem Leben auf den Philippinen und von ihrer Ausreise nach Deutschland.Im vorliegenden 2. Teil schildert sie ihren Aufenthalt in Deutschland. Sie beschreibt...

Sieben Frauen, sieben Leben, wie sie nicht unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Doch eines haben sie gemeinsam. Wie aus dem Nichts bekommen alle Frauen die Diagnose Gebärmutterhalskrebs. Für jede ist es ein Schock, wirft aus der Bahn. Das gewohnte Leben...

Als man die alte Dame im Heim vermisste, konnte sich keiner der Bewohner erinnern, wann er sie zuletzt gesehen hatte...

Viele in der älteren Generation Deutschlands kämpfen nach Jahren harter Arbeit um ein würdiges Dasein in der Gesellschaft und in der Familie. Oft sind sie zur Last geworden und werden sogar abgeschoben in ein Heim oder eine Residenz im Ausland. Eine...

DDR in den Achtziger Jahren:Volker Herold ist verheiratet, ein junger Vater von zwei Kindern, arbeitet als Technologe in einem Baubetrieb, ließ sich als informeller Mitarbeiter von der Stasi anwerben und träumt davon, Schriftsteller werden zu können...

"Little Lord Fauntleroy," penned by the prolific and enchanting wordsmith Frances Hodgson Burnett, stands as a timeless classic that weaves a tale of innocence, resilience, and the transformative power of love. Published in 1885, this literary gem...

Avant, Jean jouait les gros durs, les chefs de bande, un peu gouape, un peu marlou, prisonnier de ses choix antérieurs. Et puis, le môme est arrivé, perdu, sauvage, à vif. Ils se sont apprivoisés et chacun a aidé l'autre à grandir, à se libérer, à...

From the creator of the award-winning Ruby, Between the Cracks comes a lovingly crafted story about just that; being pursued by the past. In this...

Por el Amor de Jake es una historia acerca de cmo todos los nios y nias merecen una familia propia que los ame. Jake ama a su familia pero sabe que es diferente de otras. Ven a conocer Jake y sus padres a travs de la historia familiar contada por Jake.

This book has two novels, each about a "royal" dog, a King and a Prince. These two novels are for people lovers, dog lovers, and lovers of cozy mysteries. King was big and protective of his new owner, Skippy, a dog trainer at the Riverview Animal Shelter...

The prevalence of Uterine Fibroid among black African women of childbearing age has dimmed their hope of conception and destroyed many marriages, homes, and lives. Many of these women did not realize the presence of this deadly scourge in their uterus...