Family life fiction Books

It's 1967 East Los Angeles. Duffy Chavez is ten years old and from a large, mixed-race, single-parent family. Growing up is never easy, but for young Duffy Chavez, whose childhood is anything but innocent, the journey is particularly painful.Swimming...

Sometimes you have to reach the end of the road before you can start over. Kerry is perfectly happy with her life. She gets up at the same time every day to deliver post in the winding lanes and little villages around where she lives, stopping for a...

My darling girl, I watch you playing outside in the grass. Your long blonde hair sweeps back and your blue eyes are bright with joy. You are utterly perfect, I never imagined something could be so wrong and I'd be powerless to protect you...Ava's...

 One day you will understand that the heart is only as fragile as the choices we make. I tell you this now-we will make surprising decisions for love. Ones that can tear our heart out and leave us begging for answers. The most painful choice I've...

Friendship and tea ease worries, wine makes merry the heart, and love creates fools out of us all.Tess has been living in Los Angeles for the past decade with her best friend, Zara, and Zara's daughter, Zénnie. Zara - a neurosurgeon who's divorced -...

Lauren had it all together. An awesome husband, a flourishing career as a doctor, all the sleep she ever wanted, and socks that always matched. Then Lauren had a baby, and from that point forward, having it all together felt like a distant memory. The...

Still She Speaks is a tale of every woman. A journey of failure and faith, laughter and tears, heartache and joy.Travel through time as you follow the thread of Sondra's life as she pursues an elusive dream, wrestles with difficult challenges, copes...

The summer of 1954 begins a pivotal year in nine-year-old Robby Barnaby's life. On the last day of school, he breaks his arm sliding into home plate while playing for the fifth graders in an all-star game against the sixth graders. Baseball is his...

Daughters of Teutobod is a story of love triumphing over hate, of persistence in the face of domination, and of the strength of women in the face of adversity.Gudrun is the stolen wife of Teutobod, the leader of the Teutons in Gaul in 102 BCE. Her story...

April enters the military and grows physically, spiritually, and emotionally. One of her missions, she discovers a secret that involves her father and uncle.Changes between April and Hugh become evident.April chooses a new life path, but there are...

Thomas Cole and his younger brother, Andy, attempt to revive their broken relationship in the aftermath of their father's untimely death.When Cole travels back to his childhood home for the funeral Andy seizes on his older brother's return and proposes a...

 After the father's death, there was nothing left with the mother, which was the accumulated capital, due to the treatment of her father's illness, was over. Now a field was left, the mother's last hope, but it was also sold out. Mother was sewing...

Kai Ingersohn was motivated to become a psychiatrist after a childhood of dysfunction with her tempestuous and manic-depressive grandmother, Dumpling. Now divorced, in private practice, and raising two teenagers, she starts work with Stephanie, a young...

A hardworking and loving family in Poland is uprooted and separated by World War II. The mother and her four children are able to reach the United States prior to Hitler’s invasion of Poland. The father and youngest son choose to remain in Poland...

“Major” Coote has recently moved his somewhat reluctant family from their comfortable London home to a run-down Irish demesne in pursuit of his grandiose farming dreams. His neighbors, the O’Connors, are struggling with the problems of...

"If you were someday required to give an account of your life, could you?"The Apostle Paul declared that we would, and Nicole Lynstrum is convinced that he is right. Choosing a career early in life would not guarantee success or happiness. In fact, she...

With the right combination of certain factors, life can be a recipe for disaster. Just ask Charlie Epstein, perpetually itching for that next drink. But this mayhem doesn't necessarily come from abusing ingredients like rum and whiskey. For him, most...

Charlie's Moment is an intensely, emotional story of a family held hostage by their love for a son caught in the agony of drug abuse and the tragedy that follows. Stevie Thomas' eighteen-year-old son, Charlie, is missing. It isn't uncommon for him to...

Barely 17 is dedicated to the children born by chance, deserted by adults and left to sustain life on their own. This story traces the life of a young Mother, often the sole provider, through the birth of 5 children under l7 years. Through poverty and...

Following the premature death of her husband in the later winter of 1963, Grace Irwin discovers that she no longer fits in to the world she knew. Always a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, the widow is unmoored by her loneliness, fearing the slightest...

The most powerful memories of my life were the teenage years that I spent with my brother Bruce. He was my mother's favorite son, born with multiple sclerosis (MS). I used to take him swimming almost everyday, being weightless in the water made him feel...

""Demonios"" ����� um romance do autor brasileiro Aluizio Azevedo, publicado em 1893. A hist������ria se passa em uma cidade do interior do Brasil, onde uma fam������lia rica e influente ����� assombrada por esc�����ndalos e segredos obscuros. O...

Delilah of Harlem is a novel written by Richard Henry Savage in 1893. It is set in the bustling city of New York and tells the story of a young woman named Delilah, who is forced to navigate the challenges of life in the city while also dealing with...

That Which Doesn’t Kill Us is the story of a couple’s ten-year journey that took them through a series of ordeals that crippled their family and nearly destroyed their marriage. Trained as psychotherapists and practicing relationship...

Anna and Mike have a plan, to escape her abusive husband. Lee has his own plan, to stop his wife and so-called best friend for good. Who will succeed, and how has a lifelong friendship come to this?The three friends meet in early childhood, coming...

At twelve years old, Paul has withdrawn from his school, his family, and even his own body. He barely connects with reality. Then he meets Hal, a mercurial kid who harbors guilt about his brother’s arrest for a violent home invasion. Angry and...

One accident. Two devastated families.  Paul Richmond's life changed in an instant when his wife and seven-year-old daughter die in a car accident. He struggles to move forward with this huge change. As his two-year sobriety anniversary...

"Baggage Claim" offers a transformative roadmap to crafting resilient, covenant-driven marriages. Delving deep into the complex terrain of relationships, this book illuminates the path toward healthy unions by guiding couples through the crucial journey...

Like so many others, Laura and Jessica are hopeful, romantic, and looking for love. As luck would have it, both women find themselves swept away by the men of their dreams. But as their relationships evolve, patterns and behaviors emerge that reveal the...

A young woman, who has left Galicia to go and study marine biology in Mexico (Baja California), is recalled to Galicia when it is found out that her mother is very sick. Her aunt would like her to sign some papers agreeing to take over the family...

Min yngsta dotter springer längs raderna, genar över gravarna, vill vara den som hittar honom. Det är underligt att se och ta in. Hon kände inte sin farfar, ingen av dem gjorde det. Det är ingen stor begravningsplats och efter en knapp timme kan vi...

Eigentlich hatte ich ja gedacht, dass es irgendwann nicht mehr allzu viel zu erzählen gibt. Das es ruhiger, einfacher und normaler werden würde bei den Weber`s. Aber dann komme ich wieder recht schnell zu der Erkenntnis, dass ich anscheinend die letzten...

Ich könnte dich jetzt hier auf der Stelle vernaschen. Finja kicherte wie ein Teenager. Dann sollten wir uns besser schleunigst um deinen Lack kümmern, bevor du auf noch mehr solch obszöner Gedanken kommst und wir am Ende wegen Erregung öffentlichen...

Three stories. One small town. Once they collide, life will never be the same.Evan made a deathbed promise to his dad: to hold their family together and lead them well. In the face of challenges on every side, Evan neglects his studies, and to make up...

Identical twins.           Opposite personalities.For Holly and Monica, life was never easy while growing up. The similarities between the two sisters ended with their looks. Holly was the reliable...

Would you be willing to watch a stranger's senseless death, or would you be willing to kill and protect a life? Oh, and by the way, you now have mere seconds to make up your mind: 3...2...1...Times up!David Alan Taylor simply wanted to celebrate his...

Stepbrothers Tyler and Danny find themselves alone when a pandemic sickens Danny's mother. To escape the quarantine, they hope to isolate in the mountains. Personality and belief system differences initially divide the boys. When they decide to care for...

The staffers at Hope Springs Farm greet guests with smiles. But trouble brews beneath their calm demeanors. Stella faces her first crisis as an adoptive mom when a second-grade bully wreaks havoc on Jazz's life. When their beloved teacher is suspended on...

The day of their dreams was nothing short of a nightmare.On the one-year anniversary of her wedding, Colbie Moore's life looks nothing like it should.Still grieving the loss of the man she meant to spend her life with, Colbie prepares for a weekend away...

Large Print EditionIt's not paranoia if they're really after you...Blind music teacher Emily Warner regains her eyesight through a transplant. But her newfound vision catapults her onto a path that is fraught with danger. As she begins to investigate the...

It's time for Christmas in Seagrove!Are you ready to catch up with your favorite characters on the tiny lowcountry island of Seagrove, SC?When we last left off, there was a big wedding and an addition to the family. But, what happens when a new resident...

He will need courage, resilience, and a bit of magic... to survive fatherhood.Artist Matthew Sugiyama finally has a location to start his search for his birth family, but no one prepared him for the turbulence of a scowling, unhappy child. Not only is...

Both a family history and an exploration of the complications of women attempting to tell their stories, We are the Kings follows Marcella as she grieves the death of her grandmother, unearths family secrets, and refuses to settle for a predictable life...