Family life fiction Books

The Methods Of Lady Walderhurst is a novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The story revolves around a young woman named Emily Fox-Seton, who is struggling to make ends meet while living in Victorian England. Emily is a kind-hearted and hardworking...

The Cassique of Accabee is a historical novel written by William Gilmore Simms. The story takes place in the early 18th century, in the Ashley River region of South Carolina. The main character, the Cassique of Accabee, is a Native American leader who is...

""Strayed Revellers"" is a thought-provoking novel that explores the themes of truth and war in a modernistic style. The story centers around the lives of several characters who are struggling to find their place in a world that is rapidly changing due...

In this poignant spiritual novel that echoes the emotional resonance of The Glass Castle and Running with Scissors, an unexpected reunion at a remote lakeside camp in the Maine woods offers the possibility of reconciliation and healing for a man and his...

When rich and more than adequately eccentric Aunt Muffin moves into the home of her nephew during the COVID-19 pandemic, the laughs and disruptions are viral. Underneath the humor, fear of the virus and human greed conspire to make the Button home in...

Joselyn was building her career in Los Angeles recording commercials, producing nationally syndicated radio shows and meeting music producers when the 2008 economic downturn hit. After transitioning from Hollywood to homelessness for too long, she...

"Night Navigation" opens on a freezing-rain night in upstate New York: the kindling gone, the fire in the woodstove out. Del s thirty-seven-year-old manic-depressive son needs a ride, but she s afraid to make the long drive north to the only...

Will Keith keep the passion he had at the start of his filmmaking---and will there be enough passion left over for his hurting daughter? Or has their quest to change American culture become nothing more than a quest for fame?

"Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see--to the dead alive and busy, to the...

"Frank...writes with genuine adoration for and authority on the South Carolina Lowcountry from which she sprang....[Her] stuff is never escapist fluff--it's the real deal."--Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionReturn to Tall Pines in the long-awaited sequel to...

"Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see--to the dead alive and busy, to the...