Family Life category: 14138 books

In his own voice, Ivan, a mixed-breed dog-philosopher with an extreme underbite and various other deformities, chronicles his life story with keen observations about his adopted family and the people he loves, covering the life events that touch us all. Throughout his life Ivan keeps plugging forward...

Ash Hollow has always had a big mouth, poor impulse control, and a knack for finding trouble. Now, as he treks through the jungles outside Chiang Mai, Thailand in an effort to outrun his destructive nature, Ash realizes that real life has no appeal. With nothing back home but two brothers in college,...

Winner of the Library of Virginia's Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award for Fiction! "A brilliantly moving and unforgettable novel." - Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life Janet Peery’s first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996....

Malicious Intent is the fourth and concluding novel in the Bonnard Family series…. As Anna and Jim settle happily into their new life together, mysterious events in Jim’s life spill over to hurt Anna and create havoc in their lives. Someone is orchestrating the destruction of Jim’s career and...

The early sixties was a time of making love, not war. Kathleen finds love and starts a war with her family. **Four Sisters **is a story rich in the relationships of Kathleen Williams' life. Kathleen discovers her sexuality in the sixties. She's different from other girls her age and afraid...

Its hard to know when a revolution has actually begun. React too soon and you could end up losing your job, your family, even your life. But go on like nothing has happened and you might lose the initiative, end up on the wrong side of history…This is a novel about an ordinary family, a family living...

**"Zeruya Shalev is one of my favorite contemporary writers, her work always spiky and original, and Pain is a searing book, a wild and ravenous story of family entanglement and impossible yearning." --Lauren Groff, author of Florida and Fates and Furies A powerful, astute novel that exposes...

Japan 1945 As a conscripted surgeon travels to Manila days before the American invasion, he is engulfed by memories of the family and life he left back home as he attempts to make sense of a changing world. Through shipwrecks and surgery, his only recourse is to tell his stories to anyone who will listen...

Gully Fisher’s twin sons will soon be 45, and are the push and pull of their clan. Michael is almost too good; immune to consternation, he is the family rock, while Fish is the family maverick, acting out what the others cannot bring themselves to do. Michael’s wife, Ursula, spends her days rearranging...

Moving on from the past was never supposed to be easy Odelle Pearl Simms, Dellie for short, is a writer. A good one in fact. Then out of the blue her own life hits a nasty plot turn she never saw coming. With her recent marriage in ruins, Dellie finds herself alone, with no idea how to move on. So...

A NetGalley Top 10 Book of the Month and a Book Magnet Blog Top 20 Book of 2016 Do we live the lives we want to or the ones that just happen to us? Kate’s life is falling apart. Her husband has vanished without a trace - just like her mother did. Laura’s going to do something...

The Secret of Singing Springs is a story inside a story that is inside still another story. The book opens with the discovery of an old axe, leading geologist Morgan Russell and his three children on a treasure hunt and transporting them back into local outlaw history starring Jesse James. But the...

*As a beautiful Mulatto woman, Love, battles with the grand idea of God being able to restore her family after her doctors have given her a tentative expiration date, the story of her troubled life unfolds in this classic narrative… * *Born in an era when the ugly face of racism plagued...

Lenny Chang, the young protagonist of this autobiographical novel, is transplanted from New York City to a suburb on Long Island, and navigates his fractured family in this new, hostile environment. His alcoholic father, a Navy veteran struggling with his unhappy life, dominates and terrorizes his...