Family Life category: 14138 books

Ada escaped her family’s self-enclosed world to elope with a mysterious stranger. Five months later, she’s a widow in a strange new world. Ada was born into a fringe religious sect named for her father, The Prophet. But her lifelong habit of absolute obedience was shattered when she fled...

**Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Fiction "All the feels of a This Is Us episode." --Booklist** When Murray Blaire invites his three grown children to his New Hampshire farm for a few days, he makes it clear he expects them to keep things pleasant. The rest of his agenda--using...

He’s a world-famous photographer… Setting his sights on a single mom! Former fashion photographer Logan Kensington’s turning his lens on his new career as part owner of an expanding talent agency. First order of business: persuading Jessica Parrish to relocate her family-owned...

“What good can the past do the living? What harm?” Growing up in their family’s ancestral home in Wales, Jonathan Anthony and his little sister, Theo, are inseparable. Together they explore the wild acres of Evendon, inventing magical worlds and buttressing each other against the loneliness...

How far would you go for a child who isn't yours? Why do readers LOVE Virginia Macgregor? 'I defy you not to fall in love' Clare Mackintosh 'Will delight you but break your heart several times over' Sun 'I couldn't put this insightful, compelling novel down' Woman & Home 'Might restore...

It is Felicity's wedding day - supposedly the happiest day of her life. She is surrounded by family, friends and the finest trappings Dublin and her doting father, Clarence can offer. Waiting at the church are her sisters, Stella, mother of the bride and the charming, successful, perfect bridegroom,...

From the author of LEGALLY BLONDE comes a hilarious romance about finding family—and yourself—in the strangest of places. Firmly planted on the Wall Street fast track to success, Becca Reinhart has no desire to marry and raise a family. Ditto Edward Kirkland, a charming playboy who has never known...

A World Elsewhere is an extraordinary evocation of Indian social life in the 1960s and 1970s. Set in the state of Orissa, the novel depicts the life of the Guru family, especially their daughter, Asha. Intelligent, curious and sensitive, Ashas happy childhood turns into a lonely and troubled adolescence...

From the moment of conception Vanessa Parkers life was already set in stride. Not for professional objectives, but for spiritual awareness. Molded by her mother Vanessa is raised to be a good little church girl and a loyal daughter, but one dreadful evening changed her life forever. Abandoned by the...

"A gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen King's Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life." —Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the...

In this quiet but engaging debut novel, an American teenager spends the summer with her relatives in southern India and gains new insight into her past, her family and her heritage. Born in Kerala, Maya spent the first four years of her life there, cared for mainly by her grandmother, Ammamma, until...

From the Israeli author of Love Life: “a highly polished and . . . beautifully written story that carries great weights of meaning” (Kirkus Reviews). Zeruya Shalev achieved international literary stardom with her novel Love Life, which The Washington Post Book World called “a brutally...

The witty, dramatic, and fiercely tender story of a Southern family whose prodigious charms are matched only by their propensity for tragedy “Miss Cade passing*.*” The letter arrives with little fanfare and fewer details, yet the meaning is clear: The Cade family of Covington, Louisiana,...

Money can bury a lot of secrets. Until it can't . . . After uncovering shocking family secrets, Kat James discovers her life has been a lie. Even worse, her own family is responsible for the heinous deception. Tucker Williams knows all about the damage caused by family secrets....