Family Life category: 14138 books

This series of three short stories illustrates the life experiences and perspectives of a five-year-old girl through to the time she is fifteen. It challenges the relationships and bonds that she has with her immediate family when she learns not only how to adapt to living in a big city but also how...

***Wild Butterflies ***by Katherine F. Green For single parents doing the best they can, for grandparents weary from life’s demands, for all who yearn for understanding, Katherine F. Green’s debut novel Wild Butterflies is the multigenerational story of the Angell family. A family striving...

When all family involved in story-telling, bed-time stories may become life-empowering, healing and life-changing. In the fairytale a young woman in search of her dream, follows her heart and finds magical world she could only imagine . . . In real life, a young woman, the story-teller, creates the magical worlds for her family and discovers true magic within their own hearts.

Anna Bonnard, newly widowed, is staggered by phone calls revealing secrets about her husband, Mathew’s, life and death. With other family members needing support, Anna is crumbling under the weight of secrets. Mitch, Mathew’s brother, uses reckless speed and motorcycles to cope with his...

A song for Eyram is a novel about family secrets, the taboos of the past and the incredible power of love and forgiveness. From the outside, Gerald lives a charmed life. He is employed in a prestigious company, strong family ties and colleagues that adore him. But there is a dark spot in his...

Forget chick lit. In this delightful, wry portrayal of life with young children, the pitfalls and pleasures of grandparenting are explored.Accommodating those young parents who were once one’s children, and their children, while maintaining a sense of self, is a skill.These interlinked stories covering...

First love, second chances, and secrets that come back to haunt. After seven years away, twenty-four-year-old Free Spalding is back in Pointe Hill, Georgia, on a mission to save her late father’s restaurant from a real estate deal that could destroy everything he spent his life working for. When...

2018 NAACP Image Award Nominee An NPR Best Book of 2017 From acclaimed author Marita Golden comes a moving African-American family drama of love and devotion in the face of Alzheimer’s disease. You just can’t plan for this kind of thing. Diane Tate certainly hasn’t. She...

THE SISTER HAD IT ALL–UNTIL KARMA CAME TO TOWN. A successful businesswoman, Catherine Hawkins has lived an enviable life of luxury, thanks to an ambition that has made her stop at nothing–including abandoning her own twin daughters when they were born eighteen years ago. After going AWOL,...

It is 1950 and October Brown is a twenty-three-year-old first-year teacher thanking her lucky stars that she found a room in the best boardinghouse for Negro women teachers in Wyandotte County, Kansas. October falls in love with an unhappily married handyman, James Wilson, but when she becomes pregnant,...

"A captivating tale to savor about a woman whose buried past threatens her picture perfect family life. Felicia is a wonderfully flawed, compelling main character, one who has stayed with me long after I finished the book. A winning novel from a writer to watch." -Benilde Little, bestselling...

When it comes to family, love, tradition and pride are a powerful brew . . . The fourth of the Sweet Tea story collections (SWEET TEA & JESUS SHOES, MORE SWEET TEA, ON GRANDMA'S PORCH) treats readers to a panorama of Southern life, both then and now. Family dramas, comic mishaps,...

**"A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic novel about a wedged-together family, and what can go wrong when teenage children decide they have minds (and hormones) of their own." *—*Nick Hornby “A spry and accomplished comedy of manners.” —The New York...

FINALIST for the PULITZER PRIZE LONG-LISTED for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER of the LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST for the KIRKUS PRIZE LONG-LISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL TOP 10 NOVELS OF THE YEAR -- TIME, Wall Street Journal,...