Family Life category: 14138 books

Trouble is brewing in Ystrad. It is time to defend jobs, the pits, and a way of life that has formed both the life of valley and the nation. The union is squaring up to the Coal Board, the government, and the country. Gwyn Pritchard, overman at Blackthorn colliery, believes that the way to save his...

A wonderfully tough-minded novel from a master dramatist of the poignant, interwoven crises of modern life Split Estate opens with devastating scenes of a family at a horrific juncture: the wife of Arthur King and mother of his two teenage children, Celia and Cam, has recently committed suicide,...

Now, all three novels of THE ITALIAN CHRONICLES Trilogy in one book! Follow the page-turning saga of Maria Landro as she faces losing her fortune, her family, and her faith. Book 1: THE MADONNA OF PISANO A young woman, a priest, and a secret that keeps them bitterly bound to each other…. A...

Follow the life of Michael Nastasis and his family. Michael faces challenges not only in his marriage but also with a son suffering from an incurable disease and a daughter who is rebelling against the family. In the midst of his problems, Michael meets a family that brings back a legacy of his former...

Fragile, the third book in the Battling Demons series, is as much about facing the uncertainties of the future as it is about dealing with the demons of the past. A horrific accident has thrown Dr. Martin Ellingham’s life into turmoil and stripped him of the emotional barriers that he had...

**"It's hard to look so deeply into other people's lives that you really understand them, except perhaps through fiction, and that is what Montemarano has done here, with deftness and subtlety." —The New York Times In a country that loves second chances, are some transgressions...

***A novel by the author of the viral essay sensation "The Crane Wife"* "An innovative work of climate fiction, a nuanced and empathic family story, and, for my money, the summer's best novel thus far." --NPR.org "The most oddly enticing novel you will read this year...Keenly satirical...

Little Mysteries – a short story Little Mysteries is a fictional short story that takes place around Halloween 2002. It's about the little mysteries that take place in the lives of regular folks.To instantly download your copy, scroll up to the top of this page and click the Buy button now.Other...

A finalist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2018, No More Boats is not only a riveting story of a modern family it directly addresses issues that many nations around the world are grappling with as never before—namely, immigration, xenophobia, protectionism, racism, media manipulation, unchecked...

A deeply felt first novel of family, choices, and coming to terms with the past. On a stifling Christmas Eve in 1967 the lives of the McDonald children-Deborah, Robert, James, and Meredith-changed forever. Their mother, Rosemarie, told them she was running out to buy some lights for the tree....

Several generations of one family have lived, loved, and lied at Whimsy Towers, a unique oceanfront house in Chatham, Massachusetts. Strong women who refuse to be suffocated by marriage have found excitement and refuge in this house filled with artists and parties. Love surfaces in unexpected ways....

Gap Year describes a year in the life of a young South London couple wanting a baby and everything that happens to screw it up.----Tom and Sophie are desperately trying to start a family, but without success. Feeling under increasing pressure to perform at home and at work, Tom loses control. His actions...

Lisa was never truly comfortable in her own skin. The only thing she ever wanted was to escape her own reality and find solace in something else. Everything and everyone she’d ever known seemed foreign and suffocating and she only ever felt genuinely safe when she was running. Lisa’s family was...

A fun, contemporary romp that mixes fairy culture, and family life into comic women's fiction. Angela Anderson is excited to discover her childhood wish to become a fairy has been fulfilled—even if it is fifty years later. She vows her allegiance to the fairies, and tells her non-believing...