Family Life category: 14138 books

After Light spans four generations of the Garrison family, over the course of the twentieth century. Irish Deirdre, forced into marriage at sixteen, never stops trying to regain her freedom, though her ruthless escape attempts threaten to destroy her family. Her son, Frank, raised in Brooklyn, is...

Xavier Knight lied and now his past was catching up to him. Sebastian Brady meant everything to him. Losing him wasn't an option Xavier was ready to accept. Ghosts from his past threaten to open up a secret that needs to stay hidden. He wasn't going to let Zach Brady or anyone else take his happiness...

The adventures of Claire Sinclair continue! After her delayed acceptance into college, Claire finds time to explore the world around her… and her spiritual world within. She falls in love with Declan, the dreamy yoga instructor, and celebrates life in Manhattan with her friends and family. Her vivid...

Ten blocks long, Gamble Street is completely integrated and diverse. Charlotte Hayess family was one of the first white families to move into the neighborhood, and Noah Piedmonts was the first African American family to arrive on Gamble Street. Now Charlotte and Noah, both twelve years old, are the...

In this rich novel of family conflict and closely guarded secrets, Mary Cable explores dreams and fears that lie hidden deep within the human heart. Alex Smithson, forty-two-years-old and living in Santa Fe, leads an under-demanding life made prickly only by her oppressive, aristocratic in-laws to...

A gripping and suspenseful novel about secrets, betrayal, and the power of the past. Clive and Martha have been a couple since they met at university; they now have a young daughter, Eliza, and on the surface, all seems well in their family. But neither Martha nor young Eliza know that the...

Frank is a reformed alcoholic. He lives at home with his mother, Elisabeth – at least, he did until she went into a nursing home suffering from dementia. He is devoted to her and conversely hates his estranged father, Geoffrey. So when elder sister Pat calls to tell him Dad is dying and wants to meet...

Lenore Porter's life had not gone as she planned. The marriage she put her heart and soul into failed. The man she sacrificed so much for abandoned her. But Lennie refused to be broken. She pushed on, running a successful business and raising her three sons alone. Through...

On a miserable January morning, Sarah is sitting on a plane to Tenerife, Spain-without her husband or her children-for a week-long vacation. At the age of thirty, she’s just realized that she’s very angry with her life, her choices, and her family-and that she’s becoming a bitter bitch. For...

Oklahoma. October, 1942. In a maternity home in Tulsa, a baby girl is born to an unwed high-school senior. The staff are already looking for a family for the child. Whom will they choose? Who will shape her life? The chosen couple are Ella & Jim Hinkle of the town of Apex. Theirs is a second marriage....

Murat, a young Turkish immigrant boy whose parents die in an automobile accident in England after their arrival, is adopted by a British family and grows to become a successful businessman as a proper British subject. But when he marries a typical English lady, he yearns to have a family. His career-minded...

He has no family. She wishes hers would leave her alone. Lawrence's mother has just died. With the little money he has left after paying her medical bills, he heads to Seattle to make a fresh start. Deborah has plenty of family support, but not for moving to the big city. Her parents...

When Owen and Jan take their three children on holiday in North Wales their life as a family is already unravelling. As relationships are made and broken a carefully pieced patchwork of events unfolds; seen from the different perspectives of parents and children, each sealed in with their own perceptions....

Living in the foothills of North Carolina, Laura Carter has it all: a nice home, wonderful adoptive parents, two lovely teenage daughters, and a to-die-for handsome husband. As they celebrate freedom on the Fourth of July, shes certain that nothing could ever shatter her perfect American life: Or could...