Family Life category: 14138 books

Will Pam’s secret tear her family apart? After the market crash of 1929, the Bowmaker family in Leigh-on-Sea are struggling to make ends meet. In these harsh times they must support each other or they risk their tight-knit family falling apart. But Pamela Bowmaker has a secret. Her...

Fifteen-year old Valeria Allegro works diligently on the family farm in Italy, where she is torn between her duty to her family and her desire to find freedom from her strict, domineering father. She finds solace in Dario, a young student who provides a blissful escape—until a neighbour’s son,...

**A family farm in rural Australia is the backdrop for “**a rich, beautifully textured novel, unforgettable in its setting and the people who live there” (Los Angeles Review of Books). When he learns of his mother’s ailing health, young lawyer Daniel Rawson must leave Los Angeles and...

“When it’s time for me to go, I just want to know that my life made a difference, Lord…” –Emma Estes’s journal, January 1 During her long and rich life, Emma Estes had a powerful impact on the lives of countless people–from the neighborhood’s latchkey kids to the community of...

Willie is a young boy, that grew in a poor environment in Chicago. He has a tough life, but he has good intentions. As the world revolves, dark times and light. He came from poor family, but his intentions for education was rich. He says "My best friend is my book." He never spent time playing...

A former literary notable, Cynthia Wilkes is looking down the barrel of an empty nest, an empty desk, and an endless supply of empty pages when an unlikely protégé comes calling, setting in motion a chain of events that will force Cynthia, and those closest to her, to redefine the idea of family...

In this poignant spiritual novel that echoes the emotional resonance of The Glass Castle and Running with Scissors, an unexpected reunion at a remote lakeside camp in the Maine woods offers the possibility of reconciliation and healing for a man and his fractured family. For years, Paul Strand...

The Oregon Coast Series celebrates mature women finding a reason to live and love in later life and the heroes worthy of them, set on the beautiful Oregon Coast. Heartwarming stories of second chances,  THE SAND DOLLAR What if you discover everything you believed to be true about yourself...

Family trees and family secrets embroil amateur sleuth Suzie Fewings in a murder mystery: “A good choice for genealogists and cozy lovers” (Booklist Online). Genealogy-enthusiast Suzie Fewings and her family are on an ancestral-history trip to Saddlers Wood Farm when they hear a gunshot...

Set in a blue-collar community in the suburbs of Baltimore, this novel reflects the aftereffects of World War II, the transformation of the United States after a wartime economy, and the solid values of hardworking Americans from all walks of life. It demonstrates the struggles of young people preparing...

Funny, feisty and all-too-true, A Not Quite Perfect Family by Claire Sandy is for anyone who loves their family so much they’d just like a weekend away from them. Fern Carlile has a lot on her plate. It’s a good thing she loves her big, imperfectly perfect family, because she’s the one...

Fifteen year old Renita Lewis is a product of her surroundings and a victim of her own circumstances. Raised by a single mother whose unstable and volatile relationships with a steady string of live-in boyfriends, Renita quickly learns that lust is fleeting, and love has no place in her life. Simultaneously...

Fourteen year old Katrina Brush dreams of going on a family Christmas vacation with her mom and dad to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Every year they plan the trip and every year it gets canceled because they can't afford it. This year looks to be different. Katrina knows that magic is in the air...

In this deliciously scandalous and compulsively page-turning saga, Julia Hamilton once again paints a captivating portrait of an aristocratic Scottish family on the rocks as it faces its own history. The Macarthur clan, the ruling family of New Town in Edinburgh, is successful at everything...