Family Life category: 14138 books

Prayers for the Living is a novel both grand in its vision and loving in its familiarity. Presented in a series of conversations between grandmother Minnie Bloch and her companions, Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio commentator on All Things Considered, unfolds a layered family portrait of three generations...

“Wolas writes with gorgeous intensity about the strata of loving relationships that entwine families in all their messy contradictions that often stubbornly resist transparency, the truth, and resolution. Savor this.” —Library Journal, starred review The Family Tabor, the new novel from...

"A fearless, angry, brutally funny poke in the eye of the American music machine and pop culture industry. Tom Matthews' memorable, highly readable first novel is that rare literary artifact - a satire with teeth." —Tom Perrotta on Like We Care Raising the Dad is a small masterpiece...

Named a Best Book of 2015 by Chicago Book Review! Meet the Brunsons of Downers Grove, Illinois. Henry is the once-magical father, whose fear of aging and endangered career lead him to the nightclubs of Chicago's Viagra Triangle. His wife Julie struggles to reclaim her life with a bottle of...

“An intimate family portrait.” —The New York Times “Eddie Joyce’s terrific first novel is so American that the story might as well have taken place at the base of the Statue of Liberty.” —Richard Russo “An inside look at one Staten Island family’s struggle with grief...

The Farmer Family Album is a wedding of fiction and non-fiction that will bring you into the world of the Donkey Dan radio show that spanned four years of Sunday morning broadcasts. The Farmer family is a family of mixed cartoon animals who blend together science, fantasy, family, humor and a bit...

Every family has a story to tell - some more interesting than others...   Based on true events surrounding one family, The Moon’s an Illusion focuses on how life can go terribly wrong on the basis of one bad choice and one single mistake. Set in the strait-laced 1920s, the story revolves...

Corey Saunders had grown up with everything he wanted, except one thing, his mom. The revelation of the lies and deception which had destroyed his family had turned his world upside down. But they were now in the past, an unpleasant, but not forgotten memory. His mom was back in his life and she and...

What do you do when life knocks you down? You get up and dance!  Join the members of the Reese family and their friends as they learn to get back up after being knocked down. The first three books of the Dancing through Life series follows this family through the many challenges cancer places...

Flossie Smith is fighting for the right to be her own person. Her older sisters, mother, aunt, and school teachers are all pushing the twelve year old girl, to give up her tomboy ways and become a lady. Not ready to learn to bake cookies, Flossie prefers to spend her days at the side of her best friend,...

Ethan is only in grade one and already has been kicked out of one school due to his tantrums and pattern of running away when in a panic. Now, his mom's enrolled him in a new school but remains glued to her phone, waiting for the call to tell her to come pick him up, that they can't handle him, that...

From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English...

Three eloquent and powerful semi-autobiographical novels about the multi-talented Aubrey family striving to find their place in the world In The Fountain Overflows,Papa Aubrey’s wife and twin daughters, Mary and Rose, are piano prodigies, his young son, Richard Quin, is a lively boy, and...

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Ann Packer, a “tour de force family drama” (Elle) that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades. Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded...