Family Life category: 14138 books

From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart comes a story of family, romance, and finding a place to call home. Brad Friessen knows he has to sell the ranch, but not everyone is on board with his decision or open to a new beginning. He has a plan: Find a nice place...

Teddy Pappas is an eleven-year-old boy forced into maturity before his time. He lives with his younger brother and their eccentric Civil War historian father, a man more comfortable with discussing Confederate footwear than what kind of day his sons had. Their lives have been quiet for a year since...

Life's Moments is a series of small novelettes depicting turning points in the characters' lives, which open their eyes to alternatives to the course they're walking. From a wife suffering from an empty nest to middle school love, sometimes life isn't what we see in front of us. Green is the Grass...

Kent Bryant, a charming, handsome, well-mannered law student had a promising future. From the first time they met, Alexis wondered why someone like Kent would condescend to talk to her. When he proposed, Alexis felt compelled to accept, thinking it would be her only chance to have a family of her...

Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, whose bestselling fiction "tackles some of life’s toughest situations" (The Florida Times-Union), unravels the secrets in a mother’s past that turn her daughter’s life upside down—by revealing the family she never knew existed. Her...

An elegant and spare novel, widely appealing with commercial potential, The Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do features characters of the American West, isolated by land and by their actions, building a life they never expected to have This beloved writer has won a PNBA five times over his...

Life can be full of surprises… Helen Decatur spent a lifetime setting goals—getting through college and law school, opening her own practice, becoming financially secure and establishing herself as one of the most highly respected matrimonial attorneys in the state of South Carolina. Achieving...

Aidan Quinn is having a good day, possibly the best day of his life, at least since moving to Dublin. He just received word that his degree committee approved his PhD and he's on his way home, with lamb chops, chard, and a bottle of wine. Time to celebrate in the little cottage he shares with his...

In this novel, Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Maryland, revealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacable logic of the darkest human emotions. A family matriarch—half Medea, half Clytemnestra—calls home her three children, who take turns narrating the...

**A stirring debut rife with intoxicating family secrets and dazzling insights into our most basic desires, Perfectly Undone offers an intimate, uncensored exploration of forgiveness and fidelity, in all its forms, as a young doctor struggles with her sister's death—and the role she played in it—while...

Heirloom recipes, family secrets…and a chance for love The youngest heir to a French-Italian restaurant dynasty, food writer Juliette D’Alisa has spent her life negotiating her skill with words and her restaurant aspirations. When her brother Nico offers her a chance to open a restaurant...

What happens when a brilliant and beautiful scientist falls in love with one of the Army’s most elite soldiers? They build a life of adventure and excitement that is never tempered by mundane family matters. The Moores and those they call family are each special in their own way, but for this fairytale...

Set in British Columbia, Canada, 'A Matter of Issue' is a masterfully-woven contemporary novel which weaves a compelling tale of birthrights, inheritances and elder abuse. When Charles Wentworth, recently widowed, has a second chance at love, his son, Kirk, sees trouble on the horizon. Kirk has planned...

For the wealthy residents of Westcliffe the 1930s depression is just a blip on their cosy horizon. For those unaffected and uncaring life is nothing but a continuous round of pleasure. The most dominant families are the Westerners and the Mayfields. And some members of the Mayfield line are more than...