Family Life category: 14138 books

Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of city’s most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society. That means speaking fluent French, dancing at cotillions with boys from other important families, and...

**From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping novel of love and loss, and of the lives we never get to live ** “[D]azzling storytelling...The End of Loneliness is both affecting and accomplished -- and eternal.”—John Irving Jules Moreau’s childhood is...

The Prime Time series continues with two sweet romances adding to the family saga in this contemporary women's fiction set of novels. The fifth novel in this series examines marriage in all its complexities. Lynn’s marriage is in crisis as she contemplates her husband’s retirement plans....

The Seas Between Us is the sixth and final book in the Prime Time series, which began with Anna Mason’s story in Auld Acquaintance. This epic family saga comes to a stunning and emotional conclusion that will leave you satisfied. Anna Mason has transformed her life by learning to welcome...

From the award-winning author, screenplay writer, and producer of several well-known teleplays and television series Earl Hamner Jr comes heartwarming stories of love, family, and hope that inspired the popular television show The Waltons. Spencer’s Mountain: High up on a mountain, young...

On a wild, windy April day in Manhattan, when Mary first meets John Keane, she cannot know what lies ahead of her. A marriage, a fleeting season of romance, and the birth of four children will bring John and Mary to rest in the safe embrace of a traditional Catholic life in the suburbs. But neither...

“Thoroughly surprising . . . The Sisters Chase is that rare thing, a slow burner that conceals its cunning and sneaks up on you unawares.” — New York Times “Mary is a wonderful creation . . . A modern picaresque novel that surprises and delights.” — Toronto Star The hardscrabble...

Ten years ago, Nicole Hunter left her troubled home behind her, unable to cope with the demands of a life with her disabled sister, Jenny. Though her search for happiness—both in career and in love—has fallen short of her dreams, Nicole pretends that all is well. Then a shattering event turns...

A Top Ten Finalist for Best Historical Novel, Goodreads Choice Awards, and a LibraryReads and Okra Pick A big-hearted coming-of-age debut set in civil rights-era New Orleans—a novel of Southern eccentricity and secrets When Ibby Bell’s father dies unexpectedly in the summer of 1964,...

**FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD "Both timelessly beautiful and unbelievably timely."—Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant A captivating novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the story of the seventeen-year-old...

From the author of the “lyrical and compelling” (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first...

‘Packed with humour and warmth’ - Heat The four Amir sisters – Fatima, Farah, Bubblee and Mae – are the only young Muslims in the quaint English village of Wyvernage. On the outside, despite not quite fitting in with their neighbours, the Amirs are happy. But on the inside, each sister is...

“Sinister and complex.... You’ll race right through it.”—New York Times The nationally bestselling novel of a family destroyed by grief and a mysterious pregnancy that will reveal secrets long buried—soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, and Blythe Danner. After...

From the author of Dear Evan Hansen, The Reminders is p**erfect for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan's The Engagement or Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project, andfollows what happens when a girl who can't forget befriends a man who's desperate to remember.** Grief-stricken over his partner Sydney's...