Family Life
Cowboys Never Cry
By: Tina Welling
Cowboys are NOT her weakness-until she meets the right one-in this funny, wise, romantic novel about women and cowboys, both real and imagined. Cassie Danner doesn't swoon over cowboys. A young widow with a still- mending heart, she seeks...
Published: Oct 2010
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 384
Nathan Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination. When young Nathan loses his grandfather, Berry guides readers through the process of Nathan's...
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 128
The Lonely Polygamist
By: Brady Udall
A New York Times bestseller: from a luminous storyteller, a highly anticipated new novel about the American family writ large. "Udall masterfully portrays the hapless foibles and tragic yearnings of our fellow...
Published: May 2011
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 624
The Outside Boy
By: Jeanine Cummins
A poignant debut novel of an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950's by the author of the bestselling memoir A Rip in Heaven. Ireland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling with his father and extended family from town to...
Published: Jun 2010
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 384
Vegas Heat
By: Fern Michaels
Fern Michaels continues her magnificent new trilogy about the Coleman and the Thornton dynasties that she began in Vegas Rich. This is the story of the Thornton clan, more specifically Fanny Thornton, who takes over Babylon, the family's magnificent...
Published: Oct 1997
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 288
Winter Garden
By: Kristin Hannah
Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn't know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and...
Published: Jan 2011
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 400
A Dog's Purpose
By: Bruce Cameron
This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dog's Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question:...
Published: May 2011
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 320
Whiter Than Snow
By: Sandra Dallas
From the New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes a powerful novel about the intersection of redemption, forgiveness, and love. . . .On a spring afternoon in 1920, Swandyke—a small town near Colorado's Tenmile...
Published: Mar 2011
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 304
Beyond Summer (Blue Sky Hill Series)
By: Lisa Wingate
National bestselling author Lisa Wingate returns with an uplifting novel set in Blue Sky Hill, where unexpected challenges and new relationships give deeper meanings to "home". When Tam Lambert learns that her family's upscale home...
Published: Jul 2010
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 416
The Lost Hours
By: Karen White
The award-winning author of The Memory of Water delivers a gripping tale of family, fate, and forgiveness.When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years,...
Published: Apr 2009
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 336
Last Light over Carolina
By: Mary Alice Monroe
Last Light Over Carolina Every woman in the sultry South Carolina low country knows the unspoken fear that clutches the heart every time her man sets out to sea. Now, that fear has become a terrible reality for Carolina Morrison. Her husband,...
Published: May 2010
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 400
The Builders (Gemma Open Door)
By: Maeve Binchy
Original short fiction by a beloved best-selling author on her best topic relationships. Charming novella from a masterful writer on the power of family secrets. Nan Ryan lives by herself at 14 Chestnut Road. When builders arrive to fix a deserted...
Published: May 2009
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 92
Driftwood Summer
By: Patti Callahan Henry
An engaging novel of sisters, from the acclaimed author who "writes movingly about love and family and the voyage we all take to discover what we really value."(The Island Packet)Three sisters— responsible Riley, vivacious Maisy,...
Published: Jun 2009
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 384
The Bake-Off
By: Beth Kendrick
"Exceptionally entertaining and wonderfully original" (Chicago Tribune), Beth Kendrick delivers a funny story about family, self- discovery, and the pursuit of the perfect pie crust. Suburban soccer mom Amy has always wanted to...
Published: May 2011
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 352
Up Close and Personal
By: Fern Michaels
For generations, the Windsors have lived on the family's grand estate in Crestwood, South Carolina, as intertwined with local life as sweet tea and pecan pie. Now, on the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess Windsor believes she may be...
Published: Apr 2009
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 384
A Month of Summer
By: Lisa Wingate
First in a new series from a national bestselling author whose "novels [are] like those of Nicholas Sparks and Richard Paul Evans."(Bryan-College Station Eagle) For Rebecca Macklin, an ordinary summer brings about an extraordinary...
Published: Jul 2008
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 384
Roseflower Creek, 2E
By: Jackie Lee Miles
"The morning I died it rained. Poured down so hard it washed the blood off my face." Thus begins the story of ten-year-old Lori Jean, whose short life and early death are woven into this affecting novel set in the 1950s rural...
Published: May 2010
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 248
Model Home
By: Eric Puchner
Warren Ziller moved his family to Southern California in search of a charmed life, and to all appearances, he found it: a gated community not far from the beach, amid the affluent splendor of the 1980s. But the Zillers' American dream is about to be...
Published: Sep 2010
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 368
Souvenir: A novel by the author of Reunion
By: Therese Fowler
Meg Powell and Carson McKay were raised side by side on their families' farms, bonded by a love that only deepened as they grew. Everyone in their small rural community in northern Florida thought that Meg and Carson would always be together. But at...
Published: Feb 2009
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 416
The Beach Trees
By: Karen White
The moving new novel from bestselling author Karen White. From the time she was twelve, Julie Holt knew what a random tragedy can do to a family. At that tender age, her little sister disappeared-never to be found. It was a loss that slowly...
Published: May 2011
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 384
The Home for Broken Hearts
By: Rowan Coleman
A heartwarming novel about a financially-strapped young widow who opens her home to a motley group of boarders who change her and her son's lives.
Published: Sep 2010
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 352
The Summer Kitchen
By: Lisa Wingate
From the author of A Month of Summer, an inspiring new novel in the Blue Sky Hill series about one woman's effect on a struggling Dallas neighborhood. With her adopted son missing and the rest of her family increasingly estranged, Sandra Kaye...
Published: Jul 2009
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 384
The Year It Snowed in April
By: Eva Bottier
Avery Benjamin Clarke is a shy and demure boy, raised in the upper middle classed home of his maternal grandparents from the day he was born. He's a straight "A" student and a model child who has never given his family an ounce of...
Published: Mar 2010
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 304
Mending Fences
By: Sherryl Woods
For ten years Emily Dobbs and Marcie Carter have been the closest of friends. They've raised their kids together, shared joy and heartache, exchanged neighborhood gossip over tea. But when Marcie's son, now a college freshman sports star, is arrested...
Published: Jan 2010
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 400
Montana 1948
By: Larry Watson
"From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them… " So begins David Hayden's story of what happened...
Published: May 2007
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 169
Sea Change
By: Karen White
For Ava Whalen, a new marriage and a move to St. Simons Island means a new beginning. But what she doesn't realize is that her marriage will take her on an unexpected journey into the deep recesses of her past that will transform her forever…For as...
Published: Jun 2012
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 416
Bound South
By: Susan Rebecca White
By turns hilarious and poignant, the lives of three vibrant and unique Southern women -- a proper Atlanta matron, her rebellious teenage daughter, and their housekeeper's young daughter -- intersect in unexpected and extraordinary ways in this richly...
Published: Feb 2009
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 368
Falling Home
By: Karen White
From the New York Times bestselling author Revised and expanded for this new trade paperback edition, Karen White's novel tells a poignant story of two estranged sisters. At twenty Cassie Madison left her hometown of Walton, Georgia, for...
Published: Nov 2010
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 352
On Folly Beach
By: Karen White
Folly Beach, South Carolina, has survived despite hurricanes and war. But it's the personal battles of Folly Beach's residents that have left the most scars, and why a young widow has been beckoned there to heal her own... To most people,...
Published: May 2010
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 368
Local Knowledge
By: Liza Gyllenhaal
From an exciting debut author—a novel about three people haunted by the mistakes of their past and their plunge into an uncertain future.Maddie Alden has always longed for more than her small town could offer. Now that it's being overrun by...
Published: Jan 2009
Genre: Fiction - Family Life
Pages: 368