Family life fiction / Stories about family
Lsj Editions Les bêtises de Lili
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Books on Demand Die Steine der Zwillinge: 2. Auflage
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Books on Demand Romy Schneiders neuer Sohn
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Books on Demand Gambio - Der perfekte Tausch: Oma Käthe kann's
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Books on Demand Sommer zwischen Backhaus und See:
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Books on Demand Ciao Bello: Hundegeschichten
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Books on Demand Krass! Siehst du! Eindeutig: Windpocken!: Vater und Sohn. Oft eine komplizierte Beziehung. Vor allem am Anfang.
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Books on Demand Das Fräulein Künstlerin
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Books on Demand Sehnsucht nach Opatija: oder: Wie ein
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Books on Demand Villa Konfetti
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Books on Demand Die Schatten im Wind
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Books on Demand Geheimnis der Margerite
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Books on Demand Geschichten, die das leben schrieb: - heiter bis besinnlich -
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Books on Demand Mein erstes Mal: I have a dream
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Books on Demand Manne: ausgerechnet Weihnachten
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Books on Demand Los Buddenbrooks sudamericanos
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Books on Demand Geheimnisse: Geschichten
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Prodinnova La Joie
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Prodinnova Sous l'oeil des brahmes
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Prodinnova L'enfant mystérieuse
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Prodinnova L'héritage de Cendrillon
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Prodinnova La fée de Kermoal
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Prodinnova Lysis
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Prodinnova Ahélya, fille des Indes
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Prodinnova La maison des Belles Colonnes
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La Case Books #porvenir #selfie #cuoremio
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George Padmore Library, Accra-Ghana Pastors on the Move
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Paula Puddephatt Distorted Perceptions
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Independently Published The Crafternoon Sewcial Club
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HarperCollins Publishers Saving Sophie A compulsively twisty psychological thriller that will keep you gripped to the very last page
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HarperCollins Publishers Before We Hit the Ground
Book Synopsis''A moving exploration of family, migration, class, queerness and belonging beautifully rendered'' JESSICA ANDREWS''A deeply observant, perceptive writer'' JOANNA CANNON''Evocative, layered and emotionally resonant deserves to be on your reading list'' GLAMOUR''Masterful It will stay with you long after you finish it'' JJ BOLALove was a tightrope between freedom and control. He didn't know how others seemed to walk it with ease'-Elom can't make sense of love. It's like a language he can't speak, though he's heard the words before.He wants to feel understood by his well-meaning yet misapprehending family, his self-assured partner Ben, and his boisterous friends but he never knows the right thing to say.How can you know yourself, in a world that's constantly changing?Set across Ghana and Scotland, this is an intimate portrait of one man's search for belonging, a family's attempt to love, and the choices that make a life.-GLOWING READER REVIEWSFiamanya''s writing is just gorgeous it''s tender, it''s unflinching, and it''s totally immersive'??????????This is one of the best books I've read this year, and I truly hope more people discover it'??????????All in all this was an absolutely stunning debut novel, I cannot wait to read more of Fiamanya''s work in the future'??????????Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, this took my breath away. Wow, what a gorgeous novel. I can''t recommend this enough'??????????
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HarperCollins Publishers Day
Book SynopsisUnsparing and tender' Colm Tóibín, author of BrooklynA brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers' Colum McCann, author of ApeirogonA quietly stunning achievement' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousAs the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious and learning to go on.April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.April 5th, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown the brownstone is feeling more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan circle each other warily, communicating mostly in veiled jabs and frustrated sighs. And beloved Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts and his secret Instagram life for company.April 5th, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family comes together to reckon with a new, very different reality with what they've learned, what they've lost, and how they might go on.From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss, and the struggles and limitations of family life how to live together and apart, and maybe even escape the marriage plot entirely.Cunningham is one of our great American writers, and here is another masterpiece Read it and be changed' Andrew Sean Greer, author of LessTrade Review‘In Day, Michael Cunningham displays his great gift for creating memorable characters, for noticing the world in all its oddness and beauty, for writing about love and loss in tones that are both unsparing and tender. In this book, he also sharply and brilliantly captures contemporary New York’ Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn ‘Day is a novel about the collisions of love within our days. Michael Cunningham crafts a glorious sentence and at the same time he tells an achingly compelling story that speaks precisely to the times we live in. And it all flows so damn gorgeously that at times you just want to suspend the sacred day itself and hold it close, never let it, or the characters, go. A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon ‘Cunningham, the perennial master of rendering the quotidian with a profound and deeply considered eye for human frailty, returns with a book that exemplifies the hallmarks of his style: lush, erudite, voracious in its seeking, and, like a true poet, remakes the world in his descriptions, freshened with care, compassion, and tinged with radiant heat of grief. What a quietly stunning achievement’ Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous ‘Cunningham is one of our great American writers, and here is another masterpiece. Day shows all his extraordinary gifts of epic sweep and intricate detail, lyrical language and plain hard words, memory and imagination, love and hope and loss. It does what only great books can do. Read it and be changed’ Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less ‘Few writers capture the crazy contradictions of modern life with as much clarity and wisdom as Michael Cunningham.Dayglows with beauty and energy; its characters slip off the page and into your life’ Tash Aw, author of We, the Survivors
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Wonder of Lost Causes
Book Synopsis“THE WONDER OF LOST CAUSES is equal parts heart wrenching and heartwarming as Trout pulls you onto an emotional rollercoaster that is sure to leave your heart filled to the brim. A true testament to the power of love in its purest and most absolute form.” — Rachael Lippincott, New York Times bestselling author of Five Feet ApartIn this unforgettable novel, perfect for fans of An Unexpected Grace and A Dog’s Way Home, a single mom and her chronically ill child receive a valuable lesson from an unlikely source—a very special dog who unexpectedly enters their lives and shows them that one person’s lost cause can be another’s greatest gift . . .Dr. Kate Blunt will do anything for her son, Jasper. Well, almost anything. Since Jasper has the incurable lung disease cystic fibrosis, Kate’s always told him he couldn’t get a dog. It̵
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HarperCollins Family Trust
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Boy Swallows Universe
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc PROMISES TO KEEP A Novel 2 Savannah Skies
Book SynopsisIn this heartwarming sequel to Promises of the Heart in the Savannah Skies series, USA Today bestselling author Nan Rossiter returns to Tybee Island off the Georgia coast to focus on beloved characters Maeve and Gage as their relationship is tested by secrets they are keeping from each other.Thirty-four-year-old Maeve Lindstrom loves her job at Willow Pond Senior Care. Her older sister Macey thinks Maeve is the only human being on earth who can make working in a nursing home sound like fun. Maeve enjoys being around the sundowners, as she calls them, helping them navigate their senior years''brightening a time that can be, all too often, a lonely, sad stage of life. Thirty-three-year-old Gage Tennyson''who brings his mischievous yellow Lab, Gus, to whatever restoration job he is working on with Macey''s husband, Ben''loves Maeve with all his heart. He''s a handsome country boy and a true southern gentleman. But as he and Maeve grow closer, they both sense that they haven''t been completely forthcoming about their pasts. When Maeve realizes Gage might be planning to propose, she knows she must finally be honest with everyone she holds dear. She can no longer live with the secret she''s been dragging around like an anchor, and she knows the only way she will be free to build a lifetime relationship with Gage is to risk everything''including his (and her family''s) love and respect. Before she finds the courage, however, her past comes careening into her life in a shocking and unexpected way.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Night Always Comes
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Penguin Putnam Inc We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.” As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence. In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date—a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions
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Penguin Putnam Inc Everything I Never Told You
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts“A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine“Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner a
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Random House USA Inc Interior Chinatown
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “A shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywood” (Vanity Fair) and a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it?After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.
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Little, Brown & Company The Vanishing Point A Novel
Book SynopsisJulian Ladd and Rye Adler cross paths as photography students in the exclusive Brodsky Workshop. When Rye needs a roommate, Julian moves in, and a quiet, compulsive envy takes root, assuring, at least in his own mind, that he will never achieve Rye''s certain success. Both men are fascinated with their beautiful and talented classmate, Magda, whose captivating images of her Polish neighborhood set her apart, and each will come to know her intimately - a woman neither can possess and only one can love. Twenty years later, long after their paths diverge, Rye is at the top of his field, famous for his photographs of celebrities and far removed from the downtrodden and disenfranchised subjects who''d secured his reputation as the eye of his generation. When Magda reenters his life, asking for help only he can give, Rye finds himself in a broken landscape of street people and addicts, forcing him to reckon with the artist he once was, until his search for a missing boy becomes
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Little, Brown & Company The Latecomers
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of What Was Mine-a deeply moving family drama about a young Irish immigrant, an ancestral home in New England and a dark secret that lay hidden in its walls for five generations.
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Little, Brown & Company A Secret History of Witches
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Little, Brown & Company Daughter Waiting for Her Drunk Father to Return
Book SynopsisAn anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capital of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children''s Theater). The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk''s #1 spoken-word karaoke bar. Moreover, it''s Thursday, Father/Daughter Nite, when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters.Somehow emanating from the letters on an optometrist''s eye chart, from karaoke screens in the bar, and from posters on a piazza that''s the scene of phantasmagorical and unending mob wars, Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit relentlessly pulls the rug out from under itself, leaving you suspended in a state of perpetual exhilaration.Leyner, one of the most blazingly imaginative and influential writers of the last thirty years, has not only written his funniest novel, he''s broken through to s
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Little, Brown & Company Youll Thank Me for This
Book SynopsisA pulse-pounding psychological thriller based on the popular Dutch tradition of blindfolding and dropping teens and pre-teens in the middle of a forest — and what happens when it goes horribly wrong. Twelve-year old Karin is blindfolded and dropped into the Hoge Veluwe National Forest with three other children. With nothing but a few basic supplies and emergency food, the children are tasked with working together to navigate one of the Netherlands' most beautiful and wild locations and return to where their families are anxiously waiting. Karin quickly finds herself at odds with two of the older teens, and suddenly looks up to see that the other children have vanished. As Karin struggles against the elements to find her way back, she soon realizes that something far more sinister lurks in the woods. Grace, Karin’s mother and an American married to a Dutch husband, has been nervous about this practice from the start. At first she tells herself the space is good for her daughter, but as the hours begin to tick by and the children fail to arrive at their designated campsite, she becomes certain something has gone horribly wrong. As Karin fights for survival, and Grace hastens to find her daughter, the night culminates in the reveal of a deadly secret—and a shocking confrontation—that will push each of them to her edge.
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Hodder & Stoughton The Map Of Tenderness
Book SynopsisJoe Lyons has never had much success with relationships until he meets Suzie, a young music teacher. Living a solitary existence as a writer, he''s alienated his mother with his autobiographical first novel and has little to say to his stridently religious sister, Mary. Only his father keeps in regular touch. But now, in the warmth of this new love, the happy endings finally seem to outnumber the tragedies. So when news comes that his mother is seriously ill, he returns home, but what he finds there shocks him out of his complacency and Joe, like his father, comes to understand the true nature of love.Trade ReviewA dark and sensuous stylist ... He really is shaping up to be among the very best of the almost overabundant crop of Irish literary production during the last decade. * Desmond Traynor, Irish Independent *Eloquent and haunting * Doug Johnstone, List *The novel works on many levels. As an examination of the tangled skeins of family allegiance, it is clear-headed to the point of ruthlessness. In its dissection of a fatal illness, it is both rigorous and humane. But it is the power and subtlety of the writing which sets The Map of Tenderness apart . . . With a few deft strokes, he can paint a picture of heart-stopping vividness * Arminta Wallace, Irish Times *Engages richly and rather profoundly with love, death and life. * James Smart, Sunday Herald *A moving portrait of a family, of discovery, and having the courage to believe in other people. * Anne-Marie Flanagan, Irish World *Moving [and] lyrical * Sunday Independent *The Map of Tenderness is a captivating story . . . the author is an Irish poet and it shows in his beautiful prose. It wraps you up as gently as a snowdrift. * Michael Dobbs, author of Winston's War *
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Hodder & Stoughton A Proper Family Christmas
Book SynopsisAnnabel Buchanan has the perfect life. A loving husband, a beautiful house, a happy family.So, when her daughter Izzy falls dangerously ill, Annabel will do everything she can to find the organ donor Izzy so desperately needs. And that includes tracing her own biological family. The Bensons.The Benson family are loud, brash, and very different to what Annabel was expecting. But beneath the chaos and the drama, are they a warm and loving family at heart?With the festive season fast approaching, it''s time to see if the Bensons and Buchanans can come together to help Izzy and find a way to have a proper family Christmas. . .Told with Chrissie Manby''s classic combination of wit and charm, this feel-good family novel is the perfect book to curl up with during the winter holidays. Because you can''t choose your family but you can choose to avoid them.Praise for Chrissie Manby:''Nothing shortTrade ReviewPraise for Chrissie ManbyDeliciously funny * Heat *Hilarious . . . I loved it. Six stars, hurrah! * Daily Mail *This sassy and addictive read will make you laugh - a lot! * Closer *Manby's novels are made for holidays. * Glamour *Nothing short of brilliant * Marie Claire *A gloriously delicious read! . . . Packed with warm characters and hilarious situations * www.handwrittengirl.com *
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