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Finding Me by Judith Keim
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSheena Sullivan Morelli and her sisters, Darcy and Regan, receive the unexpected news that their Uncle Gavin Sullivan, the black sheep of the family, has left them a hotel on the Gulf coast of Florida. The gift comes with a twist. They must live together for one year at the hotel and prepare the hotel to receive guests within a year... -
![A Friend Like That by Marissa Finch]()
A Friend Like That by Marissa Finch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWho needs enemies when you have a friend like that? I should wonder why I feel so comfortable with Taylor. Why I’m so enamored with a stranger I met at a bar.I should, but I don’t. Alice Brewster is at a low point. After being let go from her job at the ritzy Grant Hotel, she spends her days at a dingy Manhattan pub just so she won’t have to tell anyone the shameful truth... -
![Let the Light Shine by Nick Alexander, Penelope Rawlins]()
Let the Light Shine by Nick Alexander, Penelope Rawlins
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom Nick Alexander, the number one best-selling author of The Photographer's Wife and The Other Son.Penny and Victoria are about as different as two siblings can be, one with a smart London lifestyle, the other struggling to make ends meet. But they are joined by more than blood, and their shared tragic past is affecting the present more than they realise... -
![Christina by Leanne Davis]()
Christina by Leanne Davis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy entire life I’ve lived with shadows lurking behind what otherwise appears like the perfect family. My mother often disappears into her bedroom for days at a time because her life becomes too much to deal with. I never understood it. I know there are family secrets. I hear the whispers and innuendos. But no one wants me to know the truth. The thing is: I’m not a little girl anymore... -
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![The Truth She Knew by Andrew Brown]()
The Truth She Knew by Andrew Brown
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMama didn’t want me. In fact, she would’ve traded my soul back for someone different if God would’ve let her, but he didn’t, so she was stuck with me. For eighteen-year-old Lacey, life at home is a rollercoaster. She doesn’t think she’ll ever be good enough to truly deserve Mama’s love. But when Lacey enters college and meets Walker, everything starts to change... -
![Hunger for Life by Andy Marr]()
Hunger for Life by Andy Marr
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn the day of his graduation, James says goodbye to the future and moves back to his parents’ house in Myreton, the sleepy village of his childhood. He’s not happy, but the thought of continuing his life anywhere else seems unthinkable while his sister, Emma, continues to suffer with the illness that’s plagued her since she was a child...Categorized as:
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![20 Minutes Later by Daniel Hurst]()
20 Minutes Later by Daniel Hurst
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn a warm summer's morning in London, there's a lot more than just smog in the air. There's the romance of a first date. There's the courage of the emergency services. And there's the danger from those with dark secrets to hide...20 Minutes. 20 People... -
![A New Home by Tania de Regil]()
A New Home by Tania de Regil
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs a girl in Mexico City and a boy in New York City ponder moving to each other's locale, it becomes clear that the two cities -- and the two children -- are more alike than they might think.But I'm not sure I want to leave my home.I'm going to miss so much.Moving to a new city can be exciting... -
![My Mother's Eyes: A Short Story by Jeremy Ray]()
My Mother's Eyes: A Short Story by Jeremy Ray
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“You’re wrong, Jordie. You’ll see. Draw me just one more time.”No one knows if his mother will come out of her coma, so fourteen-year-old Jordie memorializes her in the only way he knows how: by drawing her. His older brother doesn’t approve of these sketches, but Jordie’s determined to capture the person she used to be... -
![Maple & Willow Together by Lori Nichols]()
Maple & Willow Together by Lori Nichols
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCelebrating imagination and inventive play, Lori Nichols' follow-up to Maple perfectly captures the dynamics of siblings and their ability to figure things out on their own and find a way to meet halfway.Maple and Willow do everything together. They love playing outside throughout the whole year, welcoming the sun, rain, leaves, and snow... -
![Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters by Anita Kushwaha]()
Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters by Anita Kushwaha
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor readers of Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s "Secret Daughter" and Nancy Richler’s "The Imposter Bride", a breathtaking novel from Anita Kushwaha about the ties that bind mothers and daughters together and the secrets that tear them apartVeena, Mala and Nandini are three very different women with something in common...Categorized as:
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![Spirit of Lost Angels by Liza Perrat]()
Spirit of Lost Angels by Liza Perrat
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey drowned Victoire's mother, claiming she was a witch. Then her father died beneath the wheels of a nobleman's carriage.Forced to leave her village, Victoire finds work in Paris. But domestic employment comes at a high price and the orphaned girl suffers gruesome abuse at the hands of a diabolical aristocracy... -
![Ten Birthdays by Kerry Wilkinson]()
Ten Birthdays by Kerry Wilkinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings*Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Young Adult Novel of the Year 2018*"There are going to be so many things I wish I could’ve told you in person, Poppy. I won’t get the chance to do that, so perhaps this is my only way…"It’s Poppy Kinsey’s birthday... -
![Fire & Water: A Suspense-filled Story of Art, Love, Passion, and Madness by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder]()
Fire & Water: A Suspense-filled Story of Art, Love, Passion, and Madness by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFire & Water is a dark story of passion, family secrets, and the enduring power of friendship. Katherine Murphy, a pediatric surgeon in San Francisco's premier medical center, UCSF, is was raised in the ironic protection of her father's Irish pub by a patchwork family formed of misfits and orphans. She is book-brilliant, but unwise in the ways of love and life... -
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![Runaway Train by Lee Matthew Goldberg]()
Runaway Train by Lee Matthew Goldberg
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey told me I was an out-of-control train about to crash…Everything changed when the police officer knocked on the door to tell me – a 16-year-old – that my older sister Kristen had died of a brain aneurysm. Cue the start of my parents neglecting me and my whole life spiraling out of control.I decided now was the perfect time to skip town... -
![Exposure by Ava Dellaira]()
Exposure by Ava Dellaira
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA life-changing moment encompasses conflicting truths that echo across time, in this powerful, provocative debut.One night, two people, four sides of a story.In 2004, Juliette Marker, a white college freshman, and Noah King, a Black high school senior, are two lonely souls who enter each other’s orbit, forge a connection, and, after a chance meeting, go home together...Categorized as:
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![Behind You by Mike Omer]()
Behind You by Mike Omer
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mike Omer, a woman who fled home with a dark secret must now flee the strangers who seem to know it—and the stalker behind it all.Seventeen-year-old Theodora Briggs left home in the dead of night, after a brutal crime shattered her life. Thirteen years later, she’s made a name for herself as beautician, wife, and mother... -
![Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight]()
Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this thriller.When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened... -
![Pieces of You by Mary Campisi]()
Pieces of You by Mary Campisi
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsQuinn Burnes's mother disappeared when he was only fifteen leaving him with a despondent father, a little sister who suffers panic attacks, and eight notebooks containing the truth about his mother. He guards this secret for eighteen years, until on an otherwise normal day, his mother re-enters his life, pleading for his help... -
![The Piano Man's Daughter by Timothy Findley]()
The Piano Man's Daughter by Timothy Findley
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNow an important title in the newly redesigned Perennial Canada series, Timothy Findley’s The Piano Man’s Daughter continues to be one of his most popular books ever. The novel’s reissue follows on the heels of Findley’s newest novel,Pilgrim, released in late 1999 and sure to attract even more new readers to the Findley fold... -
![The Madness of Grief by Panayotis Cacoyannis]()
The Madness of Grief by Panayotis Cacoyannis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJuly 1969. While men are walking on the moon, life in London for sixteen-year-old Jane takes unexpected turns. On the point of falling in love with her best friend Karl, she discovers that there's more to her father's spectacular girlfriend than at first meets the eye... -
![The Small Rain by Madeleine L'Engle]()
The Small Rain by Madeleine L'Engle
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMadeleine L'Engle's classic young adult books include A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Certain Women. The Small Rain, an adult novel, focuses on Katherine Forrester, the daughter of distinguished musical artists, whose career as a concert pianist evolves through loves and losses... -
![True North by Jim Harrison]()
True North by Jim Harrison
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTrue North is the story of a family torn apart and a man engaged in profound reckoning with the damage scarred into the American soil. The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force more than a father, and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills... -
![Twice by Lisa Unger, Lisa Miscione]()
Twice by Lisa Unger, Lisa Miscione
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLydia and her partner, P.I. Jeff Mark, must confront not only a brutal murderer but the demons from their own past.Julian Ross, a brilliant and acclaimed New York City artist, has been charged with brutally killing her second husband. She was found at the scene, hysterical, over his bloody, lifeless corpse... -
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![World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow]()
World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis wonderfully poignant story leads irresistibly to the glittering, futuristic promise of the New York World's Fair of 1939, where the young protaganist at the age of nine crosses over into a future of his own... -
![The Captain's Daughter by Meg Mitchell Moore]()
The Captain's Daughter by Meg Mitchell Moore
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Emma Straub comes an emotionally gripping novel about a woman who returns to her hometown in coastal Maine and finds herself pondering the age-old question of what could have been.Growing up in Little Harbor, Maine, the daughter of a widowed lobsterman, Eliza Barnes could haul a trap and row a skiff with the best of them... -
![Small Mercies: A Novel by Eddie Joyce, Scott Aiello]()
Small Mercies: A Novel by Eddie Joyce, Scott Aiello
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“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 . . . [A] poignant, deeply affecting tale.” —Martha Stewart Living, a Book Club selection “[A] terrific debut novel. . . -
![Have a Nice Day by Julie Halpern]()
Have a Nice Day by Julie Halpern
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAnna Bloom has just come home from a three-week stay in a mental hospital. She feels...okay. It's time to get back to some sort of normal life, whatever that means. She has to go back to school, where teachers and friends are dying to know what happened to her, but are too afraid to ask... -
![The Full Ridiculous by Mark Lamprell]()
The Full Ridiculous by Mark Lamprell
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe important thing is to position yourself so you go over the car when it hits. If you go under, most likely you get stuck on some sticky-out bit of the engine, dragged along and de-skinned, then kidney-squishingly, eye-poppingly, brain-squeezingly run over by one or more wheels. You go over, at least you've got a chance if you land right.Michael O’Dell is hit by a car... -
![Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary]()
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMontpelier Parade is just across town, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera, the sort of person who seems destined to remain forever out of his reach... -
![Florida by Christine Schutt]()
Florida by Christine Schutt
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this elegiac and luminous novel, which John Ashbery called "an amazing achievement" and Mary Gordon dubbed "a wholly original endeavor," Christine Schutt gives voice to the feast of memory, the mystery of the mad and missing, and the power of words. Set in the Midwest, where Florida represents a faraway paradise, this novel tells the story of Alice Fivey... -
![Friends & Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford]()
Friends & Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA group of housemates in Sydney’s inner city contend with gentrification, divisive politics, stalled careers, their own complicated privilege as second-generation Australians, and the evolving world of dating in this moving, funny, and stylish debut novel.Sydney’s inner city is very much its own place, yet also a stand in for gentrifying inner-city suburbs the world over...Categorized as:
coming-of-age family fiction contemporary literary-fiction friendship psychological book -
![The Thing About Clare by Imogen Clark]()
The Thing About Clare by Imogen Clark
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA dying wish. A devastating secret. Should the truth really stay buried? The four Bliss siblings have a loving but complicated bond, but when their mother, Dorothy, dies seemingly without a will, this relationship is put to the test... -
![Summer Brother by Jaap Robben]()
Summer Brother by Jaap Robben
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSummer Brother is an honest, tender account of brotherly love between a disabled boy and his abled brother, which will resonate with readers of Rain Man./p>"A sensitive yet unsentimental depiction of poverty and disability from the perspective of an abled character." --Kirkus ReviewsThirteen-year-old Brian lives in a trailer on a forgotten patch of land with his divorced and uncaring father...Categorized as:
coming-of-age family audiobook book contemporary fiction literary-fiction psychological -
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![The Slide by Kyle Beachy]()
The Slide by Kyle Beachy
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The theme is American Home, that place that lesser writers sentimentalize and satirize. Beachy writes with bracing melancholy in a voice that is all his own, and his St. Louis, like Cheever's Westchester, is populated with isolated, self-aware characters, each of whom is new to us. Potter Mays is great company... -
![The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester]()
The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShortly after their eighteenth birthday, twins Morwenna and Corwin’s father dies accidentally (and ignominiously) when he falls off a cliff, drunk. With him go the last vestiges of their childhood, and soon after both move away to start their separate adult lives... -
![The Darkness that Divides Us by Renate Dorrestein]()
The Darkness that Divides Us by Renate Dorrestein
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLucy is the most popular girl in the local elementary school of an idyllic Dutch housing estate. When a bizarre crime rocks her world and sends her mother to prison, Lucy is turned into an outcast and her childhood becomes an ordeal of constant, vicious bullying. After her mother’s release, Lucy’s family decides to escape and make a clean start on a rugged Scottish island... -
![Lies My Memory Told Me by Sacha Wunsch]()
Lies My Memory Told Me by Sacha Wunsch
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the thrilling voice of Sacha Wunsch comes a heart-stopping psychological mystery in a world where memories can be shared -- and one girl can't trust any of them. Enhanced Memory changed everything... -
![All We Know of Love by Nora Raleigh Baskin]()
All We Know of Love by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA boldly original tale about a girl who journeys through love and loss to find her mother — and discovers that everyone has a story to tell, including herself. "I used to think that a person would not know who I was, not really know me, until they heard about my mother...Categorized as:
coming-of-age family abuse contemporary fiction mental-illness psychological realistic -
![Shut The Lights by Smita Bhattacharya]()
Shut The Lights by Smita Bhattacharya
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dark and unpredictable tale of family secrets... and the lengths we go to, to save the ones we love. For lovers of non-formulaic domestic noir suspense.For this family, the lockdown came as a blessing.On 24 March 2020, with merely a four-hour notice, the Indian government declared a three-week lockdown as a containment measure for COVID-19... -
![A Nearly Perfect Copy by Allison Amend]()
A Nearly Perfect Copy by Allison Amend
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRichly drawn and sharply observed, A Nearly Perfect Copy is a smart, funny, and affecting novel of family and forgery that brilliantly conjures the rarified international art world.Elmira Howells has a loving family and a distinguished career at an elite Manhattan auction house... -
![This Perfect World by Suzanne Bugler]()
This Perfect World by Suzanne Bugler
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLaura Hamley is the woman who has everything: a loving and successful husband, two children, an expensive home and a set of fortunate friends. But Laura's perfect world is suddenly threatened when she receives an unwelcome phone call from Mrs Partridge, mother of Heddy - the girl Laura and her friends bullied mercilessly at school... -
![Lost Girls and Love Hotels by Catherine Hanrahan]()
Lost Girls and Love Hotels by Catherine Hanrahan
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNow a feature film starring Alexandra Daddario An achingly honest debut novel of memory, self-destruction, and relationships set in contemporary Tokyo Sometimes, when I’m staring down a room of Japanese stewardesses-in-training, looking across a sea of shiny black coifs, a chorus line of stockinged legs, knees together, toes to the side, when I’m chanting, “Sir, you are endangering yourself and... -
![The Good Life by Jay McInerney]()
The Good Life by Jay McInerney
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn The Good Life, Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far. Clinging to a semi-precarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than miraculous... -
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![You Have Me to Love by Jaap Robben]()
You Have Me to Love by Jaap Robben
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMikael lives with his parents on a small remote island between Scotland and Norway. One day, his father disappears into the sea. Mikael keeps silent about what has happened. Guilt, consolation and reproaches consume him, until Mikael’s mother forces him to do the impossible... -
![Trust by Domenico Starnone]()
Trust by Domenico Starnone
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPietro and Teresa’s love affair is tempestuous and passionate. After yet another terrible argument, she gets an idea: they should tell each other something they’ve never told another person, something they’re too ashamed to tell anyone. They will hear the other’s confessions without judgment and with love in their hearts... -
![Lowboy by John Wray]()
Lowboy by John Wray
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBy turns suspenseful and comic, devastating and hopeful, Lowboy is a fearless exploration of youth, sex, and violence in contemporary America, seen through one boy's haunting and extraordinary vision.Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-yearold paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone...
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