The Long March Home tells the story of three generations of women. Agnes, a young Canadian goes to China as a missionary, and falls in love with a Chinese medical student. Growing anti-western sentiment forces her to return...
Families
- Author:Roy, Zoë S.Summary:
- Author:Udall, BradySummary:
This novel tells of Golden Richards, a man who, despite having four wives and 28 children, hasn't quite found fulfillment in life. And even after he falls in love again and takes a mistress, life continues to fall short of...
- Author:Hadley, TessaSummary:
Paul leaves his family to search for Pia, his daughter from his first marriage. He finds her pregnant and living in less than ideal conditions--but with an outlook on life that's strangely compelling. Paul decides to start a new...
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- Author:Stevenson, Sarah JamilaSummary:
Hoping to raise money for a post-graduation trip to London, Asha Jamison and her best friend Carey decide to sell T-shirts promoting the Latte Rebellion, a club that raises awareness of mixed-race students. But seemingly overnight,...
- Author:Moriarty, LianeSummary:
Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been...
- Author:Kelly, Erin EntradaSummary:
Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.
- Author:Roscoe, PatrickSummary:
A collection of stories set in Spain, Africa, California or British Columbia, all featuring family or romantic relationships at the core.
- Author:Thomas-Peter, B.A.Summary:
1950s, New Denver: Pavel and Nina are among 200 Russian Doukhobor children separated from their families and community, and placed in a residential facility in the Kootenay region of BC. Forcibly removed from their homes by the RCMP,...
- Author:Mealer, BryanSummary:
This program is read by the author "Think of it as a Texas version of Hillbilly Elegy." -Bryan Burrough, New York Times bestselling author of The Big Reach and Barbarians at the Gate A brilliant audiobook saga of family, fortune, faith...
- Author:Braem, Meg, Gladstone, AmielSummary:
After Samantha's baba dies, her fractured family is summoned to pick through the house full of belongings and trash, leaving taped notes on whatever they want to take. Between old napkins, a closet full of ketchup packets, and a...
- Author:Kapsambelis, NikiSummary:
Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Merrill Krause helps harvest ice during Minnesota's brutal winters. Newcomer Rurik Jorgenson is drawn to Merrill, but when his former fiancée and her brother arrive in town, they set off a scandal only God's grace is capable of fixing...
- Author:Ripplinger, HenrySummary:
Henry and Jenny are married after years apart and the only thing that could make them happier would be to have a child, but Jenny age and the fact her body was ravage by cancer is working against her wish.
- Author:Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:
The House of Seven Gables, a fixture in Hawthorne's Salem, serves as the ancestral home of the fictional Pyncheon family--whose distinguished legacy is tainted by pious thievery. When country cousin Phoebe arrives at the house, she...
- Author:McInerney, MonicaSummary:
Following a tragic accident, Ella O'Hanlon flees to the other side of the world in an attempt to escape her grief, leaving behind the two people she blames for her loss: Aidan, the love of her life, and Jess, her spoilt half-sister...
- Author:Engel, Marian, Adderson, CarolineSummary:
First published in 1970, The Honeyman Festival chronicles one night in the life of Minn Burge, a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between affection for her family and the need for a life in which impulse and intelligence can once...
- Author:Gordon-Reed, AnnetteSummary:
Annette Gordon-Reed tells the legendary story of the Hemingses of Monticello, an American slave family with direct blood ties to the American President Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed vividly describes the relationships between Jefferson...
- Author:Ripplinger, Henry K.Summary:
The Heart of an Angel, is the seventh and final book in the award winning, best selling, Angelic Letters Series. After five decades, the family of characters which readers have lived with, cried with, prayed with, laughed with, attended...
- Author:Makansi, K.Summary:
Remy Alexander wants revolution. After watching Vale fall back into the hands of the Sector, she will stop at nothing to reveal the corruption in Okaria. When she joins a secret Outsider network in the underbelly of the capital city,...