Fiction, Family Life
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Baba's Story
by Mirjana Vincic Katic
To Mitra Milutinovic, family is everything. After taking a fall in her family home, ninety-year-old Mitra decides to uproot herself for the last stage of her life and move into Maple Retirement Place. Though her family is devasted, they respect the ...
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From Croft to Craft
by Graham Simpson
This book while fiction, is grounded on recorded truths and history of the times, portraying the story of a young crofter runaway, determined to lead his family out of the despair. Determined to pull his family together again and oppose the combined ...
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Fountain Garden
by Pamela Baron
Lexi Davies Kirk, a middle-aged woman who is about to be divorced from her wealthy husband, has a lot on her plate. Both her parents—the bitter and comedic Oscar and the beautiful Annabella—are residents of Fountain Garden, the care home on Cody ...
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Aunt Edwina's Wonderful Legacy
A Family History Novel by Lynne Christensen
Family history will never be the same ... Novice genealogist Julie Fincher is learning as she goes. A generous inheritance from Aunt Edwina allows her to open the Greymore Genealogy Research Site, a resource center welcoming everyone interested in ...
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Beneath the Surface
by Beverley Dowling
The stories in this collection follow characters as they navigate family life, guilt, grief, love, and the consequences of their good intentions. They, and the reader, see the surfaces of characters and situations, and then discover the surprises ...
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The Language of Dreams
by Marion Ehrenberg
Twenty-two-year-old Clare Thomas Lane begins therapy by court order, not by choice. Clare is sure that she doesn't need the help of a shrink. Clare's fortysomething psychotherapist, Avery Frontiera, doubts her own ability to connect with this ...
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The Scent of Lilacs
by Antonia Giglio
The scent of lilacs, poetry, and classical music bring Marla and Adam together after Marla's high school boyfriend is convicted of murder and disappears from her life. The charming, brilliant Adam promises Marla a life of culture, luxury, and family ...
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Down Thru Love
The 21st Journey by H. B. Pierre Simon Jr. and Elijah Pierre Simon
Down Thru Love is a heartfelt story about a young man named Peyton Love, his journey of being born with Down syndrome, and his triumphs of life through self-realization, forgiveness, and love. Peyton Love’s life has been full of challenges, but he ...
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For Love and Mercy
by C. Ingrid Deringer
“Suddenly angelic beings of light appeared. They said I was at a crossroad, and it was here where I had to make a choice . . .” In 2022, forty-two-year-old Dr. Stormy Hera, a music professor at the University of Victoria, is serving a manslaughter ...
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The Soldier and the Orphan
Separated by Church and War by Alastair Henry
In twentieth-century England, many working-class people were victims of values and circumstances not of their own making. They were people to whom things were done to, not for. Billy and Tommy Jones and their mother, Mary, were such people. The boys ...
