Fiction, Family Life
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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...
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Leave the Little Light On, Book One: Windsor
by Sonia Palleck
Athena Brkovich believes in true love. Born into a blue collar family in 1968, young Athena and her sisters are sent away when their mother is hospitalized and their father is unable to care for them. The beginnings of trauma, separation, denial...
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Embrace of the Rose
by Pat Murphy
The Embrace of the Rose is the story of a family growing up in rural Ireland following the seismic events of the Great War and the 1916 Dublin uprising. When hostilities ceased victors and the vanquished signed a treaty. The Treaty of Versailles...
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The Irish Within Us
by C. A. Logan
Strange things happen in Ballybeg when three distant cousins come together as the summer solstice approaches. In the spring of 2016, newly retired Kara leaves her home in Canada on a genealogical quest to rediscover her grandfather’s ancestral...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
