Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Family Life - General

Sebastian Schreiber, his extended family, their friends and the store employees experience the 'golden days' of pre-war Vienna, the time of war and the end of the Monarchy, while trying to make a living and to preserve what they hold dear.

Fischer convincingly describes life in...

Una pequena joya de la literatura cubana
Felix Luis Viera

Un retrato del llamado Periodo Especial en Cuba, a traves de las peripecias de una familia para sobrevivir. Alberto, su esposa Miriam, la pequena Elizabeth, hija de la pareja y un cerdo que crece y alimentan en la banadera de la casa, disenan la marcha de una narracion lineal, sin sobresaltos, aunque si angustiosa, en la que prima el dialogo crudo, el desamparo y el desanimo, por sobre las descripciones.

La atmosfera del libro es delirante, la narracion atrapa al lector que busca saber el desenlace, que como la...

You know the Dugans. They're that scrappy family that lives down the street. Their yard is overgrown, they don't pick up after their dog, their five children run free--leaving chaos in their wake--and the father hasn't earned a cent in years. The wife holds them together on her income alone. You wouldn't want them for neighbors--but from a distance, they're quite entertaining.

You can tell from the empty bottles lying under the bush out front that alcohol is an issue in the household--and all things considered, you can hardly blame the wife for leaving one day.

Without her at...

Thomas Greggs was born with what many people would consider a miraculous gift: he can heal with the touch of his hands. As a boy, he saved the life of his best friend's father... and learned that sometimes a blessing can seem more like a curse when he lost any chance of a normal life to the resulting media attention.

Thomas' path takes him to the charismatic Rev. Billy Johnson, and together they start one of the biggest religious movements of the age. But will Thomas be able to make peace with his fate and find a place where he feels like he belongs, or will his isolation destroy...

A cheating spouse sparks the creation of a monthly dinner club as the heroine attempts to have an affair of her own.

After Mary Ann's husband cheats on her, the suburban mom decides to have her own affair. She starts up a neighbourhood dinner club as a cover and invites three men she has earmarked as potential lovers. Along for the ride is her best friend, Alice, who has recently returned with her young daughter to Oakdale, the cozy bedroom community where the two women grew up and briefly shared a telepathic past.

Over good food and wine, new friendships develop,...

With the passing of a new state law, it becomes a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant in Oklahoma. So when Robert John Brown, a churchgoing family man and respected community member, is caught hiding a barnful of migrant workers with no papers, he is arrested and sent to prison. Meanwhile, his ten-year-old grandson Dustin tries to help the sole escapee of the raid reunite with his family, and his granddaughter, Misty, is struggling to raise her daughter alone after her husband, an undocumented immigrant himself, has been deported. Then there's Brown's daughter Sweet, who finds her...