"In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children--everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers' communication skills ("they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news"), to the eating habits of four year olds ("there is no difference...

His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.

Returning home from Japan to find closure for her father's unresolved death a decade earlier, Lucy discovers a cache of objects that reveals complex family secrets.

While eldest son Edward immerses himself in alcohol and affairs with two scheming women amid rumors of his role in his father's suicide, estranged family member Maxwell returns to the fold with an agenda that could spell their salvation or ruin.

Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town, has advertised for a reliable wife; and his ad is answered by Catherine Land, a woman who makes every effort to hide her own dark secrets.

Two sisters struggle to find their place, be true to themselves and adapt to rapid changes happening throughout the latter half of 20th-century America.

Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge.

The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
 
Dreaming of a “year in Provence” with her mother, Katie urges Helen to move to San Francisco to live with her and Zoë, Katie’s teenage...

Returns to the setting of "Nobody's Fool" to find Sully confronting a daunting health prognosis, which he hides from his loved ones, including his longtime mistress, an increasingly distant best friend, and an obsessive chief of police.

As the son of two concentration-camp survivors, who through talent, faith, fortune, and hard work achieved wealth and success, Max resolves to pursue his own ideals and set an example for his children.