"From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration. Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the...

Many books teach you how to handle your children after they graduate from diapers, but none tells you how to proceed once they graduate from high school. As new patterns emerge in the lives of young adults, parents find that their grown children have bigger problems. Comedy writer Gail Parent and noted psychotherapist Susan Ende combine their wit and expertise to give advice with an edge, answering questions relating to money, the college years, living...

A man who has just retired and his wife resort to extreme measures to teach their slacker twenty-something sons how to be responsible adults.

The tale of a young woman whose family secrets--and secret passions--are about to change her life forever.

Jack and Audrey Landry are empty nesters whose plans for a second honeymoon are put on hold when all three of their daughters return home, each with the announcement that they're getting married.

"Growing up, Ellen Carlisle was a Christian: She went to Jesus camp, downed stale Nilla Wafers at Sunday school, and never, ever played with Ouija boards. Now, years later, when infertility prevents her from giving her ambitious attorney husband a family, she finds herself on the brink of divorce, unemployed, and living with her right-wing, born-again Christian parents in her suburban New Jersey hometown. There the schools are private, the past is...

A Southern soccer mom (Reba) learns her married daughter isn't going to be moving out of the house with her husband and baby. Reba accepts a job working for her ex-husband. No matter how hard she tries to make family life run smoothly, she learns there is no way to please everyone.

It takes a lot of heart to keep a family like this one together. Amid Brock and Barbra Jean's marital troubles, Cheyenne's personal struggles, Van's career crisis and Kyra's growing pains, Reba somehow manages to keep the whole family functioning at a level just above dysfunctional.

It takes a lot of heart to keep this family together, but that's just what Reba does.

Victoria Barkley heads the family of her adult children on the Barkley Ranch in California's San Joaquin Valley, near Stockton, in the 1870s. Bank robbers, horse thieves, revolutionaries and land grabbers keep the Barkley's on their toes. Continues the adventures of the wealthy and powerful family in the untamed Old West.