Family Matters

     ...voice, they've found someone who understands that family life today is by turns funny, stressful, surreal, dumb, dumber and joyous, not to mention completely exhausting. What kind of family matters concern judith Timson? The fact that we live immersed in a pop culture that has enshrined domestic rudeness, where sitcom families sound as if they majored in Sarcasm 101. Or, the dilemma of getting children to sleep in their own beds that inspires the question, 'If God had wanted us all together in one bedroom, would She have given us children's designer wallpaper?' Or the colossal guilt trip that today's mothers feel compelled to travel on (in the Olympics of guilt, Judith Timson swears she has never come in with less than a bronze). The family today is mutating faster than The Human Fly, leaving a lot of people terrified. But judith Timson, without fear or favor, wades into the modern family laboratory, and comes back with astonishing news: It's Alive! (well, sort of). Always amusing and often deeply moving.

     ...Jenny had secrets, too, family secrets that made it necessary for Gabe to protect her. 2004 National Readers' Choice Award winner, Romantic Suspense, by Justine Wittich; originally published by Five Star...

     ...breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful to tend to his physical needs. Nariman must now turn to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two sons, who share a small, crowded home. Their decision will test not only their material resources but, in surprising ways, all their tolerance, compassion, integrity, and faith. Sweeping and intimate, tragic and mirthful, Family Matters is a work of enormous emotional power....