BROTHERS & SISTERS
 
 
Siblings.  The closest family relationship.  
Sometimes the best, sometimes ... not.
 
One For My Enemy

by Olivie Blake
 
In modern-day Manhattan ...two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal empires. On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters -- each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless.   On the other side, the influential Fedorov brothers serve their father, the crime boss known as Koschei the Deathless.
Blotto, Twinks and the Suspicious Guests

by Simon Brett
 
The discovery of an appalling lapse in aristocratic behaviour sets Blotto and Twinks off to find out more about a sinister group called Aristotours - brokers between impoverished owners of stately homes and the common people, offering 'a taste of the high life' to characters such as stockbrokers, surgeons and solicitors.
Light Years From Home

by Mike Chen
 
Every family has issues. Most can't blame them on extraterrestrials.  The perfect combination of action, imagination and heart, this book is a touching drama about a challenge as difficult as saving the galaxy: making peace with your family...and yourself.
Girl A

by Abigail Dean
 
Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about her family. She doesn't want to think about growing up in her parents' House of Horrors. And she doesn't want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped.
Strangers I Know

by Claudia Durastanti
 
Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up. Claudia's mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from jumping off a bridge. Her father says it happened when he saved her from an attempted robbery.
Chorus

by Rebecca Kauffman
 
The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turns from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, each sibling relays their own version of the memories that surround both their mother's mysterious death and the circumstances of one sister's scandalous teenage pregnancy.
Aurora

by David Koepp
 
A billionaire and a suburban family struggle to survive when power goes out around the globe. This brisk thriller is set a few years in the future, after the world has been through the coronavirus pandemic and thinks it's learned how to handle disaster. It hasn't.
The Latecomer

by Jean Hanff Korelitz
 
A layered and immersive literary novel about three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth. 
A Black and Endless Sky

by Matthew Lyons
 
 Siblings Jonah and Nell Talbot used to be inseparable, but ever since Jonah suddenly blew town twelve years ago, they couldn't be more distant. Now, in the wake of Jonah's divorce, they embark on a cross-country road trip back to their hometown of Albuquerque, hoping to mend their broken relationship along the way.  A white-knuckled horror-thriller.
Poguemahone

by Patrick McCabe
 
Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story.  Now she sits outside in the sun as her memories unspool from Dan's mouth and his own role in the tale grows ever stranger --  and more sinister.
Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

by Richard Mirabella
 
Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age novel follows a young man's relationship with a violent older boyfriend-and how he and his sister survive a terrible crime.
Nightcrawling

by Leila Mottley
 
Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically called the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison.
The Sanatorium

by Sarah Pearse
 
Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.
The Reunion

by Meghan Quinn
 
Martin and Peggy Chance believe love should last a lifetime. With their fiftieth wedding anniversary on the horizon, they've modeled a beautiful relationship for their three grown children. But to their dismay, that lesson hasn't quite caught on -- the three siblings just can't seem to take a chance and find love in their own lives.
How to Find Your Way Home

by Katy Regan
 
 Emily has been looking for the same face in every crowd for more than a decade: her brother's. She'll do anything to find him, she just never expects that one day he will walk through the door of the London housing office where she works, homeless and in need of help.
 
What Could be Saved
 
by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
 
Bangkok, 1972 : Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. In these exotic surroundings, Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the US -- ballet and riding classes for the children, impeccable dinner parties, a meticulously kept home. 
French Braid

by Anne Tyler
 
The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart.  And, as their lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.
Black Cake

by Charmaine Wilkerson
 
In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording.
Lola on Fire

by Rio Youers
 
Brody Ellis is short on luck and even shorter on cash to buy the medication his sister Molly needs.  Desperate, he robs a convenience store, but on the way out, he bumps into a young woman and loses his wallet. Just when he expects the cops to arrive, the phone rings.
On Fragile Waves

by E. Lily Yu
 
 A haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. This exquisite and unusual magic realist debut ...  traces one girl's migration from war to peace, loss to loss, home to home.
 
 
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