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Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
114 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow--antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Four years after her husband Richard's death, Cate Morris is let go from her teaching job and unable to pay rent on the London flat she shares with her son, Leo. With nowhere else to turn, they pack up and venture to Richard's ancestral Victorian museum in the small town of Crouch-on-Sea. Despite growing pains and a grouchy caretaker, Cate begins to fall in love with the quirky taxidermy exhibits and sprawling grounds, and she makes it her mission...
84) Piece by piece
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Danielle Parker is a gold-medal mom--the kind who volunteers in her children's classrooms, shuttles them between activities, throws legendary birthday parties, and has a remedy on hand for any emergency. Whatever her husband, Jeff, and their children need, Dani is there, always. Except for one day. On that day--the day that Dani reluctantly takes some 'me time' while her mom and Jeff drive the children to the park--the unthinkable happens. The car...
86) The other family
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Richie dies unexpectedly, Chrissie must now tell the truth to their three daughters: their parents were never married. There is more shock to come when his will is read: he ever forgot the wife and son he left behind years ago. Now two families must confront their losses-- and each other.
87) Finding Jack
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Joining the flagging war effort in Vietnam after losing his young family in a tragic accident, Fletcher Carson rescues a wounded yellow Labrador during a mission and faces a difficult choice when the government refuses to transport military dogs back home.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Leah's former boss and mentor, Judy, dies in an accident and leaves Leah her red sports car, Leah takes off to San Francisco to claim the car, revisiting past lives and loves in a self she abandoned years ago.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the private jokes, ancient grudges, broken hearts, and deep, abiding love that feeds them all. Here are the three things the Sullivan family knows to be true: the Chicago Cubs will always be the underdogs; historical progress is inevitable; and their grandfather, Bud, founder of JP Sullivan's, will always make the best burgers in Oak Park. But when, over...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First ed.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her husband's heroic death in Iraq, Corrie Saunders moves into his family's 150-year-old home. Grieving and ready to bury herself in the house, she begins to experience strange occurrences which she attributes to her husband. She forms a friendship with Eli, her husband's cousin, who is doing the remodeling job. But Eli doesn't believe the entity is her husband. And the more Eli is around, the more malevolent occurrences become.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Brianna is the youngest of the three Porter sisters and the only one who chose to stay in the small town of Splendid Lake, North Carolina. She followed in her father's footsteps and became an expert boat mechanic, helping him run their small resort with cabin rentals, a convenience store, and a marina. When Brianna's father unexpectedly dies, Brianna is steeped in grief and guilt--then left alone to clean up the mess. To make matters worse, a constant...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it's time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn't ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could...
93) Love Anthony
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olivia Donatelli's dream of a "normal" life shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. Understanding the world from his perspective felt bewildering. And just as Olivia began to realize that happiness and autism could coexist, Anthony died. Now Olivia is alone in a cottage on Nantucket, separated from her husband, desperate to understand the meaning of her son's short life, when a chance encounter with another woman facing...
94) So close
Author
Series
Publisher
Ronin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widower Kane Black is still ruinously married to his late wife, Lily. Grief has hollowed him, until he sees a woman with his wife's inimitable beauty on the streets of Manhattan. He whisks her up to his towering penthouse, protectively under guard, nestling her in dark opulence where Lily's memory is a possessive beguiling force. Aliyah, Kane's mother, deals in science. There are too many questions, too few answers, and too much at stake. "Lily" has...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rose Wilks' life is shattered when her newborn baby Joel is admitted to intensive care. Emma Hatcher has all that Rose lacks. Beauty. A loving husband. A healthy son. Until tragedy strikes and Rose is the only suspect. Now, having spent nearly five years behind bars for the murder of her best friend's child, Rose is just weeks away from freedom. But is she really reformed? Her probation officer Cate must decide whether Rose is remorseful for Luke's...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In the stories of Wednesday's Child, people strive for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable, until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces--death, violence, estrangement--come...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Katie Connelly has lived in San Francisco all her life. Her late father made his career on the Golden Gate Bridge, and the many stories of how he saved jumpers still haunt her. And now her job assignment is to write about the history of the bridge--a history that includes a secret journal about a promise ring and a love story that may be the answer to her unresolved sorrow. Meanwhile, Dave Riley, a marketing executive in New York, has sorrows of...
98) Before the dawn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Stevenson's world is turned upside down by the death of her daughter Denise. Denise ran away from home s a teenager, and Charlotte has never forgiven herself. Now, Denise's three children are coming to live on Heather Creek Farm. Is this Charlotte's chance to make things right? The three kids arrive on the farm: Sam, fiercely protective of his younger siblings; Emily, desperately missing her friends; and young Christopher, a sweet soul...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the river swallowed Kai, Damien's little brother didn't die so much as vanish. As the unbearable loss settles deeper into his bones, Damien, a small-town line cook, walks away from everything he has ever known. Driving as far south as his old truck and his legs allow, he lands in a fishing village beyond the reach of his past where he hopes he can finally forget. But the village has grief of its own. The same day that Damien arrives, a young...
100) The red balloon
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the unimaginable happens...how do you re-imagine your life? In a close-knit lakeside community, two families are separated by only the narrowest of dirt roads. It's the 1970's, a time of gin-soaked barbecues and carefree summer crushes and the families share a seemingly idyllic life amidst plush green lawns and soft breezes blowing in off the lake, relatively untouched by the outside world. Margaret and Dar share motherhood the way best friends...