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101) Home field
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The heart of Friday Night Lights meets the emotional resonance and nostalgia of My So-Called Life in this moving debut novel about tradition, family, love, and football. As the high school football coach in his small, rural Maryland town, Dean is a hero who reorganized the athletic program and brought the state championship to the community. When he married Nicole, the beloved town sweetheart, he seemed to have it all--until his troubled wife committed...
103) ¿Has visto a María?
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
A fable about loss, grief, and healing follows the transformative efforts of fifty-three-year-old Sandra to find her friend's missing cat in the aftermath of her own mother's death.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Funny, tender, and wholly original, Death & Other Holidays is a year in the life of a young woman coming to terms with the death of her beloved stepfather, while attempting to find love in LA. We are introduced to her friends and family, as she struggles to launch herself out into the world, to take the risks of love -- the one constancy in all the change"--
106) Pack up the moon
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First Downtown Press trade paperback edition
Language
English
Description
Emma and her friends are shattered by the accidental death of Emma's boyfriend, an event that catapults Emma into depression and rallies her friends to her aid in spite of lingering regrets over their role in the tragedy.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Rachel, Max, and their daughter Ellie had the perfect life--until the night Rachel's heart stopped beating. She was thirty-six. Just as her family can't forget her, Rachel can't quite let go of them either. Caught in a place between worlds, Rachel watches helplessly as she begins to fade from their lives. This fresh debut novel touches on the various stages of bereavement, from denial to acceptance. As Max and Ellie work through their grief, Rachel...
108) Under shifting glass
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Jess is grieving for her beloved aunt, and when she finds a mysterious flask hidden in a antique bureau that belonged to Aunt Edie on the same day that her conjoined twin brothers are born, she begins to believe that the flask is magic and that their survival depends on it.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this thoughtful story of loss and recovery, a young boy's happy life is interrupted when his grandfather passes away. Now the boy's world is filled with big questions and difficult emotions. Then one day a chance encounter with two birds on the subway leads to a new connection and rediscovered joy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Reeling from the sudden loss of her sister, Haddie Montgomery has sworn off relationships. All she wanted from Beckett Daniels was a sexy distraction to help her escape her pain for just a little while. There were not supposed to be any strings attached. No matter how hard Haddie tries to forget about him, Becks relentlessly tries to prove that she should start living for today.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a tragic accident claims the life of one of her children, Marie Egide is desperate to carve out a fresh start for her family. With her husband and their three surviving children, Marie travels to New Hampshire, where she plans to sell a family estate and then, just maybe, they'll be able to heal from their grief. Marie's plans are thwarted when she realizes a war veteran known by locals as "the river witch" is living in a cabin on the property,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Naja Marie Aidt's long-awaited first novel is a breathtaking page-turner and complex portrait of a man whose life slowly devolves into one of violence and jealousy. Rock, Paper, Scissors opens shortly after the death of Thomas and Jenny's criminal father. While trying to fix a toaster that he left behind, Thomas discovers a secret, setting into motion a series of events leading to the dissolution of his life, and plunging him into a dark, shadowy...
113) The visitor
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Izzie Mallon is looking forward to celebrating Christmas on a relaxing yoga retreat. At least, that is what she's telling her mother and colleagues. In reality, she will be shutting herself away from the festive season, and the snowstorm that has brought the city to a standstill, in her apartment on Henrietta Square -- the beautiful home she shared with her beloved husband Sam until his tragic death a few months ago -- with only her grief for company....
114) A single breath
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
New York :
Language
English
Description
"From the celebrated author of Swimming at Night, a powerful and moving saga of one woman's struggle to overcome her husband's death and uncover his dark, mysterious past. Eva has only been married for eight months when her husband, Jackson, is swept to his death while fishing. Weighed down by confusion and sorrow, Eva decides to take leave of her midwifery practice in London and visit Jackson's estranged family in Tasmania with the hope of grieving...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious letter. An offer taken. And the chance to move forward. When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she’s being haunted. The listing-a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama-is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life. Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one’s...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A year after forest fires sweep through the town of Crow Valley and claim the life of Dale Jepson--karaoke legend, local prison guard, and "all-around good guy"--the community holds a karaoke competition. But when a convicted arsonist escapes from nearbyCrow Valley Correctional, the residents learn there's more on the line than a trip to the National Karaoke Championships. Marriages are at stake, jobs are jeopardized, sobrieties threatened, and second...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Up all night, Marlene drives the highways and back roads near her home in hopes that some landmark will spark an image of her daughter, one untainted by years of grief. Her husband Les steams out to sea in his effort to cope. He is a commercial fisherman on a boat staffed up with desperate loners and shape-shifting friends obliterating their bodies in two-week shifts of crushing labor. The couple keep their pain hidden from each other, and most of...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Forever Trade Paperback Edition.
Language
English
Description
Dearest Nell, if you're reading this letter, I'm already gone... You're my best friend in the world, and as my last request I'm asking you to lay me to rest hundreds of miles away, in my crazy gorgeous, totally one-of-a-kind hometown of Tansy Falls. I know you're a born-and-bred city girl, but hear me out. After first losing Adrian, and then me... I know your heart is hurting, Nell. I think you'll find that you need Tansy Falls as much as I do. So,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Ollie. He's eleven years old. He loves rules, has memorized every world capital and every soccer player in the Premier League, and hasn't yet met a Killer Sodoku puzzle he can't solve. He hates being asked two questions at once, or when grown-ups use words with double meanings. He loves his family fiercely, but sometimes he cannot control his temper. And now, he must face a sudden tragedy for which there is no solution. When Ollie's happy-go-lucky,...
120) Our last goodbye
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1943: When twenty-five-year-old May Robinson's mother is tragically killed one foggy night, May is heartbroken and terrified. She isn't sure she has the strength to harbor the secret they have kept for so many years-the secret her mother devoted her life to hiding. The secret that would tear their broken family even further apart. Instead, May vows to make her mother proud by training to be a nurse at Edgemoor General Hospital in South Shields....
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