Dimaline, Cherie
Summary: Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIMWolas, Cherise
Summary: Harry Tabor is about to be named Man of the Decade, a distinction that feels like the culmination of a life well lived. Gathering together in Palm Springs for the celebration are his wife, Roma, a distinguished child psychologist, and their children: Phoebe, a high-powered attorney; Camille, a brilliant social anthropologist; and Simon, a big-firm lawyer, who brings his glamorous wife and two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLDabarera, Dinalie
Summary: "Sometimes, the moments that Sona spends with her Sinhalese grandfather, her seeya, are quiet. They speak different languages and don't always use words. But they do communicate in other ways. Sometimes, they're loud. They play dress-up, stomp in puddles, and pretend to be puppies. They cook pittu, tease each other when they're messy, and read to each other, even though they might not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DABReynolds, Sheri.
Summary: Seven years after being abandoned with her little brother at a Tennessee campground, fifteen-year-old Tessa Lee learns that her mother has been living two hours away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYBrown, Carrie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrown, Carrie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION BrownBrown, Carrie.
Summary: Seventy-five-year-old Conrad, left alone and grieving after the death of his wife, Rose, learns the precious lesson of reaching out to others, after he spreads the news that he has seen an angel in his overgrown garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROLa Seur, Carrie
Summary: "The critically acclaimed author of The Home Place explores the heart and mystery of Big Sky Country in this evocative and atmospheric novel of family, home, love, and responsibility inspired by William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The only son of a cattle rancher, Anthony Fry chafed against the expectation that he would take over the business that had belonged to his family for generations. While his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LASBohjalian, Chris
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade 2011
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Summary: The devastating loss of their twin daughters in a flash flood turns the lives of Terry and Laura Sheldon upside down as their marriage is tested by grief, Terry's brief love affair, and their growing relationship with their foster child, a ten-year-old African American boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2002
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Summary: In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America, at her husband's frantic insistence, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cander 2019Whitaker, Chris
Summary: "There are two kinds of families: the ones we are born into and the ones we create. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he's still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. Duchess is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: "A tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: When real-estate agent Elizabeth Jordan meets elderly widow Clara Williams, a visit to the elder woman's prayer room helps Elizabeth realize that her mounting problems at home are surmountable with the help of God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FABOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OATPerrotta, Tom
Summary: Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the mysterious sender tells Eve, "U R my MILF!" Over the months that follow, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017