Lin, Amy
Summary: "Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young architect who pulls her toward joy, adventure, and greater self-acceptance. But on a sweltering August morning, only a few months shy of the newlyweds' move to Vancouver, thirty-two-year-old Kurtis heads out to run a half-marathon with Amy's family. It is the last time she sees her husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zibby Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1991
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.88 BRORehm, Diane.
Summary: "In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REHM, DIANE REHDeraniyagala, Sonali.
Summary: A memoir of the author's experiences as a survivor of the 2004 tsunami that killed her parents, husband, and two young sons recounts her struggles with profound grief and survivor's guilt and her gradual steps toward healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DERANIYAGALA, SONALI DERDidion, Joan.
Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 DidMrazek, Robert J.
Summary: "When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINCH, FLORENCE MRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FINCH MRAAikman, Becky.
Summary: Describes the author's experiences as a young widow and the pivotal relationships she forged with five other widows, recounting the stories of their losses and bravery as exchanged throughout a year of monthly Saturday night meetings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 AIKBraestrup, Kate.
Summary: The author documents her decision to pursue her husband's ambition to become a minister after his tragic accidental death, describing how she eventually became a spiritual counselor for families with missing loved ones during search-and-rescue missions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRAESTRUP, KATE BRADarling, Lynn.
Summary: "Combining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love, Lynn Darling's powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of the Woods. When hercollege-bound daughter leaves home, Lynn Darling, widowed over a decade earlier, finds herself alone--and utterly lost, with no idea of what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARLING, LYNN DARMack, Stephanie Madoff.
Summary: The widow of Mark Madoff and daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff presents an insider's account as an unsuspecting member of the family associated with the audacious Ponzi scheme, describing her idyllic marriage, her belief in her husband's innocence, their ordeals at the height of the media frenzy and her husband's tragic suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 MACMcInerny, Nora
Summary: Life has a million different ways to kick you right in the chops. We lose love, lose jobs, lose our sense of self. For Nora McInerny, it was losing her husband, her father, and her unborn second child in one catastrophic year. But in the wake of loss, we get to assemble something new from whatever is left behind. Some circles call finding happiness after loss "Chapter 2"--the continuation of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NORA MCINERNY MCIOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: Joyce Carol Oates shares her struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self H Greif OatesAscher, Barbara Lazear
Summary: "Ascher writes passionately about her unlikely marriage, her husband's illness and death and her ensuing sorrow. A witness to the insanity that grief visits upon its victims with a seeming determination to destroy, she gazes straight into the eye of grief and does not blink. In time she moves beyond that grief -- her voyage out. Ghosting is, by turns, moving and funny, tender and brutal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASCHER, BARBARA LAZEAR ASCGraham, Laurie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 GRAHAHoward, Beth M.
Summary: Relates the sudden death of the author's husband and her decision to pack up the RV he left behind and embark on a cross-country journey, during which she used America's quintessential comfort food and the simple act of giving to overcome tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOWARD, BETH M. HowardCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self H Grief HowardKyle, Taya
Summary: The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and family, service and patriotism, grief and sacrifice, faith and purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KYLE, TAYA KYLStreeter, Leslie Gray
Summary: "Leslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She's not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she'd wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott's funeral; he loved her in that dress! But, here she is, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack, totally unsure of how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STREETER, LESLIE GRAY STRGould, Melissa
Summary: Melissa Gould's hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love. When Melissa Gould's husband, Joel, was unexpectedly hospitalized, she could not imagine how her life was about to change. Overwhelmed with uncertainty as Joel's condition tragically worsened, she offered him the only thing she could: her love and devotion. Her dedication didn't end with his death....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOULD, MELISSA GOUSeager, Sara
Summary: "In this luminous memoir, an MIT astrophysicist must reinvent herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth. Sara Seager has always been in love with the stars: so many lights in the sky, so much possibility. Now a pioneering planetary scientist, she searches for exoplanets--especially that distant, elusive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEAGER, SARA SEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SEAGER SEASelecman, Mattie Jackson
Summary: "After being married for less than a year, country music legend Alan Jackson's daughter Mattie was faced with navigating a future that didn't include her young husband and their lifelong plans. In Lemons on Friday, readers walk with Mattie Jackson Selecman during the first years of grief following Ben's tragic death as she grapples with her loss and leans on a steadfast God. Based on Selecman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 SELBlack, Michelle Richmond
Summary: Drawing on exclusive interviews with the survivors of her husband's unit, research into the military leadership and accountability and her own unique vantage point as a gold star widow, the author sets out to find the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.88 BLAKing, Coretta Scott
Summary: "The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, CORETTA SCOTT KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KING REYMoody, Ralph
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOODY, RALPH MOOWright, Jennifer
Summary: "A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered--for revenge, for love, and even for pleasure--rife with historical details that will have any true crime junkie on the edge of their seat"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2021