Steel, Danielle
Summary: Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILAlvarez, Julia
Summary: A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KINHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Irene Steele's idyllic life-house, husband, family-is shattered when she is woken up by a late-night phone call. Her beloved husband has been found dead, but before Irene can process this tragic news, she must confront the perplexing details of her husband's death. He was found on St. John's island, a tropical paradise far removed from their suburban life. Leaving the cold winter behind, Irene...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILIrwin, Sophie
Summary: "When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season -- no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: Widowed by an unspeakable tragedy, Camille Palmer has made her peace with the past and settled into the quiet safety of life with her teenage daughter, Julie, in a sleepy coastal town. Then the arrival of a mysterious package breaks open the door to her family's secret past. In uncovering a hidden history, Camille has no idea that she's embarking on an adventure that will utterly transform...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIGFeldman, Ellen
Summary: "Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble with You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Seven Sisters Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "To the tourists and summer residents, Kentwater County is a picturesque community of small-town charm, fruitful farmland, and gorgeous freshwater beaches. To middle-aged widow Isabel Puddles, it's where she enjoys breakfast every morning at a local caf©♭ with her childhood best friend and spends her evenings cozying up with a good book and her devoted Jack Terrier, Jackpot. In between, Isabel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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Summary: Quentin was the love of Eve's life, despite his penchant for going incommunicado. On New Year's Eve, he killed himself. And Eve is the one who found him. On an emotional journey through unimaginable loss, Eve is pulled along by her tight-knit Nigerian family, a posse of new friends, and the love and laughter she shared with her husband. But she is not okay. -- adapted from back cover and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: FaithWords 2011
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Summary: When a murder rocks the isolated community of Entry Island, insomniac homicide detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at St. Hubert airfield bound for the small, scattered chain of Madeline Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as part of an eight-officer investigation team from Montréal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MAYRoss, Ann B.
Summary: When Miss Julia's new friend, Hazel, disappears after going on a date with an upright church member, Miss Julia and little Lloyd must go in search for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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Summary: "Philomena Amesbury, Dowager Countess of Dunbridge, was not about to let a little thing like the death of her husband ruin her social life. She's come to New York City, ready to take the dazzling world of Gilded Age Manhattan by storm. She finds excitement when an early morning visitor arrives, begging for her help. After all, Lady Phil has been known to be useful in a crisis. Especially when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2020
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Summary: Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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Summary: "Answering a woman's desperate call for help, young Navy widow Helen Devries opens her Whidbey Island home as a refuge to Choi Eunhee. As they bond over common losses and a delicate, potentially devastating secret, their friendship spans the remainder of their lives. After losing her mother, Cassidy Quinn spent her childhood summers with her gran, Helen, at her farmhouse. Nourished by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: 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. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OATMcCoy, Shirlee
Summary: "Returning to their hometown isn't something the Bradshaw brothers ever thought they'd do. But a family tragedy has reunited them in Benevolence, Washington--where second chances, reignited dreams, and real love are never far away. Texas rancher Flynn Bradshaw has his work cut out for him. His sister-in-law, Sunday, is finally home after the car crash that killed her husband and left her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: Laurie is now an award-winning TV producer. She is still haunted by her husband's murder. Laurie and her TV crew have just received the green light to produce a new 'cold case' series. Revisiting unsolved crimes one at a time, she and her TV crew will gather a victim's friends and family, who have lived under suspicion of guilt for many years. By getting paid to reenact the crime on TV, each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2014
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Summary: Megan hopes to mend the pieces of her broken spirit by attending a church group's annual camping trip. But the church group members make a catastrophic mistake, leaving them stranded in an untouched canyon in the forest. They soon realize the canyon is home to a terrifying prehistoric arachnid that patiently stalks its prey. Haunted by her tragic loss, Megan now faces her ultimate test of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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Summary: An American clothing designer and widowed mother of two teenagers, Miranda Graham arrives in China and is immediately overwhelmed by life in that faraway place. Then she meets Yuan Li, son of an American soldier and a Chinese mother and suddenly two worlds, two cultures and two hearts collide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 0000
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Summary: "Christmas should be celebrated with family, but for Vera Swanson, that's not an option this year. Widowed and recently relocated, she is lonely in her condo-for-one--until little Fiona Albright knocks on her door needing help. With her mother seriously ill and her father out of town Fiona enlists Vera's aid, and when she finds out her new neighbor is a quilter, she has special request--a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "Shay Billings and January Schutt have been married four months when he's summoned by the local bank president to a meeting. With the final payment due on his land, Shay rides to town for the meeting, then is murdered on the way home . . . The bank president declares the loan in arrears and informs January the bank is taking everything except the clothes on her back. Devastated by Shay's death,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023