Quindlen, Anna
Summary: When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are left to struggle without the woman who centered their lives. Bill Brown finds himself overwhelmed, and Annie's best friend Annemarie is lost to old bad habits without Annie's support. It is Annie's daughter, Ali, forced to try to care for her younger brothers and even her father, who manages to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: After losing all that is dear to him, Alan Christoffersen decides to take a walk from Bellevue, Washington, all the way to Key West, Florida.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVAEvans, Richard Paul.
Summary: Alan Christoffersen lost everything he held dear; his beloved wife was killed in a terrible accident; his partner stole his business from him; and the bank foreclosed on his home when he couldn't pay the mortgage. With seemingly nothing left to live for, Alan set out to walk from Seattle to the farthest point on the map, Key West. And now, after walking more than two thousand miles on a journey...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVADoctorow, E. L.
Summary: Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOCHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with addiction, depression and not one, but two, scandals. As summer nears, he travels to the idyllic Eastern bluff of Nantucket, where he takes his own life. In the shocking wake of Deacon's suicide, his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Laurel Rowe, sets out to gather Deacon's far-flung family, including Deacon and Laurel's son, and Deacon's other...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HILDoctorow, E. L.
Summary: Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DOCHood, Ann
Summary: On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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Summary: A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept secret about his wife. And a Jerusalem antiques dealer uses the desk in his family's study, which was devastated by the Nazis in 1944.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KRAMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Annie Marlow has been through the worst. Rocked by tragedy, she heads to the one place that makes her happy: Oceanside in the Pacific Northwest, the destintation of many family vacations when Annie was a teenager. Once there, Annie begins to restore her broken spirit, thanks in part to the folks she meets: a local painter, Keaton, whose large frame is equal to his big heart--and who helps Annie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACStewart, Leah
Summary: When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend, no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet. When an unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn't reply, despite Oliver's urging. But then he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SteTartt, Donna.
Summary: "The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TARSteel, Danielle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SteelBenway, Robin
Summary: Leo cant remember what happened the night of the accident. All she knows is that she left the party with her older sister, Nina, and Ninas boyfriend, East. And now Nina is dead, killed by a drunk driver and leaving Leo with a hole inside her thats impossible to fill. East, who loved Nina almost as much as Leo did, is the person who seems to most understand how she feels, and the two form a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BENMiller, Sue
Summary: Set in the vineyards of Northern California the story of a young girl who, in the wake of a tragic accident, seeks solace in a damaging love affair with a much older man.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MilleRice, Luanne.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RiceSchrank, Ben.
Summary: "[Decades ago, Peter Herman wrote a much-beloved book on marriage.] Now a widower, Peter finds himself in a new relationship and questioning his own advice. So when his publishing company decides to sponsor a contest for struggling couples-- with an afternoon of his counseling as the grand prize-- Peter must face up to truths he's struggled with for far too long" -- from publisher's web site.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCHBrunt, Carol Rifka
Summary: Her world upended by the death of a beloved artist uncle who was the only person who understood her, fourteen-year-old June is mailed a teapot by her uncle's grieving friend, with whom June forges a poignant relationship.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRUFoer, Jonathan Safran
Summary: Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOEJohnston, Tim
Summary: The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHBanville, John.
Summary: Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife Anna, returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and finds himself engulfed in thoughts and memories of a momentous summer spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his relationship with his grown daughter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BANHarding, Paul
Summary: A grieving Charlie Crosby (grandson of Tinkers protagonist George Washington Crosby) attempts to come to terms with the death of his daughter, Kate, and the subsequent dissolution of his marriage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: Anne Marie Roche, owner of a bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, marks Valentine's Day by making a wish list with other widows. Following her wish list, Anne Marie begins volunteering and meets Ellen. Together, they work to complete Anne Marie's wish list.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008