Wingate, Lisa.
Summary: After Karen Sommerfield is suddenly forced to deal with the threat of cancer at the same time her company downsizes her, she returns to the rural Missouri Ozarks and her grandmother's old farm on an odyssey to find herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Accent 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINWingate, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WINJoella, Ethan
Summary: From the author of A Little Hope--a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick--comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief. Chuck Ayers used to look forward to nothing so much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOEHornbacher, Marya
Summary: In the aftermath of her husband's devastating suicide, Claire Schiller moves with their two young children into the home of her in-laws during an oppressive Minnesota winter and shares unexpected moments of comfort, healing, and humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 1990
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Summary: With a wisdom far beyond his years, Colm has come to terms with his probable fate, but he does have one special wish. He wants to meet his father who abandoned his beloved mother before Colm was born. But the quest to find the dying boy's missing parent soon becomes a powerful journey of emotional discovery, a test of belief and an anxious search for proof of heaven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CURHays, Tommy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: The long friendship between art historian Leo Hertzberg and artist Bill Wechsler leads to a growing involvement between their two families as they deal with the joys, sorrows, tragedies, and loss that transform their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSSaul, John.
Summary: When her teenage daughter vanishes shortly after Kara Marshall and her husband put their Long Island home on the market, Kara fears the worst despite the suspicions of police that the girl is a runaway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAUCrow, Sarah McCraw
Summary: An early-1970s widow becomes increasingly dependent on the feminist activists her professor husband and she once disdained, before a frat party and a Vietnam War protest gone wrong threaten her daughter's prospects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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Summary: For Eva, the divorced and happily remarried mother of three children, and her adolescent middle child, Daisy, the death of Eva's second husband John in a car accident turns their lives upside down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMiller, 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 MilleJohnston, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHRice, Luanne.
Summary: In the halls of Newport Academy, a unique private school that has attracted generations of rebels, outcasts, and visionaries, a poignant and unforgettable lesson in the eternal truths of sisterhood is about to begin for Maggie Shaw, her fourteen-year-old daughter Beck, and her sixteen-year-old son Travis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HINBuchanan, Rowan Hisayo
Summary: '"This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration."--Lorrie Moore. Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Berlin, and Connecticut, following Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki's son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront the mother who abandoned him when he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCHarbison, Elizabeth M.
Summary: After the sudden death of her husband, Ben, Willa's grief made her an absentee mother to her young son, Jamie. Years later it's time to put their Ocean City, Maryland beach house on the market. But the house is in worse shape than she could have imagined, and the memories of her time with Ben are overwhelming. She sees him around every corner-- literally. Ben's ghost keeps trying to start...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Harbison 2018Adebayo, Ayobami
Summary: "A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADEBacon, Charlotte
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008