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: "Evi--a classically-trained ballerina--was nine months pregnant when her husband Eamon was killed in the line of duty on a steamy morning in July. Now, it is winter, and Eamon's adopted brother Dalton has moved in to help her raise six-month-old Noah"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROMichaels, Fern
Summary: Swindled out of his home by his gold-digging wife, successful accountant Gus Hollister returns to his grandmother Rose's Virginia farmhouse where he helps the residents of Blossom Farm expand their business and finds the courage to love again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Michaels 2013Wingate, 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 JOETan, Amy.
Summary: In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORWoolf, Virginia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOORice, Luanne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RiceHays, 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 HAYMaynard, Joyce
Summary: After losing her mother in the September 11th attacks, young Wendy moves in with her father in California, where she meets her father's girlfriend and a sad bookstore owner while missing her half-brother back in New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYCurran-Hackett, Mary.
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 CURHustvedt, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROJohncock, Benjamin
Summary: A U.S. Air Force test pilot passes up the chance to become an astronaut after his wife gets pregnant against all odds, and as fatherhood consumes him, a sudden tragedy puts his instincts as a father and as a pilot to the test.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHTrigiani, Adriana.
Summary: Ambitious teen Nella, the daughter of an Italian family from a small Pennsylvania village, aspires to live in society far from the rigors of farm life, a dream that is compromised when a poet she loves mysteriously disappears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCIMiller, Sue
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.
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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 JOHReisman, Nancy
Summary: "During a vacation in Rome, the Murphy family experiences a life-altering tragedy. In the immediate aftermath, James, Nora, and their children find solace in their Massachusetts coast home, but as the years pass the weight of the loss disintegrates the increasingly fragile marriage and leaves its mark on each family member. Trompe l'Oeil seamlessly alternates among several characters' points of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIRice, 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