Ahern, Cecelia
Summary: "Seven years after her husband's death -- six since she read his final letter -- Holly Kennedy has moved on with her life. When Holly's sister asks her to tell the story of the "PS, I Love You" letters on her podcast -- to revisit the messages Gerry wrote before his death to read after his passing -- she does so reluctantly, not wanting to reopen old wounds. But after the episode airs, people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AHEScottoline, Lisa
Summary: Jason Bennett is a suburban dad and an elite court reporter, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving with his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them on a dark stretch or road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. He complies, getting his family and their dog out of the car....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCOMcKinnon, Hannah Mary
Summary: When Josh's longtime partner, Grace, dies in a tragic accident, he is left with a mess of grief and full custody of her seven-year-old son, Logan. Wanting to do right by Logan, Josh begins the process of becoming his legal guardian, something that Grace always brushed off as an unnecessary formality. But now Josh begins to wonder whether there were more troubling reasons for Grace's reluctance...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MCKPatterson, James
Summary: "At Christmastime, a family of three are missing someone dear to them. Until unexpected guests begin to arrive at their empty house, filling it with Christmas memories in the making."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PATO'Sullivan, Colin
Summary: In near-future Japan, Susie Sakamoto mourns her family's death by drinking and abusing her husband's home robot. But when she tries to reprogram it for ill intent, she lands in a corporate war of sentient machines.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC O'SUQuindlen, 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: When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy's father. Katy has been waiting...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SERBenway, 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 BENWilson, Susan
Summary: A worried mom takes her daughter to a new town to get a fresh start by opening a bed & breakfast, where the daughter bonds with a rescued pit bull who helps mother, daughter and his owner recover from trust issues to build a family together.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Wilson 2017Scottoline, Lisa
Summary: "Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A flash of violence changes his life forever. Later that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2022
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Summary: After his daughter is killed, Farley returns from Alaska to his former life in Portland. There, he strikes up a friendship with a single mother and her daughter, until the girl goes missing. Facing a chance to do what he couldn't for his own daughter, Farley ventures into Portland's quirky and dangerous underworld to save her life, along with the shattered remains of his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: In the small town of West Annett, Maine in the 1950's, the minister Tyler Caskey is still grieving two years after the death of his wife. One daughter, Jeannie is sent upstate to live with his overbearing mother. The other Katherine has become antisocial. Tyler turns to his housekeeper Connie Hatch when her teacher suggests Katherine speak to the school counselor. This starts gossip about...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC StrouHarding, 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 HARBurke, James Lee
Summary: While investigating a homicide, Dave Robicheaux, who is struggling with PTSD, alcoholism, and the loss of his wife, suspects he may have been the killer and endeavors to clear his name and make sense of the killing.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
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Summary: After tragedy befalls Preston and Constance Whittier, their adult children reunite in the family home without their parents for the first time, and they must put aside their personal issues and grief to keep the family whole.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC STESteel, Danielle
Summary: After tragedy befalls Preston and Constance Whittier, their adult children reunite in the family home without their parents for the first time, and they must put aside their personal issues and grief to keep the family whole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Joshua and Lauren are the perfect couple. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As Lauren's disease progresses, Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife. He's so consumed with finding a way to avoid the inevitable ending that he never imagines his life after Lauren. But Lauren has a plan to keep her husband moving forward. A plan hidden in the letters...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIGCisneros, Sandra.
Summary: The word "orphan" might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like "a glove left behind at the bus station." What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CISConroy, Pat.
Summary: Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONRice, Luanne.
Summary: "In the five years since Julia last visited her aunt and uncle's home in Malibu, her life has been turned upside down by her daughter's death. She expects to find nothing more than peace and solitude as she house-sits with only her dog, Bonnie, for company. But she finds herself drawn to the handsome man who oversees the lemon orchard. Roberto expertly tends the trees, using the money to...
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 RICTyler, Anne.
Summary: Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, independent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. He marries her, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy's unexpected appearances...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TYLCave, Nick
Summary: Set adrift by his wife's suicide and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. To his son, waiting patiently in the car while his father peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely housewives in the south of England, Bunny is a hero. But Bunny himself, haunted by what might be his wife's ghost, seems only...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan (Faber & Faber) 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAVSchrank, 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 SCHTyler, Anne.
Summary: "Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012