Welford, Ross
Summary: Twelve-year-old Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad's time machine and travels back to 1984 with his pet hamster to prevent the go-kart accident that killed his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WELCrosby, Tanya Anne
Summary: Raised as an only child, Caia Paine once believed she had everything she would ever need to live a rich and contented life. The last thing she ever expected was that she would wake up one morning, despairing, and so full of loathing that even the sky is darkened by the potency of her anger. After her only son, Jack, is taken from her in a tragic accident, Caia finds herself obsessed with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Story Plant 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROGoudge, Eileen.
Summary: Colin McGinty's grandfather, a famous artist, is best known for his haunting portrait Woman in Red, which happens to be of Alice Kessler's grandmother. In a tale that weaves the past with the present, we come to know the story behind the portrait, of a forbidden wartime romance between William McGinty and Eleanor Styles, and a deadly secret---one that is about to be unburied, as the ghost of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOUBowen, Rhys
Summary: Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWHarrison, Kathryn.
Summary: A New York psychoanalyst in the midst of a midlife crisis, William Moreland comes face to face with a woman he had loved twenty-five years earlier during a college reunion, an encounter that leads to shocking revelations about their relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARReich, Christopher
Summary: "Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn't dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind-back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2024
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Summary: "A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CosbyMcCluskey, Mary
Summary: Kat and Scott Hamilton are dealing with the hardest of losses: the death of their only child. While Scott throws himself back into his law practice in Los Angeles, Kat is hesitant to rejoin the workplace and instead spends her days shell-shocked and confused, unable to focus. When an unwelcome face from Kat’s past in England emerges—the beautiful and imposing Sarah Cherrington—Kat’s marriage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCBedford, Deborah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEDSmith, Jake
Summary: James McConnell's one wish is that his nine-year-old son Aaron will finally be healthy enough to play a game of catch. Dying of cancer, Aaron wishes to see his father play in a major league baseball game. James fears he doesn't have the talent it takes, even for one game, and that he'll miss what could be Aaron's precious last weeks. Yet how can he refuse his dying son's wish?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIKoffi, Sara
Summary: "After her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth Smith's picture-perfect life in the Memphis suburbs has spiraled out of control-so much so that she hires a personal assistant to keep her on track. Composed and elegant, Brianna is exactly who she needs and slides so neatly into Elizabeth's life, almost like she belonged there from the start. Soon, the assistant Elizabeth hired to distract...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KOFBerry, Lucinda
Summary: "Therapist turned stay-at-home mom Jules Hart's idyllic suburban life shatters when she crashes her car into an icy lake. Her son and another teenage boy plunge into the water with her, but Jules can only manage to save one--the wrong one. Reeling from the death of her son, Jules spirals into a violent and unstable mental state. Ten months after the accident, she's still trying to reckon with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023
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Summary: James McConnell's one wish is that his nine-year-old son will finally be healthy enough to play a game of catch. Then he and his wife, Emily, receive news they've dreaded: Aaron's cancer has relapsed. As the family steels themselves for a draining treatment regimen in yet another hospital, Aaron receives the gift of a lifetime--a personal visit from one of his favorite professional baseball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC SMIWood, Monica.
Summary: After his eleven-year-old son dies, guitarist Quinn Porter does yard work for an aged Lithuanian immigrant, Ona Vitkus, whom his son had often visited and comes to a resolution about his son's death as Ona discusses his son's capacity to listen and learn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOCandlish, Louise
Summary: The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among warehouses in London. Its roof terrace is so discreet, you wouldn't know it existed if you weren't standing at the window of the flat directly opposite. But you are. And that's when you see a man up there--a man you'd recognize anywhere. He may be older now, but it's definitely him. But that can't be because he's been dead for over two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANSteel, Danielle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STESteel, Danielle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEHarrigan, Stephen
Summary: Landing a commission by taciturn rancher Lamar Clayton to create a memorial statue of a son killed in World War I, proud artistic exile Francis "Gil" Gilheany and his daughter realize that Lamar is guarding a secret that parallels a lie Gil fears may cost him his daughter's love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHemmings, Kaui Hart.
Summary: "The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically-acclaimed bestseller THE DESCENDANTS ("Audaciously comic" -The New Yorker), a novel about a mother grieving her son's death in a Colorado resort town who is faced with another shock-the appearance of astrange girl carrying a secret that will change their lives irrevocably. "--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMJuliano, Jimmy
Summary: Clifford Island. When Willow Stone finds these words written on the floor of her deceased son's bedroom, she's perplexed. She's never heard of it before, but soon learns it's a tiny island off of Wisconsin's Door County peninsula, 200 miles from Willow's home. Why would her son write this on his floor? Determined to find answers, Willow sets out for the island. After a few days on Clifford,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JULAustin, Alex
Summary: Absenting himself for a brief intimacy with a former girlfriend, Hugh Mcpherson leaves his surfing obsessed sons on an isolated California beach. When he returns, the eleven-year-old twins have vanished. A ferocious riptide has swept Takumi and Hitoshi out to sea, their bodies unrecovered. Devastated by the loss, Hugh and his Japanese wife Setsuko divorce. Severing all ties to America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Permanent Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSWelford, Ross.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad's time machine and travels back to 1984 with his pet hamster to prevent the go-kart accident that killed his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WELFujiwara, Kiyo.
Summary: "With the sudden appearance of his long lost father, Rakuto must deal with a whole new world of emotions--feelings of betrayal and abandonment followed by anger. For a guy used to keeping himself on a thight leash, these emotions may be more than he can cope with. Will Sachie be able to help him keep it together?"--p. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WILKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: A mother, a boy and a dog against the night. Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his 11 years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. And he's not alone in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2020