Lin, Chia-Chia
Summary: A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing , we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINHogan, Ruth
Summary: "They say friends make life worth living... Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, Masha's life was forever changed by a tragic event twelve years ago. Unable to let go of her grief, she finds comfort in her faithful canine companion Haizum, and peace in the quiet lanes of her town's swimming pool. Almost without her realizing it, her life has shuddered to a halt. It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2019
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Summary: After losing one of her children, Marie Egide relocates her family to New Hampshire to heal. But her plans are thwarted by a local war veteran known by locals as "the river witch" living in a cabin on the property. The two women clash, and battle lines are drawn within Marie's family and the town as each side fights for what they believe is right, the tension rising until it reaches its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2024
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Summary: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence -- but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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Summary: North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: The affluent Al-Menshawy family find their American dream shattered when a devastating turn of events leaves their eldest son and their neighbor's daughter dead, and, becoming pariahs in their upscale New Jersey community, they struggle to keep their family together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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Summary: Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, "Weights and measures," deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and "Ritz" tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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Summary: North Dakota, 1999. Landreaux Iron accidentally shoots and kills five-year-old Dusty Ravich, the son of his neighbors. The two families have always been close; Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's son LaRose. Horrified, Landreaux turns to tradition--prayer in an Ojibwe sweat lodge--for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of atonement, he and his wife will give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIConnors, Rose.
Summary: When can a citizen become a killer? Is homicidal insanity ever a moral or legal justification for murder? And what should a jury do when the facts are clear but they don't tell the real story? Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson, until recently a Massachusetts prosecutor, must ask herself those questions in her new role as defense attorney for Buck Hammond. The charge is murder one. When Buck's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONPayne, Melissa.
Summary: "Ten years ago, Claire Hines lost her unborn child--and her short-term memory--following a heartrending tragedy. With notebooks, calendars, to-do lists, fractured pieces of the past, and her father's support, Claire makes it through each day, hour by hour, with relative confidence. She also has a close-knit community of friends in the remote Alaskan town where she teaches guitar to the local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2004
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Summary: In early 20th century Pennsylvania, a few months after her sister's mysterious death, eight-year-old Violet befriends a motherless schoolmate, Stanley, who works as a breaker boy in the mines. Meanwhile, Violet's father and mother find other ways cope with their grief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYCoake, Christopher.
Summary: Getting his life back together after the death of his young son, Brendan, and his divorce, Mark Fife is jolted when he receives a call from a woman who owns his old house and claims it is haunted by Brendan's ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COABestor-Siegal, Amanda
Summary: Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family's American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault--the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: "US Marshal Regan Merritt never bought the FBI's theory that her ten-year-old son's murder was tied to her job. Yet as leads went cold, she'd had to walk away from the marshals, the case, and her now ex-husband, Grant, who blamed her for Chase's death. After Regan receives a chilling voice mail from her former boss, Tommy, claiming new information about Chase's murder, she can no longer stay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BREJohncock, Benjamin
Summary: "Jim Harrison is a test pilot in the United States Air Force in the post-World War II era and a young husband and father, but when his family is faced with a sudden inexplicable tragedy, his instincts as a father and a pilot are put to test as the family experiences both fear and hope"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: "When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Genevieve's seven-year-old son, KJ, has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well, a witness inexplicably left behind to tell the tale. There is no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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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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Summary: Willy Patrick finds her life intersecting with that of a stranger, Timothy Underhill, when she experiences an eerie event involving the death of her daughter and Timothy receives communications from dead people he had known in his youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVHijuelos, Oscar.
Summary: In New York, a father's worst nightmare arrives just before Christmas when Edward Ives learns his son Robert, 17, was murdered in the street for $10 by another teenager. The novel describes his coming to terms with his loss. By the author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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Summary: "From beloved bestselling author Ursula Hegi, a new novel about three mothers, set on the shores of the Nordsee, perfect for fans of Water for Elephants and The Light Between Oceans. In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus has come to the island Nordstrand in Germany. Big-bellied girls rush from St. Margaret's Home for Pregnant Girls, thrilled to see the parade and the show, followed by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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Summary: The devastating loss of their twin daughters in a flash flood turns the lives of Terry and Laura Sheldon upside down as their marriage is tested by grief, Terry's brief love affair, and their growing relationship with their foster child, a ten-year-old African American boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2002