Lawrence, Iain
Summary: Separated from his siblings in the midst of a dangerous forest fire, 11-year-old Virgil must find a way to survive using only his wits and the lessons his late mother taught him about the wilderness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LAWWarga, Jasmine
Summary: Cora is grappling with the death of her sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time and stop her brother.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WARCain, Susan
Summary: Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death, bitter and sweet, are forever paired. With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 155.2 CAIHernandez, Carlos Alberto
Summary: "When Sal Vidnon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. She is determined to prove that, somehow, Sal planted a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.LaCour, Nina
Summary: Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin feels the pull of the life and tragedy she's tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LACZentner, Jeff
Summary: "One day Carver Briggs had it all -- three best friends, a supportive family, and a reputation as a talented writer at his high school, Nashville Academy for the Arts. The next day he lost it all when he sent a simple text to his friend Mars, right before Mars, Eli, and Blake were killed in a car crash. Now Carver can't stop blaming himself for the accident, and he's not the only one. Eli's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZENAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEGould, Courtney
Summary: Two sisters travel to an isolated Arizona town to investigate its connection to their mothers death, but uncover more than they anticipated in this supernatural thriller. Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She cant stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, longing for a time when things were more normal....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GOUPan, Emily X. R.
Summary: Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother committed suicide, she turned into a bird and flew to her native Taiwan. On her journey to find her mother, Leigh must face her family's past and move towards a future of forgiveness and love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PANColes, Jay
Summary: When Marvin's brother, Tyler, is found dead, an online video shows he was killed by a police officer. Terrified as his mother unravels, Marvin must learn what justice and freedom really mean.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC COLFreeman, Brian
Summary: One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran's car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to shore. In the aftermath, through his grief, Dylan experiences sudden, strange visions: wherever he goes, he's haunted by glimpses of himself. Dylan initially chalks it up to trauma, but that changes when he runs into a psychiatrist who claims he's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FREHill, Joe.
Summary: After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILHugo, Lynne
Summary: After losing her husband, Harold, and her beloved grandson, Cody, within the past year, Louisa has two choices. She can fade away on her Indiana family farm, where her companionship comes courtesy of her aging chickens and an argumentative cat. Or, she can concoct A Plan. Louisa, a retired schoolteacher who's as smart, sassy, and irreverent as ever, isn't the fading away type. The drunk driver...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUGMcBride, Amber
Summary: A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family, and a teen boy who crosses her path. Moth has lost her family in an accident. Though she lives with her aunt, she feels alone and uprooted. Until she meets Sani, a boy who is also searching for his roots. If he knows more about where he comes from, maybe he'll be able to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCBOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OATOrenstein, Peggy
Summary: The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, lifelong knitter Peggy Orenstein set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater. Orenstein shares her year-long journey as daughter, wife, mother,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 OREWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: When a woman lawyer's recent marriage is turned upside down by her preschool-age stepson, the situation is further complicated by the death of her newborn daughter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALWarga, Jasmine
Summary: "Cora hasn't spoken to her best friend Quinn in a year. Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. On the day of Cora's twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Dellaira, Ava.
Summary: It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because she thought he'd understand since he died young just like her sister, May, did. She even writes about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio on MP 3-CD 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DELKiyoko, Hayley
Summary: Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her breakthrough hit song and viral video, GIRLS LIKE GIRLS. Its summertime and 17-year-old Coley has found herself alone, again. Forced to move to rural Oregon after just losing her mother, she is in no position to risk her already fragile heart. But when she meets Sonya, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KIYNathan, Amy Sue
Summary: When a tragic car accident ends the life of Richard Glass, it also upends the lives of Evie and Nicole, and their children. There's no love lost between the widow and the ex. In fact, Evie sees a silver lining in all this heartache-- the chance to rid herself of Nicole once and for all. But Evie wasn't counting on her children's bond with their baby half-brother, and she wasn't counting on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NATSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Steel, Danielle
Summary: Two brave women, estranged sisters, get the chance to connect and right the wrongs of the past, turning wrenching loss into reconnection and a family reunited after bringing dark secrets into the light.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC SteelFord, Richard
Summary: A new collection of stories about memory, love and loss.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020