Fox, Helena
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Biz sees her father every day, though he died when she was seven. When he suddenly disappears, she tumbles into a disaster-land of grief and depression from which she must find her way back"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOXMeddour, Wendy
Summary: Henry loves talking with Grandpa, but Grandpa has stopped listening. Mom says to just give him time. But Henry wants to talk to Grandpa now. So Henry tries his favorite game--Top Threes. And something amazing happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MEDYumoto, Kazumi
Summary: When the Bear's friend, the little bird, dies, Bear is inconsolable. Full of grief, he locks himself in his house and ventures out again only when the smell of spring grass blows in through his window. He meets a wildcat and finally feels understood. As the cat plays his violin, Bear remembers all the fun he had with the little bird. Now he can say goodbye to his friend, because he knows he'll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2023
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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 REIMahdavi, Azam
Summary: "After a young girl's mother dies, Empty appears and silently takes up the big blank space left behind. For some time, the girl can't connect with her dad or any friends, and Empty is her closest companion. But then, a happy reminder of her mom pops up one day, and this bit of joy helps the little girl open up to the world around her. Empty stays around, but the little girl starts to connect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2023
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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 22-year-old Olivia learned that her mother had only months to live, she pulled up roots, leaving Vassar and her career plans far behind to be with her mother for her last days. And yet, just four months after her mother's death, everyone in Olivia's family already seems ready to move on. Her brothers are settled comfortably in careers and families of their own; her father has already...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANDe Goldi, Kate
Summary: "A series of earthquakes exposes the fault lines in a teenager's unconventional life in a powerful crossover novel that explores raw emotion with wit and warmth."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE GNavin, Rhiannon
Summary: Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION NAVPalmer, Bobby
Summary: A young man walks into the woods on the worst morning of his life and finds something there that will change everything. It's a tale that might seem familiar. But how it speaks to you will depend on how you've lived until now. Sometimes, to get out of the woods, you have to go into them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALKuhlman, Evan.
Summary: In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC KUHErnshaw, Shea
Summary: An illness cursing the land forces seventeen-year-old Vega, the Last Astronomer, to venture across the wilderness to discover the stars message that will save her people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ERNCurran-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 CURLevis, Caron.
Summary: A polar bear grieves over the loss of his companion, based on the real-life Gus and Ida of New York's Central Park Zoo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEVPetterson, Per
Summary: Unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident, Arvid Jansen, now divorced and living dangerously, is forced to come to terms with the fact that someone still needs him when his daughter reaches out to him for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETRedfearn, Suzanne
Summary: After a devastating car accident takes her life, 16-year-old Finn Miller, trapped between worlds, watches helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive after the tragedy and finds herself unable to move on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDReid, Taylor Jenkins
Summary: Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year's Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn't expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Ben cannot even wait twenty-four hours before asking to see her again. Within weeks, the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2013
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Summary: As his wedding day approaches, Zachary King begins to wonder if his entire life might be a big mistake, doubts that are only enhanced by the arrival of Norm, Zack's freewheeling, overbearing father, after a twenty-year absence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROWinston, Lolly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WINBrinkman, Kiara.
Summary: Struggling to deal with the loss of his mother, nine-year-old Sebby Lane goes with his father to live in the family's summerhouse, but as his father deteriorates in the isolation, Sebby reaches out to a favorite teacher back home and to nearby children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIMyerson, Julie.
Summary: Mary and Graham Coles move to a Suffolk cottage that hasn't been lived in for years. The large garden and beautiful apple orchard are exactly what they need to put the horror of the past behind them. Mary starts to sense something in the house-- children's whispers; footsteps; figures in the garden; a young man with red hair in the orchard. The Coles are unaware of the history of the house--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYENapolitano, Ann
Summary: "One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Napolitano 2020Pietrzyk, Leslie
Summary: This Angel on My Chest is a collection of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIECrossan, Sarah
Summary: As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of Ana Kelly's day-to-day is phone calls from the next of kin informing her that one of her clients has died. Nothing could have prepared Ana for the call from Rebecca Taylor, explaining in a strangely calm tone that her husband Connor was killed in an accident. Ana had been having an affair with Connor for three years, keeping their love secret in hotel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020