Conroy, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONChappell, Connie
Summary: When Callie MacCallum sews her first quilt after the death of her lover Jack Sebring, she doesn't realize she'll be drawn into a Sebring family battle between wife and daughter-in-law. She simply wants to fulfill her promise to Jack to visit their cabin in the West Virginia mountains, where their long love affair was safely hidden. Instead, her emotionally reminiscent trip becomes crowded with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHADev, Sonali
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Vibrant Years comes an emotional story of three women navigating ugly truths and safe lies with only love to guide them on a journey of motherhood, friendship, and life. Bestselling advice columnist Vandy Guru built her career teaching others how to live honestly and courageously, but after the loss of her husband, Vandy's public veneer can barely conceal her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEVGersen, Hannah
Summary: "The heart of Friday Night Lights meets the emotional resonance and nostalgia of My So-Called Life in this moving debut novel about tradition, family, love, and football. As the high school football coach in his small, rural Maryland town, Dean is a herowho reorganized the athletic program and brought the state championship to the community. When he married Nicole, the beloved town sweetheart,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow Paperbacks 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GERBernard, C. B.
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: "From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping, heartbreaking novel of friendship, memory, and the lives we never get to live. At eleven years old, Jules Moreau loses his parents in a tragic accident, and in an instant, his childhood is shattered. Leaving a comfortable home in Munich and holidays in the south of France far behind, he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELQuan, Betty
Summary: "Grandmother lives with Grace's family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day. Suddenly, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2018
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OATReyes, Ana
Summary: "Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they'd started spending time with that summer. Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "Devastated by the sudden death of her mother -- a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, who overflowed with pearls of Ozarks wisdom but never spoke of her own family -- Sutton Douglas makes the impulsive decision to pack up and head north to the Michigan resort town where she believes she'll find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "Anna McNichol is at the peak of her career and ready to focus on her future. But when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed world falls apart. The mysterious young woman at the memorial service confirms her husband had been keeping secrets, and Anna is determined to get to the truth. For once, she doesn't have the answers. Her kids are struggling with their grief, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARHiggins, Kristan
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIGSteel, 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: 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: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "A story about loss and connection. After his grandfather dies, a young boy tries to deal with his grief and imagines where his grandfather is"--OCLC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEECarr, Robyn
Summary: Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in 'till death do us part.' Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CarrShipman, Viola
Summary: Bestselling author Viola Shipman delights with this captivating summertime escape set along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, where a woman searches for clues to her secretive mother's past. Devastated by the sudden death of her mother--a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, who overflowed with pearls of Ozarks wisdom but never spoke of her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIDonohue, Meg
Summary: "As a pet bereavement counselor, Maggie Brennan spends her days helping patients come to terms with losing their four-legged friends, but she's struggling with major problems of her own and can't seem to take her own advice. When she meets a woman who claims her dog is not dead, but missing, Maggie finds herself entangled in a mystery that will force her to face her biggest fear--and maybe just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DONWilliams-Garcia, Rita
Summary: Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILMcKinnon, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and "one of our greatest living writers" (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022