Summary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MAGRehm, Diane
Summary: "In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 REHM, DIANE RehRehm, Diane.
Summary: "In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REHM, DIANE REHBrothers, Joyce.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1991
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.88 BRODidion, Joan.
Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.54 DidioDidion, Joan.
Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 DIDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 DIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.54 DidCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIDION, JOAN DIDOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: Joyce Carol Oates shares her struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 813 OATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self H Greif OatesHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: "Irene Steele is still recovering from the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a helicopter crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her sons are on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HILMack, Stephanie Madoff.
Summary: The widow of Mark Madoff and daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff presents an insider's account as an unsuspecting member of the family associated with the audacious Ponzi scheme, describing her idyllic marriage, her belief in her husband's innocence, their ordeals at the height of the media frenzy and her husband's tragic suicide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 MACDarling, Lynn.
Summary: "Combining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love, Lynn Darling's powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of the Woods. When hercollege-bound daughter leaves home, Lynn Darling, widowed over a decade earlier, finds herself alone--and utterly lost, with no idea of what...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARLING, LYNN DARJowell, Barbara Tom.
Summary: This valuable resource provides tools and step-by-step strategies for every stage of the recovery from divorce or death. Includes tips on staying on top of your finances, buying or selling a home or car, starting or joining a support group, dealing with lawyers, doctors, and other professionals, drawing on your life experiences to fins a job or rejuvenate a career, and socializing and dating...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 JOWMcInerny, Nora
Summary: Life has a million different ways to kick you right in the chops. We lose love, lose jobs, lose our sense of self. For Nora McInerny, it was losing her husband, her father, and her unborn second child in one catastrophic year. But in the wake of loss, we get to assemble something new from whatever is left behind. Some circles call finding happiness after loss "Chapter 2"--the continuation of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCINERNY, NORA MCICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B NORA MCINERNY MCIKyle, Taya
Summary: The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and family, service and patriotism, grief and sacrifice, faith and purpose.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KYLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KYLE, TAYA KYLGarlock, Dorothy.
Summary: Sunset, Missouri, 1954. In postwar America, young widow Clara Sinclair finds her life changed by daring stranger Drake McCoy's unexpected kindness. Can their love survive the vicious, unseen enemy that is closing in fast?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARGraham, Laurie
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 GRAHAHoward, Beth M.
Summary: Relates the sudden death of the author's husband and her decision to pack up the RV he left behind and embark on a cross-country journey, during which she used America's quintessential comfort food and the simple act of giving to overcome tragedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOWARD, BETH M. HowardCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self H Grief HowardSpencer, LaVyrle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEAllen, Charlotte Vale
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: A New York woman's perfect life comes crashing down when her husband and children are murdered in a car jacking. The novel chronicles her recovery from bouts of depression and thoughts of suicide by starting a business of her own and finding a man. By the author of Angel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAKing, Coretta Scott
Summary: "The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, CORETTA SCOTT KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KING REYKing, Coretta Scott
Summary: The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 KING, CORETTA SCOTT KinHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a plane crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her sons are back on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HILHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a plane crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her sons are back on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILHenderson, Artis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014