Fleet, Carole Brody.
Summary: Widowhood is a frightening prospect for any woman, but becoming a widow in one's forties, thirties, or twenties can be terrifying. This book deals sensitively with the many problems and questions facing the young widow: depression and grief, helping children cope, facing in-laws, and returning to work. The authors also address practical concerns including financial considerations and personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Horizon Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.70086 FLEWiggs, Susan
Summary: Widowed by an unspeakable tragedy, Camille Palmer has made her peace with the past and settled into the quiet safety of life with her teenage daughter, Julie, in a sleepy coastal town. Then the arrival of a mysterious package breaks open the door to her family's secret past. In uncovering a hidden history, Camille has no idea that she's embarking on an adventure that will utterly transform...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIGLin, Amy
Summary: "Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young architect who pulls her toward joy, adventure, and greater self-acceptance. But on a sweltering August morning, only a few months shy of the newlyweds' move to Vancouver, thirty-two-year-old Kurtis heads out to run a half-marathon with Amy's family. It is the last time she sees her husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zibby Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1991
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.88 BRORehm, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REHM, DIANE REHHefner, Crystal
Summary: "A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman's stolen young adulthood and her journey to self-acceptance, and a rare look inside Hugh Hefner's final days. Crystal offers a vulnerable and clear-eyed look at how her experience with Hugh Hefner catalyzed her transformative journey from someone who prized external validation over all else to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: "When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season -- no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Contents: Celebration / Barbara Moorman -- A new life / Brenda Elliott -- Unconditional love / Claudia Mayorga -- Deafening silence / Dorothy Ostenfeld -- Death's messenger / Eva Bell -- My Josie / Ronn Venable -- Life without Larry / Julie Raque -- Dear Jon / Laurel Sparks -- Georgia's goodbye / Mike Smith -- Soul mates / Paula Meyers -- When "till death us do part" does / Saramina Berman -- Life's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AuthorHouse 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 MENDunnan, Nancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 DUNContents: Moving on down the road : organize your finances -- Watch out for tolls : develop a meaningful budget -- Plan your trip : develop a long-term financial plan -- Make a few pit stops : insure your assets -- Check your map : routes to investing well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dearborn Trade Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 SURByrne, M. V.
Summary: "To the tourists and summer residents, Kentwater County is a picturesque community of small-town charm, fruitful farmland, and gorgeous freshwater beaches. To middle-aged widow Isabel Puddles, it's where she enjoys breakfast every morning at a local caf©♭ with her childhood best friend and spends her evenings cozying up with a good book and her devoted Jack Terrier, Jackpot. In between, Isabel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYRCampbell, Ramsey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMDeraniyagala, Sonali.
Summary: A memoir of the author's experiences as a survivor of the 2004 tsunami that killed her parents, husband, and two young sons recounts her struggles with profound grief and survivor's guilt and her gradual steps toward healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIDION, JOAN DIDMay, Peter
Summary: When a murder rocks the isolated community of Entry Island, insomniac homicide detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at St. Hubert airfield bound for the small, scattered chain of Madeline Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as part of an eight-officer investigation team from Montréal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MAYMrazek, Robert J.
Summary: "When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FINCH MRANicholson, Virginia.
Summary: Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during World War I, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort. Drawing upon a wealth of memoirs, this book tells the inspiring stories of these women: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.81 NICNwabineli, Onyi
Summary: Quentin was the love of Eve's life, despite his penchant for going incommunicado. On New Year's Eve, he killed himself. And Eve is the one who found him. On an emotional journey through unimaginable loss, Eve is pulled along by her tight-knit Nigerian family, a posse of new friends, and the love and laughter she shared with her husband. But she is not okay. -- adapted from back cover and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: When Miss Julia's new friend, Hazel, disappears after going on a date with an upright church member, Miss Julia and little Lloyd must go in search for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSWillett, Marcia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILAikman, Becky.
Summary: Describes the author's experiences as a young widow and the pivotal relationships she forged with five other widows, recounting the stories of their losses and bravery as exchanged throughout a year of monthly Saturday night meetings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 AIKBlock, Barbara.
Summary: When amateur detective Robin Light becomes a prime murder suspect, she unearths unsavory information about her late husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 1994