Monica Wood
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A gripping and compassionate tale of family and faith, whispers and accusations, and the deeply hidden truths we're compelled to uncover.
After surviving a near-fatal accident, thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell faces a long road to recovery. She remembers little about the days she spent in and out of consciousness, save for one thing: She saw her beloved deceased uncle, Father Mike, the man who raised her in the rectory of his Maine church until...
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The bestselling author of The One-in-a-Million Boy has crafted a story collection that "illuminates the grace in the average and everyday" of a small town (San Francisco Chronicle).
In ten interlinking stories, the town of Abbot Falls reacts as Ernie Whitten, pipefitter, builds a giant ark in his backyard. Ernie was weeks away from a pension-secured retirement when the union went on strike. Now his wife Marie is ill. Struck with sudden inspiration,...
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2024
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English
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From the acclaimed author of When We Were the Kennedys and Any Bitter Thing, the incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house'a friendship that touches each member of the boy's unmoored family
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Cecilia has a mom who always tells her no! Any time she wants to have fun, her mom says no! Until one day, Cecilia's mom decides to take her on an adventure. An adventure full of yes and yeses! ¡Cecilia tiene una madre que siempre le dice no! Cada vez que quiere divertirse, su madre dice: ¡No! Hasta que un día, la madre de Cecilia decide llevar a su niña por un viaje imprevisto. ¡Un viaje lleno de sí y síes!
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
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[2012]
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English
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Winner of the Sarton Memoir Award. "[A] marvel of storytelling, layered and rich . . an account of one family's grief, love, and resilience" ( Maine Sunday Telegram ). Mexico, Maine, 1963: The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on the fathers' wages from the Oxford Paper Company. But when Dad suddenly dies on his way to work, Mum and the four deeply connected Wood girls are set adrift. When We Were the...