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42) Haunting Rachel
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Rachel Grant, a young woman whose fiancee, Thomas Sheridan, disappeared days before their wedding, returns to Richmond, Virginia ten years later to settle her family estate and comes face-to-face with a man who could be Thomas.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life In her celebrated 2001 collection, My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum offered a bold, witty, defining account of the artistic ambitions, financial anxieties, and mixed emotions of her generation. The Unspeakable is an equally bold and witty, but also a sadder and wiser, report from early middle age. It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide,"...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From award-winning novelist Idra Novey comes a "deft and surprising novel" with two unforgettable female voices. (Rumaan Alam) Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for herself in the city as a young mother and academic. Now that...
45) The funeral
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Norma and her parents are going to her great-uncle Frank's funeral, and Norma is more excited than sad. She is looking forward to playing with her favorite cousin, Ray, but when she arrives at the church, she is confronted with rituals and ideas that have never occurred to her before. While not all questions can be answered, when the day is over Norma is certain of one thing: Uncle Frank would have enjoyed his funeral. This sensitive and life-affirming...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town"--
Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ready for the first day of school at Billington High. A few months into her retirement Mary Alice does not know how to fill her days....
47) On my own
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--
48) Rabbit hole
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Becca and Howie Corbett, once a happy suburban couple, are learning to reengage with each other in the wake of a devastating loss.
Author
Language
English
Description
Emily is devastated when her husband, Sandy, dies in a tragic accident, and as her life crumbles around her, she finds solace in the company of Einstein, an intuitive white dog, unaware that Sandy's soul has taken up residence in Einstein and that Sandy is trying to help Emily build a new future for herself.
50) The letters
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Parting ways after the sudden death of their only son, Sam and Hadley West retreat to opposite sides of the country, but the couple exchanges written letters while Sam treks out to the crash site in Alaska via dogsled, and Hadley moves into a slightly haunted house in Maine, with intentions to start painting again.
51) A Family Affair
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Life’s biggest dilemmas can provide its sweetest rewards 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,...
Author
Publisher
Peake Road
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Widow of Challenger commander Dick Scobee tells how she was able to deal with the space shuttle disaster that killed her husband through faith in God, help from good friends, and by channeling her energies into the establishment of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education in Houston.
56) Regret to inform
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
Description
Venturing to Vietnam twenty years after her husband was killed in a mortar attack, Barbara Sonneborn finds a mesmerizing landscape filled with psychic remnants of war. Getting beyond the physical and emotional devastation, she talks to those on all sides of the struggle, discovering a common bond in loss and ultimately understanding.
57) A ghost story
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.
Author
Language
English
Description
In her luminous and long-awaited new novel, bestselling author Elizabeth Strout welcomes readers back to northern New England in the late 1950's.Tyler Caskey has come to love West Annett. The short, brilliant summers and the sharp, piercing winters fill him with awe-as does his congregation, full of good people who seek his guidance and listen earnestly as he preaches. But after suffering a terrible loss, Tyler finds it hard to return to himself as...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the private jokes, ancient grudges, broken hearts, and deep, abiding love that feeds them all. Here are the three things the Sullivan family knows to be true: the Chicago Cubs will always be the underdogs; historical progress is inevitable; and their grandfather, Bud, founder of JP Sullivan's, will always make the best burgers in Oak Park. But when, over...
Author
Language
English
Description
Katherine Givens, following the wishes of her friend Annie who has died of ovarian cancer at the age of fifty-six, calls together four other women who have been important in Annie's life, and together they travel across the country sprinking Annie's ashes in designated places, and reevaluating their own lives and choices.
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