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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Sam Paretta is dead, killed in a plane crash. Even though it's been fourteen months since the accident, his mother, Telly, still grieves over the loss. But suddenly, her husband swears they never had a child and her psychiatrist insists she's delusional. Worst of all, there is absolutely no evidence to prove Sam ever existed. Haunted by the memories of her son, Telly's search for the truth propels her into a dark mind-shattering conspiracy...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Emilia, a Harvard law school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After they marry, her happiness unexpectedly turns to grief with the death of their infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia is determined to carry on as she attempts to forge a connection with her stepson William and resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.
3) A single man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A story that centers on an English professor who, after the sudden death of his partner tries to go about his typical day in Los Angeles.
4) Low country
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caroline Venable, the wife of a wealthy land developer, is still struggling to come to terms with the death of her daughter five years earlier, and when her husband reveals his plans to build a resort on a family-owned island which has always been Caroline's only refuge, she knows she must do something to redeem herself and the land.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After his wife's death, Joe Warr attempts to raise his young son, Artie, alone and adopts a parenting style that abandons rules, a situation which is further complicated by the arrival of Joe's estranged teenage son from a previous marriage.
6) 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
Formats
Description
From author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961. New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Halderson's Drug Store soda counter, and "Hot Stuff "comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who's particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he's right. What do you do when evil lives next door? Can someone...
10) Blue: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills-until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe. Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident-and wrestling...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder...
16) Norwegian wood
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Description
Toru, a young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, but before they can find true love with one another, they must come to terms with the tragic death of their best friend.
17) Demolition
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Davis Mitchell, a successful investment banker, struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Despite pressure from his father in law, Phil, to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel. What starts as a complaint letter to a vending machine company turns into a series of letters revealing startling personal admissions. Davis' letters catch the attention of customer service rep, Karen Mareno and amidst emotional and financial burdens...
18) Goodbye Mousie
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A boy grieves for his dead pet Mousie, helps to bury him, and begins to come to terms with his loss.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son's body.
Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death,...
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