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1) Here's to us
Author
Language
English
Description
Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with addiction, depression and not one, but two scandals. As summer nears, he travels to the idyllic Eastern bluff of Nantucket, where he takes his own life. In the shocking wake of Deacon's suicide, his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Laurel Rowe, sets out to gather Deacon's far-flung family--including Deacon and Laurel's son, and Deacon's other ex-wives and children--on the island. Secrets are revealed,...
Author
Series
Walk volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With this New York Times bestseller, the beloved Walk series ends as Alan Christoffersen reaches his destination and the beginning of a new life: "Definitely a journey worth taking" (Booklist).
After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after bankruptcy forced him from his home, Alan Christoffersen embarked on a daring cross-country journey—a walk across...
After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after bankruptcy forced him from his home, Alan Christoffersen embarked on a daring cross-country journey—a walk across...
4) Stay with me
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves" --
5) Summerland
Author
Publisher
Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
7) One summer
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
Author
Series
Walk volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In St. Louis, Alan Christoffersen faces another life-changing crisis, putting his journey to grace in jeopardy.
11) Descent
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A "girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning, all the more devastating for its mystery--is the beginning [of her family's] harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: at what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life?"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Raised in Pennsylvania, Zinzi Clemmons's heroine Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor--someone, or something, to love"--
13) Glimpse
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A "thriller that explores what happens when reality and nightmares converge, and how far one will go to protect the innocent when their own brain is a threat"--Amazon.com.
14) Wild orchids
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Devastated by the loss of his wife, author Ford Newcombe is barely able to function until he meets university researcher Jackie Maxwell, a woman who offers both literary inspiration and a chance for new love.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Trying to escape her worthless life leads to unexpected and disastrous consequences when Sue Ellen steals money and a raft and embarks on a journey to dig up her best friend's body, burn it, and sprinkle the ashes in Hollywood.
17) The goodbye book
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and brief text relate how a person might feel when they lose someone they love.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Considered one of George Eliot's finest achievements, "The Mill on the Floss" is famed for its unsurpassed description of English rural life and for its striking, superbly drawn heroine, Maggie Tulliver. This novel's unsentimental evocation of childhood stands as an enduring triumph.
Author
Language
English
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Description
What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live? One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband....
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