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Juliet still writes letters to her mother after her death and when Declan finds one beside her mother's grave, he writes back, sharing his pain with her, but soon real life interferes, and Juliet and Declan discover truths that may tear them apart.
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2017.
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English
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Turtle Alveston "has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And...
5) Ultimatum
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Sourcebooks Fire
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[2017]
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English
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When their mother dies, two very different brothers become even more distant, but when their father's alcoholism sends him into liver failure, the two boys must come face-to-face with their demons--and each other--if they are going to survive an uncertain future.
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Christmas Hope volume 6
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Relocating to an apartment with her two children to be closer to her mother, Gretchen offers to help clear out the home of a reclusive neighbor's recently deceased mother and discovers that the neighbor, Melissa, has two siblings and an identity that she never suspected.
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon, still dealing with the loss of her mother and baby sister two years earlier, and her grieving father's sudden decision to move to an isolated New England farmhouse, takes further steps into the adult world when she and her dad find an abandoned newborn clinging to life in the woods near their home, and later come to know the young mother and learn her story.
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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While his wife lies in a coma, Hawaiian Matthew King comes to terms with her living will, the realities of who his daughters truly are--one is a drug addict, the other an attention-seeking preteen--and the dilemma of telling his spouse's lover about her impending death.
10) The cactus
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Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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For Susan Green, messy emotions don't fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal for one, a job that suits her passion for logic and an 'interpersonal arrangement' that provides cultural and other, more intimate, benefits. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the news that she is about to become a mother herself, Susan's greatest fear is realized. She is losing control. When she learns that...
11) The far field
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present."--
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