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41) Sacred
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since her older brother died Scarlett has felt emotionally cut off from everyone on Catalina Island except for her horse, and she has become anorexic--but when she meets a strange boy named Will Cohen she begins to rediscover herself.
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this collection, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales filled with opposites: the boredom and brutality of war; modern urban life and rural traditions; tender desire and sudden violence. Mandanipour delivers fierce social critique in stories steeped in the beauty of an ancient land and culture.
44) Playing hurt
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chelsea Keyes, a high school basketball star whose promising career has been cut short by a terrible accident on the court, and Clint Morgan, a nineteen-year-old ex-hockey player who gave up his sport following a game-related tragedy, meet at a Minnesota lake resort and find themselves drawn together by the losses they have suffered.
45) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
A wordless picture book about the inspiring friendship that develops between a bluebird and a young boy.
46) Elisabeth
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Forced to flee the Nazis, a young girl and her family eventually end up in the United States where, years later, she is improbably reunited with the beloved doll she left behind in Germany.
47) New mercies
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inheriting a historic Mississippi family home she knows little about, Nora Bondurant moves to the house hoping to forget her unhappy past but becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding her aunt's untimely death.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The lives and changing fortunes of three generations of a once-powerful and socially prominent family are chronicled in this vivid tale of the corrupting influence of greed and materialism. As the rapidly turning wheels of industry and commerce overtake old ways in th eearly twentieth century and change the definitions of ambition, success, and loyalty, the prominence and prestige of the Amberson family irreversibly changes as well.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
51) Thunder and rain
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Modern cowboy Tyler Steele must raise his son, Brodie, save his ranch, and rebuild his life after his wife leaves him for being emotionally distant and ultimately learns that being a man means confronting your true weaknesses.-Modern cowboy Tyler Steele must raise his son, Brodie, save his ranch, and rebuild his life after his wife leaves him for being emotionally distant. Samantha and her daughter, Hope, are on the run from an abusive ex who has...
52) The fire
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
When their house is destroyed by fire and everything is lost except a stuffed bear and a family photograph, Mama reminds Maria and her little brother, Pepito, that they still have their most important possession.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The fourth novel by Wendy Walker, author of All Is Not Forgotten"--
One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. She doesn't want to be found. Or at least, that's the story. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family that couldn't be put back together. They called it a 'walk away.' It happens all the time. Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start over. But is that what...
55) Hidden
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After Jeff Manning suddenly dies, two women who loved him--his wife, Claire, and his co-worker, Tish--are both sent reeling and must figure out how to cope.
56) Afterlife
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A trio of grieving AIDs "widowers" support and comfort each other in plague-ridden Weset Hollywood.
57) Finn's going
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old English boy decides to run away after the sadness at home becomes unbearable following the death of his twin brother.
58) Tape
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
English teens Ameliah and Ryan, who live twenty years apart, meet fortuitously when each begins recording cassette tapes to work through family problems and hears the other's voice speaking back.
59) Knitting
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When two very different women stop to help a stranger in trouble, the two women are drawn together by their love of knitting, and the two women help each other overcome grief and loss as their friendship grows.
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