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"To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories....
83) The salt garden
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Three women's lives convrge around the century-old mystery of a shipwreck. As they discover the truth about lost love and buried secrets, each woman finds hope, healing, and strength to face the future.
84) All that shines
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Chloe's affluent family loses everything, she sets out to discover herself with the help of new and surprising friends.
85) Incendiary
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Distraught over the deaths of her husband and son in a suicide bombing at a London soccer match, a woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden to persuade him to abandon his terror campaign.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
After the loss of her daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens an adoption agency to place baby girls from China with American families and discovers the painful and courageous journeys of both adoptive parents and birth mothers.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Creating an algorithm to improve his internet dating employer's match success rate only to be fired for being too effective, Sam Elling develops a computer program that creates compelling human simulations that allow people to say final goodbyes to lost loved ones.
89) In a dark wood
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After living 40 years in loneliness, Holocaust survivor Jacob Noah is killed in a car accident, only to descend into an abyss reminiscent of Dante's Inferno, where he learns about the meaning of his own life and the tragedies he has experienced.
90) The crying tree
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Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
When her fifteen-year-old son is killed shortly after their family relocates to Oregon, a grieving mother secretly exchanges letters with the killer in a desperate hope to forgive him and move on, a correspondence that sparks an explosive confrontation.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Moments after discovering that her husband has been having an affair, a woman driving along a winding country lane strikes and kills a woman on a bicycle and then drives away, in a psychological portrait of the repercussions of deception.
92) Sway
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Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Cass's attitude changes after her mother, whom she idolizes, leaves her behind, and her father who previously seemed boring and practical, takes her on a summer road trip in which he shows her the creative, magical side of himself.
93) Lost & found
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Three stories explore how we lose and find what matters most to us, as a girl finds a bright spot in a dark world, a boy leads a strange, lost being home, and a group of peaceful creatures loses its home to cruel invaders.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Receiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's life and finds profound changes occurring within her present-day London home.
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English
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A dark, harrowing novel about a nine-year-old girl's disappearance and the lasting impact it has on her close-knit community. On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books. This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a deeply affecting novel about the choices people make that change their lives...
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Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2004.
Language
English
Description
Deborah Green is a woman of passionate contradictions--a rabbi who craves goodness and surety while wrestling with her own desires and with the sorrow and pain she sees around her. Her life changes when she visits the hospital room of Henry Friedman, an older man who has attempted suicide. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust when he was a child, and all his life he's struggled with difficult questions. Deborah's encounter with Henry and his...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Isla has fled the city for small-town Missouri in the wake of a painful and exhausting year. With her chronic anxiety at a fever pitch, the last thing she expects is to meet a genuine romantic prospect. And she doesn't. But she does get a text from a man who seems to think he's her husband. Obviously, a wrong number--except when she points this out, the mystery texter sends back a picture. Of them--on their wedding day. Isla cautiously starts up...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.
100) Con cariño, Amalia
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
Español
Description
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life lesons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death.
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