Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
Author
Language
English
Description
The subtly powerful novel adapted into the 2015 feature film, The Grief of Others asks: is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family?
From the acclaimed author of No Book but the World and 2019's searing new novel Strangers and Cousins.
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven
...2) LaRose
Author
Language
English
Description
North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life. Each woman in the circle teaches Mary a new knitting technique, and, as they do, they reveal to her their own personal stories of love, loss, and hope. Eventually, Mary is able to tell her own story of grief. In doing so, she...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"They say friends make life worth living... Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, Masha's life was forever changed by a tragic event twelve years ago. Unable to let go of her grief, she finds comfort in her faithful canine companion Haizum, and peace in the quiet lanes of her town's swimming pool. Almost without her realizing it, her life has shuddered to a halt. It's only when Masha begins an unlikely friendship with the mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Little is set in the fictional reservation town of Poverty, Minnesota, and tells the story of a boy named little and three generations of his family. Among them is Donovan, rescued as a boy from a car half-buried by snow; Stan, a veteran of the Vietnam war; Duke and Ellis, the twins who built the first house in Poverty; and Jeannette, the matriarch who walked hundreds of miles to reunite with her family."--
Author
Series
Marty Nickerson crime novels volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Leaving the district attorney's office to enter into private practice with the new man in her life, Marty Nickerson tackles a difficult first case in her defense of a client who shot his son's presumed killer on television.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After the death of her son Joey, Arden Gentry feels a terrible emptiness. She does have a second son, however, one that she gave up at birth for adoption to a young couple. Will seeking her second son only cause her more heartache or bring some joy back to her life?
Author
Series
Publisher
Kaylie Jones Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In early 20th century Pennsylvania, a few months after her sister's mysterious death, eight-year-old Violet befriends a motherless schoolmate, Stanley, who works as a breaker boy in the mines. Meanwhile, Violet's father and mother find other ways cope with their grief.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The affluent Al-Menshawy family find their American dream shattered when a devastating turn of events leaves their eldest son and their neighbor's daughter dead, and, becoming pariahs in their upscale New Jersey community, they struggle to keep their family together.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As divorced single mother Anne attempts to deal with the death of her young son, a former architect named Mark struggles with his life decisions, and Father Paul rethinks his decision to serve as an abbot, and all three work to allow God to bring wholeness to their lives.
18) After Melanie
Author
Publisher
Severn House Publishers, LTD
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Can they start again, or will they lose one another forever? David and Judith's fragile marriage is threatened by the sudden death of their beloved thirteen-year-old daughter, Melanie. As they struggle to cope with their loss, they confront bewildering challenges. But instead of turning to each other, they find comfort with others. David is drawn to Nancy, a colleague and single mother, and a survivor of her own personal tragedy, while Judith grows...
Author
Series
Where are the children? volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the terrible pain has begun to heal--until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows...
20) Te dejé ir
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Devastated by a hit-and-run accident that has ended the life of her young son, Jenna moves to the remote Welsh coast to search for healing while two dedicated policemen try to get to the bottom of the case.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request