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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into the complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. She introduces us to Black and multi-racial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family's magnificence. Eclipsed by a new breed of developers, financiers, and manufacturers, this pampered scion begins his gradual descent...
44) The widow waltz
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Left penniless and shattered by devastating secrets revealed in the aftermath of her seemingly successful lawyer husband's sudden death, Georgia rallies herself to pursue a new relationship and support her two daughters.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Leaning on her beloved Sheltie after a lifetime of painful losses, Justine Meade struggles with a difficult separation when she returns to her childhood home after a twenty-year absence and encounters an estranged couple torn by the loss of their daughter.
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012, ©2013.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to India after ending a loveless marriage, Lou befriends fellow solitary traveler Ali, a serial mistress who also wants to start over after one too many heartbreaks and with whom Lou discovers unexpected commonalities.
47) We own the sky
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a devastating illness takes his beloved family from him, a man who once believed himself incredibly lucky takes solace in photographing the skyscrapers and cliff tops his son and he once visited before embarking on a powerful journey through forgiveness back to life.
48) Lemon Drop Falls
Author
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Morgan struggles with the death of her mother"--
51) Andrew's brain
Author
Language
English
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Description
A psychological tale recounts the experiences of Andrew, who confesses to an unknown recipient the memory- and truth-challenging events, loves, and tragedies that have led him to a mysterious act.
Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back...
Author
Publisher
One World/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Taking a job in Atlanta to save the family home, Regina Burns finds herself unable to forgive her new employer for ruining her wedding plans years earlier and finds herself falling for a handsome stranger whom her aunt predicted she would meet.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"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
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Life threatening cancer brings Francis and Amber together. But Francis's recovery is taking a different path from Amber's. He's actually getting better. And although he knew who he was before cancer, before Amber, now he has no idea how to live--or how to let go.
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Language
English
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Description
In a contemporary America blemished with loneliness and late-capitalism, there is no end to the fractured places in which these characters find 'home.' In twenty vivid, rowdy, buoyant stories--ranging from one-page flashes to thirty-page odysseys--Barton assembles a collection of unforgettable safe havens perfect for crashing, even if only for a night.
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
When the long walk from Seattle to Key West finally nears an end, Alan Christoffersen must return to the west and face yet another crisis just as he has begun to heal from so much loss.
59) Passing on
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
With their mother's death, Helen and Edward, both middle-aged and both unmarried, are left to face the ramifications of their mother's hold on their lives for all of these years. Helen and Edward slowly learn to accept what has been lost in their own lives and embrace what can yet be retrieved -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Elements (Brittainy C. Cherry) volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"I was warned about Tristan Cole. "Stay away from him," people said. "He's cruel." "He's cold." "He's damaged." It's easy to judge a man because of his past. To look at Tristan and see a monster. But I couldn't do that. I had to accept the wreckage that lived inside of him, because it also lived inside of me. We were both empty. We were both looking for something else. Something more. We both wanted to put together the shattered pieces of our yesterdays....
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