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121) Empty set
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
""Veronica Gerber writes with a luminous intimacy; her novel is clever, vibrant, moving, profoundly original. Reading it made me feel as if the world had been rebuilt."--Francisco Goldman "From the very beginning, Veronica Gerber set out to write a novel that would end up at a loss for words. She alone could achieve this feat: because she's a visual artist who takes everything she reads in as concentric circles threaded with color, and because she...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
""An absorbing and uplifting read."--M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans "This is a book in which grief and love are so entwined they make a new and wonderful kind of sense."--Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest Amidst the strange, silent aftermath of World War II, a widow, a poet, and a doctor search for lasting peace and fresh beginnings in this internationally acclaimed, award-winning novel. When Anikka Lachlan's husband, Mac,...
123) The Blossom sisters
Author
Language
English
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Description
Gus Hollister owes all his success to his feisty grandmother, Rose, and he knows it. It was Rose and her two sisters, Iris and Violet, who raised Gus, sent him to the best schools, and helped him start his own accounting business. Rose even bought the house Gus lives in with his wife, Elaine. But now, Gus stands to lose everything, his home, his car, and his business. Worse, he's alienated his beloved grandma, who tried to warn him about Elaine's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path than her sister. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that...
125) Words we don't say
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Joel Higgins has 901 unsent text messages saved on his phone. Ever since the thing that happened, there are certain people he hasn't been able to talk to in person. Sure, he shows up at school, does his mandatory volunteer hours at the soup kitchen, and spends pretty much every moment thinking about Eli, the most amazing girl in the world. But that doesn't mean he's keeping it together, or even that he has any friends. So instead of hanging out with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Tres mujeres. Tres generaciones. El retrato de una familia marcada por el amor y la pérdida. Una historia incompleta porque todas ellas han callado, hasta ahora. Aquel verano Vera tenía cinco años. Era una niña con una creatividad excepcional: su amigo imaginario era ni más ni menos que Ringo Starr y soñaba con ser camionera, como su abuelo, para descubrir dónde acababan todos los caminos del mundo. Aquel verano fue uno de los mejores de su...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgiveness. When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman's Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for stationing herself at the edge of the club's parking lot and yelling warnings of eternal damnation at the departing patrons, their wedding summons a legend...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a powerfully evocative and emotional novel, set in the years between the two World Wars, about a closely-knit group of British men and women struggling to cope with the world--and the selves--left to them in the wake of World War I. They were inseparable childhood friends. Some were lost to the war. The others' lives were unimaginably upended, and now, postwar, they've scattered: to Ceylon and India,...
129) Telephone: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Zach Wells, a laconic geologist-slash-paleobiologist, has the trappings of a comfortable life, yet is not contented. He's expert in the geological history of a cave in the Grand Canyon, but less so where his wife and daughter are concerned. And when his daughter develops unusual vision problems and has a seizure, the world of this family of three crumbles. Powerless in the face of his daughter's slow deterioration, Wells finds a note asking for help...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The postman's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage to keep him company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can tackle his bucket list, the Devil appears to make him an offer: In exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, our narrator will get one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week... With each object that disappears...
131) Dance with me
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Returning to her hometown of Twin Rivers, Rhode Island, after a fourteen year absence, free-spirited Jane Porter is drawn to Dylan Chadwick, an ex-federal agent and recent returnee fleeing the nightmare of his former life.
132) In an instant
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A deeply moving story of carrying on even when it seems impossible. Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she watches helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive. Impossible choices are made, decisions that leave the survivors tormented with grief and regret. Unable to let go, Finn keeps vigil as they struggle...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Only Rian has made it out of the estate and moved away to another city, but his money doesn't stop him from clinging to a vision of the past that is quickly slipping away. Oli is fading by the day, drinking and snorting his way through the endless boredom. Things are looking up for Conor, but he is never too far away from chaos. Patrick and Shiv are as in love as ever, always the calm in the eye of the storm, but even they are rocked when old secrets...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband - and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite, or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man. In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She can't remember anything...
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.
136) Black river
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Wes Carver returns to his hometown - Black River, Montana - with two things: his wife's ashes and a letter from the parole board. The convict who once held him hostage during a prison riot is up for release. For years, Wes earned his living as a corrections officer and found his joy playing the fiddle. But the riot shook Wes's faith and robbed him of his music; now he must decide if his attacker should walk free.
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Five years after Sofia Lyon disappeared, her remains are found stuffed into the hollow of a tree bursting through the floorboards of an abandoned house in the woods. The women who loved her flock home to the North Carolina hills to face their grief. Frankie, Sofia’s twin, is in furious mourning. Poppy is heartbroken. Cass has never felt more homesick. And Marya knows something the rest of them don’t. Determined to find Sofia’s murderer, they...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Zack King is having second thoughts about his up-coming marriage, is haunted by the death of his best friend two years previous, and infatuated with his friend's beautiful widow, Tamara; and when his overbearing father, Norm, reappears after twenty years, Zack decides it's time to make some changes himself."--Provided by publisher.
139) The lightning circle
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After having her heart broken, seventeen-year-old Nora Nichols decides to escape her hometown and take a summer job as an arts and crafts counsellor at an all-girls' camp in the mountains of West Virginia. There, she meets girls and women from all walks of life with their own heartaches and triumphs. But when a letter from home comes bearing unexpected news, Nora finds inner strength in her devastation with the healing power of female friendship....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a dangerous co-dependency. With gorgeous sensitivity, assurance, and a propulsive sense of menace, these stories center on disappearances both literal and figurative-lives and loves that are cut short, the vanishing of one's youthful self. From San Antonio to Austin, from the clamor of a crowded...
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