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261) What dreams may come
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Matheson's powerful tale of life--and love--after death was the basis for the lavish 1998 Oscar(-winning film starring Robin Williams.
263) El jilguero
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español/Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld.
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The Dismal Science tells of a middle-aged vice president at the World Bank, Vincenzo D'Orsi, who publicly quits his job over a seemingly minor argument with a colleague. A scandal inevitably ensues, and he systematically burns every bridge to his former life. After abandoning his career, Vincenzo, a recent widower, is at a complete loss as to what to do with himself. The story follows his efforts to rebuild his identity without a vocation or the...
265) Give and take
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Family has always been important to twelve-year-old Maggie: a trapshooter, she is coached by her dad and cheered on by her mom. But her grandmother's recent death leaves a giant hole in Maggie's life, one which she begins to fill with an assortment of things: candy wrappers, pieces of tassel from Nana's favorite scarf, milk cartons, sticks . . . all stuffed in cardboard boxes under her bed. Then her parents decide to take in a foster infant. But...
266) On my own
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--
267) The salt fields
Author
Publisher
Lanternfish Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
On the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north, he has nothing left but ghosts: the ghost of his murdered wife, the ghost of his drowned daughter, the ghosts of his father and his grandmother, and the people who disappeared from his town without trace or explanation. In the cramped car, Minister finds himself in close quarters with three passengers also joining the exodus from the South--people seeking a new life,...
268) The poet's dog
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A dog with unusual communication talents loses his poet owner before rescuing two children trapped in a snowstorm and leading them to the poet's cabin, where the children explore the memories that the poet has left behind.
269) A monster calls
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
270) My father's words
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Declan O'Brien always had a gentle word to share, odd phrases he liked to repeat, and songs to sing while he played basketball. His favorite song was Dona Nobis Pacem, "Grant Us Peace." His family loved him deeply and always knew they were loved in return. but a terrible accident one day changes their lives forever, and Fiona and Finn O'Brien are left without a father. Their mother is at a loss. What words are there to guide them through such overwhelming...
271) Everything we miss
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wondered what goes on in your life when you're looking the other way? Perhaps you're so drawn into what's going on with you that you fail to notice the events taking place in your periphery, or even right under your nose? In Everything We Miss, Luke Pearson explores the dying days of a failing relationship through the infinitesimal unseen moments that surround it, and us"--P. [4] of cover.
272) Tata, tatita, tata
Author
Publisher
Minerva, an imprint of Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Una niña echa de menos a su tata, su abuela, en este conmovedor libro ilustrado"--
273) The ones we trust
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When former DC journalist Abigail stumbles across a military cover-up that has emotional consequences for one family, she finds that she can trust no one and winds up facing a difficult decision.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a divison of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor's unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer. It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding. Such a mild slip was easy to ignore, but when other troubling symptoms accumulated, she confided to her husband, 'Michael, I think something serious is wrong...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Molly Baskette bears witness to the most vulnerable, aching, confusing, and frail moments in people's lives. She has served as a pastor to people convicted of heinous crimes, those living with treatment-resistant depression and PTSD, people suffering from unremitting eating disorders, domestic and sexual abuse survivors, those experiencing pregnancy loss or divorce, people fleeing violence in another country, and those coming out as queer to fundamentalist...
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.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In wide-ranging personal essays at the crossroads of place and perspective, Phyllis Barber challenges and celebrates her Great Basin roots. From a backwoods church in Arkansas to the disappeared town of St. Thomas, buried beneath the waters of Lake Mead, award-winning essayist Phyllis Barber travels roads both internal and external, reflecting upon place and perspective, ambition and loss in The Precarious Walk. As a child growing up in the Mojave...
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...
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