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Author
Publisher
Da Capo/Life Long
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In this remarkably useful guide, widow, author, and therapist Genevieve Davis Ginsburg, MS, offers fellow widows -as well as their family and friends- sage advice for coping with the loss of a husband. From learning to travel and eat alone to creating new routines to surviving the holidays and anniversaries that reopen emotional wounds, Widow to Widow walks listeners through the challenges of widowhood and encourages them on their path to building...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A moving middle grade story...about the enduring bond between twins: Anders, who has recently died, and Lily, who has to balance her grief and confusion with a brother who isn't quite gone--and how to navigate a world that is moving forward without him"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger’s family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding—a heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their...
7) Remembering
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"On Día de los Muertos, a family prepares an ofrenda for their favorite furry family member, remembering all the ways that their beloved pet brought love and comfort to their lives"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After the unbearable loss of his little brother, Damien, a small-town line cook, walks away from everything he has ever known. He lands in a fishing village beyond the reach of his past where he hopes he can finally forget. But the village has grief of its own. The same day that Damien arrives, a young woman from the community's most powerful family is being laid to rest. A stranger in town, Damien is the object of gossip and suspicion, ignored by...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When an asteroid has an 84.7% chance of colliding with the Earth in four days, eleven-year-old Kemi, who loves scientific facts and probability, assembles a time capsule to capture her family's truth as she tries to come to terms with saying goodbye.
10) The 9:09 project
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Jamison Deever discovered a love of photography through his mother, who taught him to understand the difference between a snapshot and a work of art. Two years after her death, Jamison, his dad, and his younger sister seem to be coping-- but in separate ways. He takes photos of random people who cross his path on the street, turns it into a school project-- and then into something more. -- adapted from book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The unflinching Pulitzer Prize-winning essay on mourning and recovery in the wake of an inconceivable tragedy. When Bobby McIlvaine died in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, his loved ones spun off in radically different directions, each mourning in his or her own distinct--and often highly idiosyncratic--way. Twenty years later, Jennifer Senior, a family friend and award-winning reporter, revisits the McIlvaines, examines their present lives,...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The pinball arcade is the only piece of his dad that Adam Stillwater has left. Philadelphia's newest tech mogul wants to turn it into another one of his cold, lifeless gaming cafes. Whitney Mitchell's parents split up, she lost all her friends, her boyfriend dumped her... and now she's spending her senior year running social media for her dad's chain of super successful gaming cafes. Most of the job consists of trading insults with that decrepit old...
16) Becoming a queen
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from a family tragedy, seventeen-year-old Mark finds his escape in a purple, sequenced, puff-sleeved princess dress, which becomes an unexpected outlet for his grief as well as a path towards love and self-expression.
18) Forgive me not
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a near future version of Queens, N.Y., fifteen-year-old Violetta must participate in the Trials, a series of tests meant to push her to the edge, to atone for causing her sister's death.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
If we’re lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For Daniel Wallace, that was his longtime friend and brother-in-law, William Nealy. Seemingly perfect, impossibly cool, William was an acclaimed outdoorsman, a famous cartoonist, an accomplished author, a master of all he undertook. William was the ideal that Daniel sought to emulate, and the person who gave him the courage to become a writer. But when...
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