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Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katherine Givens, a corporate attorney and divorced mother of one, finds her uneventful life turned upside down when she receives an unexpected bequest from her late friend, Annie G. Freeman, taking her and four other women on a wild and life-transforming road trip from the deserts of New Mexico to the shores of Lake Superior, as they celebrate the bonds of female friendship.
22) Grandad's island
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story about a little boy coming to terms with the loss of his beloved grandfather.
23) Postscript
Author
Series
PS I love you volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Finds Holly reluctantly agreeing to let her sister tell Gerry's story on her podcast, before terminally ill listeners reach out for help writing their own missives.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retired teacher Mary Alice Roth, while working her way back to a comfortable friendship with her neighbor, finds the careful shell she’s built around her life threatened by her sister who delivers a staggering piece of news that could send shockwaves through her small Texas town.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A financially challenged waitress who is struggling with bad luck and a wealthy house renovator who is grieving the loss of her twin to breast cancer forge an unlikely friendship based on shared difficulties and growing understandings about their priorities.
27) Summer sons
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When his best friend dies of an apparent suicide, Andrew uncovers lies and secrets left behind by the person he trusted most, discovering a family history soaked in blood and death.
28) Last words
Author
Series
Markus Novak novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Grieving the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak reluctantly accepts a case from a suspected murderer who may or may not be innocent.
29) The sidekicks
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ryan, Harley, and Miles have nothing in common except their friendship with Isaac, but when Isaac dies unexpectedly, the boys come to realize that they have more in common than they previously thought.
30) Last kiss
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hubbard's Point, Connecticutt. Nearly a year after the death of eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn't played a note of the music that was once her life's passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie's heartbroken girlfriend, Nell...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Still reeling from her mother’s death, Carol embarks on their mother-daughter trip to Positano, Italy, alone, where she encounters her mother in the flesh at 30 years old and must reconcile the mother who knew everything with this young woman who does not yet have a clue.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sandy Portman and Emily Barlow seem to lead a perfect life. Sandy is a successful businessman from an old-money family, and Emily, beautiful and smart, is quickly gaining respect in her career as a book editor. But Sandy is keeping a few secrets from Emily, and is hit by a car and killed before he has a chance to reveal the truth. In a Dickensian turn of events, he's given an otherworldly chance to make amends as a dog named Einstein.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been five years since the Mason family vacationed at the lakeside cottage in northeastern Vermont, close to where prize-winning novelist Samuel Mason grew up. The summers that Sam, his wife, Mena, and their twins Franny and Finn spent at Lake Gormlaith were noisy, chaotic, and nearly perfect. But since Franny's death, the Masons have been flailing, one step away from falling apart. Lake Gormlaith is Sam's last, best hope of rescuing his son...
35) Wishing season
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
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Erin and her friends from college, now in their mid-twenties, are shaken by the death of Silas, one of their own. They are plunged into a waking nightmare when they take a pill Silas learned of that allows them to see-and interact with-ghosts"--
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
After losing both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami of 2011, Yui continues on, alone with her grief, but when she hears about a man with an old disused telephone booth in his garden where those who have lost loved ones can speak to them and start to come to terms with their grief, Yui makes her own pilgrimage to the phone booth.
38) House of cotton
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral home. Magnolia...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a DNA test yields surprising results, widowed father Baxter Shaw and his 8-year-old daughter journey to southeastern Spain to connect with their mysterious roots where the romance of the culture awakens a new outlook on life but also reveals long-simmering secrets.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for herself in the city as a young mother and academic. Now that Jean's gone, Leah must return to sort through all Jean has left behind. What she wasn't expecting to find was Jean's studio filled...
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