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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
After a tragedy a young boy discovers a connection between music and colors that helps guide him and gives him comfort in times of darkness.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Reeling from the death of her cousin, Hannah concocts a risky plan to enroll in her cousin's elite private school and find who gave her the lethal pills, but the deeper Hannah goes the more she risks losing everything.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Summer Sisters, Daniella, Alaina, and Penelope are about to be separated for the summer after the death of their friend Carly, they vow to complete the bucket list she wrote before she passed.
26) I was here
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.
27) Brood: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our nameless narrator stubbornly tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive and safe over the course of one savage winter in Minnesota. Woefully unprepared for the task, she battles the relentless predators, severe weather and unforeseen bad luck--all the while grieving a recent miscarriage, and coming to terms with her infertility and the accompanying uncertainty that her future holds. Intimate and startlingly original, this slender novel...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
787 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Rose Colter hears a voicemail from her own phone playing on her car radio, she follows the broadcast to the small town of Lotus Valley, where she discovers that she's the prophesied bringer of a catastrophic flood"--
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 9 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"One year later Claire is hundreds of miles away from Ford High School. But even the most innocuous thing still sends her spiraling. How can she trust herself when everything seems like a threat -- especially the troubled boy who may be one of her first new friends. Eleanor is still right there and she is still furious. She never intended to become the face of a movement. And now that it is affecting every other part of her life, can she stop it?...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eager for a fresh start, the grieving Einstein family moves to the remote town of Vista Point to renovate an old house and turn it into a bed-and-breakfast.
34) Full flight
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in alternating perspectives, in a small town in Texas, mellophone player Weston Ryan and saxophonist Anna James are forced to work together on a duet for their school's marching band competition.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year.
Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did.
On the day of Cora’s twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment...
39) If I stay
Author
Series
If I Stay volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, ponders whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.