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2) Fly away
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English
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A follow-up to "Firefly Lane" returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives.
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Series
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English
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Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in 'till death do us part.' Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed...
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Amish greenhouse mystery volume 2
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Sylvia has been nearly paralyzed with grief and anxiety since the tragic death of her husband, father, and brother in a traffic accident. She tries to help in the family's greenhouse while caring for her two children, but she prefers not to have to deal with customers. Her mother's own grief causes her to hover over her children and grandchildren. As a diversion, Sylvia takes up birdwatching, and meets an Amish man who teaches her about local birds....
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Derailed by the sudden passing of her husband of thirty years, an artist on the brink of a gallery opening struggles to pick up the pieces of her life before discovering harrowing evidence of her husband's affair.
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Language
English
Description
"Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same. Now you have to choose between law...and justice. Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific...
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A Hope Harbor novel volume 5
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English
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Jeannette Mason has sworn off relationships, but when she meets a single dad with a grieving little girl and an unruly puppy her resolve is tested.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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During the holiday season, a family of three, missing someone very dear to them, find their house filling up with unexpected guests, making Christmas memories to last a lifetime.
After their mother's death on Christmas Day five years ago, Will and Ella Sullivan, and their father, Henry, come to a family agreement: Christmas is a holiday for other people. At their brownstone in Harlem, stockings go unstuffed, tinsel unstrewn, gifts unbought, mistletoe...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the private jokes, ancient grudges, broken hearts, and deep, abiding love that feeds them all"--
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
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The friendship letters volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fianc�e's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while at the same time, trying to be supportive to...
13) Flight: a novel
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Want, told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate--a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net"--
14) Edge of dusk
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An Annie Pederson novel volume 1
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English
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"Nine-year-old Annie Pederson's life changed the night her sister was kidnapped. The two had been outside playing on a dock, and Annie never forgave herself for her role in her sister's disappearance. Twenty-four years later and now a law enforcement ranger, Annie is still searching for answers as she grieves a new loss: the death of her husband and parents in a boating accident. But Annie and her eight-year-old daughter, Kylie, aren't the only people...
15) Taking chances
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Series
Heartland volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
175 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new stablehand may ruin Amy's relationship with Ty, the only person who understands the role that Heartlands and its program for rescuing and rehabilitating abused horses plays in Amy's life.
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English
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In this book the author give us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances, in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a...
17) Coming home
Author
Series
Heartland volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
140 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy's mother founded Heartland, a place for healing traumatized horses, but Amy, who inherited her mother's skills with horses, must continue her work after an accident on a stormy night kills her mother.
18) After the storm
Author
Series
Heartland volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
171 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although she is still in pain from her mother's death, Amy must use all her skills with horses to help Spartan, the animal they were trying to rescue the night her mother was killed.
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Series
Annie's Attic mysteires volume 25
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While searching the attic for her grandmother's Easter-themed table linens, Annie Dawson stumbles upon a box containing a diary (dated 1943) and other World War II memorabilia. Did the young couple in the letters marry or did war end their chance for a happily ever after?
20) No dogs allowed!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kristine, still struggling to come to terms with the death of her beloved horse, finds it difficult to accept the new dog she receives for her birthday.