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1) Fly away
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
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.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. "Richard Powers, whose novels combine the wonders of science with the marvels of art, astonishes us in different ways with each new book." -Heller McAlpin, NPR Books. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife....
Author
Series
Friendship letters volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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...
Author
Series
A Hope Harbor novel volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
10) Flight: a novel
Author
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"--
11) Taking chances
Author
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.
12) 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.
13) 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.
14) Breaking free
Author
Series
Heartland volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pegasus, the only link to Amy's past, is growing weaker and Amy will try everything to nurse him back to health and keep Heartland together, but it will take all of Amy's courage to avoid living in the shadow of her mother.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux volume Book 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux's only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It's in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he'd...
Author
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...
Author
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
[2022]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town"--
Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ready for the first day of school at Billington High. A few months into her retirement Mary Alice does not know how to fill her days....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jessica Mason is reeling from the tragic loss of her husband and daughter - and awaiting the arrival of her unborn child. She also harbors the painful secret of her husband's betrayal. Ridley Chesterfield is hiding out in Hope Springs, Idaho, after false media headlines tarnished his good name. When Ridley forms a friendship with Jessica, he wonders if he should stay..."--