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Harriet Adu knows that her brother’s death is her fault. I mean, it’s not actually her fault, but it still kinda is, isn’t it? She would do anything to live in a world where she could take back what she said that morning. Then a strange girl shows up at Harriet’s high school – a girl who loves the same weird books Harriet does, who doesn’t vibe with anyone at school the same way Harriet does – and that different world suddenly seems...
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""Christensen is a forceful writer whose . . . prose is visceral and poetic. . . . She is a portrait artist, drawing in miniature, capturing the light within."-San Francisco Chronicle From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home-reluctantly-to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly...
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An intimate and evocative memoir one woman's experience with the universality of grief and the redemptive power of love as she endures her husband's 84-day battle with lung cancer.
When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. But when Rivs became ill and was put into coma at the height...
8) Good mother
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Starring Academy Awardʼ-winner Hilary Swank, the film follows a journalist grieving the murder of her son who forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend to track down the killers in the seedy world of drugs and corruption.
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Criterion collection volume 588
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
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Français
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A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel. The first of a trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski, followed by 'White' and 'Red.'
10) Cape
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: A young child learns that even superheroes hurt too in this heartrending story about loss and love, written by debut author Kevin Johnson and illustrated by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Kitt Thomas.
12) Always sisters
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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With the help of her family, friends, and school counselor, Raya finds a way to grieve the loss of her unborn sister Nura, and to share the love she will always feel for her.
13) Chip
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A young boy grieves when his pet fish dies, but his heart is full of the good memories he had with his fish friend.
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"An achingly heartfelt and surprisingly funny memoir about family, grief, and moving forward by an award-winning writer and TV personality. When her brother died from cancer, and then her mother just four months later, Teresa Strasser was left to mourn with her father, a cantankerous retired mechanic. As her son embarked on his first season pitching in Little League, Teresa and her dad formed a grief group of two in beach chairs lined up behind the...
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Ser vivo, ¿acaso los duelos, las pérdidas y las decepciones no afectan a todos de cerca o de lejos? Para mí, el fallecimiento de mi esposa Sylvie creó la apertura a ser vivo y, en última instancia, por primera vez desde mi nacimiento, a amar la vida. Estoy profundamente conmovido y emocionado de que este libro sea un regalo precioso para todos los miembros de la familia. ¿Se enseña a los niños y a los jóvenes adultos en transición de vida...
20) The fire fox
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Two Hoots
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Freya and her mum have gone to a little cabin to get away for a while. The light has gone out of their lives since Freya's dad passed away. Freya isn't sure about going sledging, but when she meets a magical fox in the snow, she can't help but follow him into the forest - and on to a thrilling adventure. A heartwarming bedtime story inspired by the Finnish Saami myth of the revontulet, or fox fires - the sparks that fly from the fur of a mystical...
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