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English
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Famous for his fifty-year-old self-help book on love and relationships, Peter engages in a passionless relationship after the death of his wife and questions the validity of his advice when an ambitious young editor launches a contest for struggling couples based on his book.
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English
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"With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further cementing her reputation as one of the most "brilliant" (NYTBR), "wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time, King collects ten of her finest short stories-half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new-opening fresh realms of discovery...
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Series
Pram Bellamy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Bright, imaginative, eleven-year-old Pram lives with two aunts who run a retirement home, hiding the fact that she can talk with ghosts--but not the spirit of her mother--and after befriending Clarence, who also lost his mother, she decides to find her father in hopes he can answer her questions.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Unable to forget a first love she lost twenty years earlier after an unforgiveable mistake, Erin considers a marriage proposal by her current boyfriend and wonders what may have happened if the earlier relationship had not ended.
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Language
English
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A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor.
In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss.
"Displaced" returns us to a young man's Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrator's...
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Publisher
Chasing a Spider Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Melia really wants to fly a kite because she misses her dog, Ginger. The other kids tell her to go make her own. She goes to the library and figures out how to build a kite. When she attaches a note to her kite for Ginger, Melia knows that Ginger is chasing the fireflies in the sky.
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Three years after her husband's death, Willa returns to the beach house where he passed in Ocean City, Maryland, to sell it, but Ben's ghost keeps reappearing. Willa invites their son, her best friend, and her friend's daughter for one last summer at the beach as she says goodbye to her husband and reconnects with her son"--
11) Mouseboat
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A young girl feels lost after the death of her mother, but when she and her father visit their lake house, she takes out the small boat she and her mom built together and somehow, in the wind and rain, reconnects with her mother's love.
12) After you
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English
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Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The tragic 9/11 event in NYC that changed the world, altered the life of Abbi Hope Goldstein as well as that of Noah Stern. They did not know each other back then, but they know each other now, and while Abbi is trying to move forward with her life, Noah still has unanswered questions that he believes Abbi can help answer"--
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English
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"'He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future.' Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again. A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of...
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