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504) On a cold dark sea
Author
Pub. Date
[2018].
Description
"On April 15, 1912, three women climbed into Lifeboat 21 and watched in horror as the Titanic sank into the icy depths. They were strangers then... Con artist Charlotte Digby lied her way through London and onto the Titanic. The disaster could be her chance at a new life--if she hides the truth about her past. Esme Harper, a wealthy American, mourns the end of a passionate affair and fears that everything beautiful is slipping from her grasp. And...
505) The Friskative Dog
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Sharron's father has disappeared, and she tries to cope with her feelings of loss through the love of a stuffed dog he gave her.
506) The windmill
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Known for her gift for reaching straight to the heart, Stephanie Gertler now tells the story of a couple whose seemingly perfect life is toppled in an instant and saved through their bold leap of faith. Olivia and Carl appear to have the perfect life: a son and a daughter, weekends on Cape Cod, and satisfying work as professors at Belvedere College in the picturesque town of Willow, Massachusetts. Until, one day, the seemingly stable, dependable Carl...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The Surrender Theory begins deep within the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and then eventually rediscovers itself in a place of peace and closure. It's about learning to grow alongside grief. About taking the hand of your younger self and forgiving them. Through pages of truisms and poems, this debut collection from Caitlin Conlon explores the boundaries of our most poignant and human emotions. Both deeply personal and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"They find her just as the sun is beginning to rise in the early morning mist. They had begun at dawn, the group of searchers keen to get going. A missing child spurred everyone on. In the end, it was a flash of colour, a bright neon pink that caught her eye. They had been looking for pink. Nothing tests your faith like being a mother. The first time your children walk to school alone, their first sleepover, when they finally fly the nest. As a parent,...
510) Picture this
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"Peaks Island, Maine, vibrates with its own special magic, a unique flow to life that knits together the small community that calls it home. The people, the animals, and even the houses have a charm and personality all their own. Just ask Rocky Pelligrino. Devastated by her husband Bob's sudden death, she found hope thanks to a relentlessly loyal black Lab named Cooper. Warm friends and a new job--as the island's animal control warden--have helped...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
You never expect a son or daughter to cut ties and walk away from the family-- but it happens. McGregor helps parents of estranged adults plan ahead, prepare for emotional triggers, and prevail over setbacks and pain. With exercises derived from her work as a life coach and her own recovery, McGregor helps mothers and fathers who did their best to come to terms with their estranged adult child's choices, and regain their health and happiness.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Up all night, Marlene drives the highways and back roads near her home in hopes that some landmark will spark an image of her daughter, one untainted by years of grief. Her husband Les steams out to sea in his effort to cope. He is a commercial fisherman on a boat staffed up with desperate loners and shape-shifting friends obliterating their bodies in two-week shifts of crushing labor. The couple keep their pain hidden from each other, and most of...
515) The salt garden
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Three women's lives converge on Orion Point, the site of an old shipwreck. As they discover the truth about lost love and buried secrets, they find hope and healing...and strength to face the future.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"A saga about the destruction of a family, a home, and a way of life. Set on a struggling farm in a colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war. Since his mother{8217}s death, Tom and his father have fashioned a strained domestic peace, where everything is frozen under the old man{8217}s vicious control. But when a young woman named Carine arrives at the farm, the tension between the two men escalates to the breaking point."--Publisher description....
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
"For twenty years Christian Benediktsson has led a quiet life as William Randolph Hearst's butler. His days are filled with the rituals of Hearst's life and the demands of running a grand house. But in his most private thoughts and memories, he relives another life: his abandonment of his wife and children in Iceland for an actress in New York, a reckless affair and a tragic death, financial downfall, and the profound retreat from life that led him...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In this collection, Ashley Brown takes us with her on a year-long journey she purposefully devoted to grieving the loss of her soul-dog, listening, learning, and looking for home within herself, without her constant companion. She shares moments and reflections on this transformative year-her travels, anxieties, encounters with wild animals, solitude, foster dogs, relationship challenges, and finally, adopting a dog and moving. In each story from...
520) Making nice
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Our rage-filled hero Alby is flailing wildly against the world around him--he punches his sister (she deserved it), 'unprotectos' broads (they deserved it and liked it), gets drunk and picks fights (all deserved), defends defenseless creatures both large and small, and spews insults at children, slow drivers, lunch ladies, and every single surviving member of his family. It seems he is the angriest young man in the history of angry young men, and...